1 6 HERSCHEL AND HIS WORK 



flotilla of flat-bottomed boats was assembled at Dunkirk 

 to transport an army to the English mast. The sp. < MI 



latioiis of politicians | f;io .1 \vitli. " If n< rYenrli 



! .ii..nnced !.\ ..in.- nl' tin-in 



r.-imra!. ;m.i lli.- n.-itimi dn>ll. Ill .March <!' tin- Inl- 



ng year "tin- Kiu.i: imtiii.-.l tin- invasion to both 

 M, nn<l his having i Icssians. There were 



some dislikes expressed to tin- latter: hut, in general, 

 fear preponderated so much tliai ih< cry was for 

 Hanoverians too." Hanoverian < Mirers were even pre- 

 fenvd t< tin- native l.nrn. I'.nt the cynics of London 

 l:iu<_di.d. invented, and lied. "They said that the 

 niidit tlio Hanover troops were voted, George 11 

 i' i his German cook, and said, ' Get me a very good 

 supper; get me all de varieties: I don't mind ex- 

 pense.'" Exquisites, like Walpole, were wondering 

 where their foreign defenders would be encamped. 1 1 

 the Hanoverians should be stationed at Hounslnw, 

 " Strawberry Hill would become an inn, and all the 

 misses would breakfast there, to go and see the 

 camp ! " 1 Even in George Townshend's " admirable " 

 cartoon, " which so diverted the town," " the Hano- 

 verian drummer, Ellis," " though the least like, was a 

 leading feature." Instead of fighting, Englishmen were 

 sneering or laughing. 



It was in these days of fear and threatened invasion 

 that the King's Hanoverian Guards were ordered to 

 England. 2 Isaac Herechel and his two sons, Jacob and 



1 Walpole, LcUcn, iii. 109, 164, 165, 206, 209, 217. 



'"Towards the end of the year 1755," Caroline Herechel says 

 (p. 8). This does not seem to be correct Horace Wattle's Lclter$ 

 would lead a reader to place it several months later, in 1 756. Neither she 

 nor her brother seems to hare been sore of the date. (Memoirs, p. 21 8. ) 



