1799 Anti-Jacobin Review & Magazine - 8 Folding Etchings

Description: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor. From July to December, (Inclusive,) 1798, With an Appendix, Containing an Ample Review of Foreign Literature, Volume I. (Embellished with Plates.) Printed, for the Proprietors, By T. Crowder, London, 1799. From January to April, 1799, (Embellished with Plates), 1799. May-August 1799, two plates. Bound in contemporary green cloth, 8.5 x 5.5”, 8vo. In good condition. In sturdy green cloth bindings likely done in the last few decades. Minimal wear to extremities. End papers fresh and bright. Light toning throughout with minor instances of foxing. Slight offsetting from plates. Free of known markings. Plate at 284 pp of Volume II torn at corner. Light age staining sporadically throughout. Bindings tight and intact in volume II, III. Binding shaken in volume I. Please see photos. First three volumes nicely rebound of The Anti-Jacobin Review. The Review was a conservative British political periodical active from 1798-1821. Founded by John Gifford after the demise of William Gifford’s The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner, the journal contained essays, reviews and satirical engravings. Described as “ultra-Tory” and “often scurrilous” the publican was a vocal elements of the British Anti-Jacobin backlash against the ideals of the French Revolution. Contributors include Robert Bisset, John Bowles, Arthur Cayley, James Gillray, Gorge Gleig, Samuel Henshall, James Hurdis, James Mill, John Oxlee, Richard Penn, Richard Polwhele, John Skinner, William Stevens and John Whitaker. Gifford called the periodical a champion of “religion, morality, and social order, as supported by existing establishments, ecclesiastical and civil, of this country.” Plates present: Volume I: A peep into the Cave of Jacobinism by James Gillray New Morality by James Gillray Evidence to Character by James GillrayCouncellor Ego by James Gillray - single sheet, not folding see photo aboveTwo Pairs of Portraits by James Gillray Doublûres of characters by James Gillray Volume II: A Peep into the Retreat at Tinneginch by Thomas Rowlandson Volume III: 1.). Pizzarro by John Chapman 2.). The Night Mare by John Chapman Here is a list of the FOLDING PLATES included in these volumes with descriptions. Eight total - five by Gillray, one by Rowlandson, and two by Chapman. Volume 1 - a 1798 uncoloured etching by James Gillray - “A peep into the cave of Jacobinism. Truth', fully draped, her name on her belt, hurries forward, holding up an irradiated torch which directs darts of lightning at creatures in the mouth of a cave (left). This is formed by an arch of rocks, from which 'The Lethean Stream' emerges. Jacobinism, a creature with scaly legs and long serpent-like tail (like 'Sin' in BMSat 8105), naked except for bonnet-rouge and a belt inscribed 'Egalit[é]' in which is a dagger, kneels terror-struck, shrinking from the darts of Truth; he drops his pen and a mask falls from his face. His ink-bottle, inscribed 'Gall', is overturned. Beside him is a heap of pamphlets, which the lightning from Truth's torch has set on fire. They are 'Libels', 'Defamation', 'Sedition', 'Ignorance', 'Anarchy', 'Atheism', 'Abuse'. Toads crawl from under them and drop into the adjacent 'Lethean Stream'. Owls and bats fly off into the recesses of the cave. On Truth's forehead is an irradiated star; she points up with her left hand at an open book resting upon clouds: 'Anti-Jacobin Review & Mag[azine]'. Above her head fly two winged infants holding up between them a crown; one holds the cross of Religion, the other the scales of Justice. After the title is etched "Magna est Veritas et prævalebit" [the motto of the review]. 1 September 1798 Also in Volume 1 - a 1798 uncoloured etching by James Gillray - “New morality; -or- the promis'd installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite facing a quotation (32 ll.) from Canning's 'New Morality' ('Anti-Jacobin', 9 July 1798), which is also etched beneath the plate, prefixed with the additional lines: ' - "behold! "The Directorial Lama, Sovereign Priest - "Lepaux - whom Atheists worship - at whose nod "Bow their meek heads - the Men without a God!' The quotation ends: "In puffing and in spouting, praise Lepaux! - Vide Anti-Jacobin' The design closely follows the poem; the Jacobin Clubs have installed Larevellière-Lépeaux, protected by 'Buonaparte's victor fleet', [The date of publication is that of the Battle of the Nile, news of which reached England on 26 Sept., confirming a report in the 'Rédacteur' of 14 Sept.] 