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In the third compartment of the caricature juit mentioned, we fee in 
the background of the picture, behind colonel Lunsford, his foldiers occu- 
pied in burning towns, and naaifacring women and children. The model 
of the gay cavalier of the earlier period of this great revolution, before 
the war had broken out in its inteniity, was the courtly Sir John Suckling, 
the poet of the drawing-room and tavern, the admired of " roaring boys," 
and the hated of rigid Puritans. Sir John outdid his companions in 
extravagance in everything which was fafhionable, and the difplay of his 
zeal in the caufe of royalty was not calculated to conciliate the reformers. 
When