See No. 15949. Two designs, illustrating quotations from the Caledonian Mercury, and evidently representing the editor of the paper, who was Dr. Brown, according to a pencil note. [1] The editor writes; bound volumes of the newspaper lie on the floor. Two quotations below: [a] the Public Prosecutor is urged to intervene, since the public believe 'One gentleman stands in the same relation to Burke, that the Murderers of Banquo did to Macbeth', 29tk Dec. 1828. This continued: 'This impression, we believe and trust, is ill-founded; but the fact of its existence, which cannot be disputed, should induce him to demand an inquiry . . .'. Quoted, Roughhead, op. cit., p. 382. [b] 'Justice has received One Victim ... Others yet remain to be claimed ...', 5th January, 1829.
<p><br>[2] The editor, holding a caduceus to indicate his paper, stands full-face, furtively accepting a bank-note from Dr. Knox. A third man stands watching a suspended skeleton, beside which is the tea-chest, see No. 15945. A second skeleton, a skull on a counter, indicate the room depicted in No. 15944. A quotation minimizing the suspicion attaching to Knox is quoted from the 'Mercury' of 15 Jan. 1829. Above: 'A Spot on the Disc of the Satellite,—when it commenced to retrograde'. Cf. No. 15954.  1829
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