'The holy Hunch-back in thy Dome, St Paul': indicated by the bases of three great pillars. He stands in profile to the left on a three-legged stool before the altar, and is approached by a fantastic procession of English Jacobins who 'wave their Red Caps'. He reads from a book, 'Religion de la N[ature]', his right forefinger raised admonishingly. He is surrounded by four hideous, subhuman creatures, two with short tails, who, as news-boys, cry their respective papers: one has the 'Morning Post - Forgeri L'Eclair', its columns headed 'Puf', 'Puff', 'Puf'. (For Gillray's dislike of newspaper puffs cf. BMSats 7584, 9085, 9396.) Facing him is the vendor of the 'Morning Chronicle', its three columns headed 'Lies', 'Blasphemy', 'Sedition', and above each is written a lire (see BMSat 9194). These two blow their horns. A sansculotte in enormous jack-boots holds up a paper torch inscribed 'Courier'; his papers are inscribed 'French Paper' (cf. BMSat 9237). His 'vis-à-vis' holds a torch inscribed 'Star', whose flame is star-shaped. Two have 'Bloody News' on the front of their caps (cf. BMSat 8981). These are '"Couriers and Stars, Sedition's Evening Host, "Thou Morning Chronicle, and Morning Post,' The group is on a circular stone dais supporting the altar, on which stand three figures on bases inscribed respectively (left to right) 'Justice', 'Philanthropy', 'Sensibility': (1) A frenzied hag ('The avenging angel of regenerate France'), with the snaky locks of Discord, holds a dagger in each hand; her breasts hang to her belt, which is inscribed 'Egalite'; she tramples on the sword and scales of Justice. (2) A stout woman clasps a globe on which 'Europe', 'Asia', and 'Africa' are indicated, squeezing it out of shape. (She 'glows with the general love of all mankind'.) She tramples upon papers: 'Ties of Nature and Amor Patriae.' (3) A weeping woman looks down at a dead bird in her right hand; in her left is a book Rosseau [sic]; she tramples on the decollated head of Louis XVI. She illustrates the lines (not quoted) on 'Sweet Sensibility' (mourning for 'the widow'd dove'). A pillar beside the altar is encircled with the names of 'Voltaire', 'Robertspierre', 'Mireabeau'. Against the altar step (right) lies a bundle of three books, two being 'Common Prayer' and 'Holy Bible', tied up with a tricolour scarf inscribed 'pour les Commodites'. Next it is a sack bulging with church plate, including a chalice and mitre; this is 'Philanthropic Requisition'. Poets head the procession, carrying and escorting a large 'Cornucopia of Ignorance' from which pour papers and pamphlets; Southey, with an ass's head and hoofs, kneels beside it in obeisance to Lepeaux, holding out 'Southeys Saphics' (see BMSat 9045); his 'Joan of Arc' protrudes from his pocket. Coleridge, also with an ass's head, holds out 'Coleridge Dactylic[s]'. Two little ragged men (with a third who is partly hidden) support the cornucopia, convolutions of which are inscribed 'Critical Review', 'Monthly Review', 'Analytical Review'. Their bonnets-rouges have the dangling bells of a fool's cap (cf. BMSat 9374). Two frogs squat beside the cornucopia holding up a large paper: 'Blank Verse by Todd & Frog ['Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb', 1798; see 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 178 n.]