The American, J.H. Lambier, late a captain in the French Imperial Horse Guards; and one of the largest men in the world. From the United States of America / [James Henry Lambier].

  • Lambier, James Henry, 1783-
Date:
[1833?]
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Credit: The American, J.H. Lambier, late a captain in the French Imperial Horse Guards; and one of the largest men in the world. From the United States of America / [James Henry Lambier]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o Louis XVIII. in consequence of the officers, non-com¬ missioned officers, and soldiere having taken the oath of allegiance to Napoleon, his heirs and successors, never to serve under any other Monarch that might reign pver the French Empire. inn I then returned to the place of th'»* nativity, the City of ‘ r r f V I _ .i, , T . ,.r ... _ Boston, United States of America ; and finding my parents dead, and that by the will of my father I had a coffee Plan¬ tation left me in the Parish of St. Andrew, in the Blue Mountains, Island of Jamaica; I proceeded thither, and took up my abode with the idea -of living the life of a planter, but I had not been at the Plantation more than nine months, when I found that the life of a Planter and that of an Officer in the French Horse Guards were not equally agreeable with my inclinations , I therefore sought society, and unfortunately too soon was introduced into the company of those who like myself had more money than sense or economy to enable them to take care of it. I nan unguarded moment I lost, by cards, J06,OOO; and in order to liquidate this debt (a debt of honour as it is called) was, by the advice of the friends of my deceased parents^ obliged to make over the produce of my property for a term of years. j r_ ,r * ’, * : ' VO 4 f!J i . Q■ . • • 1 then embarked on board the ship Briton, Captain jVPIntosh, from Port Antonie, north side of Jamaica, for London, having previously got my friends to procure for me letters of introduction to a Nobleman to intercede with his late Royal Highness, the Duke of York, for a Commission in the British Horse Guards. I arrived in London on the first of August, 1817, and put up at the Salopian Coffee-house, Strand. I remained some time, when by good fortune I was taken to the Horse Guards, and personally introduced to his late Royal Highness, the