In this Cut is reprefented the Duke of Orleans's Difgrace before Turin, which is figur'd under the Shape of a Bull, from Taurinum its Latin Name, deriv'd from Taurus a Bull. The Flame and Smoke which the Beast breathes, fhews the vigorous Defence that City made; and the Tomb underneath fignifys the Destruction of the French Officers who were bury'd before it. The Executions in the Cut, are the French Officers, whom the Duke of Orleans, reprefented with the Wheel in bis hand, order'd to be bang'd or bebeaded for Cowardice. In this Defeat the French loft almost all their Horfe, 13 Regiments of Dragoons, their Bag, Baggage, Colours, 200 Pieces of Cannon, befides Mortars; 30000 Men, and 500 Officers kill'd or taken.

In vain the French before Turin prepare The dreadful Storm, and push a fatal War. The Lombard Bull with frightful Fury roars, And with deep Wounds the fierce Affailants gores; Shoots from his brazen Mouth a thousand Deaths, AndSmoke&Flame from his wide Noftrils breathes. Rafhly the Foe to fure Destruction come,

And where they fought a Trophy, find a Tomb.

There

There is another Figure call'd the ROYAL ALMANACK, wherein the Course of the Sun is exactly mark'd, viz. The Progref fion of Lewis XIV. the Gallick Sun, thro the 12 Signs of the Zodiack, and his Course in the 12 Months of the Year. In which Figure the French King is reprefented fitting on a Throne with a lighted Torch in his Hand, and round him come these Sayings, to show to the World the great wicked Actions he has done, Viz.

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Aquarius, the Water-bearer.

E makes Kings; declares the pretended Prince of Wales King of England, 1701. January.] He entertains abdicated Kings, as James II. King of England, A. D. 1689.

Pifces, Fishes.

Sells Offices, with a falfe Promife of the next Heir's enjoying them.

February.] Plunders the Enemies Ships, tho he has granted them Passes.

Aries, the Ram.

Sets up a Bank of Credit without a Fund, 1702. March. Erects Idols, and would have his Subjects worship his Statue on Horfe-back.

Taurus, the Bull.

Commits Incest with the Dauphin's Wife, 1680. April.] Gives a falfe Coat of Arms, three Flower de Luces, inftead of three Toads the true Arms of France.

Gemini, Twins.

Breaks Treaties, as the Partition-Treaty, 1700. May.

May.] Steals Towns; Old Brifac taken by Trea

fon, 1703.

Cancer, the Crab.

Promifes the King of Portugal 40 Ships, fends him but Four.

June.] Leud Generals taken out of a Baudy-house.
A Leo, the Lion.

Poisons the Duke of Bavaria's Son, Heir to the
Crown of Spain.

July. Makes Women Privy Counsellors, as Madam Maintenon.

Virgo, the Maid.

Makes a Whore of La Valiere, 1667.
Auguft.] He burns the Palatinate, 1689, 1690.
Libra, the Ballance.

He Legitimates his Baftards, particularly the Duke de Main his Son by Madam de Monte Span, 1673.

September.] His Hypocrify in oppreffing the Cevennois, and affifting the Hungarian Rebels.

Scorpio, the Scorpion.

His Sacrilege in Germany, Italy, &c. 1705, &c. October.] He forces the Cevennois to turn Papists, 1702, c. 93ri si

Sagittarius, the Archer,

He commits Adultery with Madam de MonteSpan, 1679.10

November] His Maffacres in Holland, 1673. at Bodegrave, Swammerdam, &c.

Capricorn, the Goat.

Highers and lowers the Coin as he pleafes, and calls it in, and intends never to restore it. December.] He is the Chriftian Turk; enters into an Alliance with the Great Turk against the Chriftians, 1688.

There are feveral other Prints, which being too ebargeable to copy, we shall only here give fome Defcription of four of 'em, both in Profe and Verfe.

In the First there is a long Dialogue in Dutch and French, between the two Monarchs reprefented in it, viz. The prefent Emperor of Germany, and Lewis the French King; fuppos'd to be Spoken after King Philip's flying from Madrid, 1706. The Substance of which Dialogue is as follows.

A New Dialogue between Joseph the Just,
and Lewis the Falfe.

Jof. Dear Coufin, why fo melancholy? Lov.Why? Have I not Cause, when all my Armies fly; Bavaria, Villeroy, Berwick, Theffe,

Whole Kingdoms loft? Jof. 'Tis hard I must confess,
But you a King most Christian, Coz, shou'd bear
With Christian Patience what you feel or fear.
Lov. Patience, nor you,nor your Allies should name,
Nor fuch as profper the unprofperous blame.
You know not, Coufin, what it is to lofe
A Crown, and fuch a Crown as my Anjou's.
What shall I do with the poor hopeless Boy,
Who late was all my Hope and all my Joy?
Fof. Do with him? Coz, fince he was born to rule,
E'en make him Ufher of fome Country School:
There he may whip the Lads that learn to spell,
As Denis did of old, as Stories tell.

Dionyfius the Sicilian Tyrant, when he was expel'd, turn'd
Pedagogue.

In the Second the prefent abdicated Electress of Bavaria is reprefented in a melancholy Pofture, complaining of her bard Fate, to fee her Husband driven out of Bavaria and Flanders, and ber felf and Children forc'd to fly for Protection to the State of Venice. The Cock is the Emblem of France, to which he and her Family owe all their Misfortunes; and the Square on the top of the Cut is the Elector of Bavaria's Hofpital.

My Husband me, and I my Court have left,
Of Friends, of Fortune, and of Hope bereft.
The Cock, who like a Dunghil-Craven crows,
And struts when he's at Home and far from Foes,
No fooner fees the Roman Eagle rise,

But trembling from th' Imperial Bird he flies.
Oh whither can I run from my Despair!
My Sons O whither, and my Daughters bear!
Ne'er will my Sufferings nor my Sorrows cease,
And never fhall I know the Sweets of Peace.
Fair Venice, ever kind to the distrest,
Alone will entertain the wretched Gueft:
Thither with all my Load of Woe I fly,
And for my ruin'd Lord with fruitless Wishes figh.

The Third Cut reprefents a very melancholy Conference between Lewis the XIV. Madam la Valiere, Madam de Montefpan, Philip the V. the pretended Prince of Wales, the Duke of Berwick, the Count de Toloufe, Marefchal Theffe, and others, on the difmal Profpect of the Mighty Monarch's Affairs, after Philip the V.was driven from Madrid, 1706. by the Earl of Galway..

When Anjou by Ruvigny was compel'd
To quit the Spanish Empire with the Field;
To Council Lewis calls his Sons, a Store
As great as good King Priam had of yore:
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