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A woman being stabbed while the blood pouring from her wounds is drunk by a group of men; representing Britannia's resources being drained by politicians. Engraving, 1768.

The remarkable case of Thomas Mortimer, Esq; late His Majesty's Vice-Consul for the Austrian Netherlands: addressed without permission, to Lord Weymouth, And his Under Secretaries Robert Wood, and William Frazer, Esqrs. with an Appendix; Containing an Extraordinary Anecdote concerning A Russian Sailor.

An Extract from the St. James's Chronicle, of Saturday, December 10, 1768.

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An Extract from the St. James's Chronicle, of Saturday, December 10, 1768.