Note 219 — Chapter II

Dr. Palfrey amply illustrates the reciprocal influence of the old and new politics. Cf. Dr. Ellis in Sewall Papers, iii. 46. There is no more pointed evidence, however, of the scant interest taken by the wits of London in the current politics and customs of the American colonies than the fact that among the multitudinous pictorial satires of the period, preserved in the British Museum and noted in its Catal. of prints, Satires (ii., iii., and iv., 1689-1763), there is scarce a single purely American subject. One or two about the confronting of the English and French in the Ohio valley, and incidentally touching English successes in American waters, are the only ones noted in a somewhat careful examination. Catal. of prints in the Brit. Mus. Satires, iii. pp. 927, 972, 1100.