Punch (7.1844)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

INAUGURATION OF THE PUNCH STATUE.

J)UNCH is proud to announce, that (tXf^ '■ hands in his pockets, and on?

though he has been expelled from ^ " ^ _ ^ Publisher retired up the ofSe*-,

France, an honour far more than com- amid the acclamations of tLs

pensatiDg for that indignity has been at// y^ ilookers-on.

conferred on him by moral and intel- |flv/' \rfjf^M(tf\^§^^s It was at first intended to

lectual Germany. That noble country, W £r /^^^^^^ have placed the Punch Statue

in testimony of its appreciation of his fI&^S, ia^^^r^ ^v cn the top of a column of

public conduct, has caused a statue of ^—h^^^^^l.' m \ (/r^S"- "Punch j" but as this proceed-

him to be executed by the celebrated y\ ^^^^x^^~\\^^ f'jflfr r-< ing would have been less prac-

artist Adolph Fleischmann ; and / \ I \\ | J \V '1 f*~~ ticable than appropriate, the

the statue lias been sent over to Mr. [ I (. •"ifi^eai ft/ ^^^^gsg^ji-"" intention was abandoned.

Punch, with a request that it should be A \ \v\ This wonderful work cf art is

erected in some conspicuous situation ' v (/// J\; ^ \ M ''---x aH a<^mirame likeness, conceived

in London. It has been accordingly jJ^A^'^^^J^v ^^*^t^F /Ifff! ^n t^e sculpt°r's happiest mo-
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took place last week, in the ' • \ik^\ 3 /( ' fst^l*'7*'' ^J^^~~'- ~H. " original. By .means of a

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of spectators, who were //fif I'lfw ^E^TO'I/ "^^^ hunch, the features may be

casually looking in. The JN ,—^ mi/17 ' V^S^^^ set *n mo^on at pleasure5

ceremony was performed r f \ 1 Mf /^"-^l^0^^^ —^^fTv so as to produce those pe-

by the Publisher and Boy yyS Xw^^^^^X culiar movements which

Dick ; and consisted in the f(V C m\ r^^^0^=^—^y^^ ^^^^L " 18 J^it'iC'i's greatest de-

latter's moving some num- \. •q//^'^^ _x^^V\__^^ ^£p8^_ -'^^^Tr-.'S- light to excite in those of

bers of the periodical out X? ~s *&^\~\ \\ '\ \' ^-^^ his readers,

of the way, and the for- p s I WsL__s^v|| ^^\v^ Punch flatters himself that

mei''s placing the figure in f v^^. '-/ll/ ' —--X—\ \ Fleischmann, in carving

the vacant space; after \\ ^^^^P^^fe5*^ ^-X)-^^ \\ J'im' lias cut out Wyatt

which our Boy replaced his ^^Af ~^"^5^§5=£r ! IJ and West macott.

GENUINE REPORT OF THE PRINCE DE

JOINVILLE.

he delay attending the publication of the
report of the Prince de Joinville created
considerable surprise, and even now the re-
port which has been given to the public is
not exact. The following are the precise
terms in which the Prince de Joinville
furnished his account of the bombarding of
Tangier. The report was addressed to the
King, and not to the Minister of Marine,
though in its revised form it is given to
the world as a communication to that
functionary.

On board the Pluto Steamboat,
My Dear Father, August 10, 1844.

Knowing that you will be anxious to hear what I have
really done out here, I send you the particulars, which you can dish
up in any way you like as a report to Mackau, to whom I don't
think it worth while to write at all upon the subject.

On the 6th of August, being very anxious to distinguish myself in
a naval engagement, we let off some guns at the batteries. I
cannot tell the number of the enemy because we never saw them,
but I have no doubt that there were at least fifty times as many as
there were of us. Our brave sailors fired away beautifully, and we
only lost three men, who, I think, were killed by some of our own
shots ; but it would read better in a Despatch, to attribute the fact to
the spirited resistance of the enemy. After having ceased our own
firing, we heard none from any other charter ; so I sent some of
our gallant fellows on shore, who saw that the batteries were all
destroyed, and the enemy retired from them. Not exactly knowing
where the enemy might be, I contented myself with the destruction
of the batteries instead of going into the town, where I thought the

enemy might have been waiting to retaliate, and thus have brought
down upon themselves further punishment. I dare say a good many
of the foe were killed. It is utterly impossible to count, because we
have nothing to guide us in our calculation ; but it might be 150
killed, and 400 wounded. It is true, it might be half the number—
or it might not be one quarter ;—but I think, as there is nobody to-
set us right if we are wrong, it would he as well to make it the
number I have fixed upon. I have 110 doubt the English will be
greatly humbled, if this affair is worked in our Paris newspapers as
it ought to be. If I could bombard Tangier, why should I not do
the same with Dover? The only difference is, that one is in Morocco,
and the other in England.

I'm in a great hurry to go to Mogador, where I believe the enemy
are not, for Bugeaud has gone to meet them somewhere else. I
shall knock Mogador about as much as I can without going too near,
and I think a very good report to the Minister of Marine may be
made up.

Your affectionate son,

Joinville.

THE NAME OF A PRINCE.
Our contemporary the Court Journal lately put forth a very beautifully
written article on the probable name of the last new Prince. The rake of
recollection had been poetically plunged into the garden of history, or, to
drop all metaphor, the writer had hooked up one or two leading events
in Hume and Smollett, upon which he had hung the glorious conclusion
that the public would be Electrified if the Prince were to be called
ALFRED. Now if electrifying the public is to be the grand object in
selecting a name for a Prince, we should suggest that the public would
be much less electrified by his being called Alfred, than if he were to be
christened Ebenezer Samuel James Timothy Benjamin. Such a name
as that would be what might be termed, figuratively—a stuuuer, to the
entire nation.