...David Fallon Duke University Press 2007 “That Angel Who Rides on the Whirlwind”: William Blake’s Oriental Apotheosis of William Pitt David Fallon University College, Oxford...

... of Quebec with the parliamentary heroism of the victor of the Seven Years’ War (figure 1). The circumstances are different — ​it is 1778 and the American war is being debated — ​but William Pitt, like Wolfe before him, functions as the cynosure of pictorial patriotism as he graphi- cally sacrifices...

... The prolific output of the press was matched by the importance of the election, which seemed a moment of constitutional crisis. Britain was in the grip of an electoral battle between George III’s new ministerial favorite, the young William Pitt,8 and the king’s old adversary...

... accounts of the manners and customs of the Moors— for example, the remarkable memoir by Joseph Pitts, who was probably the first westerner to visit the shrines of Mecca and Medina, and certainly the first known to have survived to tell the tale. Only fifteen when captured at sea in 1678, Pitts spent...

... notes, “a dog will therefore be a perpetual memento of taxes8 The spate of tax legislation passed in the 1790s, culminating in the imposition in 1798 of Pitt’s “triple assessment” (a tax on assessed taxes that anticipated the income tax), exposes the ways the legal regulation of property polices...

... jingoism promoted by the North and Pitt administrations (not to mention his rivals at Covent Garden), but he was just as fervent in his commitment to the ideals of British institutions, both political and theatrical. What he most wanted to promote—in his plays, in his work as a manager, in his...

... Johnson’s political writing for Cave ever be mooted (one can always dream), this same cartoon from Punch would serve surpris- ingly well as cover art, Johnson’s squinting profile replacing Punch’s leering mask, and Pitt, Chesterfield, and Walpole standing in for Disraeli, Palmers­ ton, and Lord Derby...

... jubilantly proclaims, “Partout est pro- clamée la liberté des têtes” (De Guerle, 15 – 16). Wig wearing in England would survive the French Revolution, only to receive its fi nal blow with Pitt’s 1795 guinea tax on hair powder. The bill passed despite objections regarding the uncertain revenues...

.../6 £0/5/0 July 6th To Mrs Rush Milliner17 To Ldy Charlotte Curzon18 To Colonell Goldsworthy19 £1/8/10 £4/0/0 £1/1/0 July 7th To Ldy Courtown £2/2/0 July 9th To Ldy Courtown To a poor Woman at Mrs John Pitts at Kingston20 £0/10/0 £1/1/0 July 10 To Miss Planta21 £1/7/0 July 13 To Ldy Courtown £3/6/6...

... Pitt published Cry of the Oppressed: Being a True and Tragi- cal Account of the Unparallel’d Sufferings of Multitudes of Poor Imprison’d Debt- ors, a tract accusing Richard Manlove (the incumbent warden of the Fleet) of a wide range of abusive practices, including refusing to release the corpses...

..., the India Bill had already failed with profound and devastating consequences for the Whig leader: his coalition government unraveled, William Pitt was named prime minister, and Parliament had just been dismissed, forcing Fox into a desperate struggle for his political life.12 To the Royal connois...

... from 1770 to 1782; the Pitt legislation is the Legacy Duty Act, 36 Geo. III, c. 52 (1796). For more on the gradual implementation of legacy duty, see John Avery Jones, “Death Duties on Jane Austen's Estate,” Jane Austen Society Report for 2019 , 45 – 46. 3. The National Archives, IR 59. Some...

... 1798 poem “Fire, Famine, and Slaughter,” which is nominally about the horrific effects of war, particularly the bloody results of the British-backed uprising in the Vendée, and appears to put the blame squarely on the shoulders of Pitt, whose death the protagonists...

... Williams attended Eton where he met the young Fielding, Henry Fox, George Lyttelton, and William Pitt the Elder, all of whom were connected with both miscella- nies. He mixed a career of politicking and negotiating as an MP, with the satirical cutting and thrusting of the miscellaneous writer. He...

... the blue-­water Tory policy: reliance on trade and sea power rather than intervention in wars on the Continent, wars that the Tories thought were in the interests of the Dutch or of Hanover rather than of England. If we take a longer view, it was when William Pitt the elder adopted the blue-­water...

... members for William Pitt in the 1771 election. The “club,” which critics feared would “compose, in a very short time, the majority of Parliament,” denied any organized involvement in politics.18 The fear of a powerful Scot connected to an Indian lobby did little to inspire confidence amongst...

...- Women s Records of the Court of George III and Queen Charlot te 8 9 ably spectacular events such the murder of Spencer Percival (140), or William Pitt s funeral (70), an occasion that led her denounce Pitt s brother-in-law, Lord Stanhope, as yet another man who shamelessly abused his first wife, in her...

...: the jostling for position following the fall of Robert Walpole. As Don Nichols discusses elsewhere in this issue, the miscellany was associ- ated with Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Henry Fielding, Henry Fox, George Lyttleton, and William Pitt the Elder, and had a strongly Oppo- Censorship...

... of the Western Pacific (1922; reprint, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1961). 19. Jeremy Coote, The Cook Collection: Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, 2002), 3, accessible at www.prm.ox.ac.uk/cook.html. 20. Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique. Tableau pour...

... Univ., 2014). Pp. ix + 870. 22 ills. $39.95 Johanson, Kristine, ed. Shakespeare Adaptations from the Early Eighteenth Century: Five Plays (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., 2014). Pp. xiii + 459. 5 ills. $110 Johnston, Kenneth R. Unusual Suspects: Pitt’s Reign of Alarm and the Lost...