THE PETITION NUISANCE
... The joint stock petition prosecuting company is likely, after all, to turn out a mere bubble specula-t tion, notwithstanding all the puff paragraphs of the s :qry pres. The amount of capital subscribed up tou.this moment would scarcely defray: a tithe of the probable expenses of the Dublin petitimi alone; and t we shall be much. disappointed, indeed, if it evera amounts to any thing like what ...