The ghost of the bill, or, C-rlt-n Palace haunted [graphic].

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Title: The ghost of the bill, or, C-rlt-n Palace haunted [graphic].
Alternative Title: C-rlt-n Palace haunted
Carlton Palace haunted
Published / Created: [November 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Scott, printer, Great New Street, Fetter Lane, London
Abstract: "Heading to a printed broadside. The King, on a dais, sits at a table between Eldon and Castlereagh, with Liverpool (?) under the table (from fear). All are terrified at the Bill, a creature, surrounded by clouds, with stick-like limbs, supported on broken crutches and a body formed of a rolled document: 'Bill of Pains and Penalties'. The apparition interrupts a Cabinet meeting, only three Ministers are depicted, others being mentioned; the King departs to Windsor to escape the Ghost, which has addressed them. The thirteenth and sixteenth of nineteen verses: Two crutches supported its figure so drear, Two props almost broken in pieces; And as the wan spectre advanced to them near, They saw one inscribed "Ministerial fear," On the other was, "Royal Caprices." "Ah! see to my heart how fraud-hating Gr--y His vigorous weapon home thrust: Through here the bold sword of a L--nsd--n made way: Noble H--ll--nd struck here with impetuous sway, Uprous'd in a struggle so just."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title printed in letterpress below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
Nineteen stanzas of verse in two columns below title, printed in letterpress: 'Twas midnight! - an awful beginning, you'll say - That witching and ghost-breeding time! ...
With a key to seven symbols printed beneath nineteenth stanza, at foot of right column: * Vide Majocchi's re-cross-examination. ...
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 101 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Eldon" and "Londondery [sic]" identified in ink below image; date "Oct. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Provenance: Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone." William Reese Company; February 2024.
Extent: 1 print : image 8.4 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 31.8 x 17.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English