statesmen are variously greeting the arrival of the latest addition to their class. His predecessor, Sir Robert Walpole, is welcoming a worthy pupil: “O, this is a child of my own bringing up. I found him a promising Genius for dirty work, I therefore did all I could to gain him the succession at my retirement hither, knowing that some of his black strokes would make me appear as fair as alabaster. He has done it in several respects, but chiefly in getting the Naturalization of the Jews passed,--have any of you great Genius’s done anything equal?” The spirit of Judge Jeffreys is declaring, “All my transactions in the West were but a joke to that great achievement.” The disembodied Cardinal Wolsey is observing, “Is that the choice spirit you have so often described? I made pretty large strides towards making the people swallow down what I thought proper--but this beats all my ‘_Ego et Rex Meus’s_’ out of doors!” A shade affirms, “We are all puny statesmen to him;” and the most astute politicians of history are voted beginners beside Pelham--“If you, old Machiavel, had known him in your days, he’d a’ lent you a lift.” In the elections which were held in April, 1754, the Court seems to have experienced less opposition than might have been expected; for although the spirit of the antagonistic “Leicester House party” had been damped by the death of the Prince of Wales, which occurred unexpectedly in March, 1751, it now showed signs of reviving. The contest for the City of London gave rise to several interesting caricatures. The humours of canvassing are displayed in “The Liveryman’s Levée” (April, 1754), which represents an elector, a self-sufficient tailor, with his vulgar wife. The pair are receiving the obsequious bows of five of the candidates, who, in 1754, put up for the City of London. The absence of Sir John Barnard, the celebrated city patriot, is professionally marked by a suit hanging on the wall,--“A Plain Suit of Broadcloth for Sir John Steady.” The liveryman is insolently resenting the independence of the favourite candidate: “Where’s Sir John? I think he is greatly wanting in his duty. Does he imagine that a man of my figure is to be trifled with? Don’t he know that we expect to be waited on?” There are other allusions to the recommendations for and objections against the respective candidates.