. Satire on the Ministry of All the Talents (British political cartoon); A satire on the idea that Pitt's management of the war had provided the Grenville ministry with 'a bed of roses.' The cartoon suggests Pitt's war policy and financial management had left a national debt for the future and made necessary a large number of taxes. John Bull lies on the roses, whose thorns prick him while the English oak withers and dies.; Mounted Iohn Bull on a bed of roses. July 1806. Bodleian Libraries, Iohn Bull on a bed of roses

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