Description

[004234] [Anti-War Broadside] To the Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Leicester. No Place: No Publisher, 1797. First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Broadside. Fair. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 200mm x 315mm in size

Lightly foxed, slightly creased, chipped to edges with small amounts of loss, one small hole catching one letter but with no loss of sense, sellotape stain to right hand margin , sellotape now removed and tear closed with Japanese paper, tear to left hand edge closed with Japanese paper

Relating to the early stages of the Napoleonic wars, the broadside, issued by the “friends of peace and opposers of the present ruinous and destructive War”, calls on the King “for the immediate dismission of an Administration who have brought their Country to the brink of destruction”. The petition itself is quoted beneath, and is also concerned with “repeated encroachments on [the] Constitution”, as well as the abolition of the right of remonstrance, “to cut off all communication between you and your faithful People”