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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1815-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen
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Publisher: (London : Punch Publications, etc.)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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orne down to the groundby the weight of their liabilities. At a signal from a trumpet one of the Lords of the Treasury, disguised as an attorney, comes among them, andis asked to prepare their schedule, with a view to the Grand Pass of theInsolvent Court. The Lord of the Treasury affects to comply with theirwish, and preparations are made for a Grand March towards the Streetof Portugal, when the scene suddenly changes, and the troops, closelyfollowing their leader, are brought out opposite the Horse Guards, andthe welcome information is given that they are relieved from theirliabilities. It is then found that the low comic Life Guardsman hasmanaged the plot, for which he immediately receives a commission ; thedeceased Captains daughter marries the Lord of the Treasury, who isfound to be a long lost brother of the Colonel; and as the band of theregiment strikes up Rule Britannia the creditors rush in with theirreceipts, forming a picture of Love, Honour, and Glory, as the Curtainfalls.
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The Grand Tableau. ENGLAND RUINED! Englishmen may not be aware of the calamity that has fallen upontheir beloved land ; but—we cannot, we ought not, to suppress the terriblenews—England is ruined ! She is a done state : a wreck—the skeletonof a once mighty nation henceforth to take her mournful place in historywith the Phoenician and Roman empires. The cause of this vast destruc-tion is that terrible Irishman, that fire-eating Milesian, that very hotpotato, Mr. H. Grattan. It is but a very few days ago that that awfulperson declared he had done with us for ever and ever ; and this declara-tion he solemnised with a thumping oath, loudly cheered at the Concilia-tion Hall. Then and there he swore that he took his leave of thegentlemen of England ; then and there he avowed his stern determina-tion never willingly to draw a sword in their behalf, or give them aguinea of his money. We cling to the hope that Grattan the Terriblemay yet be mollified ; for when we reflect how often and h

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