Cartoon, Tom Paine's Nightly Pest

Cartoon, Tom Paine's Nightly Pest, by James Gillray. Showing the radical Thomas Paine asleep in bed, with two guardian angels, Charles James Fox and Joseph Priestley, and the imp of sedition escaping out of the window. Punishments, Charges and Pleas are listed on scrolls of paper (left), with hints at judgement, the pillory and even hanging for treason

1792 Asleep Charges Criticism Dreaming Escaping Gillray Guardian Harsh Judgement Lists Nightly Outlawed Paine Pest Pillory Plea Pleas Premonition Priestley Punishments Radical Scaffold Scroll Scrolls Sedition Stocks Treason

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