I must entreat my reader to examine the print, before I can expect belief, when I assure him, that for this criticism there is not the slightest foundation.--The magistrate is bled in the right arm, which is bared for that purpose, by stripping the coat-sleeve from it.--It is in his left hand that he holds the fork with the oyster on it, his coat-sleeve being all the while on his left arm.--As to the attention of the company, it is earnestly engaged by different objects; and _Hogarth_ perhaps designed to insinuate that accidents, arising from repletion or indigestion, are too common at election dinners to attract notice or excite solicitude.--The brickbat has not noisily forced its way through a window, but was thrown in at a casement already open; and a moment must have elapsed before an event so instantaneous could be perceived in an assembly, every individual of which had his distinct avocation. Of this moment our artist has availed himself. Till, therefore, the accident was discovered, he has, with the utmost propriety, left every person present to pursue his former train of thought or amusement. [B] The ingenious artist in _Fleet-street_, well known to the learned and ingenious, by his excellence in taking Busts from the Life, and casts from Anatomical Dissections. [C] See the Dial in Plate IV. [D] See the Prologue to a farce called "The Male Coquette." [E] See _Pope's_ Essay on Man. [F] This passage will, perhaps, be better illustrated by the following paragraph, printed in a daily paper called "The Citizen:"--"_Saturday_ last, being the first day of _August_ Old Stile, the Artillery Company marched according to custom once in three years (called _Barnes's March_, by which they hold an estate): they went to Sir _George Whitmore's_, and took a dunghill. As they were marching through _Bunhill-Row_, a large hog ran between a woman's legs and threw her down, by which accident the ranks were broke, which put the army in the utmost confusion before they could recover." [G] See above, p. 295. [5] The _earliest impressions_ of this plate in its second state, have the same inscription. [6] _Morellon Le Cave_. Mr. _Walpole_, in his catalogue of _English_ engravers, (octavo edit.) professes to know no more of this artist than that he was "a scholar of _Picart_" and "did a head of Dr. _Pococke_ before _Twells's_ edition of the Doctor's works." In the year 1739, however, he engraved _Captain Coram_, &c. at the head of the Power of Attorney, &c. (a description of which see p. 254. of the present work) and afterwards was _Hogarth's_ coadjutor in this third of his Election plates. At the bottom of it he is only styled _Le Cave_. [7] Some of these scenes having been reversed by the engraver, the figures in them are represented as using their left hands instead of their right. [8] Query, what were the scandalous prints to which he alludes?