Britannia's Glory (BM 1849,1003.90)

Satire on the return to office of William Pitt in July 1766. Charles Pratt, Lord Camden, and Pitt tread on the prostrate figure of Envy as they approach a welcoming Britannia; Justice, blindforld, and carrying her sword has just handed her scales to Camden, newly appointed Lord Chancellor. Pitt holds the staff and cap of Liberty, Fame trumpets the event, Minerva crowns the new ministers with laurels. In the background, an opposition journalist, "one of those Envidious Scriblers, receives his just Reqard, at the Tail of a Cart, loaded wit the Virulent Productions, of those Anonymous Wretches to be burnt, by the Hands of the Common Hangman."

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