Northern Looking Glass #6

'The following is the manner in which the King of France passes his time at St Cloud'. 'He has all the journals read to him'. Wearing a crown and dressing-gown, Charles X (at 5 a.m.) sits between two courtiers each reading a newspaper; two others stand behind, holding an ear-trumpet to each royal ear. He listens with angry dismay. The other designs ridicule the King who wears (except in 3) a crown throughout: as a gourmand he breakfasts, he kneels in grotesque devotion at mass, he sprawls on a sofa, shoots sparrows, is domineered over by his grandchildren, dines and sleeps.