The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver - Plate II "The English" says a French writer, "laughed at our "cockle-shells," one of which, indeed, running upon some slight obstruction, had, in Napoleon's presence and greatly to his cahrgin, titled several soldiers into the water. This etching, and especially the caricature of the Lord Chamberlain behind the royal chair, vastly amused the Royal Family, who are here depicated