. They are the 'five other wandering bards': 'C------dge and S--th--y, L------d and L------b and Co'. With these (and next Coleridge) Lord Moira (not mentioned in 'The New Morality', but a butt of the 'Anti-Jacobin', see BMSat 9184) stands stiffly in profile, offering his sword to Lépeaux, and holding out a paper: 'Relief for Irish Philanthropists'. Behind the cornucopia is a man supporting a basket on his head containing plants, on each of which sprouts a bonnet-rouge. It is labelled 'Zoonomia or Jacobin Plants' (an appropriate offering to the botanist Lepeaux). He is Darwin (not caricatured in 'The New Morality'), whose Loves of the Plants had been parodied in the 'Anti-Jacobin'; 'his 'Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life', was published 1794, 1796. The last of the literary group are Priestley and Wakefield, each holding a pen and paper; the former, from whose pocket projects a paper, 'Inflam[mable] Air', holds out 'Priestley's Political Sermons' (see BMSat 7887). The other partly conceals his face with 'Wakefields answer to Llanda[ff]'. In his 'Reply . . .' (1798) to Watson's 'Address . . .' (see BMSat 9182) he welcomed the prospect of a French invasion (cf. BMSat 9371), The papers pouring from the cornucopia are 'Envy \ Lies \ Wilful Perversi[on] \ Abuse \ Ignorance'. It has disgorged a pile of pamphlets which lie in the foreground at the altar step: 'Letter to Peers of Scotland' [probably Lauderdale's 'Letters to the Peers of Scotland', 1794]; 'Curwens Speech' [Curwen [Mentioned in the poem for his sympathy for Lafayette.] M.P. for Carlisle, published a speech made at a meeting convened in 1797 to petition the King to dismiss his Ministers]; 'The Question' [probably 'The Question as it stood in March 1798', by Sir P. Francis, against the war]; 'The Enquirer'; 'Wrongs of Women' [M. Wollstonecraft's 'Maria, or the Wrongs of Women', 1798, reviewed 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 91-3]; 'Mrs Godwin Memoir' [Godwin's 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman', 1798, reviewed ibid. i. 94-102]; 'Tarltons Principl[es]'; 'Monthly Magazine'; 'Tookes Speeches' [see BMSat 8817]; 'Kingsbury rep[ly]' [Benjamin Kingsbury, like Wakefield, wrote an 'Answer . . .', 1798, to Watson's 'Address . . .', reviewed ibid. i. 78-82, telling him that the number of republicans 'is not small; but it increases rapidly, and will continue to increase']; 'Walsingham' [Perdita Robinson's novel, 'Walsingham; or, the Pupil of Nature', 1797, reviewed ibid. i. 160-4]; 'Lauderdale on Finance' ['Letter on the present measures on Finance', 1798]; 'Knave or not' [a comedy by Holcroft, Drury Lane, 25 Jan. 1798, reviewed ibid. i. 51-4, and in 'Monthly Review', Feb. 1798: 'As Mr. Holcroft is obnoxious to the predominant party, this play has sustained strong and increasing marks of hostility']; 'Letter to Bishops'; 'Young Philosoph[er]' [a novel by Charlotte Smith, 1798, reviewed 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 187-90]; 'Councel Mc Fungus Speech' [cf. the parody of a speech by Mackintosh (Macfungus) in the 'Anti-Jacobin', 4 Dec. 1798]; 'Bob Adair's half Letter' [Part of a Letter from Robert Adair to C. J. Fox . . .', ridiculed in the 'Anti-Jacobin', 22 Jan. 1798: 'Wrote Half a Letter, - to demolish Burke']; 'Morris's Bawdy Songs' [cf. BMSat 9023; he had recently published a patriotic song, see Wright, 'Caricature History of the Georges', pp. 522-3; since the death of a favourite son he had 'renounced singing any of his light songs'. 'Lady Holland's Journal', ii. II]; 'Monroe's Justification' [James Monroe published, 1797, 'View of the Conduct of the Executive in the foreign affairs of the United States . . .', defending his mission to France, 1794-6]; 'Original Letters [probably 'Copies of Original Letters . . . by persons in Paris' [H. M. Williams and J. H. Stone] to Dr Priestley in America, Taken on Board a neutral Vessel', 1798, reviewed 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 146-51. This elicited from Priestley a repudiation of the writers' desire for a French invasion of England, cf. also 'Monthly Magazine', v. 488]; 'Pacification' ['Pacification; or, the Safety and Practicability of a Peace with France demonstrated: . . .', 1798, see 'Critical Review', xxii. 459-60]. Behind Priestley advances Leviathan, with the head of the Duke of Bedford, a barbed hook through his nose: "Thou in whose nose by Burke's gigantic hand \ "The hook was fix'd to drag thee to the land, an allusion to the letter to a Noble Lord', see BMSat 8788. The monster has a gigantic ear, a scaly body whose convolutions support a paunch and thighs terminating in a forked tail; it is on the edge of waves in which its followers are