England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . gration, and theflames were already communicating to Great was blowing the fire, which Lord Bute, with aparty of soldiers and sailors, assisted by Highlanders,was endeavouring to extinguish ; but he was impededin his design by the Duke of Newcastle, who broughta barrow-full of Moiiitoi^s and North Britons to feedthe flames. Wilkes had received information of theintended caricature before its publication, had expos-tulated in vain with Hogarth, and had threatened re-taliation ; t
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . gration, and theflames were already communicating to Great was blowing the fire, which Lord Bute, with aparty of soldiers and sailors, assisted by Highlanders,was endeavouring to extinguish ; but he was impededin his design by the Duke of Newcastle, who broughta barrow-full of Moiiitoi^s and North Britons to feedthe flames. Wilkes had received information of theintended caricature before its publication, had expos-tulated in vain with Hogarth, and had threatened re-taliation ; the Saturday after the appearance of TheTimes,^ Wilkes fulfilled his threat in the seventeenthnumber of the North Briton, an attack upon Hogarth,written with so much bitterness, and striking not onlyat his professional but at his domestic character, thathe appears never to have recovered it. A coarse wood-cut portrait of Hogarth headed this paper, the mottoof which was— Its proper power to hurt each creature feels,Bulls aim their horns, and asses lift their heels. 380 HOGARTH AND CHURCHILL. [ A PATRIOT. In bis anger, Hogarth repaired to Westminster Hall,when Wilkes was the second time brought thither from the Tower, and, inWilkes own words, skulk-ed behind in the court ofCommon Pleas; he thencesketched a caricatured por-trait of the pretended pa-triot, in which his ill-fa-voured features are madeten times more demoniacalthan the original. The pub-lication of this portrait drewanother combatant into thefield, Wilkes friend, the poet Churchill; who, soonafter its appearance, in the summer of 1763, publishedthat bitterest of poetic invectives, the Epistle toWilliam Hogarth. This piece added canker to thew^ound which already rankled in Hogarths breast; he again took up the pencil,and produced a picture ofChurchill under the figureof a canonical bear, with apot of porter in one hand,and a knotty club in theother, each knot being la-belled as lie 1, lie 2, & one corner bel
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