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"What!" and he turn'd unto the crowd,

Rais'd his right hand and spoke more loud. "Shall we see men served thus and be dumb? "Where's Magna Charta? where our freedom? "What! is a military varlet,

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Glowing with insolence and scarlet,

"Our rights and privileges civil

"To kick, at pleasure, to the devil;

"Drag a free man against his wish on, "To be the food for ammunition;

"And treat with worse than Turk's brutality,

"This guest of British hospitality?

"Shame! shame!"

"Aye, shame!" on every side,

Shopboy and oyster virgin cried.

The attics groaned their lofty blame,

And from the stalls came hoarsely-" Shame!"

Ev'n so, of late, the thieving crew,

Who, Eldon-like, love nothing new,

No more allowed to rob in peace,

Made London ring with "No Police!"
While stones-O shame to England!-flew
Around the Chief of Waterloo;

And in the very street whose name
Is borrowed from the veteran's fame;
Meaning-(like those sharp speeches wont
To shower on Hume's unshrinking front,
What time he lifts the veil from jobbing,)

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"O wretch, to interfere with robbing !"

Stiff stood the Serjeant-stiff and stately,
But puzzled much, and funking greatly;
A pump at hand he thought he saw ;
Besides, he did not know the law!
While solemnly he scratched his head,
Thus to the Bailiff Laneham said:
"There is your prisoner, be it so!

"But where your warrant 'gainst the other? "Of course the penalties you know,

"If you, by chance, lock up the brother. “Of course you know, for such infraction "Of law, we bring at once our action. "So mind you are your proper cue in, "A false imprisonment is ruin; "On a man's freedom all infringing "Is met by damages most swinging.

“If you persist, and should defend

"Your cause-I beg to recommend

("They'll help you finely through your blunder,) "Messiers Rack, Gripe, Grasp, Clutch, and Plunder."

The Serjeant did the silence break,

"Give me my money back," said he; Then next in whispered voice did speak, The Bailiff hinting at a fee.

The money back Chang slowly gave,

Still puzzled with all this verbosity, And said with brow extremely grave,

"So this is English generosity!"

Laneham meanwhile the Bailiff's palm

Touch'd, and dissolved all farther qualm.
And lo! our Twins, once more releast,
Walked from "The many-headed Beast.”
So by the upper ranks the mob

Is somewhat impolitely branded ;
What sort of beast then is the Nob-
-Ility? Oh! "The many-handed!"

While with their friend to his abode,
Our Indians saunter on the road,
Just let us-ere we do pursue—
Make a remark-we think it true.

Tho' laws when framed with so much trouble,
Scarcely foresaw men going double,
Otherwise, doubtless, one might bring,
Cases quite pat to Chang and Ching,
And solve by precedent the urgent,
Hard point of bailiff and of sergeant ;---
Yet just as full of contradiction

For us poor single folk as them,
Are those blunt puzzles of restriction,
Which tangle first and then condemn.

One pulls this way, and that the other—
One grapples this, but frees that brother;
Yet in this social state, so close

Knit are our welfare and our woes,

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