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him an object of curiosity. He had 

 travelled t lie day preceding his death 

 from Huntingdon, and on his arriv- 

 al in the evening he sent a message 

 to the office of the Stamford news- 

 paper, requestingthat,as"themoun- 

 tain could not wait upon Mahomet, 

 Mahomet would go to the moun- 

 tain" — or in other words, that the 

 printer would call upon him, and 

 receive an order for executing some 

 handbills, announcing Mr. Lam- 

 bert's arrival, and his desire " to 

 see covipanyJ" The orders he gave 

 upon that occasion were delivered 

 without any presentiment that they 

 were to be his last, and with his 

 usual cheerfulness. Ho was in bed 

 — one of large dimensions — (" Os- 

 sa upon Olympus, and Pelion upon 

 Ossa") — fatigued with his journey; 

 but anxious that the bills might be 

 quickly printed, in order to his see- 

 ing company next morning. Be- 

 fore nine o'clock, on that morning, 

 he was a corpse. He was in his 

 40th year, and upon being weighed 

 a iew days before his death, by the 

 famous Caledonian Balance (in the 

 possession of Mr. Ring of Ipswich ) , 

 was found to be 52 stone lllbs. in 

 weight (14lbs to the stone), which 

 is 10 stone lllbs. more than the 

 celebrated Bright of Essex, ever 

 weighed. He had apartments at 

 Mr. Berridge's, the Waggon and 

 Horse's Inn, St. Martin's, on the 

 ground floor — for he had been long 

 incapable of walking up stairs. His 

 coffin, in which there was great dif- 

 ficulty to place him, is 6 feet 4- 

 inches long, 4 feet 4 inches wide, 

 and 2 feet 4 inches deep : the im- 

 mense substance of his legs makes 

 it necessarily a square case. This 

 coffin, which consists of 112 super- 

 ficial feet of elm, was built upon 

 two axle-trees, and four cog wheels, 



and upon these his remains were 

 rolled into his grave, which was in 

 a new burial ground at the back of 

 St. Martin's church. A regular 

 descent was made, by sloping it for 

 some distance. It was found ne- 

 cessary to take down the window 

 and wall of the room in which he 

 lay to allow hijs exit. The follow- 

 ing particulars of this remarkable 

 man may be relied on as authentic, 

 having been taken from his own 

 mouth, Mr. Daniel Lambert was 

 born on the 13th of March, 1770, in 

 the parish of St. Margaret, at Lei- 

 cester. From the extraordinary 

 bulk to which he attained, the read- 

 er may naturally be disposed to en- 

 quire, whether his parents were | .r- 

 sons of remarkable dimensions? 

 This was not the case, nor were any 

 of his family inclineii to corpulence, 

 excepting an uncle and aunt on the 

 father's side, who were both very 

 heavy. The former died during 

 the infancy of Lambert, in the ca- 

 pacity of gamekeeper to the earl of 

 Stamford, to whose predecessor his 

 father had been huntsman in early 

 life. The family of Mr. L. senior, 

 consisted, besides Daniel, ofanother 

 son, who diedyoung,and two daugh- 

 ters, who are still living, and both 

 women of the common size. The 

 habits of young Lambert were not, 

 in any respect, different from those 

 of other young persons, till the age 

 of fourteen. Even at an early pe- 

 riod he was strongly attached to the 

 sports of the field. This however, 

 was only the natural effect of a very 

 obvious cause, aided probably by 

 an innate propensity to those diver- 

 sions. We have already mentioned 

 the profession of his father and un- 

 cle, and have yet to observe, that 

 his maternal grandfather was a 

 great cock-fighter. Born and bred 



