Handbill printed satirical poem [a proof?], with manuscript corrections, entitled 'Mr. Gladstone's Latest.'

One one side of a piece of laid paper, roughly 21 x 13 cm. Clear and complete on aged and spotted paper. A couple of manuscript emendations, in a contemporary hand: 'I'm' in the text expanded to 'I am' for the sake of scansion, and 'like' in the text changed to 'likes' for the sake of grammar. Sixteen-line poem arranged in four stanzas. Begins 'I'm an old man, an old man who's well past seventy-six, [Gladstone was born in 1809] | And begin to think, on looking round, that [I am] in a fix; | On all my ablest colleagues I have played so many tricks, | That each of them is giving me a pretty load of kicks.' He would 'like to go on muddling until I'm seventy-eight, | I can polish off the Empire at such a rapid rate.' Concludes that he would like to 'see the day | When all the world is governed in the Gladstonian way; | With Parnell on my left hand, and Bradlaugh on my right, | Such a trinity in unity would be my great delight.' Excessively scarce. No copy at the British Library or on COPAC, and no reference on the web.