A number of men sit and stand round a table in some coffee-house or club, smoking, reading, and drinking. A man in spectacles reads in the "Gazette" a dispatch signed "Clin[ton]"; another looks over his shoulder with an expression of satisfaction. A military officer tears a paper to pieces in disgust, on it is a row of ciphers. On the edge of the table is a paper inscribed "Gazzette extroy 1710. We have gain'd a battle &amp; hav[e] the French General in my coach. Marlborough". (Apparently an allusion to Blenheim 1704.)
<p><br>On the wall (l.) is a large map: "Map of America belonging to the English in 1762 when Pitt was prime minister". In the centre is "A Map of America belonging to the English in 1778"; only a fragment in the north is left, filled with writhing serpents. On the right. is a picture, "The Mountain in Labour"; from the bottom of a mound a mouse emerges, crowds of men throw up their arms making gestures of astonishment. Under the map of America in 1778 is a playbill: "At the Theatre Royal St James'es. A Play of All in the Wrong, Obstant by Mr King. . . . which will be [followed by] a Farce of the sobject[ion] ... America".  1778
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<br>Etching with partial mezzotint
circa 1778 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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