Caroline of Brunswick.--Levity of her Character.--Result of the Commission to Inquire into her Conduct in 1806.--Her Letter to the Regent.--Result of the Commission of 1813.--Caroline rebels.--Wrath of Lord Ellenborough.-"A Key to the Investigation, or Iago distanced by odds."--Refusal of the Regent to meet her in 1814.--Her Protest.--Applies for Permission to Travel Abroad.--Rumours prejudicial to her Moral Conduct.--"Paving the way for a Royal Divorce."--The Milan Commission.--Ministers averse to the Prosecution of the Queen.--Their False Step.--Arrival of Caroline in London.--Opening of the "Green Bag."--Arrival of the Witnesses.--Strange Appearance of Caroline at the Trial.--Satire upon Her and her Supporters.--"City Scavengers Cleansing the London Streets of Impurities."--Practical Failure of the Prosecution.--"The Queen Caroline running down the Royal George."--"The Steward's Court of the Manor of Torre Devon."--Popularity of the King.--"Grand Entrance to Bamboozlem."--Public Events of 1822-1825.--Greek War of Independence.--Battle of Navarino.--"Russian Bear's Grease, or a Peep into Futurity."--"The Descent of the Great Bear, or the Mussulmans in a Quandary."--"The Nest in Danger."--"The Porte presenting a Bill of Indemnification."--"Burking old Mrs. Constitution, aged 141."--Caricature Declines after 1830, and why.--William Heath and other Caricaturists of the Period.--Theodore Lane. _pp._ 62-88. CHAPTER V. Caricatures of Robert Cruikshank.--Forgotten, and why.--Artistic Training--"The Mother's Girl Plucking a Crow, or German Flesh and English Spirit."--"The Horse Marine and his Trumpeter in a Squall."--Queer Fashions of the early part of the Century.--Thackeray's Difficulty.--Caricatures on the "Dandies" of 1818.--Robert and his Fellow-Caricaturists ridicule the sham "Corinthians" and "Corinthian Kates" of their day.--Hollow Pretensions of the "Dandies."--"The Dandy Dressing at Home" and "The Dandy Dressed."--"A Dandyess."--Robert's Satires on the "Dandies" of 1819.--"The Mysterious Fair One, or the Royal Introduction to the Circassian Beauty."--Other Caricatures of his of 1819.--His Satires on the Trial of Queen Caroline.--His Caricatures of 1821.--Duel between the Dukes of Bedford and Buckingham.--Other Satires by him in 1822.--Interference of Louis XVIII. in Spanish Affairs.--Robert's Satires on Louis and his Son.--"The Golden Ball."--Other Caricatures by Robert in 1823.--The Tenth Hussars.--Maria Foote and "Pea-green Hayne."--Other satires by Robert in 1824.--Colonel Fitz-Bastard and Mr. Judge.--Cox _v._ Kean.--Sir Walter Scott.--"The Living Skeleton."--Popple and Stockdale.--Other Subjects of 1825.--"Cruikshankiana." _pp._ 89-108. CHAPTER VI.