"The Earl of Bute's grand Orrery was sold yesterday for the trifling sum of sixty guineas, and the celebrated annual clock, regulating the revolutionary movements of two globes, and of an orrery for twenty-six guineas."--(_Times, Feb. 9, 1793._) * * * * * "Tuesday as Mrs. Fitzherbert, (George 4th's wife) attended by Miss Bell Pigott, was riding in her carriage in Pall Mall, the carriage of Colonel Strickland came in close contact with that of the ladies, by which they were both overturned. "On Mrs. Fitzherbert and Miss Bell Pigott's overturn-- "What ups and downs a Woman feels In almost every station; Down went our Heads, up came our Heels 'Talk of a Coronation!!!' "COETERA DESUNT." --(_Times, Feb. 28, 1793._) * * * * * "On the late INUNDATION in OLD PALACE YARD. "On one side Duke Norfolk[20] pushed forward with strife For he never liked Water throughout his whole life." [Footnote 20: He was notorious for his drinking propensities.] --(_Times, March 1, 1793._) * * * * * "The Duke of Norfolk is attacked by the _Hydrophobia_, he can't bear the sight of _water_. His Physicians have prescribed Wine. The Marquis of _Stafford_, Marquis of _Bath_, and Lord _Thurlow_ who were present, sanctified this prescription with their most hearty consent."--(_Times, Feb. 17, 1794._) * * * * * "_A new way to travel expeditiously and safely._ "The Duke of Luxembourg, wishing to return to his family at _Lisbon_, and being apprehensive of going in one of the common packets, which, if taken by the French, would probably cost him his life, lately applied to Lord Chatham, for a passage in an English frigate going to Lisbon. His Lordship very obligingly acquiesced, and a few days since the Duke sailed in her from Portsmouth. It turns out, however, that this frigate has been ordered to _cruise for six weeks_ before she makes for Lisbon: and thus is the unfortunate Duke exposed to the risk of the elements and the hazard of an engagement, from having employed his influence to procure a _safe passage_."--(_Times, May. 10, 1793._) * * * * * "There was a rapid trade between Birmingham and France, of base coin, carried from the former to the latter in Folkstone vessels, and with this coin great part of the Army was paid, but the whole is now stopped, and the French Soldiers are paid in paper."--(_Times, May 10, 1793._) * * * * *