THE SETTING SUN; OR, VIL AMONGST THE PLACEMEN. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A NEW MUSICAL DRAMA; BEING A PARODY ON THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, LATELY ACTED, WITH UNIVERSAL ECLAT, AT THE "Like thieves, surpris'd whilst they divide the prize, D'AVENANT. VOL. I. London: Printed by J. D. Dewick, 46, Barbican, FOR T. HUGHES, 35, LUDGATE-STREET; CHAPPEL, PALI EXCHANGE; AND WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 419. POSTSCRIPT. ALTHOUGH when this work was written some weeks, and part of it months since, yet the author had very little doubt, of something like the consequences which have been announced this day (September 23) to the public in the newspapers. One article contains a notice of a hostile meeting having taken place between' Lord Castlereagh, attended by Lord Yarmouth, and Mr. Canning, attended by a Mr. Ellis. On the second fire, Mr. Canning was severely wounded in the thigh. This is indeed The Devil among the Placemen! The other article we shall extract verbatim and literatim from the Times newspaper, without making any comment whatever on it : |