"A vessel loaded with cloathing, to the amount of £120,000, was on Tuesday stopped in the River. She was bound to a port in France."—(Times, Feb. 7, 1793.)
"The Earl of Bute's grand Orrery was sold yesterday for the trifling sum of sixty guineas, and the celebrated annual clock, regulating the revolutionary movements of two globes, and of an orrery for twenty-six guineas."—(Times, Feb. 9, 1793.)
"Tuesday as Mrs. Fitzherbert, (George 4th's wife) attended by Miss Bell Pigott, was riding in her carriage in Pall Mall, the carriage of Colonel Strickland came in close contact with that of the ladies, by which they were both overturned.
"On Mrs. Fitzherbert and Miss Bell Pigott's overturn—
"What ups and downs a Woman feels
In almost every station;
Down went our Heads, up came our Heels
'Talk of a Coronation!!!'
"Cœtera desunt."
—(Times, Feb. 28, 1793.)
"On the late INUNDATION in OLD PALACE YARD.
"On one side Duke Norfolk[20] pushed forward with strife
For he never liked Water throughout his whole life."
—(Times, March 1, 1793.)