The amount expended for
Fireworks, and for keeping
open the Public Theatres
on the night of the
Coronation .......................3,034 8 7

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Total .........£43,159 11 6
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The Coronation of his late Majesty, George the Fourth, amounted to more
than £268,000.

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_Narrow Escape_.--Andrea Boscoli, the Italian painter, studied after
nature; and in his travels he drew sketches of any particular objects that
struck him. While pursuing this practice at Loretto, with regard to the
fortifications of the city, he was seized by the officers of justice, and
condemned to be hanged; but he happily escaped, within a few hours of
execution, by the interposition of Signor Bandini, who explained to the
chief magistrate his innocent intention. P.T.W.

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_Women alias Angels_.--Acidalius, the eminent grammarian and critic, whom
Baillet reckons among his _Enfans celebres_, printed a small tract in 1595,
intitled _Mulieres non esse homines_, or that "Women were not of the human