The Bullet te Deum; with the Canticle of the Stone was one of the brief parodies Hone wrote and published in early 1817. The occasion for the work was an incident on 29 January 1817 when the Prince Regent's carriage, returning from the Prince's address to parliament, was struck by a stone thrown by someone in an angry crowd. Hone borrows the form of religious language in order to elevate the incident to a national crisis--parodically imitating the over-reaction of those members of government who took a particularly repressive line against the advocates of Reform. The Bullet, for some reason, was not included among the parodies for which Hone was prosecuted later in 1817. It consists of two very brief parodies published together as a single eight-page pamphlet.
Contents of this brief etext:
- Title page facsimile
- Te Deum, &c.
- The Canticle of the Stone (with concluding advertisements)
