An alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; satirizing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. William Pitt the Younger (May 28, 1759 - January 23, 1806) was a prominent British Tory statesman. He became the youngest British prime minister in 1783 at the age of 24. He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806.

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William Pitt the Younger, Dissolution of Parliament, 1796

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