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Maniac Ravings
Or, Little Boney in a Strong Fit
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The print offered for sale here is from the Bohn edition printed in 1851.
A parody on Lord Whitworth's dispatch of the 14th of March, 1803, describing the violent scene which had occurred the day before at the Tuilleries. "The exasperation and fury of Buonaparte," says the Annual Register for this year, "broke out into ungovernable rage at his own Court, on his public day, and in the presence of the diplomatic body of Europe there assembled. Thus violating every principle of hospitality - of decorum - of politeness - and the privileges of Ambassadors - ever before held sacred. On the appearance of Lord Whitworth in the circle, he approached him with equal agitation and ferocity, proceeded to descant, in the bitterest terms, on the conduct of the English Government - summoned the Ministers of some of the Foreign Courts to be witnesses to this vituperative harangue - and concluded by expressions of the most angry and menacing hostility. The English Ambassador did not think it advisable to make any answer to this brutal and ungentlemanly attack, and it terminated by the First Consul retiring to his apartments, repeating his last phrases, till he had shut himself in; leaving nearly two hundred spectators of this wanton display of arrogant impropriety, in amazement and consternation." |
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