SWAINE.

His late Majesty, when Prince of Wales, was looking out of a window with Tom Sheridan, when the “Dart,” with four grey horses passed by.  “Is not that a handsome coach, Tom?” observed the Prince.  “Yes, your highness,” replied Tom, who was suffering under a headach from the champagne of the previous night, and was rather in a sombre and meditative humour, “it certainly is; but,” continued he, pointing to a hearse going by at the same time, “that’s the coach after all.”

A Knowing Seaman.—­A rough-hewn seaman being brought before a wise justice for some misdemeanour, was by him ordered to be sent to prison, and was refractory after he heard his doom, insomuch as he would not stir a foot from the place where he stood, saying it was better to stand where he was than go to a worse place.—­Bacon.

P.T.W.

Expensive Fishing.—­In 1609, the Dutch were compelled to pay a tribute for fishing on our coast; in 1683, they paid 30,000l. for liberty to fish.  Welwood, in his answer to Grotius, says, “that the Scots obliged the Dutch, by treaty, to keep eighty miles from shore in fishing, and to pay a tribute at the port of Aberdeen, where a tower was erected for that and other purposes; and the Dutch paid the tribute, even in the memory of our forefathers.”

THOMAS GILL.

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