This title is on a printed sheet [one of two copies has the imprint 'printed and sold by s. W. Fores, no. 3, piccadilly, who has again opened his exhibition room, to which he has added several hundred old and new subjects. Admittance 1s. '] pasted over the title of bmsat 8131; it is the heading of a version of 'god save the king' in eight verses of which ii-vii attack the unitarians and paine and priestley:
'v
tom paine and priestley are
more base and desp'rate far,
than vile jack cade,
he for reform did cry;
they for equality
wou'd stain true liberty,
with british blood. ' 1792
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1792. Dimensions: Height: 400 mm; Width: 350 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Jacob Johan Anckarström. Collection: British Museum. Sedition, levelling and plundering; or, the pretended friends of the people in council (BM 1868,0808.6238)
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