England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . lain sue,And mark the mischief hell and he can Satan speaks : Whole quires of w—ts [^warrants] send,And for your messenger lo ! here a fiend !By arts like these you must your foes controul,Till Justice strike—and I receive your soul. The third plate represents the art of printing as thegreat support of the liberties and prosperity of thenation. In the fourth, the courtiers are seen purchas-ing votes with money. The fifth is a satire on theforeign policy which was intended to keep the
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . lain sue,And mark the mischief hell and he can Satan speaks : Whole quires of w—ts [^warrants] send,And for your messenger lo ! here a fiend !By arts like these you must your foes controul,Till Justice strike—and I receive your soul. The third plate represents the art of printing as thegreat support of the liberties and prosperity of thenation. In the fourth, the courtiers are seen purchas-ing votes with money. The fifth is a satire on theforeign policy which was intended to keep the ba-lance of power in Europe: Cardinal Fleury is out-witting the minister, who is attempting in vain toweigh down the scale with whole reams of treaties,while the Gallic cock is crowing proudly on the backof the sleej)ing lion. In the sixth, Walj)ole is seen 17:n.] THE BALANCE OF POWER. 141 aspirinp^, by a dangerous path, to a coronet; and theseventh represents Caleb dAnvers as the oracle ofpolitical wisdom. Another version, apparently, ofthis series of caricatures, or probably only a different. THE BALANCE OF TOWER. edition, was published under the title Robins Game;or. Sevens the Main. Among the ballads of thisperiod, the titles of which are preserved, we may men-tion, Sir Robert Brass; or, the intrigues of theKnight of the Blazing Star, published in February;and The Knight and the Cardinal, a new ballad,published in June. The King was so incensed at these virulent attacks,and at the quarter from whence they came, and espe-cially at the pertinacious opposition to his foreignmeasures, that, on the 1st of July, he called for thecouncil-book, and with his own hand struck the nameof William Pulteney out of the list of privy council-lors. Reads Weekly Journal of July 10, 1731, in-forms us that three hawkers were on Monday last(July 5) committed to Tothill Fields Bridewell, forcrying about the streets a printed paper, called* Robins Game; or, Sevens the Main. Two days 142 PROSE
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