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And to-morrow you buy me a boat to take us off from some point of the coast -- Come -- '' Within six months Hogarth , as distinct from `` Beech '' , had risen upon the consciousness of Europe , say like the morning sun : and the wearied worker , borne at evening through crowded undergrounds , might read his name with a listless incomprehension . He impressed the popular fancy , especially in Paris , where he was best known , as erratic : as once when , by a stroke of financial sleight-of-hand , he got the young Government of Russia into a tight place , then refused them a loan , except on condition of the lease to him of the Kremlin : and for three months squalid old Moscow was the most cometary Court anywhere -- acts savouring of a meteorite waywardness which impressed him , more than anything , upon the everyday world ; and he won a tolerant wonder . However , an outcry , led by the _ Intransigeant _ , denounced his acquisition of the site of royal St. Cloud for his Paris residence on the ground that he was a Jew , betrayed by his face -- an accusation which caused the buying up of hundreds of thousands of his photographs -- and on the ground that his design was to familiarize the people with the idea of his sovereignty , and by a _ coup _ to seize the Government ; at which Paris was in a ferment , and a midnight mob traversed the _ Bois _ and demolished some of his mason-work . The next day , however , the Minister of the Interior announced from the Tribune that Hogarth was no Jew , but an Englishman _ pur sang _ ; and , on the whole , Hogarth had his way : the noise died down ; and where parterres and avenues had stood on the old palace site , there arose one of those enchanting fabrics , which , from the Bosphorus to London , bore the name of `` The Beeches '' . At this time he had dependent upon him a retinue , serving him in multifarious ways from electrical adviser to spy , and from chancellor to recruiter , numbering many hundreds . He knew five thousand faces by sight ; in England had two armies -- a small one collecting data as to acreages , tenures , trades , scales , wages , prices , crimes , mines , and a large one , numbering five thousand , doing gun-practice in Westring Vale : for , England being for sale , he had bought at thrice its market value that part of it called Westring ; and on the sea also he kept a little army of a thousand , borne in old cruiser-hulks bought from the English Admiralty , hulks whose crews , in rotation , changed places with drafts from the Westring barracks .