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| | NYPL, James Gillray |
 | | The newspaper was published by John Wright and edited by William Gifford, with contributions from George Canning, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, John Hookham Frere, and others. |
 | | Gillray satirizes radical politician John Horne Tooke’s alliance with Fox’s Whig party by alluding to Horne Tooke’s 1788 essay, also called “Two Pairs of Portraits.” In this pamphlet he had extolled the virtues of William Pitt the Elder and the Younger, while he denounced Fox and his father, Lord Holland, as corrupt and unscrupulous. |
 | | John Bull’s hat hangs over a print of “Buonaparte in Egypte,” while, visible through the open window, Fox and Sheridan, dismayed by events so contrary to their predictions, beat a hasty retreat. |
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