"Sir: Understanding you have imputed cowardice to my friend William Singsmall, Esquire, I call on you either to retract, or refer me to a friend. As the matter presses, I beg, on the part of William Singsmall, Esquire, that you will answer this when I return from Paris, where I am going for three weeks. "Yours obediently, PETER SKULLTHICK." "_To James Flea, Esquire._" II. "SIR: I received your note, and went immediately into the country; but on my return to town you shall hear from me with the least possible delay. "Yours obediently, JAMES FLEA." III. "SIR: I have got your note, and will see about it. "Yours obediently, PETER SKULLTHICK." IV. "SIR: I have waited every day at the club, from ten in the morning until twelve at night, for the last month, hoping to hear from you. "Yours obediently, JAMES FLEA." V. "SIR: My object in writing to you was not on my own account, but on behalf of William Singsmall, Esquire, to whom you have most offensively imputed cowardice, and alleged that you threatened to cane him, while he was hidden in the larder of the club-house." "You will see that as a man of honor he must take some notice of this. I am going out of town for a few weeks, and as soon as convenient after my return shall be glad to hear from you." "Yours obediently, PETER SKULLTHICK." VI. "SIR: I _did_ go to the club-house with a cane under my coat, for the purpose of pitching into Singsmall. I had the solemn assurance of the porter that Singsmall had entered the club and had not left it; but on searching the house he was not to be found. I can only presume that your friend was under the sink or in the larder, and I therefore can not consider him entitled to any thing better than the severe drubbing I mean to inflict upon him whenever I shall be so fortunate as meet him." "Yours obediently, JAMES FLEA." VII. "SIR: I expected you would have referred me to a friend, and shall wait at the club until I hear from you again--unless I am called away by other engagements." "Yours obediently, PETER SKULLTHICK." After this correspondence, Flea sent a friend to Skullthick, who declared he had no quarrel with any one, but only wished his friend Singsmall to have the opportunity of being shot through the body by Flea, whose friend insisted that he (Flea) should fight no one but him (Skullthick). Skullthick, on the contrary, had no quarrel with Flea; but although a married man, was ready to fight Flea's friend, who threw himself into the hands of somebody else, who would have nothing to do with _any_ of them. And there the matter ended! LITERARY NOTICES.