“AN ADDRESS from the Ladies of the Provinces of Munster and Leinster to their Graces the Duke and Duchess of D----t, Lord G----, and Caiaphas the High Priest, with sixty original toasts, drank by the Ladies at their last Assembly, with Love-letters added. London: Printed for John Pro Patria, at the sign of _Vivat Rex_. 1754.” “CHIVALRY no Trifle, or the Knight and his Lady: a Tale. To which is added the Hue and Cry after Touzer and Spitfire, the Lady’s two lapdogs. Dublin: Printed at the sign of _Sir Tady’s Press_, etc. 1754.” “AN ADDRESS from the Influential Electors of the County and City of Galway, with a Collection of 60 Original Patriot Toasts and 48 Munster Toasts, with Intelligence from the Kingdom of Eutopia. Printed at the sign of the _Pirate’s Sword in the Captain’s Scabbard_. London, 1754.” “THE C----T’S APOLOGY to the Freeholders of this Kingdom for their conduct, containing some Pieces of Humour, to which is added a Bill of C----t Morality. London: Printed at the sign of _Betty Ireland, d----d of a Tyrant in Purple, a Monster in Black_, etc.” In the newspapers of the eighteenth century, we find that signs were constantly used as emblems of, or as sharp hits at, the politics of the day; thus, in the _Weekly Journal_ for August 17, 1718, allusions are made to the sign of the Salutation, in Newgate Street, by the opposition party, to which the _Original Weekly Journal_, the week after, retaliates by a description and explanation of an indelicate sign said to be in King Street, Westminster. In 1763, the following pasquinade went the round of the newspapers, said to have been sent over from Holland:-- “HÔTELS POUR LES MINISTRES DES COURS ETRANGÈRES AU FUTUR CONGRESS. De l’Empereur, À la Bonne Volonté; rue d’Impuissance. De Russie, Au Chimère; rue des Caprices. De France, Au Coq déplumé; rue de Canada. D’Autriche, À la Mauvaise Alliance, rue des Invalides. D’Angleterre, À la Fortune, Place des Victoires, rue des Subsides. De Prusse, Aux Quatre vents, rue des Renards, près la Place des Guinées. De Suede, Au Passage des Courtisans, rue des Visionaires. De Pologne, Au Sacrifice d’Abraham, rue des Innocents, près la Place des Devôts. Des Princes de l’Empire, Au Roitelêt, près de l’Hôpital des Incurables, rue des Charlatans. De Wirtemberg, Au Don Quichotte, rue des Fantômes près de la Montagne en Couche. D’Hollande, À la Baleine, sur le Marché aux Fromages, près du Grand Observatoire.”