Another had rudely pushed back a woman with the but end of his musket.

On such grounds as these the strangers were compared to those Lord Danes whose insolence, in the old time, had provoked the Anglo-saxon population to insurrection and massacre.

But there was no more fertile theme for censure than the coronation medal, which really was absurd in design and mean in execution.

A chariot appeared conspicuous on the reverse; and plain people were at a loss to understand what this emblem had to do with William and Mary.

The disaffected wits solved the difficulty by suggesting that the artist meant to allude to that chariot which a Roman princess, lost to all filial affection, and blindly devoted to the interests of an ambitious husband, drove over the still warm remains of her father, [104] Honours were, as usual, liberally bestowed at this festive season.