take off all restraint and ceremony." Come, gentlemen, eat and welcome, fpare, and the Devil choak you." I mention this circumftance for no other reafon but be→ cause it is well known, and is confiftent with the fingularity of his character and behaviour,

As Mr. Nah's thoughts were entirely employed in the affairs of his government, he was feldom at home but at the time of eating or of reft. His table was well ferved, but his entertainment confifted principally of plain dishes. Boiled chicken and roat mutton were his favourite meats, and he was fo fond of the finall fort of potatoes, that he called, them English pineapples, and generally eat them as others do fruit, after dinner. In drinking he was altogether as regular and abftemious. Both in this and in eating, he seemed to consult nature, and obey only her dictates. Good small beer, with or without a glass of wine in it, and sometimes wine and water, was his drink at meals, and after dinner he generally drank one glass of wine. He feemed

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seemed fond of hot fuppers, ufually fupped about nine or ten o'clock, upon roaft breast of mutton and his potatoes, and foon after fupper went to bed; which induced Dr. Cheney to tell him jeftingly, that he beg haved like other brutes, and lay down as foon as he had filled his belly. Very true, replied Nash, and this prescription I had from my neighbour's Cow, who is a better physician than you, and a fuperior judge of plants, notwithfanding you have written fo learnedly on the ve getable diet.

Nash generally arose early in the morning, being feldom in bed after five; and to avoid disturbing the family, and depriving his fervants of their reft, he had the fire laid after he was in bed, and in the morn ing lighted it himself, and fat down to read fome of his few, but well chofen! books. After reading some time, he usually went to the pump-room and drank the waters; then took a walk on the parade, and went to the coffee-houfe to breakfast ; after which, till two o'clock (his ufual time of dinner) his hours were spent in arbi

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trating differences amongst his neighbours, or the company reforting to the wells; directing the diverfions of the day, in vifiting the new comers, or receiving friends at his own houfe, of which there were a great concourfe till within fix or eight years before his death.

His generofity and charity in private life, tho' not fo confpicuous, was as great as that in publick, and indeed far more confiderable than his little income would admit of. He could not stifle the natural impulfe which he had to do good, but frequently borrowed money to relieve the diftreffed; and when he knew not conveniently where to borrow, he has been often observed to shed tears, as he paffed through the wretched fupplicants who attended his gate.

This fenfibility, this power of feeling the misfortunes of the miferable, and his address and earneftnefs in relieving their wants, exalts the character of Mr. Nash, and draws an impenetrable veil over his

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foibles. His fingularities are forgotten when we behold his virtues, and he who Iaughed at the whimsical character and behaviour of this Monarch of Bath, now faments that he is no. more.

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