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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    that he was neither misused nor affronted by the servants, and that every necessary of life should be at his command. Thus situated, one would have thoug-ht want could never have reached him; yet, one day, as the king was going to his hunting seat, Nixon ran to him crying, begging» in the most moving terms, that he might not be left, for that if he were, his majesty would never see him again alive; that he should be starved ; that now was the time, and if he was left he must die. The king, whose thoughts were doubtless fixed on the diversion in which he was about to participate, and supposing the matter so very unlikely to come to pass, only said that it was impossible, and recommended him strongly to the officer’s care; but scarcely was the king gone from the palace gate, when the servants mocked and teazed Nixon to such a degree, that the of¬ ficer, to prevent these insults, locked him up in a closet, and suffered no one but himself to attend on him, thinking that^ he should prevent this part of his prophecy from coming true. But a message of great importance coming from the king to this very officer, he, in his readiness to