Dundas (left) reads from a folio History of Scotland, while Pitt (right) joins the reluctant hands of Paddy (left) and John Bull (right).   Dundas, who wears a Scots cap, plaid, and tartan stockings, with a flask protruding from his coat pocket, stands in profile to the right, saying, "I'll read ye a little aboot the same Business in my ain country - you will find how many made the siller frae that time to this - depend upon it Paddy ye will be much happier - and mair independent than ever." Paddy, an Irish farmer, looks round at him with a suspicious scowl, saying, "Now is it Blareying you are at?" Pitt says with a primly complacent expression: "Depend upon it - what that Gentleman says is right - thus I join your hands in Friendship. &amp; one Interest - and whom I put together - let no man put asunder". John Bull stares to the right, saying, "This may be Nation good Fun. - but dang my buttons, if I know what it is about! &amp; Cousin Paddy dont seem quite clear in the Case neither."  On the extreme left stands a man with blankets over his arm inscribed 'Tax on Income'.  He says: "When you want the Wet Blankets - I have them ready". He is perhaps Joseph Smith, (Treasury) private secretary to Pitt.  Below the title: '"If there be no great love in the beginning. - "Yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquantance, vide Shakespeare'.  1799
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<p>Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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<dl><dd>Published by: S W Fores</dd></dl></div>
1799<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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