swimming. On its neck sits Thelwall, spattered with dirt, holding out oratori-cally 'Thelwalls Lectures' [see BMSat 8685]. Across its broad back straddle Fox, Tierney, and Nicholls, all wearing their bonnets-rouges; from the pockets of the two last issue respectively 'Tierney's Address' and 'Nicols Speec[hes]'. In the water swims Erskine, pen in hand, holding 'Causes of the War 132d Edit' [his 'Causes and Consequences of the War with France', 1798, rapidly went through forty-five editions]. Behind him floats a barrel, 'Whitbreads intire' [see BMSat 8638]; it contributes to 'the yeasty main'. Immediately behind it is Norfolk, holding up a frothing glass, with a paper in his right hand: 'Whig Toasts & Sentiments' [see BMSat 9168, &c.]. Near him the much smaller head and shoulders of Sir George Shuckburgh emerge from the water. Behind Norfolk is Burdett, cap in hand, holding up a paper: 'Glorious Acquittal O'Conner [see BMSat 9245, &c] dedicated to Lady Ox------d' (an early allusion to the liaison between them). Erskine, Norfolk, and Bedford have tails like that of Leviathan; the other swimmers may be presumed to have them. Behind them is Lord Derby, waving his cap and revealing small horns on his head (cf. BMSat 9074). Next is Byng, holding up 'Coco's Address to the Electors] of Middlesex' [cf. BMSat 8782]. He is followed by Courtenay, holding up a pamphlet: 'Stolen Jests upon Religion'; the point of his cap has a bell indicating Folly (cf. BMSat 7052). All these are 'wallowing in the Yeasty main' which froths around them. Watching the procession is a crowd of humbler Jacobins, who wave caps and arms and shout in frenzied homage to Lépeaux. Among them is the inevitable chimney-sweeper waving brush and shovel. Above them (left) fly five birds with human heads, the largest being Lansdowne with his inscrutable smile; his wings are feathered, those of the four smaller creatures are webbed. The foremost is (?) Stanhope, [Identified in the key to the plate in Edmond's 'Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin' as Grafton; he also allocates the three following names differently.] next a tiny Horne Tooke, then M. A. Taylor, and last, Lauderdale. In the foreground, in front of Leviathan, and on dry land, is a procession of small monstrosities. First, a crocodile wearing a pair of stays, to indicate Tom Paine, see BMSat 8287; his jaws are wide, and he weeps; under his forelegs is a paper: 'Paines Defence of the 18 Fructidor' (reviewed by John Gifford in the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', i. 21-5, 140-6: 'Letter of Thomas Paine to the People of France and the French Armies, on the Event of the 18th Fructidor . . .', Paris, 1797; not in B.M.L.: Gifford calls it the only copy in England. 'To drive the King of Great Britain from his throne ... he represents as an indispensable preliminary of peace.') Next stands a little creature, wearing only leg-irons and spectacles, and writing: 'Letter from an Acquitted Felon'. [The epithet was applied by Windham to those indicted with Hardy and others (see BMSat 8502); he was called to order for it by a Member and reproved by Fox. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxi, 1029, 1050 (30 Dec. 1794). See also Horne Tooke's attack on Windham in 'Divisions of Purley', 1798, p. 247.] He is Holcroft, writing probably his 'Letter to the Right Hon. W. Windham on the intemperance and dangerous tendency of his public conduct', 1795. (Southey writes, 15 Aug. 1798, 'Holcroft's likeness is admirably preserved.') Next is an ass, Godwin, on his hind legs, reading his 'Political Justice'. Last is a serpent, spitting fire, advancing over a paper: 'Williams's Atheistical Lectures'. David Williams (1738-1816), founder of the Royal Literary Fund, published deistic lectures (1779) and anticipated Theophilanthropy by opening a deistic chapel in London. Mathiez, 'La Théophilanthropie et le Culte décadaire', 1904, pp. 392-5. He incurred odium by visiting France, 1792-3, being made a French citizen. These four are: '"All creeping creatures, venomous and low, "Paine, W--ll--ms, G--dw--n, H--Ic--ft, praise Le Paux!' 1 August 1798 Also in Volume 1 - a 1798 uncoloured etching by James Gillray - “Evidence to