File:Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, or Forcible reasons for negotiating a regicide peace (BM 1868,0808.6554 2).jpg
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[edit]Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, or Forcible reasons for negotiating a regicide peace
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Print made by: James Gillray
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Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, or Forcible reasons for negotiating a regicide peace |
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English: French troops march with fixed bayonets up St. James's Street, the houses receding in perspective to the gate of the Palace, which is blazing. In the foreground on the left and right are 'White's' and 'Brookes's'. The former is being raided by French troops; the Opposition is in triumphant possession of the latter. In the centre foreground a 'tree of Liberty' (see BMSat 9214, &c.) has been planted: a pole garlanded with flowers and surmounted by a large cap of 'Libertas'. To this pole Pitt, stripped to the waist, is tied, while Fox (left) flogs him ferociously, a birch-rod in each hand. Between Fox's feet lies a headsman's axe, bloodstained; on it stands a perky little chicken with the head of M. A. Taylor (see BMSat 6777). On the right is an ox, his collar, from which a broken cord dangles, inscribed 'Great Bedfordshire Ox' (the duke of Bedford); it is tossing Burke, goaded on by Thelwall, who holds its tail, and flourishes a document inscribed 'Thelwals Lectures' (see BMSat 8685). Burke flies in the air, losing his spectacles, and dropping two pamphlets: 'Letter to the Duke of Bedford', see BMSat 8788, &c, and 'Reflections upon a Regicide Peace', see BMSat 8825.
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Depicted people | Representation of: William Pitt the Younger | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1796 date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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1868,0808.6554 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A satire on the Opposition and the prospects of invasion, on Pitt's peace overtures, see BMSat 8829, &c, and Burke's 'Thoughts on a Regicide Peace' (two pamphlets, published 19 and 20 Oct.), see BMSat 8825. The King's speech, 6 Oct., referred to the threat of invasion: 'the enemy has openly manifested a threat of attempting a descent on these kingdoms . . .'. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxii. 1173. This paragraph was debated on 18 Oct. (see BMSat 8836, &c), when Pitt's measures of defence were proposed and the Opposition declared their disbelief in a project of invasion. The projects of Hoche were as yet unknown to the English public. Jenkinson was much ridiculed over a long period (especially when as Foreign Secretary he negotiated the Peace of Amiens, see vol. viii) for saying (10 Apr. 1794) 'that the marching to Paris was practicable; and he, for one, would recommend such an expedition'. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxi. 249. (See BMSats 8631, 9046, 9364.) Canning made a vigorous defence of the Ministry in the same debate. See D. Marshall, 'Rise of Canning', 1938, pp. 63-5. Hall, apothecary, and Secretary of the Whig Club, was a prominent supporter of Fox at Westminster elections, see vol. vi. Horne Tooke had violently attacked Dundas at the recent Westminster election. Jordan's 'Complete Collection of. . . Speeches', 1796, p. 25. Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 204-5 (reproduction). Wright and Evans, No. 155. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Reproduced, Bagot, 'Canning and his Friends', 1909, i. 118. Broadley, i. 94-6. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6554 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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