Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2Grego, Joseph
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Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2
Grego, Joseph
English wit and humor, Pictorial; Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
_April 26, 1810._ _The Boroughmongers Strangled in the Tower._ Tegg's
caricatures (8).--Sir Francis Burdett, while confined within the
Tower, is signalising his prowess by the slaughter of a brace of the
'Caterpillars of the State;' like the infant Hercules, he is taking
the dealers in corruption by the neck and throttling them. One of
the beefeaters is enjoying the spectacle, crying, 'Bless him, I say;
he's a rum un.' Over the portcullis of the Tower gate is an escutcheon
representing the 'British Lion roused.' On one side of the postern is
an apposite quotation from Shakespeare:--
This dear, dear land--
Dear for her reputation through the world--
Is now leas'd out ...
Like to a tenement, or pelting farm;
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds.'--_Richard II._
An extract from the Liberal Baronet's own speech is posted on the other
side:--
From this foul and traitorous traffic our Boroughmonger Sovereigns
derive an immense revenue, cruelly wrung from the hard hand of
honest labour. I do, however, now entertain an ardent hope that
this degraded and degrading system, to which all our difficulties,
grievances, and dangers are owing, will at length give way to the
moderate but determined perseverance of a whole united people.--SIR
FRANCIS BURDETT.
One of the boroughmongering crew is already demolished; by his side,
on the ground, are two money-bags, 'Rapine,' and 'Drainings from the
hard hand of the industrious poor.' Of the twin wretches who are being
strangled without mercy at the hands of Sir Francis Burdett one has
in his pocket 'Barrow (borough?), in Cornwall, bought and sold; apply
to----;' two money-bags, 'Extortion money,' and 'Bribery and Corruption
bag,' are dropping from his hands; while in the pocket of the other
nefarious agent may be seen 'Rotten borough to be disposed of.'
_May 1, 1810._ _Views of the Colleges. Front View of Christ Church,
Oxford._
_May, 1810._ _Emmanuel College Garden, Cambridge._
_May, 1810._ _Emmanuel College, Cambridge._ (A nobleman presenting
busts.) Published by R. Ackermann.
_May, 1810._ _St. Mary's Church. Radcliffe Library._ Published by R.
Ackermann.
_May, 1810._ _Inside of the Public Library, Cambridge._ Published by R.
Ackermann.
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