CURATE.—“Saddle me an ass, and they saddled him.”
HIGH BAILIFF.—Mr. HARGRAVE here, my counsel, says—it is my opinion that this wote is legally substantiated according to law.
CURATE.—“So MORDECAI did, according to all that JEHOSAPHAT commanded him!”
Mr. PHILLIPS.—And now, friend MORGAN, having gone through my list of thirty votes, and struck off twenty-six bad, from that number, I will leave you to make your own comment thereon.
CURATE.—“And lo! when they arose in the morning, they were all dead corpses!”
HIGH BAILIFF.—But for God’s sake, good Sir, in that case, what will the people justly say of me?
CURATE.—“Let a gallows be erected fifty cubits high, and to-morrow speak unto the King, that MORDECAI may be hanged thereon!”
PARAGRAPH-OFFICE, IVY-LANE.
Whereas by public orders from this office, all GENTLEMEN RUNNERS and SCRIBBLERS, PUNNERS and QUIBBLERS, PUFFERS, PLAISTERERS, DAUBERS and SPATTERERS, in our pay, and under our direction, were required, for reasons therein specified, to be particularly diligent in defending and enforcing the projected DUTY ON COALS.
AND WHEREAS the virtuous and illustrious CHANCELLOR OR THE EXCHEQUER, patriotically resolving to prefer the private interests of his friends to the public distress of his enemies; and prudently preferring the friendship of Lord LONSDALE to the satisfaction of ruining the manufactures of IRELAND, has accordingly signified in the HOUSE OF COMMONS, that he intends to propose some other tax as a substitute for the said duty.