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Nathaniel bet?Tley, esq. 453
It is said, that a gentleman who knew him, once at-
tempting to give him a little advice, with respect to the
prejudice he sustained by his dress and appearance ; he re-
plied, It is of no use, Sir, if I wash and clean myself
to-day, I shall be as bad to-morrow.”
He has also an excuse, though in effect it is none at all,
for keeping no domestic animal in his house ; “that is, that
they make more dirt, and spoil more goods than their pro-
fit would amount to.”—And as it is supposed he keeps
nothing that will attract rats or mice, of course he is not
troubled with them.
It seems that Mr. B. is the only person in his family that
is governed by these strange propensities.—He has a
sister now living; near Chelsea College, the widow of a Mr.
Lindegreen, formerly a merchant of this city, and who
forms a striking contrast to the general habits of her bro-
ther. When it was reported some time since that he was
dead, she came with her son to the shop in Leadenhall-
street, where finding a person placed there instead of her
brother, to take orders, &c. she learned, that having been
ill, he was at the house of a surgeon in Hounsditch, but was
then in a fair Way of recovery.—The cause of his absence,
Was owing to his having scratched his leg with a nail in his
shop; and neglecting it, which rendered a considerable ex-
pence, and the care of a surgeon absolutely indispensable.
Not wishing to go to Hounsditch, on this occasion the
lady, it is said, returned to Chelsea. Mr. B.’s love of
money is so great, that it is reported he never gives any
credit, not even to his nearest relatives, if he can by any
means evade it. Having once kept a servant in the house,
who robbed him, it is said, he determined never to keep
another, excepting to stand at his door j for which it isj
understood he pays but little—-about three-halfpence an
hour 1 An old woman once thus employed, he discharged,
for staying half an hour longer upon her errand than she
had occasion for.—Half an hour, he thought, was too much
time to lose. It is also the office of the person who stands
san at
It is said, that a gentleman who knew him, once at-
tempting to give him a little advice, with respect to the
prejudice he sustained by his dress and appearance ; he re-
plied, It is of no use, Sir, if I wash and clean myself
to-day, I shall be as bad to-morrow.”
He has also an excuse, though in effect it is none at all,
for keeping no domestic animal in his house ; “that is, that
they make more dirt, and spoil more goods than their pro-
fit would amount to.”—And as it is supposed he keeps
nothing that will attract rats or mice, of course he is not
troubled with them.
It seems that Mr. B. is the only person in his family that
is governed by these strange propensities.—He has a
sister now living; near Chelsea College, the widow of a Mr.
Lindegreen, formerly a merchant of this city, and who
forms a striking contrast to the general habits of her bro-
ther. When it was reported some time since that he was
dead, she came with her son to the shop in Leadenhall-
street, where finding a person placed there instead of her
brother, to take orders, &c. she learned, that having been
ill, he was at the house of a surgeon in Hounsditch, but was
then in a fair Way of recovery.—The cause of his absence,
Was owing to his having scratched his leg with a nail in his
shop; and neglecting it, which rendered a considerable ex-
pence, and the care of a surgeon absolutely indispensable.
Not wishing to go to Hounsditch, on this occasion the
lady, it is said, returned to Chelsea. Mr. B.’s love of
money is so great, that it is reported he never gives any
credit, not even to his nearest relatives, if he can by any
means evade it. Having once kept a servant in the house,
who robbed him, it is said, he determined never to keep
another, excepting to stand at his door j for which it isj
understood he pays but little—-about three-halfpence an
hour 1 An old woman once thus employed, he discharged,
for staying half an hour longer upon her errand than she
had occasion for.—Half an hour, he thought, was too much
time to lose. It is also the office of the person who stands
san at