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Title: A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stirling, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering
Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Burdett,
after his return to England in 1793, became a
faithful member of the coterie which surrounded
Billy Bosville, and after the Baronets celebrated
election for Westminster in 1807, while he was
being chaired amid the profound excitement of
a great concourse of people, Colonel Bosville ap-
peared as one of his foremost supporters. A long
procession was formed, we are told, headed by
the hero of the day seated in a triumphal car
of imposing appearance, and conspicuous among
his immediate entourage were to be seen Lady
Burdett and Colonel Bosville, who, with a large
concourse of friends of the Baronet, accompanied
him, their rendez-votis being the Crown and Anchor
in the Strand, where about 1500 persons dined
together."
An additional link, moreover, in the friendship
established between the Colonel and Sir Francis

¹Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., 1770-1844, the most popular English
politician of his time. Married Sophia, youngest daughter of Coutts
the great banker. In the House he made himself conspicuous by
his advocacy of all liberal measures.

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THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION
Printed and engraved by R. Dighton
In the possession of Sir Alexander Macdonald of the Isles, Barts.
WILLIAM COBBETT 81

was to be tound in their joint appreciation of
William Cobbett,¹ then regarded in such an opposite
light by most of their class. The demagogue,
after his change of politics in 1804, vehemently
supported the Radical principles upheld by Burdett
and Bosville, employing all the influence of his
person and the power of his pen to further the
cause of the former in Westminster, till graduallyt
his political interest was replaced by a greater
intimacy, and, from being a mere partisan, Cobbett
became the valued friend of the two men whose
views he shared. The beginning of Colonel Bosville's friendship
for Cobbett is thus described by a biographer of
the latter :—
" In June, 1806, Cobbett made his first attempt
to get into Parliament. Colonel Bosville, a lead-ing man among the early reformers, encouragedhim to offer himself for Honiton, a Government
Borough, where a vacancy had occurred in con-
sequence of Bradshaw, the representative, having
accepted an office in the Irish Exchequer.

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