| £3 | 3 | 9 | for each Sergeant, |
| 2 | 12 | 0 | for each Corporal, |
| 2 | 3 | 6 | for each Drummer, |
| 1 | 10 | 0 | for each Private Man, |
There is an amusing caricature (October 18, 1803) illustrating Talleyrand’s disinclination to the projected invasion of England.
In his ‘Voyage to Brobdingnag,’ Lemuel Gulliver, speaking of his enemy the King’s Dwarf, says: ‘He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a-laughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had pot been so generous as to intercede. Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect, as it stood before; the dwarf, watching his opportunity when Glumdalclitch was gone to the sideboard, mounted the stool that she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow bone above my waist, where I stuck for some time, and made a very ridiculous figure. I believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me; for I thought it below me to cry out. But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. The dwarf, at my entreaty, had no other punishment than a sound whipping.’
THE KING’S DWARF PLAYS GULLIVER A TRICK.
There was also a squib about the same master and man:—
BUONAPARTE
AND
TALLEYRAND.
It is well known that Monsieur Talleyrand always objected to the Invasion of England, as a mad Attempt, that must end in the destruction of the Invaders. Having been favoured with a Note of a Conversation between him and the Chief Consul on this Subject, I have attempted, for the Entertainment of my Countrymen, to put it into Rhyme.
A. S.
BUONAPARTE.