LETTERS FROM LITTLE BRITAIN.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 89, 11 September 1863, Page 2

LETTERS FROM LITTLE BRITAIN.

IJY THE BfANT IN THE MOOS. No. VIII. " Children, you should never let Your angry passions rise ; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes." v I>r "Watt's Eoems, Will it be believed' Dr Faustus, Mr Weathercock and Co. actually deny that my " Letters" give a true view of the state of things in Little Britain, and assert that they are wicked carricatures 1 ! '. Po6r creatures ! If they are really so very much ashamed of their sayings and doings, and afraid that they ; should see the light of day, no wonder they are horrified at the audacity of " Fosco," who has . presumed to lift the veil which, as they imagined, impenetrably shrouded their pioceedings and motives. They are at no loss 1 to discover the real name of " Fosco." Of course fsays Dr Faustus) it must be that shameless fellow the Chief Provincial Stoker. Mr Weathercock echoes throngh the Exploder, « Of course it is," and devotes two whole issues to an attack on that individua', so excruciatingly funny that, at. the first sight of it, half the town went' into hysterics, _ half the rest into convulsions, and the remainder(who all belonged to that northern, nation, into whose heads," Sydney Smith opined, " it required a surgical operation to get a joke); aro laboring from congestion of the brain from vain efforts to understand it, The doctors are making rapid fortunes in consequence. The best part of the joke is . that the. poor " Stoker" is as innocent ; of the" Letters" as His Super-illustriousness himself, and as the poor man is likely, to be hanged or transported to" gratify the paltry spleen of Dr. Faustus and his tool, I think it only right to the Provincial Stoker, topublicly declare that neither he nor any ond connected with the Government has anything to do with the "Man in the Moon." " Fosco" intends to retain his. incognito,— defies Dr. Faustus, Mr Daniel Crammers, Mr Squeers, Mr Donald Muff, Mr, Peter Symgle, Mr tiunean Macbeth, or Mr Weathercock" of the Exploder, to find the author of the " Letters," or to clear up the mystery which will always surround him. He knows them but they do not know. Foscd. p.S. — My next letter will reach you in a few days, and will contain reflations infinitely more astounding than any which have yet appeared. Let the Government and their satellites tremble in their watertight boots. It is the advise «f Fosco.