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WILLIAM DENT. The Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation. 1788. In this caricature, the politician and dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan presents his charges against Hastings to the House of Lords. Sheridan is depicted as the mouthpiece of Fox, spouting blasts of inflated accusation, fed to him through a bellows in the shape of Burke's face. Published : 1788 . Source: P3330.

WILLIAM DENT. The Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation. 1788. In this caricature, the politician and dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan presents his charges against Hastings to the House of Lords. Sheridan is depicted as the mouthpiece of Fox, spouting blasts of inflated accusation, fed to him through a bellows in the shape of Burke's face.  Published : 1788 . Source: P3330.
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The Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation. 1788. In this caricature, the politician and dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan presents his charges against Hastings to the House of Lords. Sheridan is depicted as the mouthpiece of Fox, spouting blasts of inflated accusation, fed to him through a bellows in the shape of Burke's face. Published : 1788 . Source: P3330.
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