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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 tbe 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 Society 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 
stopping the vehicle immediately under a gallows, 
beneath which was w'ritten, “ The end and punish- 
ment 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 
mily. 
