Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘ THE~fiist MAGISTRATE And other Sincere—Lovers of this State Are now informed—most respectfully That some years ago, Martin Van Butchell, had an appointment to meet (—At Lady Hunloch’s House, in Stratford Place—) his able teacher John Hunter, Esq. Who overtook him in Grosvenor-square, and bade him o et into his Chariot:—soon as he was seated, John^ said, “ What mischief are you about now V* Martin, ‘ Curing the King’s Evil.’ John, “ I can’t cure the King’s Evil.” Martin, ‘ I know you can’t Cure the King’s Evil:—If you could cure the King’s Evil, I should not trouble myself about the King’s Evil: but I want to do ! ‘ What you cannot do !’ John, “That is right.—Ho you try to get first. (—We know nothing^ compared toichatice are ignorant of— JMake yourself of consequence and then every body will make you of conse¬ quence ; but if you don’t make yourself of conse-