A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1830.
THE RING AND QUEEN.
On Sunday, their Majesties walked, an usual, to hear divine service in St. George's Chapel. It rained violently as they returned, and none of their train had an umbrella ; but the King marched on with the Queen under his arm, and heeded not the rain I The Queen was, to uses vulgar phrase, fairly ducked ; but she bore it as a Queen of England should do.
THE DEVIL'S PROGRESS.
The Devil, notorious personage as be is, has of late been shown up to an extent which argues him to be in general disrespect. Burns was content to abuse and laugh at him in a humourous address ; Messrs. Coleridge and Southey "trotted him out" in a morning walk ; Mr. Robert Montgomery tries conclusions with him ; and an anonymous writer makes him" pad the hoof" in a sort of royal progress ineog. But this is not the whole extent of the indignity to which his Satanic Majesty is exposed. He is cut in effigy by Thomas Landseer, and a host of wood engravers ; and that severest because most brilliant of graphic satirists, George Cruikeltank, has served him up as a side-dish at a feast of fun.
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