... a new con troller has been appointed for this or that, that our apples nave Deen arresreu, our starch commandeered, our blackberries mobilised, our shoe-leather remanded for inquiries, our whisky given-- itlwugh not in potable form to the enemy, so that ...

... period chosen is that within twenty years of the '45 while there was still talk of Jacobite plots, and spies were plenty as blackberries. One such is drawn for us here, and has a counterpart in the real Pickle uncloaked for us by the literary detective efforts ...