The Daily Advertiser, James Gillray

Fox (right), a news-boy, ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury.' He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard (like those worn by news-boys). His horn is thrust through his belt. The knocker is a ring in the mouth of a Medusa head with the face of Pitt. From above the spiked bars of the closed gate issues a label. Under Fox's left arm is a roll of 'Paris-Papers' and, in his left hand, a large sheet of the 'Daily Advertiser' with three columns of advertisements. On the wall behind his head (right) is posted a bill. After the title: Vide, Dundas's Speech in the House of Commons. For a dozen Years past, he has follow'd the business of a Daily Advertiser, daily stunning our Ears with a noise about Plots & Ruin & Treasons & Impeachments; while the Contents of his Bloody News turns out to be only a Daily Advertisement for a Place & a Pension (BM). / Fox travestied into a newsman, brings melancholy intelligence. The satire is founded on one of Dundas's speeches in the House of Commons, in which he made a rather bitter reply to the popular orator's attacks upon Ministers, and characterized him sneeringly as a "Daily Advertiser." The Daily Advertiser was at this time one of the opposition papers (Wright/Evans).
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