At length he found a place to hide,
All at the George by Bankside,
But not till they’d well tann’d his hide,—
Barclay and Perkins’s draymen.
Then for Barclay’s men we’ll give a cheer.
May they live long to brew our beer!
And from their masters nothing fear,—
Barclay and Perkins’s draymen.
Nor was it in England only that Marshal Haynau was visited by public opprobrium. His offences were still remembered, two years afterwards, when he ventured to visit Brussels. There also, at the Vauxhall Gardens, the police had to protect him from the mob; and public opinion did not allow the punishment of the women who spat in his face in public, hissing at him the word “Hyaena.” So intensely had the Austrian excesses stirred the indignation of Europe; and the only way in which Francis Joseph was able to express his resentment at the rough handling of the butcher who had done his dirty work was by refusing to send a representative to London to attend the funeral of the Duke of Wellington.