Author: Anon

Publication: Glasgow Chronicle

Published: 6 February 1832

Place of publication: Glasgow, Scotland

Publication type: Newspaper/Periodical

Featured individuals:
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)
James Hogg (1770-1835)
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884)
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)

A full copy of this poem is available.

Archive/Library: Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Classmark(s): Hard copy: BX 42A
Pages(s): 4

This poem is attributed to The Globe, a London newspaper.  Although this poem does not directly reference franchise extension, it does clearly mock those  Tories at the 'Scotish Festival' [sic] and their connections to anti-reformism.  The speaker states that every year he drains a bowl of 'whiskey-punch' in memory of Burns, and he is full of joy to hear that Tories are doing so too.  However, when he gets to the dinner for James Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd), but presumably also a Burns supper, he finds it disconcerting to see Hogg, the Duke of Buccleuch, and the rest of the 'Tory throng' not actually commemorating Burns but just marking their 'hate of a Patriot King'  Indeed, the 'Tory throng' are also described as 'borough-born patriots', implying that they are from rotten boroughs and support electoral corruption.  At the end of the poem, the speaker 'wishing to heaven I had never been there' strolls away from the Tory gathering.  The poem later appeared in the Scots Times, under the title 'The Spirit of Toryism, as displayed at the late literary dinner to the Ettrick Shepherd' on 11-02-1832.