Part 16 (2/2)

The tents of Richmond are so near

That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch

Considered as a whole, the coures well drawn The whole moral tenour of the piece infors, from which royalty itself is not secure; that of all tormentors, reflection is the worst; that crowns and sceptres are baubles, coht is productive of solid happiness, but inward peace and serenity of mind

[Illustration: GARRICK

In the Character of Richard the Third]

THE INVASION; OR, FRANCE AND ENGLAND

In the two following designs, Mr Hogarth has displayed that partiality for his own country and conte trait in his character He neither forgot nor forgave the insults he suffered at Calais, though he did not recollect that this treatinated in his own ill humour, which threw a so early ilishht it would be doing his country a service to prove the position How far it is either useful or politic to depreciate the power, or degrade the character of that people e are to contend, is a question which does not come within the plan of this work In some cases it ence of that negligent security by which ardoed their rulers

PLATE I

FRANCE

With lantern jaws and croaking gut, See how the half-star'd Frenchs: But soon we'll teach these bragging foes That beef and beer give heavier blows Than soup and roasted frogs

The priests, inflahteous hopes, Prepare their axes, wheels, and ropes, To bend the stiff-neck'd sinner; But should they sink in co over, Old Nick lorious dinner

The scenes of all Mr Hogarth's prints, except The Gate of Calais, and that now under consideration, are laid in England In this, having quitted his own country, he seems to think hi a Frenchman, at liberty to depart froions of caricature Were these Gallic soldiers naked, each of them would appear like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: so forlorn! that to any thick sight he would be invisible To see this roup detached fro to conquer a neighbouring kingdoh, and at the tireat effect The artist seemed sensible that it was necessary to account for the unsubstantial appearance of these shadows of men, and has hinted at their want of solid food, in the bare bones of beef hung up in the , the inscription on the alehouse sign, ”_Soupfour frogs which he has iht and airy diet is whimsically opposed by the motto on the standard, which two of the riht and loud exultation It is, indeed, an attractivecoeance, avec la bonne Biere, et bon boeuf d'Angleterre_” However er of starving The portly friar is neither e the glory of extirpating heresy, he is feeling the sharp edge of an axe, to be employed in the decollation of the enee is laden hips, wheels, ropes, chains, gibbets, and other inquisitorial engines of torture, which are adion that was established in meekness and mercy, and inculcates universal charity and forbearance On the sa, and the plan of a round are a troop of soldiers so averse to this English expedition, that their serjeant is obliged to goad thericulture suffers by the invasion having engaged thea sterile proue of wretchedness, misery, and famine

[Illustration: FRANCE]

THE INVASION

PLATE II

ENGLAND

See John the Soldier, Jack the Tar, With sword and pistol arry slaves have sland's beef and beer

Britons to arms! and let 'em come, Be you but Britons still, strike home, And, lion-like, attack 'eiven from hands and hearts of oak, With Liberty to back 'eions of France our scene changes to the fertile fields of England