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 maoque.’—­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.

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THE TOPOGRAPHER

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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.

To reduce its consequence still more, the tithes were in this period taken from the incumbent, appropriated to the use of the Priory at Lewes, and have never since been restored; and a Convent of mendicant friars, more burthensome than ten endowed ones of monks, was founded and dedicated to St. Bartholomew.

Struggling under these difficulties, nothing but the Reformation could enable the inhabitants of this place to emerge from their wretchedness.  And accordingly we find, that, in the happier days of Queen Elizabeth, their affairs put on a new face.  They then applied themselves with vigour to their old employments of fishing, and fitting out vessels for trade; seeking subsistence from their darling element the sea.