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English: Lithographic caricature magazine of four pages on two leaves, in the form of a (monthly) newspaper; illustrations as follows. 1 December 1832

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BARON CHASSE HARANGUING CERTAIN VOLUNTEERS IN THE DUTCH SERVICE (17312)
A burlesqued Dutch general, in bulky breeches and jack-boots, stands under the wall of a fortress, drawing aside a curtain from a large picture in the fore¬ground (right). To this he points with his sword, turning to address his 'Volunteers' who are Tories in Dutch costume, standing at attention (left) with bayoneted muskets. They wear high-crowned hats, tunics to the waist, baggy breeches and gaiters to the knee. On the extreme left of the first rank is the profile of (?) Gloucester; the others are (left to right) Aberdeen, Wellington, Newcastle, Eldon, Cumberland, Ellenborough, Lyndhurst, Wetherell, (?) Londonderry, Peel, and (?) Lord Harrington. The general addresses them with a fierce glare: 'Let the factious seek their own base ends; let ministry s rise and fall! no such paltry ambition animates our breasts (?). We fight for liberty & our good King's Government. Behold here is a representation of the glorious Van Sphyck! and in such a cause who would not be a Sphyck? I feel convinced, from the officers down to the rank and file amongst the veterans there is not an old file or one of rank, but looking to the complexion of the Times, feels prepared to be blown up'. The Volunteers look gloomily dubious at the prospect. The picture of 'Van Sphyck' is of a Dutchman blown grotesquely in pieces, while the detached head cries 'Vive de König'. Behind, masts and rigging are indicated. Beside the picture lies a roll of canvas inscribed 'Rejected and original design': a seated Dutchman drinks from a bottle, a match in his right hand.
THE HIGHEST MAN IN FRANCE (17313)
Louis Philippe, in crown and robes, perches uneasily above the arrow of a weathercock, gripping the pole on which it pivots; the sceptre is tucked under his arm. The arrow is marked with a tricolour cockade and inscribed 'Popular favor'; it points to the left, whence a blast is inscribed 'A Cold North Wind'; from the right blows a 'Hot South Wind'. Below are spires, roofs, and birds. (The King was unpopular with both Royalists and Republicans. On 7 Nov. he was ill received at the opera, with silence and hisses. On 19 Nov. a shot was fired at him as he went to the Chamber of Deputies. The Times, 13 and 22 Nov.)
EXHUMEATION. (17314)
The second 'e' in the title is crossed through. Hume stands in a 'Grave of Oblivion', in which he is being placed by Lord Henley (left) who holds him under the armpits. Hume, resisting, exclaims 'I will not be buried. I am alive! I will not be buried!' Brougham (right), in wig and gown, prepares to give Hume a drink from a big bottle of 'Ministerial Cordial', saying, 'No, No! no more you shall'. On the grass lies a tombstone: 'BURIED AT THE EXPENCE OF LORD H NLY'.
THE REWARD OF MERIT!! (17315)
Below the title: 'New Radical Version'. Burdett and Hobhouse, bound together by a rope that encircles their necks, and with their hands tied behind them, are tipped from a two-wheeled cart inscribed 'Westminster' into a 'Slough of Despond'. Burdett is already thigh-deep in the mire, Hobhouse is falling from the cart. See No. 17326.
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LORD CLAN-RIDE-HARD GOING 178 MILES FROM BOULOGNE TO PARIS (17316)
Lord Clanricarde rides a wildly galloping horse (right to left), a signpost (right) point¬ing (left) to 'Paris'. His coat-tails and a handkerchief stream behind him as if in tatters, and behind him flies also a paper inscribed 'Lord Granvilles Feat'. A startled peasant in huge sabots watches the gallop; across the Channel, standing on cliffs in front of 'Walmer' Castle is Wellington, who says: 'Ah that's the man did not take me to ride the great horse even metaphorically !' (See No. 16169. Granville was Ambassador in Paris.)
