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Attributed to Churchill who was poet, satirist & caricaturist. "Publish'd by according Act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762." Three verses below image: "John Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing? That's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing. New-lost-land is done for, and all the worlds going ... But how came these flames?--I was told by a scout. In the Welch ladys bed room at first they broke out ..." Satirical print commenting on the Great Britain policies in North America at the time of the transition from the reign of George II to George III, and the change in their influential advisors from William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, to John Stuart, Earl of Bute.

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