Rival Monsters
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Exhibitions, Monstrosities, Government |
Discusses the exhibition of 'two monster curiosities' on the banks of the Thames: a whale and Thomas C Anstey's 'Monster' parliamentary motion. This is an allusion to Anstey's notoriously long speeches in the House of Commons. | |
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