n's;
and having empowered Captain Hector MacTurk to wait upon the said
Mr. Tyrrel to demand an apology, under the alternative of personal
satisfaction, according to the laws of honour and the practice of
gentlemen, the said Tyrrel voluntarily engaged to meet the said Sir
Bingo Binks, baronet, at the Buck-stane, near St. Ronan's Burn, upon
this present day, being Wednesday ---- August. In consequence of
which appointment, we, the undersigned, did attend at the place
named, from one o'clock till two, without seeing or hearing any
thing whatever of the said Francis Tyrrel, or any one in his
behalf--which fact we make thus publicly known, that all men, and
particularly the distinguished company assembled at the Fox Hotel,
may be duly apprized of the character and behaviour of the said
Francis Tyrrel, in case of his again presuming to intrude himself
into the society of persons of honour.

"The Fox Inn and Hotel, St. Ronan's Well--August 18--.

(Signed)
"BINGO BINKS,
HECTOR MACTURK,
PHILIP WINTERBLOSSOM."

A little lower followed this separate attestation:

"I, Quentin Quackleben, M.D., F.R.S., D.E., B.L., X.Z., &c. &c.,
being called upon to attest what I know in the said matter, do
hereby verify, that being by accident at the Buck-stane, near St.
Ronan's Burn, on this present day, at the hour of one afternoon, and
chancing to remain there for the space of nearly an hour, conversing
with Sir Bingo Binks, Captain MacTurk, and Mr. Winterblossom, we did
not, during that time, see or hear any thing of or from the person
calling himself Francis Tyrrel, whose presence at that place seemed
to be expected by the gentlemen I have just named."

This affiche was dated like the former, and certified under the august
hand of Quentin Quackleben, M.D., &c. &c. &c.

Again, and prefaced by the averment that an improper person had been
lately introduced into the company of St. Ronan's Well, there came forth
a legislative enactment, on the part of the Committee, declaring, "that
no one shall in future be invited to the dinners, or balls, or other
entertainments of the Well, until their names shall be regularly entered
in the books kept for the purpose at the rooms." Lastly, there was a
vote of thanks to Sir Bingo Binks and Captain MacTurk for their
spirited conduct, and the pains which they had taken to exclude an
improper p