30 A SECKET. 



Nimrod, who was the laughing-stock of 

 the county but let the above suffice. 



The sudden appearance of this strange 

 gentleman, in one of the first mansions 

 in the county, was a mystery; his ante- 

 cedents were not known, and the man- 

 ner in which he became possessed of so 

 much wealth was a secret a secret which 

 is ever held most sacred by the children 

 of Abraham. 



It was, however, generally reported and 

 believed, that when the great Napoleon's 

 star was approaching its apogee, this gentle- 

 man was employed by that military chief to 

 levy contributions on the inhabitants of 

 Belgium and Holland, and upon the 

 sudden and successful outbreak of Orange 

 Boven, that caused the man who had 

 trodden upon the laws and liberties of 

 the Batavian Republic to retire behind 

 the Rhine, the Jew had not an opportunity 

 of discharging his duties to a fallen 



