The ghost of the bill, or, C-rlt-n Palace haunted [graphic].[November 1820]eng"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 catalogueTitle 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. ...