A caricature of altogether another kind commemorates a raid made by the Bow Street officers on the numerous gaming establishments of 1822. It is called, _Cribbage, Shuffling, Whist, and a Round Game_, is divided into six compartments, and is most humorously and admirably treated. The principal performers are the knaves of cards. One of the compartments shows us the knaves on the treadmill, which is marked "Fortune's Wheel;" while in another a knave is undergoing the discipline of the "cat," and calling out at every stroke "E. O.! E. O.! E. O.!"[82]
Sir Richard Westmacott's statue of Achilles was executed in 1822. The nude, undraped colossal figure, which was subscribed for by the ladies of England in honour of the Duke of Wellington and his soldiers, was the occasion of numerous contemporary satires--most of them (in those plain-spoken days) of the broadest possible character. One of the most indelicate (*) (drawn by the artist from the sketch or suggestion of another) gives a burlesque front and back view of the figure, which is surrounded by a number of people (principally ladies), among whom we recognise a caricature likeness of the "Dook." The inscription runs as follows: "To Arthur à Bradley, and his jolly companions every one, this brazen image of Patrick O'Killus, Esq., is inscribed by their countrywomen."[83] Besides the foregoing, we meet this year with _A Lollipop-Ally Campagne and Brandy Ball_ (*); _Premium, Par, and Discount_; _Showing-off--Bang up--Prime_ (*); and _A Sailor's description of a Chase and Capture_ (*).
A large proportion of his satires for 1823 are aimed at Louis the Eighteenth's Spanish expedition, the object of which we have already related. One of these shows us _France the great Nation driven by the North into the South_; in another, Ferdinand the Seventh and the Duc d'Angoulème figure respectively as a _Spanish Mule and a French Jackass_; _A French Hilt on a Spanish Rapier_, is likewise dedicated to the Duc d'Angoulème; another shows us _Old Bumblehead the 18th trying on Napoleon's Boots_; a fifth is entitled, _A Hint to the Blind and Foolish, or the Bourbon Dynasty in Danger_; while a sixth shows us _Louis the Fat troubled with Nightmare and Dreams of Terror_. In all these caricatures, the figure of Napoleon, already sleeping his last sleep at St. Helena--the place of his exile and of his grave--is represented by way of contrast to the unwieldly and incompetent Bourbon. Another caricature, the point of which I fail to see, bears the title of _The Tables Turn'd, or the Devil Outwitted and Cruelly Punished,--a Scene on the Portsmouth Treadmill_; this last, though said to be "designed by an amateur," and "etched by G. Ck.," is unquestionably all his own.