John Bull and Bonaparte, or, interesting and important dialogues, speeches, addresses, declarations, and loyal songs, on the subject of French invasion
London: printed by J. H. Hart and published by John Fairburn, 1803
Pam.5.80.88, title page and folding plate opposite

This outpouring of resolve-stiffening patriotic fervour does what it set out to do in the title. Through the pages that follow, the ‘Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and other inhabitants’ of London assemble and pass loyal resolutions ‘to stand or fall with our King and Country’. Merchants and underwriters set up a general subscription to raise money for the defence of the realm, while a Patriotic Fund draws in contributions from ‘the women of England’. One of the stirring addresses is by the celebrated Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.