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 by the slothfully cruel Hanoverian kings. Years afterwards (1745-6), when Hogarth shall send his picture of the March to Finchley to St. James's for the inspection of his sacred Majesty King George the Second, that potentate will fly into a guard-room rage at the truthful humour of the scene, and will express an opinion that the audacious painter who has caricatured his Foot Guards, should properly suffer the punishment of the picket on the "wooden horse" of the Mall.

Further afield. There are literally thousands of shop-signs to be read or stared at. There are prize-fights—predecessors of Fig and Broughton contests—gladiatorial exhibitions, in which decayed Life-guardsmen and Irish captains trade-fallen, hack and hew one another with broadsword and backsword on public platforms. Then the "French prophets," whom John Wesley knew, are working sham miracles in Soho, emulating—the impostors!—the marvels done at the tomb of the Abbé, Diacre or Chanoine, Paris, and positively holding exhibitions in which fanatics suffer themselves to be trampled, jumped upon, and beaten with clubs, for the greater glory of Molinism;[*] even holding academies, where the youth of both sexes are instructed in the arts of foaming at the mouth, falling into convulsions, discoursing in unknown tongues, revealing stigmata produced by the aid of lunar caustic, and other moon-struck madnesses and cheats. Such is revivalism in 1720. William Hogarth is there, observant. He will not forget the French prophets when he executes almost the last and noblest of his plates—albeit, it is directed against English revivalists, Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism. He leaves Soho, and wanders eastward and westward. He reads Madam Godfrey's six hundred challenges to the female sex in the newspapers; sitting, perhaps, at the "Rose," without Temple Bar; at the "Diapente," whither the beaux, feeble as Lord Fanny, who could not "eat beef, or horse, or any of those things," come to recruit their exhausted digestions with jelly-broth. He may look in at mug-houses, where stum, 'quest ales, Protestant masch-beer, and Derby stingo are sold. He may drop in at Owen Swan's, at the "Black Swan" Tavern in St. Martin's Lane, and listen to the hack-writers girding at Mr. Pope, and at the enormous amount of eating and drinking in Harry Higden's comedies. He may see the virtuosi at Childs's, and dozens of other auctions (Edward Mellington was the George Robins of the preceding age; the famous Cobb was his successor in auction-room eloquence and pomposity), buying china monsters. He may refect himself with hot furmity at the "Rainbow" or at "Nando's," mingle (keeping his surtout well buttoned) with the pickpockets in Paul's, avoid the Scotch walk on 'Change, watch the garish damsels alight from their coaches at the chocolate-houses, mark the gamesters rushing in, at as early an hour as eleven in the morning, to shake their elbows at the "Young Man's;" gaze at the barristers as they bargain for wherries at the Temple Stairs to take water

ceremonial of the Sheik El Bekree, over the bodies of the faithful, in Laue's Modern Egyptians.
 * Compare these voluntary torments with the description of the Dosèh, or horse-trampling