In this, also, M'Slime will aid you.
"As to the person who may succeed Hickman, as a necessary preliminary he must lay down two thousand pounds, in the shape of an equivalent for the appointment.

Could you within a fortnight or so, raise so much?
If so, let me hear from you without delay, as it is not unlikely in that case, I may appoint yourself.
"By the way, do you understand the manufacture of forty shilling free-holders in an economical way, because if you do, it would be a desideratum.

Parliament, it is said, will be dissolved in June, and I want, as well as I can remember, nearly two hundred votes.

My brother lost the last election by something about that number, and I know he feels very anxious to get into parliament for many reasons.

He is now on the continent, where he has been for the last three years." Valentine M'Clutchy, Esq., to the Right Hon.