£50,000 REWARD.
LOST,
At St. Stephen’s, Westminster, on the 19th of April last, an OLD MILITARY CLOAK BAG, containing Colonel Lygon’s Popularity; the Tie by which it was held had been long weak and flimsy, and it finally gave him the slip at the above spot, along with that of an Old Trooper, one General Gascoyne.
The advertiser cannot but deeply lament the loss of this Garment, as although much soiled and worn, he had hoped with a little occasional patching it might have proved a good strong covering for himself and family, for many generations, and as he valued it more for the facility it afforded him of forwarding his own Views at the Horse Guards (in which he found it highly serviceable) than for any application he made to the service of the
FREEHOLDERS OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
he is very desirous of being reinstalled in possession, or of procuring some other Garment that may enable him again to enter St. Stephen’s, he therefore offers the above Handsome Reward for its discovery, which will be paid on application to LADY BEAUCHAMP!!
He more particularly appeals to the Attorneys of this and the adjoining Counties, and he trusts from the large Reward offered, they will exert themselves to the utmost to effect the restoration either of the lost Garment, or to procure him another that may pass for the original, and which from their known fertility of expedient, and the abundance of Funds at their disposal, he hopes they will have little difficulty of doing; but as he apprehends that in future more attention to DECENT APPAREL and CLEAN HANDS will be required at St. Stephen’s than heretofore, he requests that any counterfeit Garment may be made of decent stuff, as he wishes to sit near Sir ROBERT PEEL; Rat-skin will do provided the Fur is tolerably disguised and the smell removed.
N.B. It is strongly suspected that the said Garment has been picked up and converted into a SPENCER by a Sailor who has been much about the County lately, and who wears an old Whig, with a placard with REFORM stuck in it; he may be easily discovered as he has grown a great favourite with the FREEHOLDERS, and is followed all over the County with shouts of
SPENCER FOR EVER!!