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The In's and Outs or the Jesuits Treatment of his Friends, 25 March 1797

 Item — Box: LF104/4 Box 1
Reference code: LF104/4/84

Scope and Contents

By Richard Newton. A burlesque of Gillray's 'Malagrida', driving post, the action being more violent. Lansdowne's coach (left) is driven by a French ragamuffin, wearing a bonnet-rouge and tricolour cockade, who lashes the galloping horses with revolutionary fury. Lansdowne, sly and sleek in his peer's robes, leans from the window raising a threatening fist, to say: "Drive you dog! Vite, Vite, I shall be too late, he'll alter his mind get away you Fellows you clog the Wheels charity begins at home." Fox lies prostrate under the wheels, shouting despairingly, "Stop! I say Stop & take me with you!" Sheridan runs beside the hind-wheel, saying, "What leave me behind, ha. your old Acquaintance." The beehive crest on the coach-door is surrounded, not with bees, but with winged cherubic heads, each wearing a bonnet-rouge with a cockade. Pitt's coach gallops from the gateway of St. James's Palace; Dundas drops reins and whip at the sight of the dove with an olive-branch flying towards the Palace. Pitt leans out in exaggerated terror. From a small window over the gateway the King's agitated profile emerges, saying to Pitt: "What! What. What, are you off." Description from the British Museum.

Dates

  • Creation: 25 March 1797

Conditions Governing Access

Available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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