By Charles Williams. Addington (left), dressed as an old-fashioned doctor, stands beside a table, holding out in both hands a golden ball inscribe 'Income Tax' to a citizen who sits at the table, writing. His cane, hat, and gloves are on the table. He says: "Why Sir it is only a sugar plumb, You can certainly swallow it now, I have gilt it all over to make it palatable to the City." The citizen raises a hand to ward off the pill, crying, "Come Doctor You must not attempt to force it down, for the pill tho gilded remains a pill still!!!" He writes 'Resolutions to be prop[osed] at the Common [Hall] . . .' Before him are bundles of papers: 'Duty of Members towards their Constituents' and 'Candidates pretensions for the General Election'. Behind his chair are three sugar loaves one (broken) labelled 'Double Refined'. Below the title: 'I need not take up your time by a description of the Income Tax. You are already perfectly acquainted with its features, in its principle, it is unjust; in its operation, vexatious and degrading; and in its tendency immoral it subverts the public spirit of liberty, which nature has planted in the human breast and constitutes the dignity of Men, it has created an Inquisition more intolerant than the Inquisition of Spain, it has been said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to soften down its most obnoxious clauses; but the pill though gilded, remains a pill still. - Vide Common Hall.' Description from the British Museum.