ABSTRACT
Sir William Twyford had gained great credit with lord Martin by his conduct in the affair of Mr Prettyman. He now imagined that he saw an opening for the exercise of his humour, which he was never able to resist. He communicated his plan to lord Martin. By his assistance he procured that implement, which school-boys have denominated a cracker. This his lordship found an opportunity of attaching to the skirt of Miss Cranley’s sack. a At the moment we have described, when she was again going to enter into the stream of her rhetoric, which, great as it naturally was was now somewhat improved with copious draughts of claret, the cracker was set on fire. /
