AN IMPORTANT NOTE AND QUERY.
According to the return moved for by Mr. Hume, we find that, including Porters, and Gentlemen to Great Seal, Sealer and Deputy Sealer, Chaffwax and Deputy Chaffwax, (what on earth is a Deputy Chaffwax???) Clerk of the Hanaper, and Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper, Ushers, Heralds, Garter Kings at Arms, Purse-bearers, Marshals, Lord Chancellors, Engrossing Clerks, Attorney-Generals, stamps, taxes, and other equally necessary and indispensable persons, places, and things—the making of a Baron is done for the trifling charge of £420. Thanks to Mr. Hume, we are put in possession of this Hume-orous document. But the most important question to an Englishman remains unsolved; and Mr. Bull requests us to make inquiries, whether it will cost him this great sum before he can make his appearance at the Royal table on Christmas Day next, as a Baron of Beef?
A Talleyrandism.—The worst form of borrower is he who borrows with the intention of repaying, for you know he intends to borrow again.