cheering.) Was it some vain and disappointed man - he would not say

haberdasher (loud cheers) - who, jealous of the praise which had

been - perhaps undeservedly - bestowed on his (Mr Pickwick's)

researches, and smarting under the censure which had been heaped

upon his own feeble attempts at rivalry, now took this vile and

calumnious mode of - -

Mr BLOTTON (of Aldgate) rose to order. Did the honourable

Pickwickian allude to him? (Cries of ‘Order,’ ‘Chair,’ ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ ‘Go on,’

‘Leave off,’ etc.)

Mr PICKWICK would not put up to be put down by clamour. He had

alluded to the honourable gentleman. (Great excitement.)

'Mr BLOTTON would only say then, that he repelled the hon. gent.'s

false and scurrilous accusation, with profound contempt. (Great

cheering.) The hon. gent. was a humbug. (Immense confusion, and

loud cries of ‘Chair,’ and ‘Order.’)

(

Mr A. SNODGRASS rose to order. He threw himself upon the chair.

Hear.) He wished to know whether this disgraceful contest between

two members of that club should be allowed to continue. (Hear, hear.)

The CHAIRMAN was quite sure the hon. Pickwickian would withdraw

the expression he had just made use of.

'Mr BLOTTON, with all possible respect for the chair, was quite sure

he would not.

The CHAIRMAN felt it his imperative duty to demand of the

honourable gentleman, whether he had used the expression which

had just escaped him in a common sense.

'Mr BLOTTON had no hesitation in saying that he had not - he had

used the word in its Pickwickian sense. (Hear, hear.) He was bound to

acknowledge that, personally, he entertained the highest regard and

esteem for the honourable gentleman; he had merely considered him a

humbug in a Pickwickian point of view. (Hear, hear.)

Mr PICKWICK felt much gratified by the fair, candid, and full

explanation of his honourable friend. He begged it to be at once

understood, that his own observations had been merely intended to

bear a Pickwickian construction. (Cheers.)'

Here the entry terminates, as we have no doubt the debate did also,

after arriving at such a highly satisfactory and intelligible point. We

have no official statement of the facts which the reader will find

recorded in the next chapter, but they have been carefully collated

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