A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the--revolution society
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Summary: Print shows Charles James Fox seated at center of a table and raising his glass, "My Soul & Body, both, upon the Toast," to a toast offered by Joseph Priestley, who stands at left holding up an overflowing chalice and an empty communion plate, "The---head, here!" Seated at left are Sir Cecil Wray and Richard B. Sheridan; seated to the right are Horne Tooke and Theophilus Lindsey, and behind them stand caricatured dissenters. Hanging on the wall above Fox is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral, titled "A Pigs Stye - a view from Hackney," with three pigs eating at a trough.
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[London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly, 1791 July 23d.
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TITLE: A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the--revolution society SUMMARY: Print shows Charles James Fox seated at center of a table and raising his glass, "My Soul & Body, both, upon the Toast," to a toast offered by Joseph Priestley,