File:Strange symptoms as to the final nature of the late bill. (BM 1868,0808.12319).jpg
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[edit]Strange symptoms as to the final nature of the late bill. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: Robert Seymour
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Strange symptoms as to the final nature of the late bill. |
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English: Lithographic caricature magazine of four pages on two leaves, in the form of a (monthly) newspaper; illustrations as follows. 1 July 1832
A cheering crowd surrounds a carriage and pair which has been stopped by a barrier across the road. Wellington, raising his hat, stands in the carriage to address the crowd, which is partly bucolic, partly proletarian: 'Ladies and Gentlemen, when an unoffending individual is stopt in the King's highway, and made to utter words against his will, or thrown into the Thames, I certainly can have no objection to join you in exclaiming Reform for ever'. Beyond the barrier (right) is a (tricolour) flag inscribed 'Reform', and the corner of a cobbler's house with the cobbler in the doorway, which is placarded 'Boots & Shoes Mended on a Reform Principle'. The background is a rural reach of the Thames. |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Thomas Attwood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1832 date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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1868,0808.12319 |
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Notes |
Notes to No. 17167: There was no general illumination in London for the passing of the Bill; pros and cons were discussed in letters to The Times from 22 to 26 June. The Examiner, 17 June: 'The illuminations are postponed: we hope sine die. This is an expression of triumph we should leave to our enemies. It is appropriate to royal buildings, or military butchers, . . . but it is unworthy of the people.' See Nos. 17176, 17182. Notes to No. 17168: In June Durham (most radical of Whigs and a 'Pole enragé') was asked to undertake a special mission to Russia to persuade the Russian Government to assent to the Belgian settlement (cf. Nos. 16742, 16766, &c); he left on 4 July. C. New, Lord Durham, 1929, pp. 199 if. The Times, 27 June, asserted the mission was on behalf of 'the glorious and deeply-outraged Poles'. Lieven and Grey, Corr., 1890, ii. 358 f., 362 f., 371-7. Cf. No. 17250. Notes to No. 17174: The Assent was given by Commission on 7 June, the King refusing to go in person to the Lords, as Brougham urged. Sir Herbert Taylor reported the King's words: 'that in ordinary times, he should have doubted the propriety and necessity of a step for which the precedents are few, if any, but that nothing on earth should incline him to take it in deference to what is called the sense of the people, or in deference to the dictates of the press, its ruler, after the treatment he has experienced from both.' Insults not only to himself but 'heaped upon his Queen, on all belonging to him. . . . Was he to cringe and bow?' Brougham, Life and Times, 1871, iii. 209-14. The Times, 4 June, had asserted that the King would, and should, go in person to Parliament. See No. 17164. NB. The large engraving by S. W. Reynolds and W. Walker of 'The Reform Bill receiving The King's Assent by Royal Commission', pub. June 1836, was based on HB's design and portraits, but this was kept secret to preserve his anonymity. D.N.B. Notes to No. 17175: At Ascot, on 19 June, the King was hit by a stone thrown by a half-crazy ex-Greenwich Pensioner. Raikes, Journal, 1858, i. 33; Greville, Memoirs, 1938, ii. 307. The language of The Times on Reform and on the Royal Family is rebuked. Cobbett (Pol. Reg., 19 May) had denounced libels attacking the King 'in as rough a manner as it was possible to attack him by words . . .'. 'The bloody old Times . . . attacks the King himself. . . . Let it see a prospect of gain arising from it, and it would attack with equal virulence the King of Kings.' See No. 17243. Notes to No. 17178: The Times, 26 June (citing the Courier), describes (without Wellington's words) the incident illustrated. The gentleman, stopped by a crowd which had been celebrating the passing of the Reform Bill was not identified as the Duke until two horsemen, similarly held up, said 'they could have no objection to do as the Duke of Wellington had done'. Cheers were then given for 'Reform and the Duke of Wellington for ever'. Bound in a volume ("The Looking Glass, Vol. III") containing nos. 25 to 36 for 1832. Vols. I to VII (1830 to 1836) are kept at 298.d.12 to 18. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12319 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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