Punch (31.1856)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[November i, 1856.

FhOM a sketch taken in downing stkeet.

song op the despotic sovereigns.

Why with poor Bomba should you interfere ?

England and France, can't; you leave him alone ?
Suppose he is a little severe,
Let a King- do what he likes with his own.
Leave him alone, leave him alone,
Let a King do what he likes with his own.

Subjects were made for their monarchs, you know ;

Many sent into the world for one;
You cannot, deny that the fact is so,

And yet you'je for spoiling Fjikbinand's fun.
Leave him alone, leave him alone,
Let a King do what he likes with his own.

Princes were wont, in the days of old,

To load whomsoever they chose with chains ;
And none of their neighbours ever made hold
To question their acts in their own domains.
Leave him alone, leave h'm alone,
Let a King do what he likes with his own.

By a short method a sovereign, then,

U-ed with a troublesome fellow to deal;
lie had him pitched into the lions' den,
And no one cied out on the animals' meal.
Leave him alone, ledve him alone,
Let a King do what he likes with his own.

If he commanded the slave to be bound,

And into a fiery furnace flung,
Nor. one of the potentates, feigning around,
Against the decree thought of wagging his tongwe.
Leave him alone, leave him alone,
Let a Kmg do what he likes wi'h his own.

Wretches, who ha-mened his wrath t<« exci e,
tie racked, impaled, or skinned thtm alive,
By a prerogative, and by a right

Of which you are trying a King to deprive.
Lewe him alone, leave him alone,
Let a Kmg do what he likes with his own.

Ferdinand may many dungeons have gor,
Prisoners containing, perhaps, not a few,
If they in cold, chains, and misery rot,

Punished for nothing, that's nothing to you.
Leave him alone, leave him alone,
Let a King do what he likes with his own.

Teaching a small monarch ho?v he's to rule,
You'll be dictating, nexf, to a loftier throne,

THE ENGLISH PRESS-LOTJIS NAPOLEON'S FIRST WARNING. T^MV?iTh?^^d^

to ■ n;7 a.jr Ltave Us alone, leav Us alo-ie,

w y , , Pans> 0dober ™h Let Us all do what We like with Our own.

Whebeas,—It having been made known to us that for some time past, various

infernal machines of the English Press have dealt in grossest calumnies on the r

purity, liberality, to say nothing of the liberty of the French Government—calumnies r^hhao-p

rhe most atrocious inasmuch as the FrESCHi-like propagators thereof have not had monster oauuage.

the courage t0 affix their names to their doings, the coutrary custom distinguishing Therk is a cig-ir-me;chant in the Minories, who declares

and elevating rhe press of France,—This is to give notice that to the present date that he had a cabbage so large tnat he got two boxes of

we have thought the best answer to these slanders was our Imperial contempt, "genuine Havanuahs" out of it, besides two or three dozen

We know, and m all the affectionateness of the alliance, lament the indulgence penny Pickwicks. Re sa»s the cabbage was a*out the best

granted t-o the Pres.-* of England by the mistaken tenderness of the English Govern- pull he ever had, lor it bi ought him in £3 15*. Qd-, and if

?fl 'V therefore, for the present, shall content our Imperial self with this he could have sold 'he cigars at the West-End, he thinks he

definite notice of an evil that if persisted in, mav, as with a drawn > word, sever the might have fairly doubled that sum.

ties that dow unite the two nations. we would have both the French and the —_--

LnglisH people united, hand to hand, by the same handcuff; and both their mouths „ ,™-~r«

gagged witb the same gag. It is only by such an union, by such an iron alliance, crtjrch effects.

that the peace of the world em be guaranteed, and order assured. I Doctor Blomflkld's effects in St. J>«me»' Square are

it has not Reaped the imperial mind taat, on a high and solemn occasion at about to be sold. A p'oture of Christian Humility (paintei

the Hall of fishmongers, Albekt the Kinsr Consort profoundly observed that unknown) has been bought in for a legacy of £6,000 a-year.

"Constitutional Government was on its trial." Most wise,
most true, most just! Constitutional Governujent has been
tried, and is now and for ever to be condemned as found
wanting. Our mission is peace. The olive is for ideologists:
the gag is the only symbol of tranquillity and order.

It is, thetef^e, our Imperial will and pleasure that tne
Press of the British Isles will from and a^er the present
date, consider itself to have leceived a first warning.

Given under our Iron Hand,

Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the French,

(and Ex-Special Constable of the Engltih.)