"At one time, while an associate of Sheridan, Erskine, Fox, &c., he affected, in conversation, to be brilliant, and so far succeeded, as to colloquial liveliness, that during their festive intercourse, according to the witty barrister's own admission, 'he fairly kept up at saddle-skirts' even with Curran. Notwithstanding this compliment, his pretensions to wit appear to have been but slender; the best sayings attributed to him being a set of middling puns, of which the following is a favourable selection:--When Langdale's distillery was plundered, during the riots of 1780, he asked why the proprietor had not defended his property. 'He did not possess the means to do so,' was the reply. 'Not the means of defence!' exclaimed the prince, 'and he a brewer--a man who has been all his life at _cart_ and _tierce_!--Sheridan having told him that Fox had _cooed_ in vain to Miss Pulteney, the prince replied, 'that his friend's attempt on the lady's heart was a _coup maoquè_.'--He once quoted from Suetonius, the words, '_Jure_ caesus videtur,' to prove, jestingly, that trial by jury was as old as the time of the first Caesar.--A newspaper panegyric on Fox, apparently from the pen of Dr. Parr, having been presented to his royal highness, he said that it reminded him of Machiavel's epitaph, 'Tanto nomini nullum _Par_ eulogium.'--A cavalry officer, at a court ball, hammered the floor with his heels so loudly, that the prince observed, 'If the war between the mother country and her colonies had not terminated, he might have been sent to America as a republication of the _stamp_ act.'--While his regiment was in daily expectation of receiving orders for Ireland, some one told him, that country quarters in the sister kingdom were so filthy, that the rich uniforms of his corps would soon be lamentably soiled: 'Let the men act as dragoons, then,' said his royal highness, 'and _scour the country_.' When Horne Tooke, on being committed to prison for treason, proposed, while in jail, to give a series of dinners to his friends, the prince remarked, that 'as an inmate of Newgate, he would act more consistently by establishing a _Ketch_-club.'--Michael Kelly having turned wine-merchant, the prince rather facetiously said, 'that Mick _imported_ his music, and _composed_ his wine!'" We reluctantly break off here till next week. * * * * * THE TOPOGRAPHER * * * * * BRIGHTON AS IT WAS. (_Concluded from page 90_.) This immunity, however, deprived them of the privileges which the people of the adjacent towns enjoyed; and was probably the true reason, why this town did not obtain a place among those called Cinque ports. It lies in their neighbourhood, is more ancient, and was always more considerable than most included in that number.