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<p>Edmund Burke kneels before a throne, from which the Prince of Wales has risen, actively holding out his hands for the head of Charles I which Burke proffers in a box inscribed 'Treasury Box'; he says, "My Liege I told them in the House no day so proper to settle the Regency as Charles's Martyrdom". Richard Brinsley Sheridan stands behind Burke, leaning forward, and with a sullen expression: "I too am for Dispatch such days best suit our Purpose"; from his pocket hangs a paper: 'Horn Tooke's Letter on the Princes Marriage' ('Prince' appears to have been scored through). Beneath the title is etched: 'Containing what he does not value three skips of a louse".
'"Why not Debate it on Friday I say it is the only Day in the Year on 
"which it ought to be Debated (Charles's Martyrdom) and carried up in the 
"Black Box". - Vide M Burk - s Speech on Tuesday last.' 30 January 1789
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Hand-coloured etching</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Thomas_Rowlandson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Thomas Rowlandson"><span title="English artist and caricaturist (1757–1827)">Thomas Rowlandson</span></a>
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