(225) The print alluded to exhibits an interesting view of Whitehall, the Treasury, and adjoining buildings, as they stood at the time.  The Earl of Chesterfield, as postilion of a coach which is going full speed towards the Treasury, drives over all in his way.  The Duke of Argyle is coachman, flourishing a sword instead of a whip; while Doddington is represented as a spaniel, sitting between his legs.  Lord Carteret, perceiving the coach about to be overturned, is calling to the coachman,"Let me get out!” Lord Cobbam, as the footman, is holding fast on by the straps; while Lord Lyttleton is ambling by the side on a rosinante as thin as himself.  Smallbrook, Bishop of Lichfield, is bowing obsequiously as they pass; while Sandys, letting fall the place-bill, exclaims, ,I thought what would come of putting him on the box.”  In the foreground is Pulteney, leading several figures by strings from their noses, and wheeling a barrow filled with the Craftsman’s Letters, Champion, State of the Nation, and Common Sense, exclaiming, “Zounds, they are over!” This caricature, and another, entitled " The Political Libertines, or Motion upon Motion,” had been provoked by one put forth by Sir Robert Walpole’s opponents, entitled “The Grounds for the Motion;” and were followed up by another from the supporters of Sandys’ motion, entitled “The Motive or Reason for his Triumph,” which the caricaturist attributes entirely to bribery.-E.

(226) Afterwards Joseph the Second, emperor of Germany.-E.

(227) Here follows the Inscription for the neglected column in the place of St. Mark, at Florence, afterwards printed in the Fugitive Pieces.

(228) Dr. Middleton’s “History of the Life of Cicero” was published in the early part of this year, by subscription, and dedicated to Pope’s enemy, Lord Hervey.  This laboured encomium on his lordship obtained for the doctor a niche in the Dunciad:-

Narcissus, praised with all a Parson’s power,
Look’d a white lily sunk beneath a shower."-E.

170 Letter 31
To Richard West, Esq. 
Reggio, May 1 1741, N. S.

Dear West, I have received the end of your first act, (229) and now will tell you sincerely what I think of it.  If I was not so pleased with the beginning as I usually am with your compositions, believe me the part of Pausanias has charmed me.  There is all imaginable art joined with all requisite simplicity:  and a simplicity, I think, much preferable to that in the scenes of Cleodora and Argilius.  Forgive me, if I say they do not talk laconic but low English in her, who is Persian too, there would admit more heroic.  But for the whole part of Pausanias, ’tis great and well worried up, and the art that is seen seems to proceed from his head, not from the author’s.  As I am very desirous you should continue, so I own I wish you would improve or change the beginning:  those who know you not so well as I do, would not wait with so much patience for the entrance of Pausanias.  You see I am frank; and if I tell you I do not approve of the first part, you may believe me as sincere when I tell you I admire the latter extremely.