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Scipio Africanus   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Doyle (HB)

Printed by: A Ducôte
Published by: Thomas McLean
Title
Scipio Africanus
Description
English: No. 335. Portrait of Edward Ellice, dressed in a tailcoat, shown in three-quarter profile to left, holding a top hat in his right hand, walking towards left. 4 August 1834
Lithograph
Depicted people Portrait of: Rt Hon Edward Ellice
Date 1834
date QS:P571,+1834-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 336 millimetres
Width: 253 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1857,1222.86
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Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:

In the course of an inquiry before a committee appointed to investigate certain matters relative to the refusal of the benchers of the Inner Temple to admit Mr. D. W. Harvey, (who was one of the members for Colchester,) it came out that a sum of £500 had been supplied towards the expences of the election at Colchester, by Mr. Edward Ellice, one of the Secretaries of the Treasury. This disclosure made it necessary for Mr. O'Connell, as chairman of the committee, to bring the subject before the House of Commons, with a view to its being ascertained whether or not the money so applied was public money. Mr. Ellice explained that not one shilling of the sum was public money, but was part of a fund arising from private subscriptions among the friends of reform; and that he had disbursed it, not in his character of Secretary of the Treasury, but as the manager of that subscription-fund. This explanation was considered to be quite satisfactory, and Mr. Charles Buller, in his speech upon the occasion, after imploring the House not to suffer the shadow of an imputation to rest on his Right Honourable Friend, on account of exertions for which the people of England must respect him, added - "Sir, when Scipio Africanus, that illustrious Roman, was accused by factious tribunes on a charge which might render him odious to the Roman people, his only answer was, that the day on which he was accused was the anniversary of his victory over Hannibal, and to implore the people to follow him to the temple and thank the immortal gods, and pray that future commanders might be like him." The name of Scipio Africanus has appertained to Mr. Ellice ever since.
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