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MEETING OF THE DELEGATES. No. II. 



(TRANSLATED FROM THE M. s. OF AN UNIONIST.) 



ON Thursday morning we received the following note from the 

 Chillwell Unionists, requesting us to attend two days earlier than we 

 had appointed. It was directed, " too The larned Gentlemen dili- 

 getes, at the Line Inri, wot opened our Unien,"~and read as follows : 



" Deer Diligetes, 



" We are geting on beter then bargin, we have teckin in the 

 ' Thief and the * Times', an are geting great inlitenment on Polly- 

 ticks. Jos. Bole can now spokefy, and grows larned, we want you 

 to cum an put us in a way, then we shall du, we are trew to the cose 

 as lines, an we are bent on FREDUM, for our childers's seks, we do 

 our eckersise every hopurtewnitety, I Remen 

 Yours in Unien, 



JOHN SILLYGUMS, Chareman." 



We were soon assembled at the Lion Inn tap-room, busily 

 preparing ourselves for the evening's task, by drinking, eating, 

 smoking, and chalking up a long shot, which we knew would be paid 

 out of the Union fund ; and, as Dick said, would only be depriving 

 the yokels of a musket less. After having had thirty papers of tobacco, 

 and eighteen quarts of ale, amongst six of us, we began to grow 

 loquacious. 



"I say, Dick," said the old shoemaker, addressing the player, 

 " I've felt dev'lish savage ever sin that nite as we opened Chillwell 

 Union, at you saying you would spout me for half a gallon of ale; 

 now, I've been studying lately, an as there's only six of us here, I'll 

 just hev you for a dry shilling." 



" Agreed upon, Neddy," answered the player, *' providing we 

 shall both spout on a new subject, and it shall be left to these four to 

 decide which of us is the best spouter for good ideas, strong language, 

 sound sense, sublime conceptions, magnitudinal arrangements, and 

 general political knowledge." 



" Agreed on," said Ned, " an we'll toss up to see whose to begin 

 first." 



The lot fell on old Ned, and another minute found him upon the 

 table, ready to enter the list with the far-famed eloquent Dick, the 

 broken-down player. 



" Gentlemen," began Ned, rubbing his elbow previously, " Gen- 

 tlemen," rubbing and grinning, "you will excuse me a moment 

 while I pull my coat off, I've gotten either a flea or a bug biting me 

 most dev'lishly, an it may confuse my idees." 



This inconvenience was removed, and he again commenced in 

 good earnest thus : 



" Gentlemen, I have long sat as a spectator in the play-house of 

 Polites, and have seen hypocritical march forth in the mask of sin- 



