Hope - 1802


John Bull Has Hope..

 
This is a James Gillray cartoon that shows the John Bull's reaction to the debate, real and otherwise, about the state of Britain during the period of the Peace of Amiens. Here John Bull wonders to himself how the country is ruined. He comments on the end of the income tax and the return on his money and ends up muttering under his breath. Though that last part may in fact be Gillray changing his mind on what he did say...

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