Satirical cartoon, A New Way of Posting a Libel

Satirical cartoon, A New Way of Posting a Libel. The print shows a man pasting up a poster on a street wall that reads FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. The bill sticker has been identified as George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, who was evidently eager to find the source of a libel -- a letter had recently been published in the True Briton offering a £500 reward for a paltry libel upon the whole race of Grenvilles, and the Marquess had claimed that it was a forgery

1790s 1795 Aristocrat Determination Determined Grenville Libel Marquess Marquis Notices Nugent Pasting Posting Pounds Reward Scandal Source Sticker Sticking

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