LIS 
for 30. years was celebrated throughout that 
meighbourhood as a conjuror, and- practised 
his art with. great success. If any thing 
could excuse the credulity of those whom he 
deceived, his superior cunning, and the very 
extraordinary and impressive figure of the 
‘man, might perhaps be pleaded. He was 
bora at Scottlethorpe, and was fora short 
time apprenticed to a baker there; but 
Raving had a little education, he disdained 
that ‘pursuit, and led an idle half-studious 
Rife in his father’s cottage, on the Grims- 
thorpe domain; to which cottage, on the 
death of his father, he succeeded. By that 
time the recluse life of the man had occasion- 
ed some conversation, and he was regarded 
with a degree of terror by the children of the 
meighbouring villages. He stood six feet in 
height, was remarkably erect and thin, with 
“eyes severe and coat of formal cut, full of 
wise saws heywas and modern instances; 
and. his. Joins were usually girt with a belt, 
his. waistcoat was of goat or dog-skin, and 
ever at the ‘* witching time o” night” he 
prowled abread.! In a little while his fame 
became very general, and silly people from 
eousiderable distances resorted to his habita- 
tion, to have their difficulties dispelled, and. 
“sake the benefit of his occult studies :. almost 
innumerable are the instances adduced in 
which this cunning man hit upon expedients to 
velieve and. satisfy his ignorant votaries. 
Being consulted by a man who had lost some 
traps for catching vermin in the purlieus of 
Grimsthorpe. Park, the astrologer. told him 
he would, by the second sun-rise, discover the 
person who had stolen them! He e+» ployed 
the interval in making enquiries; and. having 
suspicion of the offeadcr, he went toa field 
in. which the man was at work, and, accost- 
ing. him with all-the confidence and severity 
necessary for his purpose, ** You Stole *s 
traps” said he. The appalled offender, 
smitten with his guilt, and with the imposs?- 
Qility of deceiving his acéuser, confessed tive 
fact, and told where he had secreted -the 
stolen articles. ‘* I charge you,” concluded 
the conjuror, ** move them net f:om the 
spot in which they lie, nor speak of the con- 
fession you have made to me, on pain of the 
» ost terrible torments. my skill is able to 
mnflict." The man who had sustained the 
_ Ioss,, called again at the time appointed, and, 
by the direction of Sam. Clay. to a particular 
part or tne offender’s cottage, recovered his 
property. © Of course the amazing skill uf 
the conjuror. was trumpeted in all quarters. 
A few years ago, however, having, we sup- 
pose, misplaced one of bis spelis, he was 
reduced to the dire necessity of declaring, by 
advertisement, that HR. was NO COXyUROR ! 
and. of begging pardon of ap iinocent person 
whom he had charged with theft! This 
<ircumstaace had but a slight and temporary 
effect upon his reputation, and he died in 
full cresit-as a magician, in the 50th year of 
Kis. ages : 
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‘Lincolnshire. 
[Aag. tf, 
At Stamford, Mr. Daniel Lambert, whose 
extraordinary dimensions have for some years — 
rendered, hin an object of curiosity. He had 
travelled the day preceding hisdeath from Hun- 
tingdon, and on his arrival in the evening he 
sent a meSsage to the office of the Stamiord 
newspaperyrequesting that, as *¢ the mountain 
could notwait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would 
go to the mountain’—or, in other words,. 
that the; printer would call upon kim, and ~ 
receive an order for executing some hand- 
bills, announcing Mr. Lambert’s arrival, and 
his desire to see company. The orders he 
gave upon that accasion were delivered with- 
out any presentiment that they were to be 
his last, and with his usual’ cheerfulness. 
He was in bed—one of large dimensions— 
(‘© Ossa upon Olympus, and Pelion upon: 
\ 
Ossa”) — fatigued with his journey; but 
anxious that the bills might be quickly 
printed, in order to his seeing company next 
morning. Before nine o’clock, on that morn- 
ing, however, he was a corpse. He was in 
his 40th year, and upon being weighed a few 
days before his death, by the famous Cale- 
donian balance (im the possession of Mr. 
Ring, of Ipswich), was found to be 52 stone 
1ilbs. in weight (14lbs. to the stone), which 
is 10 stone 11]bs. 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 difficulty to place him, is 6 feet 
4inches long, 4 feet 4 inches wide, and 
2 feet 4 inches deep: the immense substance 
of his legs makes it necessarily a square case. 
This coffin, which ‘consists of 112 superficial 
‘feet of elm, was built upon two ax!e-trees 
and four cog-wheels; and upon these his 
remains. were rolled into his grave, which. 
was in the new burial ground at the back of 
St. Martin’s church. A regular descent was 
made, by sioping it for.seme distance. It 
was found necessary to take down the win- 
dow and wail of the room in which he lay. 
to allow his exic, The folluwiag particulars. 
of this, remarzable man may berelied oh 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 Leicester. From the ex 
traordinary bulk to which«he attained, the 
reader may naturally be disposed to enguire, 
whether his parents were persons of rermark- 
able dimeasions? ‘This was not thé-case, 
nor were any of his family inclined to corpu- 
lence, excepting an uncle and aunt on the 
father’s sidey. who were both very heavy. 
The former died during the in-ancy of Lam- 
bert, in the capacity of gamekeeper to the ~ 
Karl of Stamford, to whose predecessor lis | 
father had been huntsman in early life. 
Lhe family of Mr. L. senior, consisted, be- ~~ 
‘sides Daniel, of another son, who died young, 
aid two daughters, who are still living, and 
both 
