Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April.

  • Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ And, Pitt, hae, hx ? at Smithfield, Pitt, I Jhme— Mine’s the beft beef—^yes, mine—^what, what ?—^yes, mine : “ I’ll empty ev’ry g\iinea-cheft, ahd fack ; “ Yes, yes, the people ought to have it back : .119 “ My money in the ftocks,^my wood, my hay; “ Yes, yes. I’ll give my all, my all away ; Verfe 111. My wood.] • Here I muft candidly;condemn a part of the People, wliofe caufe, in the affair of Hair-powder, I am fo pathetically pleading. “ Such (fays the Win for Chronicle) was the unparalleled effrontery of the inhabitants of Brentford, during the late unexampled froft, when they Ihould have thought of nothing but dying, that thofe very people, not worth a groat, ftarving, fhivering, and in rags, dared to proceed in a body, amidft the dead filence of the night, with their unhallowed feet, into the facred Gardens of Richmond and Kew j where they wickedly, inhumanly, and felonioufly, cut down and maimed a number of trees, many of which they had the impu- '^ence to carry away to their own ferub chimnies, to warm their own vile bones, becaufe, forfooth, certain Great People happened fortunately to be in poffefUon of enormous quantities of wood, during the great fcarcity, and chofe not to give it away in idle charity, nor Jell it at the then current price, which had every probability of mounting higher; as though they had not an equal fight to turn a penny in an honejl way, with any coal-Jhed man in the village of Brentford. But behold how they behaved on this infulting, provoking, ftealing, and trying occafion ! So far from advertifing handfome rewards for difeovering the rogues, and bringing them to jufticej fuch was their clemency, that they ordered the affair to be hulhed up, and buried in perpetual oblivion !!!” D “ Yes,