"JEMIMA BIGGS."


"41 BAKER STREET: 11th December.

"MAJOR-GENERAL SIR GEORGE GORGON has heard with the utmost disgust
and surprise of the engagement which Miss Lucy Gorgon has thought
fit to form.

"The Major-General cannot conceal his indignation at the share which
Miss Biggs has taken in this disgraceful transaction.

"Sir George Gorgon puts an absolute veto upon all further
communication between his niece and the low-born adventurer who has
been admitted into her society, and begs to say that Lieutenant
Fitch, of the Lifeguards, is the gentleman who he intends shall
marry Miss Gorgon.

"It is the Major-General's wish, that on the 28th Miss Gorgon should
be ready to come to his house, in Baker Street, where she will be
more safe from impertinent intrusions than she has been in
Mucklebury Square.

"MRS. BIGGS,
"Caroline Place,
"Mecklenburgh Square."

When poor John Perkins read this epistle, blank rage and wonder
filled his soul, at the audacity of the little General, who thus,
without the smallest title in the world, pretended to dispose of the