...Sir Samuel's cockades, and bearing laurel-branches in their hands, vociferating " Hood for ever ! " and preceded by fifes and drums playing " Hearts of...Hibernians from the purlieus of St. Giles's armed witli cudgels roaring " Sheridan for ever ! " ' Then follows a genuine little bit of English electioneering....

...another was in French revolutionary costume labeled with Paull's name. The Times reports the event: "Parties of Mr. Sheridan's friends were preceded by...Giles's, armed with cudgels, roaring Sheridan for everl"51 This rhetorical conflation of Irish thieves threatening violence and Sheridan's players putting...