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The first is that one of their daughters died in August, 1840 at the age of twenty, and the second is that in The Scribbler for July 4, 1822 there is a transparent reference to Longmore as "Mr. Morelong" which makes mention of the misgivings of "poor Mrs. M." at the prospect of her "dear noodle-dum- dee" of a husband attending a masquerade in the "character of a knife-grinder."10 The third, and most important, is that when Longmore departed Lower Canada in late November, 1824 he had with him a wife and two children.11 It would thus appear that the character of the sententious "old bachelor" (1428),12 who narrates The Charivari is in marital status as well as age a persona, a mask behind which Longmore disappears in order to maintain the comfortable distance from the carnivalesque ribaldry and riotousness of the poem that his position as a "British military officer" required.13 Much the same logic probably dictated Longmore’s use of a pseudonym in connection with The Charivari. As well as concealing Longmore’s identity more fully than, say, "Morelong," "Launcelot Longstaff" points towards the Salmagundi Papers of Washington Irving and James Kirk Paulding, whose use of a variation of the same pseudonym ("Launcelot Langstaff") the Canadian poet would certainly have known, if only from the principal prose source of The Charivari, John Lambert’s Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808.14 In the conduct generally pursued by those concerned in these riotous meeting, called Charivari, we can trace many things which are highly culpable, and which render the persons concerned in them, subject to severe punishment.--Such as, assembling in a riotous manner in the streets and highways, armed, having their faces blackened, or otherwise disguised--by demanding money from the King's subjects by threats and menaces--and by damaging, or partly tearing down the house and habitation of individuals, in order to enforce their demands and obtain their ends. Now we find that by St. 1, Geo. 1, St. 2, Ch. 5. (commonly called the riot-act,) it is provided,--"that if any persons unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, shall unlawfully and with force, demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down, any dwelling house, barn, stable or other outhouse, such demolishing or pulling down, or beginning to demolish or pull down shall by adjudged felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein, shall by adjudged felons, and shall suffer death without benefit of Clergy."--And by stat: 9, Geo. 1, Ch. 22. (commonly called the black act) we find it is amongst other things enacted--"that to appear in any high road, by night or by day, with the face blackened, or with other disguise, and being armed with offensive wepons, to the breach of the public peace, and the terror of His Majesty's subjects, is felony without benefit of Clergy." 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