“A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF COVENT GARDEN AT THE PRESENT WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
“A paradise for fools and knaves;
A hell for constables and slaves;
A booth for mountebanks and beavers;
A shop for marrow-bones and cleavers;
A stage for bulls and Irish chairmen;
A pit for Foxes, for to rear ’em:
In short, such are most glorious places(?)
For Duchesses to show their faces!”
Allusions to the machinations of “the King’s Friends” were abundant:—