Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Religious Authority, Prognostication

    The initial letter is formed by an illustration showing a mouse trying to decapitate a cat by using the vertically sliding door of a small construction as a guillotine. Describing the complex way in which a cat walks towards somebody who calls it, the text likens it to the tortuous trajectory of a legal case concerning the property of a follower of Joanna Southcott, which was to be used to publish the writings of the 'unreal prophetess'.