FEARFUL STATE OF LONDON!

A country gentleman informs us that he was horror-stricken at the sight of

an apparently organised band, wearing fustian coats, decorated with

curious brass badges, bearing exceedingly high numbers, who perched

themselves behind the Paddington omnibuses, and, in the most barefaced and

treasonable manner, urged the surrounding populace to open acts of daring

violence, and wholesale arson, by shouting out, at the top of their

voices, "O burn, the City, and the Bank."

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"WHO ARE TO BE THE LORDS IN WAITING."

"We have lordlings in dozens," the Tories exclaim,

"To fill every place from the throng;

Although the cursed Whigs, be it told to our shame,

Kept us _poor lords in waiting_ too long."

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