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"It is not known. He has escaped, or is concealed in Milan. These

people find lodging and concealment any where, although they have

neither house nor home of their own. The devil helps them; but

they are sometimes taken in the snare, when they least expect it.

When the pear is ripe, it must fall. It is well known that these

letters are in the hands of government, that they contain an

account of the whole plot, that many people are implicated, that

they have turned the city upside down, and would have done much

worse. Some say the bakers are rogues, and so say I: but they

ought to be hanged at least in a legal manner. There certainly is

corn concealed; and the government ought to have spies and find

it out, and hang up all that keep it back in company with the

bakers; and if they don't, all the city ought to remonstrate

again and again, but never allow the villainous practice of

entering shops and warehouses for plunder."