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English: Treason!!! John Bull explosively farts at a poster of George III , as an outraged William Pitt the Younger chastises him. Newton's etching was probably a comment on Pitt's threat (realized the following month) to suspend habeas corpus .
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Source The US Library of Congress, ref http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g08788
Author Richard Newton (1777-1798)

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19 March 1798 Gregorian

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