Satire, Politics and Scandal in the Reign of George III and ...

Hammer

£80

Satire, Politics and Scandal in the Reign of George III and the Age of Revolution. Six manuscripts, comprising Corruption, ‘Imitation of Hor. B.1. Ode 15/Pastor cum traheret per freta navibus/Idaeis Helenen’, n.d. [c. 1809], 2pp of 46 lines, the Horatian ode satirising and mentioning by name Colonel Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle, Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, Sheridan, Spencer Perceval, Vicary Gibbs, Charles Philip Yorke, Fuller, Beresford, Loftus, Croker, and the offending Duke [of York], as well as Jacobins and Bourbons, in relation to the Mrs. Clarke, the former mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, selling commissions under the aegis of the Duke, the end inscribed in Ancient Greek, ‘Song - - - 1814’, dated 1814, 3pp, including 20 lines of verse written in octaves, imagining a fictitious Tory dialogue between Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellesley (1760-1842), and George Canning (1770-1827), written from the perspective of Canning whose ‘Tutor was Pitt’, while ‘chatting one Day/In the Park, on my Arm he reclined,/”Come tell me dear Canning, how often I pray/Have you changed your political mind?!” ', etc., The French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, ‘An Irregular ode on the late horrid Massacres of France’, n.d. [c. 1790-1792], 8 stanzas, further poetry across the 4pp of foolscap, including lines on dissenters, partial later transcript en suite, ‘On The late Contested Election for the City of Worcester’, by the same hand as the latter, further verse, 4pp of foolscap, further MSS, including 4pp of verse on Mr Bull the Whig, watermarked 1822, a 4pp mock epistle by Philo ***, n.d. [early 19th century], deriding 'the present gloomy Season', its scarcity of ideas, crops and farming, and further metaphors for the real state of the country, (6).