The following is the letter referred to by the Baron Jamescrow:--

MY LORD,--Being known to some of your friends I would advise you,

as you tender your peace and quiet, to devise some excuse to shift

off your attendance at your house (clearly the House of

Lords--_Monteagle_), for fire and brimstone have united to destroy

the enemies of man (evidently gunpowder, lucifer-matches, and the

Peers--_Monteagle_). Think not lightly of my advertisement (see

_Dispatch_), but retire yourself in the country (I should think I

would--_Monteagle_), where you may abide in safety; for though

there be no appearance of any _punæ_; (what the deuce does this

mean? Puny's little--_Monteagle_), yet they will receive a

terrible blow-up (By punæ he means members of Parliament, and he

_is_ another Guy!--_Monteagle_); yet they shall not see who hurts

them, though the place shall be purified and the enemy completely

destroyed.

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