Excerpt from Peace Campaigns of a Cornet, Vol. 3 of 3<br><br>Yet here it may be necessary, in compassion to our readers' natural curiosity and good na ture, briefly to inform them, that the right wor shipful the mayor was secured from a watery grave, by a landing net, which the philanthro~ pic Cummings, observing the accident from his country-house window, had despatched to his assistance. Alas, poor Goblet! He had filled himself so full of water, that he was inca pacitated from the further fulfilment of his office, and was humanely put to bed, at the in stance of the comet, at Mr. Crawfield's house, on Merchant's Quay.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.