“SIR ROBERT PEEL thinks a great deal of himself,” says the British Critic. “Yes,” asserts PUNCH, “he is just the man to trouble himself about trifles.”
ROEBUCK DEFYING THE “THUNDERER.”
Roebuck was seated in his great arm chair,
Looking as senatorial and wise
As a calf’s head, when taken in surprise;
A half-munch’d muffin did his fingers bear—
An empty egg-shell proved his meal nigh o’er.