England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . xiliary troops which the Stateswere bound by treaties to furnish to their ally; so thatEngland was left to fight single-handed, with a smallarmy and not a well-manned fleet, and a Parliamentary 1739.] DUTCH FRIENDSHIP. 109 opposition who cried out against every method of in-creasing the former or raising sailors for the latter, andyet who began soon to blame the Government for theirwant of vigour in carrying on hostilities. The beha-viour of the Dutch was the subject of a caricature, en-titl
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . xiliary troops which the Stateswere bound by treaties to furnish to their ally; so thatEngland was left to fight single-handed, with a smallarmy and not a well-manned fleet, and a Parliamentary 1739.] DUTCH FRIENDSHIP. 109 opposition who cried out against every method of in-creasing the former or raising sailors for the latter, andyet who began soon to blame the Government for theirwant of vigour in carrying on hostilities. The beha-viour of the Dutch was the subject of a caricature, en-titled The States in a Lethargy, in which they arerepresented by a lion asleep in a cradle, rocked byCardinal Fleury. The caricatures began now to be more numerousand more spirited than at any previous period. Amongthose which appeared towards the end of the year,we may mention one, bearing date the 8th of Octo-ber, 1739, and entitled Hocus Pocus; or, The Poli-tical Jugglers, which is divided into four compart-ments. In the first an Englishman is seen fightingwith a Spaniard, while Hogan (the Dutchman). DUTCH FRIENDSHIP. takes the opportunity of picking his pocket. Thesecond compartment represents Commerce, in theform of a bull, baited by all the powers concernedon this occasion. In the third, Cardinal Fleury ap- 170 JACK THE GIANT-KILLER. [1739. pears as a negotiator, with money on a table; whilethe fourth represents Gibraltar besieged by the Spa-niards. This port had now begun to be looked uponas one of vital importance for English caricature, published about the end of theyear, under the title of Fee Fau Fum, and like theformer divided into four compartments, pictures theminister in the character of Jack the the first compartment the political hero has be-trayed a mighty giant, the personification of the Sink-ing Fund, into a pit, and is destroying him with his
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