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Letter from the Earl of Buchan to his brother, the Hon. Thomas Erskine, Counsellor at Law; on the subject of education. Accompanying a Latin address to the rector of the high school of Edinburgh; and one in English to the boys in the highest class of that School.

Naval officer; barrister; counsel to radicals during the Napoleonic wars; Lord Chancellor of Great Britain; introduced parliamentary bill against cruelty to animals

1 print : stipple engraving ; platemark 16.9 x 11.5 cm

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1794.

The speeches (at length) of the Right Honourable C.J. Fox, T. Erskine, &c. &c. &c. At a meeting held at the Shakespeare Tavern, Covent Garden, on Thursday, October 10, 1797; being the anniversary of Mr. Fox's election for the city of Westminster.

On Sheridan's rambling speech for the repeal of Pitt's additional forces bill on 6 March 1805. Pitt neatly disposed of many of Sheridan's allegations and inconsistencies. Among the opposition in bottles are: Tierney ('a glass of all sorts'), Fox ('True French wine'), Windham ('Brandy and water'), Grey ('Goosberry Wine'). On the bench behind sits Burdett ('Brentford Ale) and Erskine ('Spruce beer'). On the ground behind Pitt lies an open bottle of 'medicinal wine' spilling its contents and containing the head of Sidmouth with closed eyes

William Pitt the younger stands in the House of Commons facing the opposition benches, who are in corked and labelled bottles, as he uncorks a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan. Etching by J. Gillray.

The reason of man: with strictures on Paine's Rights of man, and some other of his writings. The third edition. By John Jones, printer and Bookseller, and one of the editors of the Kenish Gazette, published at Canterbury.

Observations on the proceeding of the Friends of the Liberty of the Press, &c. December 22, 1792. And an answer to Mr. Erskine's speech, of January 19, 1793. By Thomas Barnard, Barrister at Law.

Sheridan is administering a medicine ("Essence of loyalty"), apparently in the form of smelling salts in a vial, to his patient Charles James Fox: the Duke of Norfolk, King George III and others observe in expectation of a cure. Sheridan is dressed as Francisco Pizarro, referring to his play Pizarro (1799). The play is open to a number of different and inconsistent interpretations. First, the Peruvians are described in the same words as those in which the Indians had been described in Sheridan's speeches against Warren Hastings, leaving Pizarro and the Spanish conquerors to be compared to the British East India Company. Alternatively, the Peruvians are compared to the English, and the Spanish invaders are compared to Bonaparte and the potential invasion of French Revolutionary practices: Sheridan is seen as supporting the British, as loyal to King George III, and as able (through his patent medicine) to convert Charles James Fox to the same loyalty. Finally, the Peruvians are compared to the Irish, and the Spanish conquerors to the English and Scots in Ireland: at the time Sheridan was supporting the United Irishmen in a law suit, but did not support their alliance with France
The present print adopts the second of the three interpretations above: Sheridan is curing Fox of "Jacobin qualms" by administering "Essence of loyalty" to him and to three other supporters of radicals: the Earl of Derby (a sporting associate of Fox), Lord Erskine (who as a barrister had defended radicals in court), and Sir Francis Burdett (opponent of the suspension of Habeas Corpus, supporter of prison reform etc.)
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1 print : aquatint with etching, with watercolour ; platemark 32.2 x 40 cm

Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.

The speech (at length) of the Hon. C. J. Fox, against the address to His Majesty, approving of the refusal to enter into a negotiation for peace with the French Republic. With a list of the minority, &c. &c. &c.

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Letter from the Earl of Buchan to his brother, the Hon. Thomas Erskine, Counsellor at Law; on the subject of education. Accompanying a Latin address to the rector of the high school of Edinburgh; and one in English to the boys in the highest class of that School.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1794.

The speeches (at length) of the Right Honourable C.J. Fox, T. Erskine, &c. &c. &c. At a meeting held at the Shakespeare Tavern, Covent Garden, on Thursday, October 10, 1797; being the anniversary of Mr. Fox's election for the city of Westminster.

William Pitt the younger stands in the House of Commons facing the opposition benches, who are in corked and labelled bottles, as he uncorks a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan. Etching by J. Gillray.

The reason of man: with strictures on Paine's Rights of man, and some other of his writings. The third edition. By John Jones, printer and Bookseller, and one of the editors of the Kenish Gazette, published at Canterbury.

Observations on the proceeding of the Friends of the Liberty of the Press, &c. December 22, 1792. And an answer to Mr. Erskine's speech, of January 19, 1793. By Thomas Barnard, Barrister at Law.

Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.

The speech (at length) of the Hon. C. J. Fox, against the address to His Majesty, approving of the refusal to enter into a negotiation for peace with the French Republic. With a list of the minority, &c. &c. &c.

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Letter from the Earl of Buchan to his brother, the Hon. Thomas Erskine, Counsellor at Law; on the subject of education. Accompanying a Latin address to the rector of the high school of Edinburgh; and one in English to the boys in the highest class of that School.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1794.

The speeches (at length) of the Right Honourable C.J. Fox, T. Erskine, &c. &c. &c. At a meeting held at the Shakespeare Tavern, Covent Garden, on Thursday, October 10, 1797; being the anniversary of Mr. Fox's election for the city of Westminster.

William Pitt the younger stands in the House of Commons facing the opposition benches, who are in corked and labelled bottles, as he uncorks a bottle containing the bloated and scowling face of Sheridan. Etching by J. Gillray.

The reason of man: with strictures on Paine's Rights of man, and some other of his writings. The third edition. By John Jones, printer and Bookseller, and one of the editors of the Kenish Gazette, published at Canterbury.

Observations on the proceeding of the Friends of the Liberty of the Press, &c. December 22, 1792. And an answer to Mr. Erskine's speech, of January 19, 1793. By Thomas Barnard, Barrister at Law.

Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.

The speech (at length) of the Hon. C. J. Fox, against the address to His Majesty, approving of the refusal to enter into a negotiation for peace with the French Republic. With a list of the minority, &c. &c. &c.

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