The success of the artist produced, of course, a number of imitators. Their productions were of various degrees of merit; but like most imitations they generally accentuated the faults without reproducing the excellencies of the model. Some of them are entitled "Political Hits," "Royal Ramblings," "The Belgian Trip," "Parisian Trip," and so on; some are signed "Philo H. B.," "H. H.," "B. H.," while others have neither initials or signature. They comprise some eighty or a hundred plates at least, many of which were probably suppressed, whilst others no doubt served the useful purposes of the greengrocer, the bookbinder, or the trunk-maker; and if, as we are told-- "Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away;" there can be nothing after all very dishonourable or very surprising in their ultimate destination. The artist died in 1868. FOOTNOTES: [113] Annual Register, 1836, p. 237. [114] 1836, p. 244. Mr. Baldwin (one of the proprietors of the _Standard_ newspaper) stated that "if the bill passed in its present shape, it would deteriorate his property fifty per cent., and would operate in the same way with all property of that description."--_Ibid._, p. 247. [115] Greville's "Memoirs," pp. 3, 71. [116] In which Lord Brougham took a special interest. [117] Greville's "Memoirs," ii., p. 148. [118] For the silly and spiteful observations made in this speech, see "Annual Register," 1825, p. 43. [119] Greville's "Memoirs," iii. p. 85. [120] _Inverness Courier_, Sept. 3rd (quoted in "Annual Register," 1854, p. 129). [121] From a nervous habit he had contracted of twitching his nose Lord Brougham was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of "Jemmy Twitcher." [122] On this occasion the Great Seal was reserved and for the time put in commission, the commissioners being Sir Charles Pepys (Master of the Rolls), Vice Chancellor Shadwell, and Mr. Justice Bosanquet. Eventually it was presented to Sir Charles Pepys (Lord Cottenham), and the slight produced such a stunning effect on Brougham that he retired from active public life for a time, and sought solace in the pursuit and study of literature and philosophy. [123] For this interesting table, see "Annual Register," 1833, p. 83. [124] "One whose name is unconnected with any honourable action, whose whole life has been one scene of skulking from dangers into which he had drawn others, and who is occupied from one end of the year to the other in devising plans of drawing enormous fortunes from squalid beggary."--_Dr. Maginn._ [125] Vol. xciv., August, 1863. CHAPTER XIII. _JOHN LEECH._