A Plumper for Paul! - or - The Little Taylor Done Over, cartoon
TitleA Plumper for Paul! - or - The Little Taylor Done Over, cartoon
ReferenceFRAMED/062
Date
13 Mar 1807
Production date 1807-03-13 - 1807-03-13
Scope and ContentPublished by H. Humphrey
From Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: vol VIII - 1801-1810: "A scene in the House of Commons. In the foreground is the space outside the bar, filled with burlesqued supporters of Paull's petition against Sheridan's return for Westminster. These are struck by darts of fire, lightning and smoke from the speaker (Abbot), a diminutive figure, almost entirely composed of a huge wig. There are two main blasts, the larger (l) directed against Paull, the other (r.) against Bosville, Horne Tooke and Cobbett. In the former is the fiery face of Sheridan, glaring at his enemy, with flames from mouth to nostril. Paull has been thrown violently onto his back, having slipped from the back of a goose with the head of Burdett, on which he has ridden into the House. The goose waddles off to the right with outstretched neck, following Tooke, the toe of one of Paull's boots still in a stirrup. From Burdett's profile projects the beak of a goose; his long neck is labelled Green-Goose from Brentford. Burdett and his friends seem anxious to slink off without association with the calamity that has befallen Paull. The latter has dropped a long document which is blazing; ... A bonnet rouge falls from his head; he has dropped his yard-stick, shears, a cabbage, cucumbers. Behind him is his Counsel, Henry Clifford, in wig and gown, with a drink-blotched face, dropping a sheaf of papers: Brief - Paul versus Sheridan. He heads a crowd of disreputable witnesses, characteristic of Gillray's denizens of the underworld; some wear favours in their hats inscribed Paul. All fall backwards under the impact of the Speaker's blast. One man, the palm of his hand branded R T (signifying that he has returned from transportation), grasps a paper inscribed Perjury; a noseless old woman holds a Forged Letter of Richd Br Sherridan. One man holds up a marrow-bone, another a cleaver inscribed No Bastille, to show that they belong to Burdett's election mob ...
"Behind Puall and his witnesseses are the ministerial benches (l) filled with amused members sketchily drawn. Howick, Petty, Temple, Windham, and (?) Fitzpatrick can be identified. On the r. only a corner of the Opposition benches is visible, with a few uncharacterised heads. In front of them and the bar Tooke walks off, his hands deep in the pockets of his overcoat, looking sideways at the calamity. Bosville takes his arm, outraged at the scene; from his coat-pocket projects a paper: Expenses of the Election. Behind them Cobbett looks round in alarm; his hat (with a Paul favour) flies off, struck by the Speaker's blast, and an open pamphlet falls from his hand: Cobbetts Political Register - Attack upon the Sheridans. The two clerks, their faces cover by huge wigs, sit at the Table.
"A satire on the rebuff (2 Mar.) by the Speaker to Paull, when he presented a petition against Sheridan's return for Westminster, alleging bribery and corruption and tampering with witnesses in connexion with a petition against him. Paull was charged with going out of the House to communicate with his witnesses, and after some debate was reprimanded as 'guilty of great impropriety of conduct and committing a gross outrage upon the privileges of the House'. His witnesses were stigmatized for 'scandalous prevarication'. William Drake was Paull's chief witness; Powell was his agent... Especial discredit attached to Bill Soanes. Tooke, Burdett's mentor, was the ex-parson of Brentford. Cobbett persistently attacked Sheridan and his family, ridiculing their claim to royal descent... Bosville had financed Paull's Westminster contest, at which Plumpers for Paull had been an election song
From Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: vol VIII - 1801-1810: "A scene in the House of Commons. In the foreground is the space outside the bar, filled with burlesqued supporters of Paull's petition against Sheridan's return for Westminster. These are struck by darts of fire, lightning and smoke from the speaker (Abbot), a diminutive figure, almost entirely composed of a huge wig. There are two main blasts, the larger (l) directed against Paull, the other (r.) against Bosville, Horne Tooke and Cobbett. In the former is the fiery face of Sheridan, glaring at his enemy, with flames from mouth to nostril. Paull has been thrown violently onto his back, having slipped from the back of a goose with the head of Burdett, on which he has ridden into the House. The goose waddles off to the right with outstretched neck, following Tooke, the toe of one of Paull's boots still in a stirrup. From Burdett's profile projects the beak of a goose; his long neck is labelled Green-Goose from Brentford. Burdett and his friends seem anxious to slink off without association with the calamity that has befallen Paull. The latter has dropped a long document which is blazing; ... A bonnet rouge falls from his head; he has dropped his yard-stick, shears, a cabbage, cucumbers. Behind him is his Counsel, Henry Clifford, in wig and gown, with a drink-blotched face, dropping a sheaf of papers: Brief - Paul versus Sheridan. He heads a crowd of disreputable witnesses, characteristic of Gillray's denizens of the underworld; some wear favours in their hats inscribed Paul. All fall backwards under the impact of the Speaker's blast. One man, the palm of his hand branded R T (signifying that he has returned from transportation), grasps a paper inscribed Perjury; a noseless old woman holds a Forged Letter of Richd Br Sherridan. One man holds up a marrow-bone, another a cleaver inscribed No Bastille, to show that they belong to Burdett's election mob ...
"Behind Puall and his witnesseses are the ministerial benches (l) filled with amused members sketchily drawn. Howick, Petty, Temple, Windham, and (?) Fitzpatrick can be identified. On the r. only a corner of the Opposition benches is visible, with a few uncharacterised heads. In front of them and the bar Tooke walks off, his hands deep in the pockets of his overcoat, looking sideways at the calamity. Bosville takes his arm, outraged at the scene; from his coat-pocket projects a paper: Expenses of the Election. Behind them Cobbett looks round in alarm; his hat (with a Paul favour) flies off, struck by the Speaker's blast, and an open pamphlet falls from his hand: Cobbetts Political Register - Attack upon the Sheridans. The two clerks, their faces cover by huge wigs, sit at the Table.
"A satire on the rebuff (2 Mar.) by the Speaker to Paull, when he presented a petition against Sheridan's return for Westminster, alleging bribery and corruption and tampering with witnesses in connexion with a petition against him. Paull was charged with going out of the House to communicate with his witnesses, and after some debate was reprimanded as 'guilty of great impropriety of conduct and committing a gross outrage upon the privileges of the House'. His witnesses were stigmatized for 'scandalous prevarication'. William Drake was Paull's chief witness; Powell was his agent... Especial discredit attached to Bill Soanes. Tooke, Burdett's mentor, was the ex-parson of Brentford. Cobbett persistently attacked Sheridan and his family, ridiculing their claim to royal descent... Bosville had financed Paull's Westminster contest, at which Plumpers for Paull had been an election song
Extent1 framed item
Physical descriptionDimensions (H X W): 30cm X 42cm
Persons keywordGillray, James, Paull, James, Sheridan, Richard, Abbot, Charles, Bosville, William, Tooke, John Horne, Cobbett, William, Burdett, Francis, Clifford, Henry
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationD Plan Chest Drawer 6 (Room 12)