England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . een so mean as to give thesemobs money for bonfires, particularly the Earls of Lich-field, Westmoreland, Denbigh, and Stanhope. Theservants of these last got one of these figures, chalkedout a place for the heart, and shot at it. You willlaugh at me, who, the other day, meeting one of thesemobs, drove up to it to see what was the matter. Thefirst thing I beheld was a mawking in a chair, withthree footmen, and a label on the breast, inscribed^Lady Mary. The disappointment of Walpoles persecut
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . een so mean as to give thesemobs money for bonfires, particularly the Earls of Lich-field, Westmoreland, Denbigh, and Stanhope. Theservants of these last got one of these figures, chalkedout a place for the heart, and shot at it. You willlaugh at me, who, the other day, meeting one of thesemobs, drove up to it to see what was the matter. Thefirst thing I beheld was a mawking in a chair, withthree footmen, and a label on the breast, inscribed^Lady Mary. The disappointment of Walpoles persecutors, whenthey saw that there was no real intention of bringinghim to what they called justice, shewed itself in news-paper paragraphs and ill-natured caricatures. The olddevice of the screen was brought up again, and was thesubject of more than one print. In one of these, en-titled The Night-Visit; or. The Relapse ; with thepranks of Bob Fox the Juggler, while steward to LadyBrit, displayed on a screen, the ex-minister is repre-sented in council with the King at night. George THE SCREEN. 197. GOOD ADVICE. seated at a table, tlemaiuls of his old servant, Whatis to be done? Walpole replies, Mix and dividethem. Several other courtiers are introduced, con-sulting on the change ofaftliirs, one of whom, whooverhears the conversa-tion just alluded to, re-marks, Tis good ad-vice ! Through the win-dow are seen a party ofmen, w^ho are not cour-tiers, gazing on the hea-vens with a observes, It mustbe a comet! The otherreplies, No, by Jove ! tis Robin Goodfellow fromR—chm—d! [Richmond.] A third exclaims, Iwish the telescope was a gun ! The screen, formingthe background of the picture, represents all the evildeeds with which Walpole was charged, and whichare described at length in the Explanation printedat the foot. The last compartment represents a dis-tant view of the gallows, with an axe, and a headelevated on a pole, the doom of traitors. The devil,for (to judge
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