Council of the City of London. Whatever may be the motives of those by whom it is brought forward, its evident tendency is to inflame the passions and mislead the judgment of the unwary and less enlightened part of my subjects, and thus to aggravate all the difficulties with which we have to contend." This episode suggested to George one of the most admirable of his caricatures: _A Scene in the New Farce as performed at the Royalty Theatre_. The corpulent monarch, in the character and costume of Henry the Eighth, is receiving a number of deputations from all parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, bearing petitions praying him to dismiss his ministry, the members of which stand on each side of the throne, one of the number being habited as a jester. This exceedingly rare plate carries on it the following explanation: "King Henry VIII. being petitioned to dismiss his ministers and council by the citizens of London and many boroughs, to relieve his oppressed subjects, made the citizens this sagacious reply: 'We, with all our cabinet, think it strange that ye who be but _brutes_ and inexpert folk, should tell us who be and who be not fit for our council.'" 1821. Another of George Cruikshank's rare and valuable contributions to the Queen Caroline series of pictorial satires is labelled _The Royal Rushlight_, which many people (among them the Chancellor and corpulent George) are vainly endeavouring to blow out. By way (it may be) of contrast, this excellent satire has appended to it the following miserable doggerel,-- "Cook, coachee, men and maids, very nearly all in buff, Came and swore in their lives they never met with such a light; And each of the _family_ by turns had a puff At the little farthing rushlight. But none of the family could blow out the rushlight." DEATH OF QUEEN CAROLINE.