Title: Substitutes for bread, or, Right Honorables saving the loaves & dividing the fishes : to the Charitable Committee, for reducing the high price of corn, by providing substitutes for bread in their own families, this representation of the hard shifts made by the framers & signers of the Philanthropic Agreement, is most respectfully dedicated /
Authors: Gillray, James, 1756-1815,; Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817,
Year: 1795
Subjects: Pitt, William, Caricatures and cartoons.; Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Caricatures and cartoons.; Dundas, Henry, Caricatures and cartoons.; Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Caricatures and cartoons.; Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Caricatures and cartoons.; Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden,; Dundas, Henry,; Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,; Pitt, William,; Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn,; Great Britain Economic conditions Caricatures and cartoons.
Abstract: Satirical image of the British ministers William Pitt, William Wyndham Grenville, Henry Dundas, Pepper Arden, and Alexander Wedderburn dining on guineas while a mob of "starving swine" can be seen through the window. On 11 December 1795 the House debated the need for a reduction in the consumption of wheat "in consequence of the high price and deficient supply [of it]" and agreed to "reduce the consumption of wheat in [their] families should be reduced at least one third of the usual quantity consumed in ordinary times," which was agreed to by the Lords on 16 December. Subsequent debates in the same vein considered a corn importation bounty bill and a bill to allow bakers to make mixed quality, both of which were passed in Parliament and given royal assent on 24 Dcember 1795. Consult "Transactions in Parliament, in the Session of 1795."