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Eldon says: "I protest that with the exception of a slight tinge of Grey, it is nothing more than poor C-stle-gh's black draught.", Wellington adds: "Oh these people will take the bread out of our mouths". Stanley who is restraining O'Connell says: "His agitation is quite alarming:- I can scarcely keep him down." The doctor (Earl Grey) says: "These inflamatory symptoms must be abated by a little counter irritation.", the nurse (Althorp) adds: "See there! such a nice bit of sugar!"
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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; border 28.8 x 36.9 cm.

A man being restrained in a chair while a doctor and nurse prepare to give him some medicine; referring to English politicians' feelings towards Daniel O'Connell. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1833.

Remarks on the Anatomy Bill now before Parliament : in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. the Lord Althorp / [G.J. Guthrie].

The print contains extensive dialogue
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1 print : chalk lithograph, with watercolour ; image 24.6 x 37.3 cm.

John Bull presented as the Chinese labourer Hoo Loo surrounded by surgeons discussing the removal of his tumor; referring to British political reform. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

The hopper or receptacle on the top of the mill is heaped with froth and is decorated with the Royal Arms. Into this Lord John Russell, standing on a ladder, empties a tankard of 'Whig Liberalism', while Edward Maltby, bishop of Chichester and a committee member of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, empties a bottle labelled 'Whig theology from Chichester'. Russell says 'A small quantity of this will do, and dont you put too much of that', and Maltby replies 'Never fear my piety, It will not quarrel with your philosophy'. Behind Russell on the left is a large round 'Mashing vat' (left) in which the contents of the 'Penny magazine' are being prepared. The rim is inscribed 'Wonderous condescension & affability'; in it chunks of wood inscribed 'Wood block' and 'Illustrative wood block' are floating, representing wood engravings. The mixture is being stirred by Thomas Denman, Attorney-general and soon to be Lord Chief Justice (from 9 November 1832), who turns to the right to shout 'Send out the Police, and see no other unstamp'd things are selling'. From the left margin project the horns and talons of the Devil, peppering the frothing vat from a pot labelled 'A small seasoning of infidelity'. Behind is Charles Knight, the publisher of The penny magazine, with ass's ears, cutting a newspaper with a big pair of shears; this is 'The cutting room with an A.S.S. at work'
A tube leading from the mill towards the right, labelled 'The Penny extractor', connects the back of the mill with the coat-pocket of John Bull who leans back in his chair, convulsively extending his fingers over his pocket, while Knight (appearing a second time) stands over him, holding a large funnel in his victim's mouth, into which he rams paper with a stick, saying, 'Never mind your pockets, Mr Bull but take this. I am its publisher, and know it to be good for a be-Knighted generation'. Behind them is a policeman (acting on instructions from Denman) who menaces with his baton an emaciated, ragged, and terrified newspaper hawker
The product of the mill also pours out from two wide spouts or pipes at the front; one (left) is 'The proprietor's pipe'. From this a circular reservoir sunk in the floor is filled with 'Pennies'. From the other (right), 'The public's pipe', a corresponding reservoir, 'The Pall Mall Reservoir', is filled with papers inscribed 'Twaddle', suggesting that the proprietor (Charles Knight) profits by selling "twaddle" to the public from his Pall Mall East office in London

1 print : lithograph ; image 24.1 x 33 cm

An industrial mill representing the 'Penny magazine': Lord John Russell and Bishop Maltby feed it with liberalism and whiggism, Lord Brougham and Lord Spencer turn the crank handles, and Charles Knight feeds the resulting product to John Bull. Lithograph by R. Seymour, 1832.

Wetherell's constituency, Boroughbridge, was included in the sixty to be disfranchised. He says: "All over my friends! just in time to hear my last speech and dying words! But don't look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell's purge! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral." Eldon mournfully says: "Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?", the Duke of Cumberland says: "Facetious to the last! - It is quite effecting!". On the table is a medicine bottle labelled: "Russell's purge"

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; border 27 x 34.2 cm.

Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

On Lord Althorp's budget fiasco in 1831, a result of time constraints and his inexperience. Althorp became leader of the House of Commons under Lord Grey's government in 1830 at the request of the newly enthroned William IV who states: 'A bad business this, Grey to breakdown in our first trial, eh!'. The policy was opposed by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel who are seen discussing Eldon's folly far left: 'I think they hurried him too much in his training' (Wellington). Althorp was not only a politician but an agriculturalist and sportsman, hence reference to horse-racing
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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image and border 26.9 x 38.9 cm

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A man being restrained in a chair while a doctor and nurse prepare to give him some medicine; referring to English politicians' feelings towards Daniel O'Connell. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1833.

Remarks on the Anatomy Bill now before Parliament : in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. the Lord Althorp / [G.J. Guthrie].

John Bull presented as the Chinese labourer Hoo Loo surrounded by surgeons discussing the removal of his tumor; referring to British political reform. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

An industrial mill representing the 'Penny magazine': Lord John Russell and Bishop Maltby feed it with liberalism and whiggism, Lord Brougham and Lord Spencer turn the crank handles, and Charles Knight feeds the resulting product to John Bull. Lithograph by R. Seymour, 1832.

Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

King William IV and Lord Grey inspect a race-horse with the head of Lord Althorp in a paddock. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1831.

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A man being restrained in a chair while a doctor and nurse prepare to give him some medicine; referring to English politicians' feelings towards Daniel O'Connell. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1833.

Remarks on the Anatomy Bill now before Parliament : in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. the Lord Althorp / [G.J. Guthrie].

John Bull presented as the Chinese labourer Hoo Loo surrounded by surgeons discussing the removal of his tumor; referring to British political reform. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

An industrial mill representing the 'Penny magazine': Lord John Russell and Bishop Maltby feed it with liberalism and whiggism, Lord Brougham and Lord Spencer turn the crank handles, and Charles Knight feeds the resulting product to John Bull. Lithograph by R. Seymour, 1832.

Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

King William IV and Lord Grey inspect a race-horse with the head of Lord Althorp in a paddock. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1831.

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