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Show MADE MOCKERY OF MONARCH In the Reign of George l!l English ! Caricaturists Proved the Power j of the Pencil. TsVnrly evtM-y tfn'iif: flinnmml Inis a hiyrtury. These histories lire always rci-nuinlic, rci-nuinlic, embodying n nun thus adventures, adven-tures, some of which are trnic. In the 'history of the Hast injrs t ra;xcly of England Eng-land is a charge of lirihery against a kintf. Cleore III, which save the penile art of caricature an opportunity sia-li as had never cmiie to it lit-lon1 and showed the power that caricature could wield upon a people. At a levee of the kins held on .Tune M, 17S(i, a very valuable diamond, of unusual iz; and brilliaiK-y, was presented to George III, ostensibly as a sift from the nizani, or na live ruler of the Dec-can, Dec-can, India. At the period when this masnilicent peace ofl'erins was siven to the kins the impeachment of Warren War-ren Ilastlnss was advancing in parliament parlia-ment and it was current rumor that this and several lesser diamonds were the purchase price of Hastings' acquittal. acquit-tal. Caricatures appeared in the windows win-dows of the printshops. One represented repre-sented Hasting wheeling the king to market in a barrow and saying: "What a man buys he may sell again." In another, an-other, the king was exhibited kneeling, with his mouth open and Hastings throwing diamonds into it. An Italian juggler then in London pretending to eat paving stones placarded the walls with bills describing himself as "The Greatest Stone Eater." Improving upon up-on this the caricaturists represented the king in the character of the Greatest Great-est Stone Eater. |