] Now there's the greatest art theft in history. Surely, if Lord Elgin can 'lift' all those marble pieces and ship them across land and sea, some fellow with a little ingenuity ought to be able to 'lift' a patio ;-b.

] Seriously, here is an explosive political subject to be sure, for both our time and Regency time. And one that involves characters across the board, such as Napoleon, Byron, Shelley, Keats, George Cruikshank, Lady Emma Hamilton, Grenville, Thomas Hardy, Nelson, William Pitt the Younger, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Talleyrand, Turner and Benjamin West!