suggested by, but a very vast improvement on, G. M. Woodward's _Multum in Parvo, or Liliputian Sketches, showing what may be done by Lines and Dots_. 1818. ADULTERATION OF TEA. A report of the House of Commons, showing how four million pounds weight of sloe, liquorice, and ash-tree leaves were annually mixed with Chinese teas in England, was supplemented by a trial in the Court of Exchequer, in which a grocer named Palmer was fined in L840 penalties, for the fabrication of spurious tea. It appeared that there was a regular manufactory of imitation tea in Goldstone Street, which was composed of thorn leaves, which, after passing through a peculiar process, were coloured with logwood; the same leaves, after being pressed and dried, were laid upon sheets of copper, coloured with verdigris and Dutch pink, and sold as _green_ tea. These revelations led, in 1818, to the artist's admirable caricature of _The T Trade in Hot-water, or a Pretty Kettle of Fish: dedicated to J. Canister and T. Spoon, Esquires_. Besides these, we have the same year: _An Interesting Scene on Board an East Indian_, a very coarse but admirable performance; _Introduction to the Gout_ (a fiend dropping a hot coal on the toe of a _bon vivant_); _A Fine Lady, or the Incomparable_, in which it appears to us that Robert had a hand; _Les Savoyards_ and _Le Palais Royal de Paris_; _Comparative Anatomy, or the Dandy Trio_; and _The Art of Walking the Streets of London_, eight subjects, etched by the artist after the design of George Moutard Woodward. [Illustration: _Designed, Etched and Published by_ GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. _November 1st, 1829._ "A SCENE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, OR FASHIONS AND FRIGHTS OF 1829." _Face p. 152._] On the 4th of December, 1818, the number of convicts lying under sentence of death in his Majesty's gaol of Newgate, amounted to no less than sixty, of whom ten were females; probably not three of these unfortunate beings would have been hung now-a-days. Under the Draconian laws, however, then in force, people were hung in scores for passing forged one-pound Bank of England notes; and this barbarous state of things, disgraceful to a Christian country, led to the famous and telling satire of the _Bank Restriction Note_, one of the very few which seem to have escaped oblivion, and which, having been repeated and reproduced in all the latest essays which have been written on him, calls for no extra description from ourselves. It is said to have had the effect desired, and that "no man or woman was ever hanged after this for passing forged one-pound Bank of England notes." 1819.