SOMETHING NEW. (17317)
Below the title: 'A Scene on board the Combined Fleet'. A foppish French sailor (right), bows, hat in hand, striking an attitude with pointed toe, to a British sailor, thick-set and elderly, who also bows, but awkwardly, with flexed knees They smile and take each other's left hand, saying, 'Sair je be you dam good friend', and 'Se woo play mounseer'. (For the combined blockade of the Scheldt see No. 17295, &c.)
SPYING EASTWARD FROM DOWNING STREET TO THE CITY. (17318)
Ministers (right) gaze at an excited crowd in the distance (left), in the street in front of the 'London Tavern'. A little figure stands above the rest, addressing the crowd: 'What shall we say, gentlemen, to this Hibernian method of keeping the peace by plunging into a war!!!' Shouts rise from the crowd: 'No war' [six times]. On the outskirts a man walks off with a bundle: 'Private Subsidy for the King of the Netherlands'; another carries a picture: 'Token of respect for his Dutch Majesty'; a third carries on his shoulder a bulky burden: 'The Address in Dutch'. In the foreground are the Ministers. Grey stoops to look through a telescope saying, 'What a horrid Swarm of Conservators'. Brougham, more prominent holds a giant pen, emitting flame, which he is about to put to the touch-hole of a cannon, 'The Times', which Durham supports on his level back. He says over his shoulder to Grey: 'Never fear! when you hear the report of our great gun you will find their numbers amazingly diminished'. Holland (right), supported on crutches, bends towards the Chancellor, saying, 'Give it them, Broom; hit that Bar-ing a knock that bars our way so'. Palmerston holds an eyeglass in a dandified (and useless) way, he says 'I can see nothing'. Durham rests the tips of his fingers on the ground.
[PUNS ILLUSTRATED] (17384)
[1] 'Iron-y'. A grim-looking woman applies a flat-iron to the back of a well-dressed man whom she holds prone on an ironing-table. He screams as smoke and flame rise from the impact.
[2] 'Sat-ire'. A man registers frantic anger as he falls in a sitting position into a pool of mud.
[3] 'Liar-ic (Lyric)'. A well-dressed man kneels at the feet of a bedizened old woman, making protestations of love which she receives with hideous coquetry. This may derive from No. 9450, by Gillray.
[4] 'Bomb-astic'. From an exploding bomb a military officer flies into the air, spreadeagled. A detached head and feet are also in the orbit of the explosion. Cf. Nos. 12554, 16862.
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CATCHING THE MANTLE OF A LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. (17319)
Three bewigged lawyers, wearing gowns, compete for a judge's robe which falls from the sky, thrown down by the late Lord Tenterden, who ascends in a fiery chariot, drawn by three horses abreast. Two stand on a plateau, slightly curved as if on an arc of the globe, but the third stands above them on a solid pedestal inscribed 'Treasury', and thus secures the mantle, which he draws towards him with a crook of 'Ministerial Favor', saying, 'It's mine, Gentlemen'. Lyndhurst, pushing up his spectacles, despairingly raises his arm. Scarlett (left), on tiptoe, holds up both arms.
CANVASSING. (17320)
The candidate, hat in hand, extends an arm to a fat woman (right) wearing an apron who answers: 'His vote! la sir, he's not at home but he's promised all the other gentlemen, and I dare say he will you, he's so good matured'. Two men with notebooks behind the candidate (left) exchange glances. A satire on the newly enfranchised voter. A companion pl. to No. 17321.
QUALLIFYING. (17321)
An ungainly yokel in a long smock and wrinkled gaiters stands on the hustings opposite a poll-clerk sitting behind a counter. The voter pulls the dismayed official's long nose, saying, 'Who made I a vreeholder? Doant I make vree to whold now? dang-ee'. Behind (left), from the edge of the hustings, a man wearing an election favour harangues the crowd below. A companion pl. to No. 17320.
