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entitled, " A Confequence of the Motion Which was followed the day
after its publication by another caricature upon the oppofition, entitled,
"The Political Libertines; or, Motion upon Motion;" while the oppo-
nents of the government allb brought out a caricature, entitled, " The
Grounds," a violent and rather grofs attack upon the Whigs. Among
other caricatures publifhed on this occafion, one of the beft was entitled,
" The Funeral of Faction," and bears the date of March 26, I741.
Beneath it are the Words, "Funerals performed by Squire allud-
ing to Sandys, who was the motion-maker in the Houfe of Commons,
and who thus brought on his party a fignal defeat. Among the chief
mourners on this occafion are feen the oppolition journals, The Craftsman,
the creation of Bolingbroke and Pulteney, the filll more fcurrilous
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Champion, The Daily Pqfi, The London and Evuning Pqfl, and The Common
Sen]? Journal. This mournful group is reproduced in our cut N0. 195.
From this time there was no falling 03' in the fupply of caricatures,
which, on the contrary, feerned to increafe every year, until the aftivity
of the pidiiorial fatirifis was roufed anew by the hoiiilities with France in
1755'