* Dr. Stoddart (afterwards Sir John Stoddart), contributor to, and editor of, the _Times_, from about 1810 to 1815 or early in 1816, was attacked as Dr. Slop by Moore. He was removed in consequence of the unmeasured violence and coarseness of his attacks on Napoleon. “The Corsican scoundrel” was a common phrase of his. He started the _New Times_, in opposition to Mr. Walter’s journal; but although he conducted it with distinguished ability, it failed, and died after a short life. Dr. Mackenzie, who saw all these squibs when they first appeared, and remembered the effect they immediately made, bears testimony to their popularity and to their value as political agents:-- “During the excitement of the period, when the sympathy of the multitude was unquestionably in favour of Queen Caroline, and even most of the non-political portion of society thought that, under existing circumstances, her husband should not have proceeded against her as he did, Hone sent out several other brochures with illustrations by Greorge Cruikshank. That was about six-and-twenty years ago--we saw them at the time, and we have not seen them since--but we have a vivid recollection of every one of them. There was the ‘Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder,’ described as a National Toy, with fourteen step-scenes, and illustrations in verse, and eighteen other cuts. There was ‘Non Mi Ricordo,’ founded on the convenient forgetfulness of Theodore Majocci, the principal witness against the Queen. [Illustration: 131]