Looking into the Accounts mb-code 1620214 Napoleon therefore wrote to the

Napoleon therefore wrote to the Duc de Persigny to complain about these 'unfounded suspicions concerning the policy of his Government'

Sir James Duke

and was the target of a number of caricaturists of the time

scene from the English Civil War

Looking into the Accounts mb-code 1620214 Napoleon therefore wrote to the'Looking into the Accounts', 1861. Mr Bull, the representative of the British people, hangs up his coat and hat, ready for a long stint of checking the nation's finances. Mr Gladstone, perched uncomfortably on a high stool, rather like the descriptions of Dickens's Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, with a quill behind his ear, is caught in the act of closing the ledger marked 'Income Tax'. John Bull is encouraging Gladstone to take a short break so