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Strike- but hear
Description
English: John Horne stands in the foreground, declaiming at the bar of the House of Commons. His r. arm is raised; his left hand is in his breeches pocket. From the right. of the design the mace appears. On the other side of the bar the Speaker sits in his chair. On each side of him are three rows of members, many of them without heads; a number of heads with pendent bag-wigs are floating above the Speaker's head, showing that many of the Members have lost their heads in excitement. n.d. February 1774
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Depicted people Representation of: John Horne Tooke
Date 1774
date QS:P571,+1774-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 194 millimetres
Width: 121 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,1.159
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

This depicts the appearance of John Horne at the bar of the House on 18 Feb. 1774. Horne's friend Tooke had appealed to him for help to prevent a pending enclosure Bill by de Grey which would pre-judge a case in litigation between himself and de Grey concerning the common-rights of Tooke's estate at Purley. The passing of the Bill was apparently inevitable, but Horne published in the 'Public Advertiser' a nicely-timed letter to the Speaker, signed "Strike but Hear", which was a deliberate and violent libel. He calculated that the House would be so exasperated at the breach of privilege that the business of the day would be neglected, that he would be summoned to the bar, and would have an opportunity of explaining his motives and the injustice of the Bill. The event was according to plan: the members lost their heads and clamoured to the Speaker for the punishment of the libel. First Woodfall and then Horne were called to the bar. Horne made his speech; both were discharged; time was given for further consideration of the Bill and the clauses obnoxious to Tooke were dropped. See 'Parl. Hist.', xvii. 1005 ff.; Walpole, 'Last Journals', 1910, i. 289 ff.; 'Corr. of George III', ed. Fortescue, iii. 68-9; A. Stephens, 'Memoirs of John Horne Tooke', 1813, i, 422-30.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-1-159
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