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ent was his disgust at the knaves killed and caught in the attack on "The Spaniards;" and though there were not wanting bold speakers, who averred that _Twitcher_ was at the bottom of the burglary, nevertheless, his grave look, and the character he had contrived to piece together for honest dealing, secured him from conviction. _Jemmy Twitcher_ was what the world calls a warm fellow. He had gold in his chest, silver tankards on his board, pictures on his walls; and more, he had a fine family of promising _Twitchers_. One night, greatly to his horror at the iniquity of man, miscreants surrounded his dwelling and fired bullets at his children. The villains were apprehended; and the hair of _Jemmy_--who had evidently forgotten all about the affair at "The Spaniards"--stood on end, as the conspiracy of the villains was revealed, as it was shown how, in anticipation of a wicked success, they had shared among them, not only his gold and his tankards, but the money and plate of all his honest neighbours. _Jemmy_, still forgetful of "The Spaniards" cried aloud for justice and the gibbet! Have we not here the late revolution in Spain--the QUENISSET conspiracy--and in the prime mover of the first, and the intended victim of the second rascality, KING LOUIS-PHILIPPE, the JEMMY TWITCHER OF THE FRENCH? The commission recently appointed in France for the examination of the Communists and Equalised Operatives, taken in connexion with the recent bloodshed under French royal authority, is another of the ten thousand illustrations of the peculiar morality of crowned heads. Here is a sawyer, a cabinet-maker, a cobbler, and such sort, all food for the guillotine for attempting to do no more than has been most treacherously perpetrated by the present King of the French and the ex-Queen of Spain. How is it that LOUIS-PHILIPPE feels no touch of sympathy for that pusillanimous scoundrel--_Just_? He is naturally his veritable double; but then _Just_ is only a carpenter, LOUIS-PHILIPPE is King of the French! The reader has only to read Madrid for Paris--has only to consider the sawyer Quenisset (the poor tool, trapped by _Just_), the murdered Don Leon, or any other of the gallant foolish victims of the French monarchy in the late atrocity in Spain, to see the moral identity of the scoundrel carpenter and the rascal king. We quote from the report:-- _Quenisset_ (alias DON LEON) examined.--"_Just_ said to me, pointing to the body
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