“You that walk here, and do design to tell
Your children’s children what this year befell,
Come, buy this print, and it will then be seen
That such a year as this has seldom been.”
Another of these stainers of paper addressed the spectators in the
following terms:--
“Friends, now is your time to support the freedom of the press. Can the
press have greater liberty? Here you find it working in the middle of
the Thames; and if you encourage us by buying our impressions, we will
keep it going in the true spirit of liberty during the frost.”