Satire on the Scots and their supposed pleasures, in particular on Lord Bute, his suggested influence on behalf of his countrymen and his alleged relationship with the Princess of Wales.  At the top, Bute and the Princes embrace on a bench in a park in Kew Gardens, identified by the pagoda in the distance; his foot rests on the neck of a prone Britannia and a Scotsman standing nearby plays on his bagpipes “Through the Wood Laddy through the Wood Laddy”. In the foreground a large man with a tartan waistcoat and a Scots bonnet sits in an armchair reading a big book open at “History of ye Wars of 1715 &amp; 1745” (i.e., the Jacobite risings), he says “History is Philosophy teaching by Example” (attributed to Thucydides).  A Scotsman stands beside him on a pedestal lettered “Pride” and “Ingratitude” scratching his hand and rubbing his back against a post with a satyr’s head from which hangs a text:  “This is one of the many Posts erected for the benefit of the Thanes friends”.  Another Scot, possibly intended for Lord Mansfield,  sits on the step of the pedestal  stabbing a picture of the cap and staff of liberty saying “awa to the deel with this feulish bauble of Liberty I’ll stick my Dirk in his Wem”. On the ground beside him a woman in tartan blows on the fire beneath a large cauldron lettered, “Scots Haggis Kettle”, in which sheep’s heads simmer; behind the cauldron a Scot spoons the broth from a bowl saying “These are brae Sheepsheads &amp; make Muckle gued broth”.  Another Scot sitting beside the cauldron scratches his head remarking “an they were all English Mens heads I woud no grudge a louse”. In the background on the right two soldiers shoot at a man who falls back, an allusion to the shooting by Scottish guardsmen of William Allen in the St. George’s Fields riots on 10th May 1768. An impression from this plate faces p 140 of The Oxford Magazine 1768.
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