He means, my Lord, a Louse that has been fattened on the head of a _Gipsy or Tinker_, undisturbed by the comb or nail, and unmolested in the enjoyment of its native filth.

He means a Louse grown to its full size, ten times larger and ten times more abominable than those with which _your Lordships and I are familiar_.

The petitioner asks redress for the injury so atrocious and so aggravated; and, as far as my voice goes, he shall not ask it in vain.
"LORD CRAIG .-- I am of the opinion last delivered.

It appears to me to be slanderous and calumnious to compare a Diamond Beetle to the filthy and mischievous animal libelled.

By an Egyptian Louse I understand one which has been formed on the head of a native Egyptian--a race of men who, after degenerating for many centuries, have sunk at last into the abyss of depravity, in consequence of having been subjugated for a time by the French.