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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN .
IN TWO ESSAYS . With Illustrations by the Author . BY BRO . SAMUEL POYNTER , P . M . AND TREASURER , UURGOYNE , NO . 902 ; P . M . ATHEMUM , NO . 1491 . ESSAY THE EIRST ( concluded ) .
ATTEMPT I . " ... PART III . MODERN HIGH TREASON . "The judges all ranged ; a terrible show . "—Beggar ' s Opera .
WITLESS AS THE MODERN BRUTUS .
j ^ HEN the indigg j vidual whom I —anticipating j | it a subsequent gsE judicial deci-| g sion — have
^ termed "Witless , " w as arrayed at the rail of the Gardener ' s Lane Police Stationhe presented
, a more composed appearance than when we last saw him hustled across the quadrangle of Buckingham
House . Indeed , his bearing was not without a soupeon of swagger , as Mr . Inspector ,
havingheard what the excited witnesses had to say , opined that it was " a Secretary of State ' s matter . " The prisoner , being interrogated as to his name and quality , replied without hesitation that he was -called Edward Oxford , and that his avocation was that of barman—by no means to be identified with potman . We do not think , for instance , of confounding a landing waiter with a weigher , a skilled artisan with a labourer , or Mrs . Molly the cook with Slut the scullery maid . He was a barman , at present out of employment ; his
last place , which he had quitted about ten days before , had been at the " Hogin the Pound , " a tavern still extant at the corner of South Molton Street , Oxford { Street . His present residence was with his mother and sister , at
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trying To Change A Sovereign.
TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN .
IN TWO ESSAYS . With Illustrations by the Author . BY BRO . SAMUEL POYNTER , P . M . AND TREASURER , UURGOYNE , NO . 902 ; P . M . ATHEMUM , NO . 1491 . ESSAY THE EIRST ( concluded ) .
ATTEMPT I . " ... PART III . MODERN HIGH TREASON . "The judges all ranged ; a terrible show . "—Beggar ' s Opera .
WITLESS AS THE MODERN BRUTUS .
j ^ HEN the indigg j vidual whom I —anticipating j | it a subsequent gsE judicial deci-| g sion — have
^ termed "Witless , " w as arrayed at the rail of the Gardener ' s Lane Police Stationhe presented
, a more composed appearance than when we last saw him hustled across the quadrangle of Buckingham
House . Indeed , his bearing was not without a soupeon of swagger , as Mr . Inspector ,
havingheard what the excited witnesses had to say , opined that it was " a Secretary of State ' s matter . " The prisoner , being interrogated as to his name and quality , replied without hesitation that he was -called Edward Oxford , and that his avocation was that of barman—by no means to be identified with potman . We do not think , for instance , of confounding a landing waiter with a weigher , a skilled artisan with a labourer , or Mrs . Molly the cook with Slut the scullery maid . He was a barman , at present out of employment ; his
last place , which he had quitted about ten days before , had been at the " Hogin the Pound , " a tavern still extant at the corner of South Molton Street , Oxford { Street . His present residence was with his mother and sister , at