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A slow and sure deliverance, an anticipation sketch   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: J (or W) Dickie
Published by: J Brown
Title
A slow and sure deliverance, an anticipation sketch
Description
English: Two lawyers (Plumer and Dallas) in wig and gown carry (right to left) an ornate palanquin in which Hastings is seated, wearing his accustomed jewelled turban; he raises a curtain to look out. On the palanquin (which in form resembles a sedan chair) are the initials 'W H.' A third lawyer (left), Hastings's leading counsel, Law (left), marches in front with a triumphant gait; he holds his Brief in his left hand, in his right a large money-bag inscribed 'Fee'. Beside him is a signpost pointing 'To St. James's'. Beside the palanquin walks Thurlow holding out a sword inscribed 'Justice', the point supporting an enormous hat on whose crown is a royal crown. This completely protects the palanquin from a blast directed against it from the head of Burke, which emerges from clouds in the upper left corner of the design. His hand also emerges, holding a roll inscribed 'Impeachment'. In Thurlow's left hand is a money-bag inscribed 'Treatise on Friendship'. These four protectors of Hastings are walking on the heads of a crowd of peers wearing coronets who are all asleep. Among them is one bishop on whose head Thurlow tramples. Across them is written 'Honor'. In the background (right) is a hill on whose summit is a post surmounted by a weathercock and inscribed 'Evidence'. A hand attached to the post points downwards and to the left inscribed 'To the High Court'. Fox and Sheridan toil up the hill holding the poles of a carrying-chair in which sits a man grasping a large money-bag inscribed 'Treatise on the Yellow Jaundice'. Fox turns to him, saying, "Why not Swear here what you asserted elsewhere ?" 2 April 1788
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Depicted people Associated with: Edmund Burke
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 243 millimetres
Width: 349 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.5708
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires alleging the venal protection of Hastings by Thurlow and the King. It anticipates his acquittal and illustrates the contrast between the accusations of the Managers and the evidence of the witnesses. The witness carried by Fox and Sheridan may be Fox Calcraft, examined on 29 Feb., who, though called by the prosecution, gave evidence markedly in favour of Hastings. 'Trial of Warren Hastings', 1796, p. 23. The peers, each of whom would give his verdict, 'on my honour', are asleep. The days on which evidence was taken were considered very uninteresting by contrast with the theatrical rhetoric of the Managers (cf. Mme D'Arblay's 'Diary', 1905, iv. 367). Though the trial opened before 160 peers, only 29, those who had attended during the greater part of the trial, recorded their votes. For the trial see BMSat 7269, &c.; for the supposed venality of the King and Thurlow, BMSats 7278, &c. For the attitude of the peers see BMSat 7300, &c. For the dispute as to whether the rules of the Courts relating to evidence were to be followed see BMSat 7276, &c.
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