"When Mr. _Wilkes_ was the second time brought from the _Tower_ to _Westminster-hall_, Mr. _Hogarth_ skulked behind in a corner of the gallery of the Court of _Common Pleas_; and while the Chief Justice _Pratt_,[66] with the eloquence and courage of old _Rome_, was enforcing the great principles of _Magna Charta_, and the _English_ constitution, while every breast from him caught the holy flame of liberty, the painter was wholly employed in caricaturing the _person_ of the man; while all the rest of his fellow citizens were animated in his _cause_, for they knew it to be their own cause, that of their country, and of its laws. It was declared to be so a few hours after by the unanimous sentence of the judges of that court, and they were all present. "The print of Mr. _Wilkes_ was soon after published, _drawn from the life by William Hogarth_. It must be allowed to be an excellent _compound caricatura_, or a _caricatura_ of what nature had already _caricatured_. I know but one short apology can be made for this gentleman, or, to speak more properly, for the _person_ of Mr. _Wilkes_. It is, that he did not make himself, and that he never was solicitous about the _case_ of his soul, as _Shakspeare_ calls it, only so far as to keep it clean and in health. I never heard that he once hung over the glassy stream, like another _Narcissus_, admiring the image in it, nor that he ever stole an amorous look at his counterfeit in a side mirrour. His form, such as it is, ought to give him no pain, because it is capable of giving pleasure to others. I fancy he finds himself tolerably happy in the _clay-cottage_, to which he is _tenant for life_, because he has learnt to keep it in good order. While the share of health and animal spirits, which heaven has given him, shall hold out, I can scarcely imagine he will be one moment peevish about the _outside_ of so precarious, so temporary a habitation, or will even be brought to own, _ingenium Galbæ male habitat. Monsieur est mal logé._ "Mr. _Churchill_ was exasperated at this _personal_ attack on his friend. He soon after published the Epistle to _William Hogarth_,[67] and took for the motto, _ut pictura poesis_. Mr. _Hogarth's_ revenge against the poet terminated in vamping up an old print of a pug-dog and a bear, which he published under the title of The Bruiser _C. Churchill_ (once the Revd.!) in the character of a _Russian Hercules_, &c." The Editor of the _Monthly Review_ for _November_, 1769, in an account of Mr. _Wilkes's_ correspondence, remarks, "The writer of this article had in substance the same relation from the mouth of Mr. _Hogarth_ himself, but a very little while before his death;[68] and the leading facts appeared, from his candid representation, in nearly the same light as in this account which our readers have been just perusing."