Satire on Lord Bute and others opposed to John Wilkes set in a throne room where (1) Bute, "Lord Scratchum Scotchum", sits on a dais, with a basket taking the place of a throne. He is hatching eggs that contain "Demons of Corruption"; he wears "a Cap something like a Bedpan which is Occasionally us'd for that purpose by his Highness". Above his head floats "Regalia", a fool's cap with a thistle. Towards the left (2) William Pitt, "Lord Cheatly Chatlum", with a crutch, a bandaged gouty leg, and a weathercock rising from his coronet holds a bag labelled "3000 pr Ann". He approaches a statue of Fortune standing on a plinth or altar, she disburses coins and a coronet from a cornucopia. On the other side of the plinth,(3) Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, "Lord Conjurdom juggle",  holds out a paper on which is written "22 months imprisonmt." (the sentence served by Wilkes from June 1768 to April 1770). Facing him is Fletcher Norton, "Bulnob jawinton", wearing lawyer's robe with a parti-coloured badge on his shoulder, half black, half white "signifiging his eloquence can prove black white &amp; white black"; he, Mansfield and "other Blunderpolians" are shown "Celebrating the festival of Charterum Crushurn", i.e., they dance around a torn Magna Carta; one young man dances beside Norton, another crouches beneath Fortune scooping up coins. On the left, (5) Wilkes, "Sekliw ... laments the degeneracy of his Countrymen".     
<br>Etching and engraving
1768 (late June)
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