<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Majority one against the boroughmongers [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>March 26th, 1831.</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A satire on the electoral Reform Bill of 1831, which was passed soon after this print was issued.  Grant shows the figure of blind Justice leaning out from a mass of billowing clouds and holding her scales labelled "Reform 1813". The load on the left side labeled "People', though containing fewer documents -- Magna Carta, Economy &amp; Retrenchment, Peace of Plenty, Extension of the Electi[c] Franchise, Cheap Government -- is heavier than the other plate "Oligarchy" which is weighted down by: Bribes, Corruption, Six Acts, Corn Law, Church, Rotten Boroughs, Corporation Charters, Law &amp; Iniquity, Taxes, Imposts, Holy Alliance, [F?]onal Debt. A group of four men in the left foreground include a judge; the one man says "Behold! a mere feather turns the ballance in our favour and saves us from revolution &amp; disgrace."  Just beyond them in the middle distance the King stands firmly and says "The triumph of this great &amp; vital cause will fix my crown more firm upon my head." On the right a group of over six men including a clergyman who wipes his brow and cries "The draft is in their favor. Our cause is lost. Oh dictatorium, dictatorium, dic-". Another gentleman behind him cries "They may vainly recken on a paltry unit, we have yet power to rent it peicemeal [sic]."  In the distance a crowd cheers, and some hold signs for "Reform" and "Support the King &amp; his ministers", etc</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>