character; -being a portrait of a traitor, by his friends & by himself. Folding pl. (also issued separately) to 'Anti-Jacobin illustrating extracts from a pamphlet published by Wright, price 3d. ['Considerable allowance to those who purchase Thousands and Tens of Thousands for distribution.'] A burlesque of the trial of O'Connor at Maidstone (22 May), parts of the court being hidden by the large labels which issue from the mouths of prisoner and witnesses. The presiding judge (Buller) looks down with horror at the witnesses, the other judges are hidden. O'Connor (not caricatured), wearing leg-irons, stands at the bar; his hands are clasped, and he bends forward in profile to the left, making a confession which, though condensed, does not differ substantially from that made by him, McNevin, and Emmet, and published in the Report of the Secret Committee made to the Irish House of Commons on 21 Aug. ('Lond. Chron.', 27 Aug.), see BMSat 9244, &c: 'I confess, that I became an United Irishman in 1796 & a Member of the National Executive, from 1796, to 1798. I knew the offer of French assistance was accepted at a meeting of the Executive in Summer 1796: I accompanied the Agent of the Executive (the late Lord Edward Fitzgerald) through Hamburgh to Switzerland, had an interview with General Hoche (who afterwards had the command of the expedition against Ireland) on which occasion every thing was settled between the parties with a view to the descent [see BMSat 8979]. I knew that in 1797 a Fleet lay in ye Texel with 15000 Troops destined for Ireland I knew of the loan negociating with France for Half a Million for the new Irish Government'. From O'Connor's pocket hangs a paper: 'The Press by O'Connor' [inflammatory organ of the United Irishmen, see BMSat 9186]. Round his neck is a noose of rope held by the hand emerging from clouds of the (invisible) Justice; in her right hand are equally balanced scales. The witnesses to O'Connor's character are speaking simultaneously. Four stand in the foreground in profile to the right, behind a barrier, looking towards the judge across a table. Fox (right), nearest O'Connor and the spectator, holds the book to his lips, his raised left arm thrust forward in a rhetorical gesture: "I swear that he is perfectly well affected to his Country, - a Man totally without dissimulation - i know his principles are the principles of the Constitution". (Fox said: "I always thought Mr O'Connor to be perfectly well affected to his country . . . attached to the principles and the constitution of this country, upon which the present family sit upon the throne, and to which we owe all our liberties." 'State Trials', xxvii. 41.) From his pocket projects a book: 'Letters to Lord Ed F. M O'Connor &c &c.' (cf. BMSat 9244). Next stands Sheridan, with a sly expression, holding the book, 'Four Evangelists', his hat in his left hand; he testifies: "I know him intimately; - I treated him, & he treated me, with Confidence! - & I Swear, that, I never met with any man, so determined against encouraging French Assistance". The last words resemble those of Sheridan, with the significant omission 'in this country'. Ibid., p. 48. Next is Erskine, kissing the book, with left arm raised oratorically: "His friends, are all MY friends! and I therefore, feel MYSELF intitled upon MY Oath, to say, that he is incapable, in MY judgement, of acting with treachery, & upon MY oath, I never had any reason to think that his principles differed from MY own so help ME god" [cf. BMSat 9246]. Though abbreviated, this is only very slightly burlesqued. Ibid., pp. 38-41. Next (left) is the Duke of Norfolk, kissing the book, his expression and attitude suggesting embarrassment, saying: "I consider him attached to constitutional principles, in the Same way as myself" [cf. BMSat 9168, &c.]