Author: [NAPOLEON]
Title: Twenty Thousand Pounds Reward. Middlesex (to wit) To all Constables, Headboroughs, Tithing-Men, and other Officers of the County of Middlesex, and to every of whom it may concern... by John Doe and Richard Doe.
Description: S. Highley, [1803] Broadside, 410 x 265 mm. BL and NLS only. Possibly by the playwright John Scott Ripon [pseudonym of John Scott Byerley], whose play Bonaparte> or the Freebooter is advertised at the foot of the broadside. A proclamation offering a reward for "... a certain ill-disposed Vagrant, and common Disturber, commonly called or known by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte, alias Jaffa Bonaparte, alias Opium Bonaparte, alias Whitworth Bonaparte, alias Acre Bonaparte, by the instigation of the Devil and with malice aforethought, hath lately gone about swindling and defrauding divers Countries, Cities, Towns, and Villages, under divers various and many false and wicked pretences, out of their Rights, Comforts, Conveniences, and Cash..." "We do hereby will and require, that in the case of the said Napoleon Bonaparte...shall be found to lurk and wander up and down your Bailiwick, that you bring before us the Body of the said Napoleon Bonaparte... that he be sent to our Jail for Wild Beasts... over Exeter-'Change in the Strand... placed in a certain Iron Cage with the Ouran Outang... for the purpose of being tamed, or until a Warrant shall issue to our beloved subject Jack-Ketch, to deal with him..." "The said Napoleon Bonaparte... is a Corsican by birth, about five feet four inches in height... He is remarkable for walking fast, and taking long strides, and has been thought to squint, though it is in fact no more than a cast in the left eye, with looking too much on one object - Old England - to which application he also owes being afflicted with the Jaundice."

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