WCP6753

[1] [p. 436]

in the handwriting of Mr. John Hampden¹. He also believed the handwriting of the second letter produced was the prisoner's. It was as follows: — "To the Committee of the Entomological Society. — Chippenham, Wilts. — Gentleman, — Cannot you get some low, pettifogging attorney to try and defend your president from being a thief and a swindler — a rogue and impostor? Of course no respectable men would have the name of such an infernal rogue on their books. If I were to meet him in the middle of Regent-street or the Strand, tell him from me that I would spit in his face, and kick him into the gutter. — John Hampden." The bench