"'But guard the door, Jenky, no credit we'll win, If the Prince in a frolic should chance to step in: The boy to such secrets of State we'll ne'er call, Let him wait till he gets our crown, income, and all. Derry down, &c. "In the Princesses run, and surprised cry, 'O la! 'Tis big as the egg of a pigeon, papa!'-- 'And a pigeon of plumage worth plucking is he,' Replies our good monarch, 'who sent it to me.' Derry down, &c. "Madame Schwellenberg peep'd through the door at a chink, And tipp'd on the diamond a sly German wink; As much as to say, 'Can we ever be cruel To him who has sent us so glorious a jewel?' Derry down, &c. "Now God save the Queen! while the people I teach, How the King may grow rich while the Commons impeach; Then let nabobs go plunder, and rob as they will, And throw in their diamonds as grist to his mill. Derry down, &c." It was believed that the King had received not one diamond, but a large quantity, and that they were to be the purchase-money of Hastings's acquittal. Caricatures on the subject were to be seen in the window of every print-shop. In one of these Hastings was represented wheeling away in a barrow the King, with his crown and sceptre, observing, "What a man buys, he may sell;" and, in another, the King was exhibited on his knees, with his mouth wide open, and Warren Hastings pitching diamonds into it. Many other prints, some of them bearing evidence of the style of the best caricaturists of the day, kept up the agitation on this subject. It happened that there was a quack in the town, who pretended to eat stones, and bills of his exhibition were placarded on the walls, headed, in large letters, "The great stone-eater!" The caricaturists took the hint, and drew the King with a diamond between his teeth, and a heap of others before him, with the inscription, "The greatest stone-eater!"