Excise a comical hieroglyphical epistle from [Beelzebub] to [Lord Bute] [engraving]
1763
P&E L2018F186m
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Title
Excise a comical hieroglyphical epistle from [Beelzebub] to [Lord Bute] [engraving]
Published
[London?] : Sold by I. Williams ..., 1763.
Description
1 print ; 28 cm.
Call Number
P&E L2018F186m
System Control No.
(OCoLC)940160659
Note
Signed: Pandemonium April 1st. 1763. Constant friend & ally, Beelzebub.
Satirical rebus letter (a letter that combines words and pictures to make its sentences), from the Devil to the Prime Minister, Lord Bute congratulating him on several unpopular Parliamentary acts.
It refers to the recent Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War, whose compromises favoring French interests "[nut] only made a Great Noise upon Earth, [butt] has set [awl] Hell in an uproar. There's hardly a State[man] in the P[lace]-[butt] looks upon it [ass] a Coup d'Eclat in the diabolic[awl] way"; also makes satirical reference to the cider tax of 1763, of 4 shillings the hogshead of cider or perry, to be paid by the grower, imposed by Bute's chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Francis Dashwood. The tax raised a huge resistance, and was repealed in 1765.
Satirical rebus letter (a letter that combines words and pictures to make its sentences), from the Devil to the Prime Minister, Lord Bute congratulating him on several unpopular Parliamentary acts.
It refers to the recent Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War, whose compromises favoring French interests "[nut] only made a Great Noise upon Earth, [butt] has set [awl] Hell in an uproar. There's hardly a State[man] in the P[lace]-[butt] looks upon it [ass] a Coup d'Eclat in the diabolic[awl] way"; also makes satirical reference to the cider tax of 1763, of 4 shillings the hogshead of cider or perry, to be paid by the grower, imposed by Bute's chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Francis Dashwood. The tax raised a huge resistance, and was repealed in 1765.
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