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Cui bono publico bono

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Abstract:
The upper part of the table of the House of Commons stretches across the design. On this lie two pairs of decollated heads, each with its appropriate collar and neck-cloth. Burdett's head (left) lies on a paper: 'Motion for the abolishing of Military flogging'; Horne Tooke's head rests against that of Burdett. On the right the heads of Grey and Grenville directed towards each other, are supported on a book; under Grenville's is a document: 'Catholic Bill'. Behind the heads lies the mace. A background is formed by the back of the Speaker's Chair, with the enormous wig and small head of Abbot. Below the design, adapting the phraseology of the 'Journals of the House of Commons'. - British Museum
Notes:
Published May 20th 1812 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly
Caption: Cui Bono Publico Bono Die Lunde April 21 In a Commitee on the Sense of the Nation _______moved______that for preventing future disorders and Dissentions, the Heads of the Mutiny Act be brought in and suffered to lie on the Table tomorrow... Ordered That all further proceedings upon the Act for dividing the Country be adjourned sine die... ordered Vox Populi Cler___Par___
Caption: Pubd May 20 1812 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly
Label(s): Motion for the abolishing of Military flogging
Label(s): Catholic

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

Citation

"Cui bono publico bono" (1812). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Napoleonic Satires from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232364/

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