. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ed and commercialpersons prognosticated their own ruin in the approaching revolution, andtheir countenances exhibited the plainest marks of horror and despair. ButSmollett, entertaining himself Jacobite partialities, tells us something more : The militia of London and Middlesex were kept in readiness to march ;double watches were posted at the city-gates, and signals of alarm volunteers of the City were incorporated into a regiment; the practi-tioners of
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ed and commercialpersons prognosticated their own ruin in the approaching revolution, andtheir countenances exhibited the plainest marks of horror and despair. ButSmollett, entertaining himself Jacobite partialities, tells us something more : The militia of London and Middlesex were kept in readiness to march ;double watches were posted at the city-gates, and signals of alarm volunteers of the City were incorporated into a regiment; the practi-tioners of the law headed by the judges ; the weavers of Spitalfields, and othercommunities, engaged in associations ; and even the managers of the theatresoffered to raise a body of their dependents for the service of the do not find these circumstances noticed by the historian who asks, Had,then, the Highlanders continued to push forward, must not the increasing terrorhave palsied all power of resistance ?t The inhabitants of London, accordingto De Johnstone, fled to the country, with their most precious A. Military Cijatume, tomp. George II. (delected from Hogartha Mnrch to Finchlcy.) ij;reat number certainly left the busy streets, and were crowding up HighgateHill. But it was to gaze upon the camp at Finchley, in which London artisanswere associated with troops of the line, who could inspire courage, if suchinspiration were needed, by tales of Dettingen and Fontenoy. A far larger * Maitland. History of London, vol. i. Ji. 646.+ Lord Mahon, vol. i:i. p. 413. t Memoirs, p. 75. VOL. VI.—166. 150 PUBLIC FEELIXG IN LOXDOM—TKE JfOPaLAUE. [1745. proportion were laughing at caricatures of the Pretender, the Pope, and theking of France; and at those which, after the unvarying fashion of Englishmento laugh at themselves, ridiculed Johnnie Cope, and did not spare the dukeof Newcastle. They were reading the Penny Post, with a border of capitalletters forming the words
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