Punch,  17 (1849), 214.

Don Miguel at his "Post"

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Microscopy, Entomology, Natural History, Politics


    Reports on the visit to the Morning Post of the pretender to the Portugese throne, Miguel M E de Bragança, who was shown, by means of a microscope, 'all sorts of human animaculæ' floating in an ink-bottle. Notes that he took special interest in the 'ink-bottle insect that [...] traced the letters that made up "infidel" upon any political opponent'.



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