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476 ANECDOTES OF JOSEPH CAPPER, ESQ.
saved from the pint he had at dinner. From this (Eco-
nomical plan he never deviated. His bill for a fortnight
amounted regularly to 41. 18s. He called himself the
Champion of Government, and his greatest glory was
certainly his Country and King. He joined in all sub-
scriptions which tended to the aid of Government. He
was exceedingly choleric, and nothing raised his anger
so soon as declaiming against the British Constitution.
In the parlour he kept his favourite chair,' and there he
would often amuse himself with satirising the customers
or the landlord, if he could make his jokes tell better.
It was his maxim never to join in general conversation,
but to interrupt it whenever he could say any thing ill-
natured. Mr. Capper’s conduct to his relations was ex-
ceedingly capricious; he never would see any of them.
As they were chiefly in indigent circumstances, he had
frequent applications from them to borrow money. “ Are
they industrious?” he would enquire; when being an-
swered in the affirmative, he would add, “ Tell them I
have been deceived already, and never will advance a
sixpence by way of loan, but I will give them the sum
they want; and if ever I hear they make known the cir-
cumstance, I will cut them off with a shilling.”
Soon after Mr. Townsend became landlord of the
Horns, he had an opportunity of making a few good
ready money purchases, and applied to the old man for
a temporary loan :—“ i wish,” said he, “ to serve you,
Townsend; you seem an industrious fellow; but how is
it to be done, Mr. Townsend ? I have sworn never to
lend, I must therefore give it thee;” which he accord-
ingly did the following day. Mr. Townsend proved
grateful for this mark of liberality, and never ceased to
administer to him every comfort the house would afford;
and what was, perhaps, more gratifying to the old man,
he indulged him in his eccentricities.
Mr.
saved from the pint he had at dinner. From this (Eco-
nomical plan he never deviated. His bill for a fortnight
amounted regularly to 41. 18s. He called himself the
Champion of Government, and his greatest glory was
certainly his Country and King. He joined in all sub-
scriptions which tended to the aid of Government. He
was exceedingly choleric, and nothing raised his anger
so soon as declaiming against the British Constitution.
In the parlour he kept his favourite chair,' and there he
would often amuse himself with satirising the customers
or the landlord, if he could make his jokes tell better.
It was his maxim never to join in general conversation,
but to interrupt it whenever he could say any thing ill-
natured. Mr. Capper’s conduct to his relations was ex-
ceedingly capricious; he never would see any of them.
As they were chiefly in indigent circumstances, he had
frequent applications from them to borrow money. “ Are
they industrious?” he would enquire; when being an-
swered in the affirmative, he would add, “ Tell them I
have been deceived already, and never will advance a
sixpence by way of loan, but I will give them the sum
they want; and if ever I hear they make known the cir-
cumstance, I will cut them off with a shilling.”
Soon after Mr. Townsend became landlord of the
Horns, he had an opportunity of making a few good
ready money purchases, and applied to the old man for
a temporary loan :—“ i wish,” said he, “ to serve you,
Townsend; you seem an industrious fellow; but how is
it to be done, Mr. Townsend ? I have sworn never to
lend, I must therefore give it thee;” which he accord-
ingly did the following day. Mr. Townsend proved
grateful for this mark of liberality, and never ceased to
administer to him every comfort the house would afford;
and what was, perhaps, more gratifying to the old man,
he indulged him in his eccentricities.
Mr.