1st LEG. They won’t amount to anything. (enter Beluche.)
DUV. They will amount to ruin, unless Lafitte be checked in time.
2nd POL. Confound it all, he must be.
DUV. He is not only a terror to the State, a growing paralysis upon its commerce, but a menace to the entire country; uncatchable, unrestrainable.
PED. The country’s trade with Spain has been well nigh ruined.
1st LEG. Yes and her neutrality laws put at naught.
DUV. Worse still; the entire respectability of the State is being debauched underhandedly into complicity with this Emperor of Barataria under penalty of being ruined.
2nd LEG. The Governor must be urged to act.
1st POL. He cannot remain unheedful of the petition we will send him.
DUV. To business! (exeunt.)