Polly will you marry me--Polly don't you cry, Polly come to bed with me; and get a little boy. some were dipping matches, some boiling potatoes and salt herrings, some swearing, some dancing--all manners of fun, _&c._ Then comes Queen Caroline's trial; Catnach gets out a song:-- As I walked down the Greenwich-road one evening in June, I never saw so fine a sight as on that afternoon. I never saw so fine a sight, or, one half so good, As for to see Queen Caroline supported by a Wood. That Wood shall never be cut down, but stand for ever more; And he'll protect our innocent Queen Sweet Caroline on our shore. which was followed by a skit on George IVth called:-- "THE GREAT BABE IN A MESS." then another on Queen Caroline's _crin con_ case with Bergami who couldn't _remember_ nothing at all. "BERGAMI, THE _Non mi recordo_." [Illustration] Who are you? "_Non mi recordo._" What countryman are you--a foreigner or an Englishman? "_Non mi recordo._" There was something fresh everyday until the end of the Trial. Catnach then prints some "papers" belonging to J. Pitts, Printer, Gt. Saint Andrew-street, which causes a flare-up and a bother. Then comes the sheet of "Horses Heads" which heads were like Eldon, Peel, Canning, &c. Just before they were out Mr. Rockcliff, a Printer in Old Gravel Lane, Radcliff-Highway sends for me--there was bottles of whisky. Rockcliff had engaged with a man called Oliver Cromwell to get him one of the first sheets printed off Catnach's press of the "Horses Heads" and he would give him half-a-crown. Rockcliff then requested me to bring him the first sheet of "Horses Heads" and get the half-a-crown. I went and got the sheet and meets Oliver Cromwell going into Catnach's as I came out, so I got the half-a-crown. Rockcliff copies the sheet, then engaged with Lowe the Printer in Compton-street to supply all the West-end. So it went on and made plenty of bother between them. Catnach got on like a house on fire printing Religious Sheets, then came the murder of William Weare Esq. by John Thurtell, Hunt and Probert. I remember all that affair well,--Then the execution of Thurtell. A twelve-month after Probert was hanged for horsestealing. Then came the trial of Henry Fauntleroy a banker in Berner's Street Oxford Street executed for forgery. Then came Corder and Maria Marten and the Red Barn, so that is the way Catnach got on from a poor man to be a gentleman. There is many little things I may think of but close for the present and remain:-- [Signature: Your Hum{ble} Servt John Morgan] 1, Model Cottages, Little St. Ann's Lane, Great Peter Street, Westminster, London. _17th March, 1876._ Sir, I received yours. My recollection is not so good as I would wish.