Speech delivered by Edmund Burke on the hustings at Bristol, in which he publicly announced to those assembled that he was withdrawing from the 1780 contest for Bristol, being 'satisfie[d]' that 'your choice will not ultimately fall upon me', as printed in The Leeds Intelligencer, 26 September 1780. Illustrating the wide circulation of electoral 'news' through the contemporary newspaper press, Burke's rhetoric here appears alongside a satirical response by 'Derisor', and numerous other items of news, notices, and advertisements.
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