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The modern Hercules or a finishing blow for poor John Bull
Description
English: Pitt, very tall and thin, towers above a crouching and terrified John Bull (right) on whose back is tied a mountainous burden of five bundles, inscribed respectively: 'Pensions', 'Subsidies', 'Tax', 'Taxation', 'Debt'. Pitt, glaring angrily, raises a huge club above his head inscribed 'Convention Bill', about to smite his victim. 17 November 1795
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 375 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6474
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

The Seditious Meetings Bill (moved 10 Nov. by Pitt) and Treasonable Practices Bill (moved 6 Nov. by Grenville) were popularly called Convention Bills (see BMSat 8706). They were so styled by the radical clubs: it was anticipated in a circular letter by Hardy, in the spring of 1794, that 'a Convention Bill', i.e. a Bill to prevent a general Convention of the People, [A pamphlet by Gerrald was published by Eaton in 1794: 'A Convention the only means of saving us from ruin ...'. The name was a subject of dispute (April 1794) between the London Corresponding Society and the Society for Constitutional Information, the former (spokesman Thelwall), insisted on 'Convention'; the latter would have preferred 'Meeting'. P.R.O., P.C. 1/21 (quoted V. C. Miller, 'Joel Barlow', Hamburg, 1932, pp. 11-12). See W. H. Hall, 'British Radicalism, 1791-1797', 1912, pp. 182-96, and BMSat 8624.] might be passed. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxi. 488. The name derives from an Irish Act to prevent the summoning of delegates to a National Convention, much attacked in the 'Northern Star' c. Nov.-Dec. 1792. The Seditious Meetings Act imposed restrictions on meetings of over fifty persons (preliminary notice to the magistrates, and the presence of a magistrate with summary powers). The other Act gave statutory authority to constructive treason as interpreted by Hale and Foster. They were the result of mass meetings organized by the London Corresponding Society, see BMSat 9189, &c, and of the attack on the King, see BMSat 8681. See 'Hist. of Two Acts . . .', 1796; 'Parl. Hist.' xxxii. 244 ff.; Coleridge, 'The Plot Discovered', Bristol, 1795; Veitch, 'Genesis of Parliamentary Reform', 1913, pp. 325 ff.; Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', pp. 282 ff. See also BMSats 8685, 8686, p. 201, 8688, 8689, 8690, 8691, 8693, 8694, 8697, 8698, 8700, 8701, 8703, 8704, 8705, 8706, 8708, 8709, 8710, 8711, 8780, 8782, 9046, 9233, 9286.
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