In 1778 Richard Tickell published a mock report of the coming debate on the King’s speech, putting into the mouths of the leading speakers of Government and Opposition the speeches he expected them to make about the war in America. It ran through ten editions that year alone, and this edition adds an introduction and notes explaining each target.
One of the sharpest eighteenth-century parliamentary satires, a treat for readers of Georgian politics. Download the free EPUB.