‘Who be dat de Box do sit on? ‘Tis John, the Hero of North Britain, Who out of Place does Placemen spit on. Doodle, etc. * * * * * Who’s dat behind? ‘Tis Dicky Cobby, Who first wou’d have hanged and then try’d Bobby. Ah, was not that a pretty Jobb-e. Doodle, etc. * * * * * So, sirs, me have shown you all de Hero’s, Who put you together by the Ear-os, And frighten you so with groundless Fear-os. Doodle, etc.’ Thomas Wright (_Caricature History of the Georges_) thus refers to the prints: ‘Several editions of “The Motion” were published, and one, in the collection of Mr. Burke, is fitted for a fan. Another, very neatly drawn and etched on a folio plate, and dated February 19th, contains great variations, and wants much of the pointed meaning of the genuine print. They here appear to be driving into a river. Pulteney and Sandys are omitted; two prelates hold on to the straps behind the coach, which seems in imminent danger of falling; yet Carteret cries out to his driver, “John, if you drive so fast, you’ll overset us all, by G—d.”’ On the 2nd of March the ‘Patriots’ retaliated with a caricature entitled ‘The Reason,’ in which we have another carriage with the portly form of Sir Robert Walpole as coachman: ‘Who be dat de box do sit on? Dat’s de driver of G— B—, Whom all the Patriots do spit on.’ In this print, the foppish and effeminate Lord Hervey, well known by Pope’s sarcastic title of ‘Lord Fanny,’ is riding, fan in hand, on a wooden horse, drawn by two men, one of whom cries, ‘Sit fast, Fanny; we are sure to win.’ ‘Dat painted butterfly so prim-a, On wooden Pegasus so trim-a, Is something—nothing—’tis a whim-a.’ The fan-makers were not slow in following up with a fan. On April 25, the following advertisement appeared in the _Craftsman_:— ‘This day is published, by J. Pinchbeck at the Fan and Crown in New Round Court, in the Strand. ‘The Reason for the Motion. A Satire, whereon are the Portraits of divers Noble Personages. To which is annexed, Explanatory Verses, which will serve as a Key to the Whole. ‘Where may be had, All sorts of Fans and Fan-Mounts. The newest fashion, and suited to the nicest Taste. Wholesale or Retail. ‘_N.B._—Gentlemen and Ladies may have any Device done in a curious Manner, according to their own Direction. ‘There is a Spurious Sort about the Town, which has not the Verses, and but part of the Figures.’