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Demanding a Poll.
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[Illustration:
Member for Cripplegate.
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Thanks for the pantomimic loaf, which told very well; but the money
would have answered better. They are making a great fuss on the other
side about slave-grown sugar: one hit they have made tells against us
very powerfully. They have got four of the Lascar beggars who happened
to come into the town, and have borrowed some fetters from the manager
of the theatre, which they have fixed to the wrists of the Lascars: each
has on his breast a placard, asking, "Am I not a brother?" and on his
back is a bill bearing the inscription, "No slave-grown sugar!" If you
can put us up to any plan for answering this, let me hear from you
immediately.
Yours, in haste, PETER PLIANT.
_From the Agent in London to the Local Chairman in the Country._