[36] Don Quixote, Bk. II., Chap. xiv.
The £6000, as appears from subsequent letters, had been given to Sir John Salusbury.
"FRYING SPRATS" (Q. CHARLOTTE)
"TOASTING MUFFINS" (K. GEO. III)
From a caricature by Gillray, 1791.
From the Collection of A. M. Broadley, Esq.]
The joke about "Tully's Offices" evidently relates to her paying off the expenses of her birthday fête. The supper was provided by a celebrated Bath pastrycook named Tully, and the jest originated with Mrs. Piozzi, who, addressing her guests, bade them do justice to "Tully's Offices," the name by which Cicero De Officiis was commonly known in the eighteenth century.
On November 17 Mrs. Pennington, who has herself been ill, writes in great agitation about the Typhus, entreating Mrs. Piozzi, if she will not return to Clifton, to fly to Torquay. The Randolphs report it to be a terrestrial Paradise;—the scenery exquisitely beautiful, the air pure, mild, and dry, the town clean and neat, the living cheap, (the best possible meat 6d. per lb.,) and no lack of good society. Mrs. Randolph considered that Mrs. Piozzi might keep a carriage and live there elegantly within £1000 per annum.