e latter gentleman's claim on the immediate attention of Government.
Mr. Bowmore's flow of frothy eloquence has its influence (as you know
from our shorthand writers' previous reports) on thousands of ignorant
people. As it seems to me, the reasons for at once putting this man in
prison are beyond dispute. Whether it is desirable to include Mr. Percy
in the order of arrest, I must not venture to decide. Let me only hint
that his seditious speech rivals the more elaborate efforts of Mr.
Bowmore himself.

"So much for the present. I may now respectfully direct your attention
to the future.

"On the second of April next the Club assembles a public meeting, 'in
aid of British liberty,' in a field near Dartford. Mr. Bowmore is to
preside, and is to be escorted afterward to Westminster Hall on his
way to plead Mr. Percy's cause, in his own person, before the House
of Commons. He is quite serious in declaring that 'the minions of
Government dare not touch a hair of his head.' Miss Charlotte agrees
with her father And Mr. Percy agrees with Miss Charlotte. Such is the
state of affairs at the house in which I am acting the part of domestic
servant.

"I inclose shorthand reports of the speeches recently delivered at the
Hampden Club, and have the honor of waiting for further orders."

FOURTH NOTE.

"Your commands have reached me by this morning's post.

"I immediately waited on Justice Bervie (in plain clothes, of course),
and gave him your official letter, instructing me to arrest Mr. Bowmore
and Mr. Percy Linwood.

"The venerable magistrate hesitated.

"He quite understood the necessity for keeping the arrest a strict
secret, in the interests of Government. The only reluctance he felt in
granting the warrant related to his son's intimate friend. But for the
peremptory tone of your letter, I really believe he would have asked
you to give Mr. Percy time for consideration. Not being rash enough to
proceed to such an extreme as this, he slyly consulted the young man's
interests by declining, on formal grounds, to date the warrant earlier
than the second of April. Please note that my visit to him was paid at
noon, on the thirty-first of March.

"If the object of this delay (to which I was obliged to submit) is
to offer a chance of escape to Mr. Percy, the same chance necessarily
includes Mr. Bowmore, whose name is also in the warrant. Trust me to
keep a watchful eye on both these gentlemen; especially on Mr. Bowmore.
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