Chapter 2

Connection of Gillray and Rowlandson with Nineteenth Century Caricaturists.--Napoleon Bonaparte.--The Causes of English Exasperation against him explained.--Sketch of his Policy towards England.--The "Berlin Decree."--English Caricatures brought to the notice of Bonaparte.--"A Political Fair."--The "Gallick Storehouse for English Shipping."--"Spanish Flies, or Boney taking an Immoderate Dose."--"Boney and his New Wife, or a Quarrel about Nothing."--Birth of the young King of Rome.--"British Cookery, or Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire."--"General Frost Shaving Boney."--"Polish Diet with French Dessert."--"The Corsican Blood-hound beset by the Bears of Russia." "Nap nearly Nab'd, or a Retreating Jump just in time."--"Boney Returning from Russia covered with Glory."--"Nap's Glorious Return."--Rowlandson's Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.--French Contemporary Satires.--Gillray's Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.--His Libels on Josephine.--Madame Tallien.--Robert Dighton.--Consequences of a Pinch of Snuff.--Master Betty--Impeachment of Lord Melville.--Introduction of Gas.--Mary Anne Clarke.--Imbecility and Death of James Gillray _pp._ 12-33.