Two flying demons tip out of a sack a supply of Scottish clergymen, politicians, doctors etc. arriving in England. Engraving, 1772.

"Towards the end of the last century, however, when no little soreness was felt by the English vulgar of all classes at the success of the numerous Scotchmen who, having come adventurers to London, had reached places of high rank and influence, the general feeling was expressed by a caricature representing two winged fiends in the air emptying out of a large hamper all the conspicuously successful Scotchmen of the time-parsons, physicians, soldiers, sailors, statesmen—while one of the fiends exclaims, "There's a plentiful stock of Scotch caterpillars for poor England." A fiend on the earth says, "I and my brother fiends couldn't spit our spite more effectually." The indifference of the proper guardians of England is exemplified by a figure of a gentleman, with his back turned to the raining vermin, quietly blowing soap bubbles, and the print is called the Origin of Scotch Ministers and Managers,' and has for its motto the following couplet from Swift: "They go from the devil to court, And from court to the devil again."--The London and Westminster review, loc. cit.

The man blowing bubbles, seen from behind, may be King George III: the bubble-blowing would indicate leisure and indifference, though the British Museum catalogue (loc. cit.) interprets it as speculation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1772]

1 print : engraving ; sheet 18.8 x 11 cm

A view of the origin of Scotch ministers & managers. They go from the devil to court, and from court to the devil again. Swift One demon says 'Theres a plentifull stock of Scotch caterpillars for poor England'; another says 'I think I and all my brother fiends could not spit our spight more effectually'; the man at the bottom of the pile of falling men retorts 'Aw my saul man, I have had a muckle dash, but hope we shall rise again'

The London and Westminster review, October 1837-January 1838, 28: p. 278

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. V, London 1978, no. 4947

Wellcome Collection 584787i