Tell France and tell America
They may begin to crow;—
While I reign o’er the main
Is the time to strike a blow.
Punch, January, 1846.
(The Earl of Ellenborough was sent to India, as Governor-General, in 1842, and remained there till 1844. On his return there was some difficulty to find a place in the Government for him. By Sir Robert Peel he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, a post which he probably owed to the friendship and interest of the Duke of Wellington.)
The Railways Gross Mismanagement;
Or, The Complaint of the “Engine-driver” versified.
(Written in 1847, when Railways were in their infancy.)
You Managers of Railways,