Sir--I am authorised and requested to demand of you nine copies of the undermentioned Work--The Political House that Jack Built--for the use of the following Libraries and Universities:-- Bodleian; Cambridge; Sion College; Edinburgh; Advocates' Library, Edinburgh; Glasgow; Aberdeen; St. Andrew's; Trinity College, and the King's Inns, Dublin. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE GREENHILL, Warehouse-keeper to the Company of Stationers. To Mr. WM. HONE, Ludgate-hill. This "authorized" and official "demand" on behalf of the Universities and Public Libraries, was immediately complied with; and to save those distinguished bodies the trouble of a similar application for "THE MAN IN THE MOON," copies of that work were also sent with the copies of the Political House that Jack Built, so demanded "for their use." A SUPERIOR EDITION OF THE POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, _is now published, printed on fine Vellum Drawing Paper, with the Cuts handsomely_ COLOURED, Price 3s.--The same Edition plain, Price 2s. ***** Withdrawn from the Press, A LETTER TO THE SOLICITOR GENERAL. By WILLIAM HONE. Since the announcement of this Publication, the attack of the Solicitor-General upon the Juries of my Country has drawn down upon that Gentleman, within the walls of Parliament, such deserved animadversion as to render superfluous any interference on my part. Two years have elapsed since I broke away from the toils; and it seems the escape of the destined victim is never to be forgiven! The cause of which the Solicitor-General is unexpectedly the gratuitous advocate, has taken appropriate refuge in the snug precincts of Gatton. There let it wither! The verdicts of my Juries require no other vindication than a faithful recital of the grounds on which they were founded. From the period at which those verdicts were pronounced, and with a view to that vindication, I have been unremittingly employed in the collection and arrangement of rare and curious materials which the Solicitor-General's attack will induce me to extend to A COMPLETE HISTORY OF PARODY. This History I purpose to bring out, very speedily, _with extensive graphic illustrations,_ and I flatter myself it will answer the various purposes of satisfying the expectations of my numerous and respectable subscribers--of justifying my own motives in publishing the Parodies--of throwing a strong light upon the presumable motives of my prosecutors in singling me out from my Noble and Right Honorable Fellow Parodists--of holding up Trial by Jury to the increased love and veneration of the British People--and above all, of making every calumny upon the verdicts of three successive, honorable, and intelligent Juries recoil upon the slanderer, be he who he may, that dares to asperse them. W. HONE. Ludgate-Hill, March, 1820. Printed by W. Hone, 45, Ludgate-Hill. [Illustration: 266]