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background can be seen the coast of France, on which the people are rejoicing and dancing round a flag, 'Vivent les Bourbons!'

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'The Hellbaronian Emperor going to take possession of his new Territory' (April 23, 1814), by G. H., engraved by G. Cruikshank. Here Napoleon, ragged and heavily fettered, is in an iron cage, which is drawn by a mounted Cossack. Others surround and guard him, and we can well understand the captive's ejaculatory' Oh—d—n these Cossacks,'

'Nap dreading his doleful Doom or his grand entry into the Isle of Elba' (April 25, 1814), represents the exiled Emperor at the moment of his landing. He has just been put ashore in a small boat, and his slender

luggage, which is guarded by his solitary follower, a Mameluke, is deposited on the shore. With one hand in the breast of his coat, and the other thrust deep into his breeches pocket, suffering, too, from the impertinent inquisitiveness of the natives, it is no wonder that he appears downcast, and says, 'Ah, Woe is me, seeing what I have, and

seeing what I see.' He is, however, tried to be comforted by a blowsy bumboat woman, who, offering him her long clay pipe, pats him on the back with 'Come cheer up my little Nicky, I'll be your Empress.'

George Cruikshank (May 1, 1814) gives us 'Snuffing

out Boney,' an operation which is being performed by a gigantic Cossack.

Hardly a caricature, is a picture attributed to Rowlandson (May 1, 1814), in which is depicted Napoleon's throne overturned, together with his crown and sceptre. The Devil himself is clutching Napoleon, who is terrified at the heavenly apparition of a hand holding a flaming sword, and the legend, 'Thou 'rt doom'd to Pain, at which the Damn'd will tremble, and take their own for Joys.' This etching is called 'The Tyrant of the Continent is fallen. Europe is free. England Rejoices. Empire and Victory be all forsaken; To Plagues, Poverty, Disgrace, and Shame. Strip me of all my Dignities and Crowns. Take, O Take your sceptres back, Spare me but life!'

CHAPTER LVI.

NAPOLEON AT ELBA-HIS OCCUPATIONS WHILST THERE-FAITH BROKEN WITH HIM-THE VIOLET-GENERAL REJOICINGS AT HIS EXILE.

IN the Satirist' of May 1, 1814, is a picture by G. Cruikshank, called 'Otium cum dignitate, or a view of Elba.' It is not a good one. Napoleon, ragged and stockingless, smoking a short clay pipe, is blowing up the fire with a pair of bellows. Bertrand is kissing a female, probably Pauline, on the sly, and Jerome Bonaparte is mending nets.

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'Boney's Elbow Chair, a new Throne for a new Emperor; or an old sinner brought to the stool of repentance. A dialogue between one of his admirers & John Bull, on his being laid up with a cutaneous or skin disorder' (G. Cruikshank, May 5, 1814). Boney is in his rocky home raggedly dressed, with a fool's cap on his head, and sitting on a close stool. He is surrounded with medicine-bottles and pots of brimstone and itch salve, and he is scratching himself violently. John Bull says:—

'So! your poor friend Nap Boney is kick'd from a throne, And must sit on a stool close at Elba alone.'

'He is not poor,' said Nic, 'he has got fat and grown flabby.' 'He has also,' said John, 'got the Itch, or grown scabby.

For not even his wife will consent to go nigh him,

And all his old Mamelukes flout and defy him ;

Perhaps thou, in pity, will lift up his latch,

And rub him with Brimstone or help him to scratch.

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These three pictures are all on one plate, and are by Rowlandson, pub

lished May 1, 1814.

Pray go, and take with thee the birds of thy feather,
And all catch the Itch, or grow scabby together.'

'Needs must when Wellington Drives, or Louis's Return!!' (May 1814) is a very badly drawn picture by Marks. Louis the Eighteenth, unable to walk, by reason of the gout, is being drawn along in a sort of Bath chair by Napoleon, and attended on either side by Blücher and Wellington. The latter is punishing poor Napoleon with a birch-rod, saying meanwhile, I desire, you will sing God save the King.' Boney, with his handkerchief to his eyes, says, 'I'll be d-d if I do.' Blücher is of opinion, 'You'l be d-d whether you do or not.'

A very commonplace caricature is 'The Tyrant, overtaken by Justice, is excluded from the world,' and it would not be noticed here did it not introduce us to a new artist, L. M. (? Lewis Marks). Napoleon, chained to his rock, disconsolately gazes at that world which he may not reach, the Devil meanwhile pointing the finger of scorn at him (May 1814).

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In 'the departure of Apollo and the Muses-or Farewell to Paris' (May 1814), by I. Sidebotham, we have the restitution of the art treasures, taken by Napoleon, to their different owners—a long string of waggons, filled with pictures, &c., are labelled Holland, Italy, Venice, Berlin, and Vienna. Louis the Eighteenth, at the Louvre, laments it, and says, Dear Talley, persuade them to leave us a few of these pretty things for my chambers, they will pacify the Deputies, and amuse the people.' Talleyrand replies, 'I have tried every scheme to retain them, but it seems they have at last found us out, and are not to be humbug'd any longer.' Apollo and the Muses have mounted a fine gold car, which is drawn, not only by horses, but by the British Lion as well-the former being postilioned by Blücher;

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