JUSTICE.
"What is your fare, coachee," said a stout gentleman alighting from a hackney-coach.
Coachee.—"One shilling, sir."
Gent.—"One shilling! What an imposition for such a short distance."
Coachee.—"I'll take my oath that is my fare."
Gent.—"Will you? very well, I am a magistrate, proceed—(Coachee is sworn)—That will do, the shilling I shall keep for the affidavit."
Philip III. King of Spain, wept at an Auto da Fé, because he saw so many fellow creatures inhumanly tormented. This was thought by the Grand Inquisitor to be a great sin, and he terrified the king so much with his remonstrances, that Philip suffered himself to be bled, and the blood to be given to the common executioner, to be burnt at the next Auto da Fé, by way of penance.
Cobweb comes from the Dutch word Kopwebbe; and Kop in that language signifies a spider.
(S.I.B.'s interesting paper on the Birth of Edward VI. and Death of Queen Jane Seymour, did not reach us till our description of Hampton Court was ready for press: our Correspondent's contribution shall appear next week.)
LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE FOLLOWING NOVELS IS ALREADY PUBLISHED:
s. d.Mackenzie's Man of Feeling . . . . 0 6
Paul and Virginia . . . . . . . 0 6
The Castle of Otranto. . . . . . 0 6
Almoran and Hamet . . . . . . . 0 6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia . 0 6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne . 0 6
Rasselas . . . . . . . . . . 0 8
The Old English Baron. . . . . . 0 8
Nature and Art . . . . . . . . 0 8
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. . . 0 10
Sicilian Romance . . . . . . . 1 0
The Man of the World . . . . . . 1 0
A Simple Story . . . . . . . . 1 4
Joseph Andrews . . . . . . . . 1 6
Humphry Clinker. . . . . . . . 1 8
The Romance of the Forest . . . . 1 8
The Italian . . . . . . . . . 2 0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore . . . . . . 2 6
Edward, by Dr. Moore . . . . . . 2 6
Roderick Random . . . . . . . 2 6
The Mysteries of Udolpho. . . . . 3 6
Peregrine Pickle . . . . . . . 4 6
Footnote 1: [(return)]
An obsolete French term of salutation, abridged from Bon prou vous, i.e. much good may it do you.
Footnote 2: [(return)]
Stow's Annals.
Footnote 3: [(return)]
Fuller's Church History.
Footnote 4: [(return)]
Rymer's Foedera.
Footnote 5: [(return)]
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.
Footnote 6: [(return)]
Cibber tells us that the expenses of each play were £50. and the players were allowed the same sum. The King likewise gave the managers £200. more, for all the performances. For the last play, the actors received £100. One of the plays acted here was Shakspeare's Henry VIII—thus making the palace the scene of Wolseys downfall, as it had been of his splendour.
Footnote 7: [(return)]
For an Engraving of the Maze, see MIRROR, vol. vi. page 105.
Footnote 8: [(return)]
History of Whalley.