See No. 15573. A sequel to No. 15579. In the upper left part of the design the Highland officer (? McGregor) is dispatching the dragon, which lies on its back, its scaly neck almost severed. He says: 'By my faith I'll no' leave a limb of these trumpery together. They had better stopd when I warned them!' Bel is decapitated, and Van Ess walks off in back view carrying on his back the vulpine head with ram's horns which says 'Oh! Dr Van Ass leave not the ruins of my body behind you! for there is no fit resting place for me in Scotland! had not my Earl Street friends and that pitiful wretch Anglicanus deceived me, I never would have come here'. Bel's banner, 'Earl Street Association', lies on the ground. Van Ess says: 'Confound these cold hearted, bare legged savages! I fear the look of them; and that Christian Instructor leads them all by the nose, I fear to turn back'.
<p><br>The protagonists, in Geneva gowns, are on a larger scale and fill the right part of the design. Grey runs off, stooping furtively, with Bel's Bible box on his head; '- Campbell Esqr' is scored through; 'Honored by Idol Bel' remains, together with 'Earl Street 4th April 1826'. Grey: 'I'll save this package at least, for my friend lohn [Campbell], it will be a valuable gift for his friends in Wallachia. This defeat will grieve him sore'. Dr. Thomson towers above him, putting a hand on his shoulder and holding up a volume of his 'Christian Instructor'. He says: 'Stop thou heretic! while I have this weapon and an arm to wield it, thou shalt never introduce into our country, such infamous packages. "As Scotchmen [sic], Sir, let me tell you, that you are no longer | "worthy to tread upon our soil. Leave us; we are well content \ "to be without you, and without all who act &amp; think as you do! "Lay down that package of unholy books or I'll smite thee to the dust! thou traitor to the land which has adopted thee as her son'. Beside them (right) is the milestone as in No. 15579, but without the 'Haddington' inscription. On the left, below the body of Bel, 'Brownie' drags to the right, towards Grey, a leg of the dragon cut off by the Highlander; he tugs at the barbed tail, saying, 'Ma conscience! what a fine figure this ham of the Dragon will make the Beau Ideal's [see No. 15580] Larder, and it will delight the heart of Anglicana. I wish I had help with it for it is a sad weight!'.  1828
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1828<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1828-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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