CHAPTER IV.
Caroline of Brunswick.—Levity of her Character.—Result of the Commission to Inquire into her Conduct in 1806.—Her Letter to the Regent.—Result of the Commission of 1813.—Caroline rebels.—Wrath of Lord Ellenborough.-“A Key to the Investigation, or Iago distanced by odds.”—Refusal of the Regent to meet her in 1814.—Her Protest.—Applies for Permission to Travel Abroad.—Rumours prejudicial to her Moral Conduct.—“Paving the way for a Royal Divorce.”—The Milan Commission.—Ministers averse to the Prosecution of the Queen.—Their False Step.—Arrival of Caroline in London.—Opening of the “Green Bag.”—Arrival of the Witnesses.—Strange Appearance of Caroline at the Trial.—Satire upon Her and her Supporters.—“City Scavengers Cleansing the London Streets of Impurities.”—Practical Failure of the Prosecution.—“The Queen Caroline running down the Royal George.”—“The Steward’s Court of the Manor of Torre Devon.”—Popularity of the King.—“Grand Entrance to Bamboozlem.”—Public Events of 1822-1825.—Greek War of Independence.—Battle of Navarino.—“Russian Bear’s Grease, or a Peep into Futurity.”—“The Descent of the Great Bear, or the Mussulmans in a Quandary.”—“The Nest in Danger.”—“The Porte presenting a Bill of Indemnification.”—“Burking old Mrs. Constitution, aged 141.”—Caricature Declines after 1830, and why.—William Heath and other Caricaturists of the Period.—Theodore Lane.
CHAPTER V.
Caricatures of Robert Cruikshank.—Forgotten, and why.—Artistic Training—“The Mother’s Girl Plucking a Crow, or German Flesh and English Spirit.”—“The Horse Marine and his Trumpeter in a Squall.”—Queer Fashions of the early part of the Century.—Thackeray’s Difficulty.—Caricatures on the “Dandies” of 1818.—Robert and his Fellow-Caricaturists ridicule the sham “Corinthians” and “Corinthian Kates” of their day.—Hollow Pretensions of the “Dandies.”—“The Dandy Dressing at Home” and “The Dandy Dressed.”—“A Dandyess.”—Robert’s Satires on the “Dandies” of 1819.—“The Mysterious Fair One, or the Royal Introduction to the Circassian Beauty.”—Other Caricatures of his of 1819.—His Satires on the Trial of Queen Caroline.—His Caricatures of 1821.—Duel between the Dukes of Bedford and Buckingham.—Other Satires by him in 1822.—Interference of Louis XVIII. in Spanish Affairs.—Robert’s Satires on Louis and his Son.—“The Golden Ball.”—Other Caricatures by Robert in 1823.—The Tenth Hussars.—Maria Foote and “Pea-green Hayne.”—Other satires by Robert in 1824.—Colonel Fitz-Bastard and Mr. Judge.—Cox v. Kean.—Sir Walter Scott.—“The Living Skeleton.”—Popple and Stockdale.—Other Subjects of 1825.—“Cruikshankiana.”
CHAPTER VI.
Book Illustrations of Isaac Robert Cruikshank.—The “Life in London.”—Injustice done to Robert with reference to this Book.—The “Life” Dramatized.—Excitement it Occasioned.—The Portly Stranger in the Duke’s Box.—Queer Visitors at Rehearsal.—Horror of the Serious People.—The Mistake which they made.—“The Finish.”—Pierce Egan’s Position with reference to the “Life.”—Origin of “Bell’s Life in London.”—Charles Molloy Westmacott.—“The English Spy.”—“The Oppidans’ Museum.”—The “King at Home.”—Rowlandson’s contribution to “The English Spy.”—Westmacott and the Literature of Foote and Hayne.—Robert’s Carelessness.—“Points of Misery.”—“Doings in London.”—“Cruikshank’s Comic Album.”—“Monsieur Nong-tong-paw.”—Three Books Illustrated by Robert.—Death.