'The King of Brobdingnag, and Gulliver'

Coloured etched aquatint by James Gillray. Published by Mrs Hannah Humphrey, London, 1803.

King George III, in the guise of the monarch whom Gulliver met on his second voyage, addresses a Napoleon-Gulliver with the following passage from Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726):

'My little fiend Gruldig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon yourself and Country, but from what I can gather from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains, wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but consider you to be one of the most pernicious little reptiles that nature ever suffer'd to crawl on the surface of the Earth.'