A broadside satirising english attitudes to negotiations for peace at the end of the seven years' war. A member of the landed gentry and a city merchant sit in "bedford coffee-house", covent garden (a reference to the duke of bedford's mission to paris), damning the war and the peace respectively; the former holding the gazeteer and the briton (pro-government newspapers), the latter holding the anti-government [public] ledger and the monitor. On the table is a tray with a coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl, spoon, cup and saucer; the man on the left, empties his cup into a saucer. Below, nine verses to the tune of "the roast beef of england" describing the british tendency to grumble refer to the fact that the scots have "the upper hand got", that the war was being paid for from the land-tax, that peace means that soldiers and sailors would not receive prize money ("dollars"), that pitt's supporters claimed that hogarth's "the times plate 1" (paulson 211) was based on "john bull's house in flames" (bm satires 3890), and that henry howard should be punished for "the queen's ass" (bm satires 3870). Letterpress title and verses in two columns, and with one vertical segment of type ornament. ([london], tringham: 1762). Date: 1762. Dimensions: Height: 150 mm (etching); Height: 349 mm (printed area); Width: 200 mm (etching); Width: 200 mm (printed area). Medium: paper. Depicted People: John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. Collection: British Museum. The Grumblers of Great Britain; A New Humorous Political Song. (BM 1868,0808.4214)
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