made a design of a picture, in which, according to that veracious
volume, one of the Newcomes was represented as going cheerfully to the stake at
Smithfield, surrounded by some very ill-favoured Dominicans, whose arguments did
not appear to make the least impression upon the martyr of the Newcome family.
Sandy M'Collop devised a counter picture, wherein the barber-surgeon of King
Edward the Confessor was drawn, operating upon the beard of that monarch. To
which piece of satire Clive gallantly replied by a design representing Sawney
Bean M'Collop, chief of the clan of that name, descending from his mountains
into Edinburgh, and his astonishment at beholding a pair of breeches for the
first time. These playful jokes passed constantly amongst the young men of
Gandish's studio. There was no one there who was not caricatured in one way or
another. He whose eyes looked not very straight was depicted with a most awful
squint. The youth whom nature had endowed with somewhat lengthy nose was drawn
by the caricaturists with a prodigious proboscis. Little Bobby Moss, the young
Hebrew artist from Wardour Street, was delineated with three hats and an
old-clothes bag. Nor were poor J.J.'s round shoulders spared, until Clive
indignantly remonstrated at the hideous hunchback pictures which the boys made
of his friend, and vowed it was a shame to make jokes at such a deformity.
    Our friend, if the truth must be told regarding him, though one of the most
frank, generous, and kind-hearted persons, is of a nature somewhat haughty and
imperious, and very likely the course of life which he now led, and the society
which he was compelled to keept, served to increase some original defects in his
character, and to fortify a certain disposition to think well of himself, with
which his enemies not unjustly reproach him. He has been known very pathetically
to lament that he was withdrawn from school too early, where a couple of years'
further course of thrashings from his tyrant, Old Hodge, he avers, would have
done him good. He laments that he was not sent to college, where if a young man
receives no other discipline, at least he acquires that of meeting with his
equals in society and of assuredly finding his betters; whereas in poor Mr.
Gandish's studio of art, our young gentleman scarcely found a comrade that was
not in one way of other his flatterer, his inferior, his honest or dishonest
admirer. The influence of his family's rank and wealth acted more or less on all
those simple folks, who would