Hone had published, in 1817, tracts of purely political ridicule: _Official Account of the Noble Lord's Bite,_[415] _Trial of the Dog for Biting the Noble Lord_, etc. These were not touched. After the trials, it is manifest that Hone was {186} to be unassailed, do what he might. _The Political House that Jack built_, in 1819; _The Man in the Moon_, 1820; _The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder_, _Non mi ricordo_, _The R--l Fowls_, 1820; _The Political Showman at Home_, with plates by G. Cruickshank,[416] 1821 [he did all the plates]; _The Spirit of Despotism_, 1821--would have been legitimate marks for prosecution in previous years. The biting caricature of several of these works are remembered to this day. _The Spirit of Despotism_ was a tract of 1795, of which a few copies had been privately circulated with great secrecy. Hone reprinted it, and prefixed the following address to "Robert Stewart, _alias_ Lord Castlereagh"[417]: "It appears to me that if, unhappily, your counsels are allowed much longer to prevail in the Brunswick Cabinet, they will bring on a crisis, in which the king may be dethroned or the people enslaved. Experience has shown that the people will not be enslaved--the alternative is the affair of your employers." Hone might say this without notice. In 1819 Mr. Murray[418] published Lord Byron's _Don Juan_,[419] and Hone followed it with _Don John, or Don Juan Unmasked_, a little account of what the publisher to the Admiralty was allowed to issue without prosecution. The parody on the Commandments was a case very much in point: and Hone makes a stinging allusion to the use of the "_unutterable Name_, with a profane levity unsurpassed by {187} any other two lines in the English language." The lines are "'Tis strange--the Hebrew noun which means 'I am,' The English always use to govern d----n." Hone ends with: "Lord Byron's dedication of 'Don Juan' to Lord Castlereagh was suppressed by Mr. Murray from delicacy to Ministers. Q. Why did not Mr. Murray suppress Lord Byron's _parody_ on the Ten Commandments? _A._ Because it contains nothing in ridicule of Ministers, and therefore nothing that _they_ could suppose would lead to the displeasure of Almighty God."