. His evidence ended 'I consider him as a gentleman acting warmly in the political line and attached to . . . [ut supra].' Ibid., p. 49. On the extreme left and behind Norfolk is Grattan, saying: "He favour an Invasion of his Country by the French? - no! no! - quite the contrary! - I know his Character". This is the substance of his evidence, except that for 'quite' read 'rather'. Ibid., p. 50. An undifferentiated head in the background says: "He has the Same sentiments as every one of the Opposition". Lord Thanet said this. Ibid., p. 52. Another witness in the background says: "I have always told Lady Suffolk of his extraordinary abilities". Lord Suffolk said: 'I have always told Lady Suffolk, and the rest of my friends . .. [&c. &c.].' Ibid., p. 44. [Lord Holland notes that he 'frequently mentioned trifling domestic circumstances in his speeches in the House of Lords'.] Among a crowd of other heads, chiefly hidden by labels, is one resembling Tierney. Above this phalanx of Opposition witnesses is a crowded gallery. Three counsel (the Attorney-General (Scott), Solicitor-General (Mitford), and (?) Garrow), who sit beneath the judges, are divided from the witnesses by a table covered with papers, &c, one being conspicuous: 'Charges of High Treason against Arthur O'Connor, Oliver Bond Dr McNevin.' 1 October 1798 Also in Volume 1 - a 1798 uncoloured etching by James Gillray - “Two Pair of Portraits. where a transcript of Horne Tooke's pamphlet, published for the Westminster Election of 1788, is styled 'Description of the Print'. The title continues: 'presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, by John Horne Tooke'. Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length [Horne Tooke described his portraits as 'not whole lengths, and left for some younger hand hereafter to finish . . .', p. 7.] portraits of Fox (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.' On the ground, resting against a table, is the other pair of portraits, juxtaposed, Lord Holland (left) and Chatham (right), bust portraits, in peer's robes, the family likenesses to their sons, especially in the case of the Foxes, being stressed. Each holds a document: Holland, 'Unaccounted Millions' (he had been styled the public defaulter of unaccounted millions in the City petition of 1769, see BMSat 4296, &c, and cf. BMSat 8622); Chatham, 'Rewards of a Grateful Nation'. On the table is a portfolio of 'Studies from French Masters' from which protrude sketches inscribed 'From Robertspierre, from Tallien, from Marat'. (Cf. BMSat 8437, &c.) The wall, which forms a background, is covered with prints, &c. (left to right): [1] (partly visible) a dagger about to be plunged into a prostrate figure, inscribed '3d Sept [1792]', see BMSat 8122. [2] 'A Sketch for an English Directory', four members of the London Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) seated at a table, the chairman a butcher holding a frothing tankard. (The figures are not quite the grotesque denizens of the underworld represented in BMSat 9202.) [3] A framed half length portrait of Wilkes, squinting violently and clasping two large money-bags: 'Mr Chamberlain Wilkes ci-devant', 'Wilkes & Liberty' (see BMSat 6568); it is labelled: 'The Effect in this Picture to be copied as exact as possible'. [4] A profile in silhouette: 'Shadow of the Abbe Seyes' (see BMSat 9509). [5] A framed picture: 'view of the Windmill at Wimbleton' (from Horne Tooke's house, near Caesar's Camp). The two upper sails are 'Divinity' and 'Politicks', the lower 'Treason' and 'Atheism'. [6] A placard: 'just publish'd The Art of Political Painting, extracted from the works of the most celebrated Jacobin Professors - Pro bono publico.' [7] A bust of 'Machiavel', looking reflectively towards Horne Tooke. [8] Part of a landscape with a small house: 'Parsonage of Brentford' (cf. BMSat 4866, &c). 1 December 1798 Also in Volume 1 - a 1798 uncoloured etching by James Gillray - “Doublûres of characters; - or - striking resemblances in phisiognomy. - where it has no relation to the text, and is placed at random. Also issued separately. Bust portraits of seven leaders of the Opposition, each with his almost identical double, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes below the title. The first pair are Fox, directed slightly to the left, and Satan, a snake round his neck, his agonized scowl a slight exaggeration of Fox's expression; behind them are flames. They are 'I. The Patron of Liberty, Doublûre, the Arch-Fiend' (cf. BMSats 6383, 9263, &c). Next is Sheridan, with bloated face, and staring intently with an expression of