Dean Swift’s immortal book did yeoman’s service to the caricaturists, and we find it again employed in a print by West, December 1803: ‘The Brobdingnag Watchman preventing Gulliver’s landing.’ It is very feeble, and merely consists of George the Third as a watchman turning the light of the ‘Constitutional Lanthorn’ upon Bonaparte and his companions, who are attempting a landing. Another print, by West (December 1803), shows ‘Mr. and Mrs. Bull giving Buonaparte a Christmas Treat!’ The latter is bound to a post in sight of, but beyond reach of, the national fare of this festival. John Bull says, holding up a piece of beef, in derision, ‘Yes, yes--the Beef is very good, so is the pudding too--but the deuce a morsel do you get of either, Master Boney.’ Mrs. Bull too, who is drinking from a frothing tankard, says: ‘Your health Master Boney, wishing you a merry Christmas,’ but offers him none. An unknown artist gives an undated picture of ‘a Cock and Bull Story.’ Napoleon, as the Gallic Cock, on his side of the Channel, sings Cock a dudle doo, I shall come over to you. I’ll fight true game, and crow my Fame, And make you all look blue. John Bull, who is peacefully reposing in his pastures rejoins:-- You impertinent Cock, I’ll have you to know On this side the Brook, you never shall Crow, And if you’re not quick, and give up your jaw, I’ll teach you the nature of English Club Law. In 1803 was published an amusing squib, in which the names of various plays are very ingeniously made into a patriotic address:-- THE GREEN ROOM OPINION OF THE THREATENED INVASION. Should the Modern _Tamerlane_ revive the tragedy of _England Invaded_, and, in the progress of his _Wild goose Chace_, escape the _Tempest_, he will find that, with us, it is _Humours of the Age_ to be _Volunteers_. He will prove that we have many a _Plain Dealer_, who will tear off _the Mask_, under which _the Hypocrite_, this _Fool of Fortune_, this _Choleric man_, has abused a credulous world. Should he, to _a Wonder_, attempt a _Trip to Scarborough_, to set them _all alive at Portsmouth_, or to get _on both sides of the gutter_, he will assuredly meet a _Chapter of Accidents_ on his _Road to Ruin_; for _Britannia and the Gods are in Council_, to make him a _Castle Spectre_: he will, too late, discover _the Secret_ of _Who’s the Dupe_; and that it is _the Custom of the Country_ of _John Bull_, to shew _the Devil to pay_ to any _Busybody_, who seeks to enforce on us _Reformation_.