CHAPTER I.
Dr. Johnson’s definition of the word Caricatura.—Francis Grose’s definition.—Modern signification of the word.—Change in the Spirit of English Caricature during the last Fifty Years.—Its Causes.—Gillray.—Rowlandson.—Bunbury.—Influence of Gillray and Rowlandson on their immediate Successors.—Gradual Disappearance of the Coarseness of the Old Caricaturists.—Change wrought by John Doyle.—We have now no Caricaturist.—Effect of Wood Engraving on Caricature.—Hogarth, although a Satirist, not a Caricaturist.—Gustave Doré misdescribed a Caricaturist.—Absurdity of comparing him with Cruikshank.—“Etching Moralized.”
CHAPTER II.
Connection of Gillray and Rowlandson with Nineteenth Century Caricaturists.—Napoleon Bonaparte.—The Causes of English Exasperation against him explained.—Sketch of his Policy towards England.—The “Berlin Decree.”—English Caricatures brought to the notice of Bonaparte.—“A Political Fair.”—The “Gallick Storehouse for English Shipping.”—“Spanish Flies, or Boney taking an Immoderate Dose.”—“Boney and his New Wife, or a Quarrel about Nothing.”—Birth of the young King of Rome.—“British Cookery, or Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”—“General Frost Shaving Boney.”—“Polish Diet with French Dessert.”—“The Corsican Blood-hound beset by the Bears of Russia.” “Nap nearly Nab’d, or a Retreating Jump just in time.”—“Boney Returning from Russia covered with Glory.”—“Nap’s Glorious Return.”—Rowlandson’s Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.—French Contemporary Satires.—Gillray’s Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.—His Libels on Josephine.—Madame Tallien.—Robert Dighton.—Consequences of a Pinch of Snuff.—Master Betty—Impeachment of Lord Melville.—Introduction of Gas.—Mary Anne Clarke.—Imbecility and Death of James Gillray
CHAPTER III.
Re-opening of Drury Lane.—Dr. Busby’s “Monologue.”—“A Buz in a Box, or the Poet in a Pet.”—“Doctors Differ, or Dame Nature against the College.”—Joanna Southcott.—Flight of the Princess Charlotte.—“Plebeian Spirit, or Coachee and the Heiress Presumptive.”—“Miss endeavouring to Excite a Glow with her Dutch Plaything.”—American War of 1812-1815.—Hostile Temper of the Americans.—Disastrous Results of their Invasion of Canada.—English Retaliatory Measures.—Burning of Washington.—Expedition against Alexandria.—“The Fall of Washington, or Maddy in Full Flight.”—British Defeated at Baltimore and New Orleans.—“Romeo Coates.”—Marriage of the Princess Charlotte.—“Leap Year, or John Bull’s Establishment.”—Troubles of 1817.—Narrow Escape of the Prince Regent.—“More Plots!!! More Plots!!!”—Edmund Kean and Lucius Junius Booth.—“The Rival Richards.”—Congress of the Allied Sovereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle.—“A Russian Dandy at Home: a Scene at Aix-la-Chapelle.”—“A Peep at the Pump Room, or the Zomerzetshire Folks in a Maze.”—Death of Queen Charlotte.—“The Hambourg Waltz.”—Invention of the Kaleidoscope.—“Caleidoscopes, or Paying for Peeping.”—The Velocipede or “Hobby.”—“The Spirit Moving the Quakers upon Worldly Vanities.”—“John Bull in Clover,” and “John Bull Done Over.”—Birth of the Princess Victoria.—“A Scene in the New Farce, called The Rivals, or a Visit to the Heir Presumptive.”