sly greed; his double clasps a money-bag: 'II. A Friend to his Country, Doubr Judas selling his Master'. The Duke of Norfolk, looking to the right, scarcely caricatured, but older than in contemporary prints. His double, older still, crowned with vines, holds a brimming glass to his lips, which drip with wine: 'III. Character of High Birth, Doubr Silenus debauching' (cf. BMSat 8159). (Below) Tierney, directed to the right, but looking sideways to the left: 'IV. A Finish'd Patriot, Doubr The lowest Spirit of Hell.' Burdett, in profile to the right, with his characteristic shock of forward-falling hair, trace of whisker, and high neck-cloth, has a raffish-looking double with similar but unkempt hair: 'V. Arbiter Elegantiarum, Doubr Sixteen-string Jack' [a noted highwayman]. Lord Derby, caricatured, in profil perdu, very like his simian double, who wears a bonnet-rouge terminating in the bell of a fool's cap: 'VI. Strong Sense, Doubr A Baboon.' The Duke of Bedford, not caricatured, and wearing a top-hat, has a double wearing a jockey cap and striped coat (see BMSat 9380): 'VII. A Pillar of the State, Doubr A Newmarket Jockey'. After the title: '"If you would know Mens Hearts, look in their Faces" Lavater.' 1 November 1798 Volume 2 - a 1799 uncoloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson - “A Peep into the Retreat at Tinnehinch - An uncoloured print that takes place in the study of Henry Grattan that is lined with books and papers. Grattan greets two Irish Republicans one of whom is John Hughes who answers that he is a united Irishmen when asked by Grattan. The servant who has admitted the two men taps his nose in a knowing way. The study contains papers and busts linked to French revolutionary figures. On the floor are books on the subject of Jacobinism and assassination. Inscribed in the plate: Pubd May 1st 1799 by T Whittle Peterboro Court Fleet Street / For the Anti Jacobin Review". Volume 3 - a 1799 uncoloured stipple engraving by John Chapman - “The Night Mare - Fox, asleep in a half-tester bed, is beset by the phantoms of his dream. A fiery horse, ridden by a sansculotte, lies on his chest, kicking a hind hoof in his mouth. The rider plants on Fox's breast the staff of a flag inscribed 'Vive la Liberté' on which a heart (on an inverted crown) is transfixed by a dagger. The foot of the low bedstead has collapsed and the whole bed slides downwards on a tilted floor. A fierce creature (Bonaparte), almost naked except for cocked hat, jack-boots, and enormous sabre, wrenches at the fingers of Fox's out-thrown left hand. A demon with webbed wings, naked except for an arsenal of daggers and a bonnet-rouge, clings to the top of the tester, and clutches at the bed-coverings which he has dragged from Fox. Under Fox's pillow is a dagger, a winged dagger flies towards him from the window. By the foot of the bed (left) are Fox's boots and coat, from the pocket projects 'Godwins Political Justice'. A chamber-pot is inscribed 'Le Paux' (see BMSat 9240). On the floor, with a single die, are pamphlets and papers: 'Ancient Republics', the words facing a black man standing on his head; '[Wa]kefield Answer'; 'Morn[ing Chronicle]'. 1 May 1799 Also in Volume 3 - a 1799 uncoloured stipple engraving by John Chapman - “Pizzarro. From the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', Sheridan, dressed as Pizarro (as in BMSat 9396), bestrides the neck of Kemble, whose large head, irradiated, flies through space diagonally towards the spectator. He is directed to the left, his cloak flies out behind him. Under his left arm are money-bags, in his right hand he holds out a document: 'Spoken before a select party of Friend's - This season true my Principles I've sold, To fool the world & pocket George's gold, Prolific mine! anglo-peruvian food Provok'd my taste - and Candidate I stood, - While Kemble my support with LOYAL face Declares The PEOPLES CHOICE with stage-trick grace.' Below the design: 'In Pizzarra's plans observe the Statesman's wisdom guides the poor mans Heart Taken from Sheridans Pizzarro and adapted to the English taste' 1 October 1799 RAREB1799FRS_ -08/23 FORN-SHELF-0461-BB-2409-HKREV69

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