England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . hich wereto come on in the spring of 1741, and for which theywere making active preparations before the end ofthe year. In November appeared a bitter metricallampoon on Walpole, entitled Are these Things so ?The previous Question, from an Englishman in hisGrotto to a Great Man at Court, pointing out allthe political sins ascribed to his administration in verystrong language, and taking for its significant mottothe words of Horace — Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti,Tempus abire tibV
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . hich wereto come on in the spring of 1741, and for which theywere making active preparations before the end ofthe year. In November appeared a bitter metricallampoon on Walpole, entitled Are these Things so ?The previous Question, from an Englishman in hisGrotto to a Great Man at Court, pointing out allthe political sins ascribed to his administration in verystrong language, and taking for its significant mottothe words of Horace — Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti,Tempus abire tibV^ It was immediately followed by another pamphlet inthe same strain, under the title Yes, they are; andthese, with one or two answers and rejoinders, seem to have made a consider-able sensation. In the be-ginning of 1741 all the oldsubjects of clamour againstthe Government were re-vived, and almost everyopposition paper was filledwith new attacks on theexcise project and on the infamous of the members whovoted for and against thelatter measure were indus-triously spread among the. THE DEVIL UPON TWO STICKS. 1741.] THE MOTION. 177 electors. Amidst a variety of political squibs, thereappeared on the 9th of January a caricature entitled The Devil upon two Sticks. To the worthy Electorsof Great Britain ; in which two of the members arerepresented carrying- the minister over a slough orpond upon their shoulders, whilst some have got overin safety, though not without evident marks of thewet and dirt through which they had passed. Bri-tannia and her Patriots remain behind. Under-neath are written the words Members who votedfor the Excise and against the Convention. The expectations of the opposition had now becomeso sanguine, that they determined not to wait for an-other session to impress upon the minister the truthof the motto which had been applied to him in thetitle-page just alluded to. Sandys, one of the mostdiscontented of the discontented Whigs, and who, for
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