As the dissolution of parliament approached, satirical views of the situation became numerous, and there appeared various well-executed caricatures upon the subject of the city election. In “The City Up and Down; or, the Candidates Pois’d,” the candidates were represented perched upon suspended boxes, part of a huge revolving machine. Sir John Barnard, Slingsby Bethel, and William Beckford are occupying the upper seats; they had represented the city in the last parliament, and, as there were no objections against their names, their re-election was considered secure. In a side box is Sir Richard Glyn, who was defeated; in another, somewhat lower, is Sir Robert Ladbrooke, a new candidate, who was successful; below these is a fourth box, in which are Sir Crisp Gascoyne and Sir William Calvert; the latter, though one of the former representatives, secured the fewest votes in 1754. The reason for this falling-off in favour is explained by the caricature; Calvert is surrounded by Jews, who are assuring him:--“You have all our interest, for your zealous support of our Bill!”--“Confound your Bill; now I have no hope left,” replies Sir William, whose exertions on behalf of this measure lost him his seat. Barnard is declaring, “I am, strictly speaking, neither a friend to the Jews nor their enemy; excepting when they aim at having equal Rights and Privileges with my fellow-citizens and countrymen.” While the inflexible Beckford, who later was Lord Chatham’s “mouth-piece in the Commons,” asserts, “It becomes a Man of Character to keep good Company.” Ladbrooke, who was a distiller, is declaring he “should like to be in good company too,” but “fears it will be with the two kings”--“The King of the Jews” being Calvert the brewer, and Gascoyne, “King of the Gipsies.” There are allusions to the occupations of the candidates; the voters are declaring, “If the gin-merchant [Ladbrooke] gets in, gin will be cheaper.” Other electors refer to Gascoyne and Calvert as “two very good beer-makers.” On the opposite side of the river is shown Sampson Gideon, a prominent financier of his day, and afterwards knighted,--he is conducted by Satan, and his hat is filled with gold for purposes of bribery; he is eager to tamper with the balance of the boxes in the “great Up and Down machine;”--“If I was over I would turn the poise, though it cost me the profits of the last Lottery.” Gideon was a strenuous supporter of those who voted for the Jews’ Naturalization Bill, and, before the repeal of that measure, held hopes of getting into parliament. He is frequently alluded to in the electioneering squibs of the time. That he had substantial reasons for interesting himself in behalf of those in power appears from the “Report of the Committee appointed to investigate the Lottery of 1753,” where it is stated that “Sampson Gideon became proprietor of more than six thousand tickets, which he sold at a premium.” Preference allotments, being highly profitable, were useful