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388 scribing the leading characters of the Administration, and reproducing with a few changes a jeu d'esprit which had appeared about a year before in the same journal under the signature of Correggio. It purported to contain a vision of the masquerade given by the King of Denmark at the Opera House on the 10th of October. Grafton was Janus, Chatham was King Lear, Weymouth was the landlord of the Bedford Arms. "But no piece," so had said Correggio, "could be complete without a young man who will make a capital figure. His features are too happily marked to be mistaken. A single line of his face will be sufficient to give us the heir apparent of Loyola and all the College. A little more of the devil my lord if you please about the eye-brows; that's enough, a perfect I protest! So much for his person, and as for his mind, a blinking bull-dog placed near him will form a very natural type of all his good qualities." Following in the steps of Correggio, the "Dreamer of Dreams" in the Public Advertiser placed Shelburne on his stage as a Jesuit. The sobriquet thus invented stuck to its object, and Shelburne for ever after appeared in every caricature of the day in the guise of the famous Portuguese ecclesiastic, who some years before had been strangled and burnt by orders of Pombal, for his real or supposed share in the conspiracy of the Duc d'Aveiro.