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SCENES FROM A HISTORICAL DRAMA. THE COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE & SEPARATION OF MYNHEER & HIS BELGIAN FROW. (17322)
A sequence of six scenes arranged in pairs, in which Holland is a man in inflated breeches and quasi-seventeenth-century dress, while Belgium is a woman wearing a cross on a necklace of beads.
[1] Bonaparte makes a violent kick, supporting himself on his sabre and a globe inscribed 'Dutch cheese'; from his left boot Holland (the Stadtholder) is propelled across the Channel (left) towards distant cliffs, while Bonaparte scowls over his left shoulder towards a peasant girl wearing sabots who sits trembling over a spinning-wheel (right). Below: 'Ist We have Mynheer & Belga in their youthful days. Their quiet interrupted by the embrace of a Corsican fellow, who considers himself guardian & governor of every body. He kicks Mynheer over to England, seizes his property, and wont let Belga call her soul her own'. (The conquests of the French Republic, see No; 8608, &c, are attributed to Bonaparte. For the flight of the Stadtholder to England in 1795 see No. 8631.)
[2] Holland (William of Orange) sits on a spherical Dutch cheese with a long smoking tobacco-pipe across his shoulder. Beside him the Belgian peasant-girl, sulkily coy, sits on a stool. In the background (right) John Bull stands with extended fists over Napoleon who kneels in supplication. Below: '2nd The tyrant having a quarrel with John Bull, gets beaten & made nothing of; when Mynheer returns with Orange Boven in his hat and money in his pocket, and falls to courting Belga in right earnest; offering her his Pipe, or any thing she is not in want of'. (For the liberation of Holland in 1813-14 see No. 12102, &c.; the son of the exiled Stadtholder (d. 1806) was recalled, see No. 13491.)
[3] Holland (now William I) takes the hand of the unwilling Belga, a peasant in gala dress, while the marriage is performed by Metternich, dressed as a (Russian) 'Arch-Priest', who stands on a dais flanked by Castlereagh, the clerk, and a cannon. Behind 'Belga' are Alexander I, Francis I, and Frederick William III. Behind 'Mynheer', Wellington stands with a sword against his shoulder. Below: '3rd The Wedding. Austria gives her away: Meternich, the Arch-Priest of the Holy Alliance marries her;—clerk Castlereagh cries "Amen", the Russian dances at her wedding, and John Bull pays the expences.—End of the first Act'. (An attack on the Union of Holland and Belgium under William I as a reactionary arrangement of the Congress of Vienna. Cf. No. 12542.)
Between [3] and [4] is a blank space, almost an inch wide, inscribed: 'Here is supposed to occur the space of Sixteen years from 1815 to 1831'.
[4] A mature and solid 'Belga' flings herself into the arms of Prince Leopold (right) looking anxiously over her shoulder. He wears uniform with orders, and holds his plumed cocked hat. Below: '4th This Act opens with a sad dereliction on the part of the lady, who, because her husband would not let her rule the roast rebels against his authority, kicks his servants who endeavour to prevent her & throws herself into the arms of a paramour'. (For the Belgian revolution see No. 16282, &c.; for the choice of Leopold as king, No. 16742, &c.)
[5] William I ('Mynheer') catches Belga by the petticoats, and angrily raises a strap to thrash the fugitive. Sheltering behind her, and also running away, is Leopold. Below: 'The injured husband breaks in upon their wicked revels, gives them the Strapedo, & chases them for several leagues'. See No. 16766, &c.

[6] William IV and Louis Philippe stand together with clenched fists extended towards the truculent Mynheer (right), while Belga (left) crouches behind their backs, and Leopold shelters under her petticoats, peeping out through a pocket-slit. Below: '6th There appears no doubt that Mynheer would have driven away the seducer, & brought back his erring wife to a sense of duty; but at this juncture enters first one fighting uncle & then an other, who dispute his maritial [sic] rights. We know not the denouement of the piece, but look for poetical justice'. See No. 17295, &c. (Van Stolk, No. 7111.)