Stiletto

,—a short dagger, which Pitt always car­ries about with him, in order to cheat the execu­tioner; as he expects to be impeached whenever he goes out of place, and I think there is little doubt when this happens, that he will be hanged. Some time ago St. Edmund, the Jesuit, brought one of those convenient instruments into the House of Commons, but he did not use it as he might have done. He only drew it from under his coat in a furious theatrical attitude, and with much vehemence of action threw it on the floor. “Hic crazy est, hunc to Romane caveto!”