In another part is Solomon’s Temple, in which sit the Congress, wrangling over the division of a huge cake. Gouty Louis the Eighteenth, mounted on a donkey, is off, hard gallop, to Vienna, calling out, ‘Gee up, Neddy--adieu to the Lily in the Violet season! adieu to my good City of Paris!’ whilst Wellington, on horseback, is going full speed to Belgium. CHAPTER LVIII. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR--THE SHORT CAMPAIGN--WATERLOO--NAPOLEON’S ABDICATION. ‘The Royal Allied Oak and self-created mushroom Kings’ is a curiosity on account of the many profiles contained therein. An account of them is given as under:-- Behold the Oak whose firm fix’d stay Doth check Oppression’s course, Whose slightest branch can ne’er decay, While strong with Virtue’s force. Our much lov’d Sovereign decks the branch, The highest of the Tree: And peaceful Louis tho’ driven from France, Among its boughs you’ll see. The Regent’s Portrait next behold, Whose Councils Wisdom guides; And Russia’s noble Monarch bold, Who check’d the Tyrant’s strides. Immortal Wellington next is seen, Whose fame can ne’er expire; And vet’ran Blucher’s warlike mien That kindled Napoleon’s ire. The Mushroom race you have to seek In weeds about the root, Who scarce dare at the Oak to peep, Or at its princely fruit. This clever picture is by I. Field, and was published May 29, 1815. [Illustration: THE ROYAL ALLIED OAK AND SELF-CREATED MUSHROOM KINGS.] S. T. Taw, a new caricaturist, gives us ‘The Crown Candidates, or a modest request politely refused’ (May 1815). Louis the Eighteenth, Napoleon, and the young King of Rome are seated at a table. The former is saying, in the hopes of an amicable settlement being come to, ‘Sire, when you have done with the Empire, I will thank you to let me have it.’ Napoleon replies, ‘I am sorry, Sire, it is engaged for that young Gentleman.’ The King of Rome has a torn map, which he is trying to piece, and he says, ‘I think I shall be able to unite them.’