Note xxiii — THE ART of POLITICKS, In Imitation of HORACE's ART of POETRY.
Reading edition
P. 13, line 12. Flying-Squadron: apparently a group which claimed to vote by principle rather than from attachment to any party. Sir Joseph Jekyll was considered its leader. See Sedgwick, House of Commons, 2, 175; Realey, p. 54; and OED, "Squadron 7," "Squadrone b.," and "Squadronist."