We are requested to contradict, by authority, the report that Colonel Sibthorp was the Guy Fawkes seen in Parliament-street. It is true that a deputation waited upon him to solicit him to take the chair on the 5th of November, but the gallant Colonel modestly declined, much to the disappointment of the young gentlemen who presented the requisition; so much so indeed, that, after exhausting their oratorical powers, they slightly hinted at having recourse to
PHYSICAL FORCE.
“ROB ME THE EXCHEQUER, HAL.”
No wonder Smith Exchequer Bills,
Should have a taste for gorging,
For since the work the pocket fills,
What Smith’s averse to forging?