58 MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 



was afterwards proposed by a select number of his 

 friends and admirers, to have a bust of him executed 

 in marble, as a lasting memorial of the high regard 

 they entertained for his genius and excellent charac- 

 ter. The bust was executed by Baily with great fi- 

 delity and taste ; and was presented, by the subscrib- 

 ers, to the Council and Members of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Sociecy of Newcastle, and now occu- 

 pies a situation in the most prominent part of the 

 spacious library-room of that useful Institution. 



Many anecdotes are current among his friends con- 

 cerning the occasions of many of his vignettes. Among 

 others, one is told of a person, who had for many years 

 supplied him with coals, being convicted of defraud- 

 ing him in measure, on which occasion he sent him a 

 letter of rebuke for his ingratitude and dishonesty. 

 At the bottom of the letter, he sketched with his pen 

 the figure of a man in a coal cart, accompanied by a 

 representation of the devil close by his side, who is 

 flopping the vehicle immediately under a gallows, 

 beneath which was written, " The end and punish- 

 tnent of all dishonest men" This well-timed satire 

 so affected the nervous system of the poor delinquent, 



and deservedly admired : it is in the possession of the fa 



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