The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

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ROTWIICHU.D'iI BAP& —Notwithatand ing his avarice In
ordinary life, Nathan Rothschild was fond of showing
his wealth in luxurious entertainments and sumptuous
banquets, to which be invited the aristocracy of rank
and birth—though not that of Went. Peers and
primes of the blood mat at his table; bishops and
archbishops bowel before him; and those who preached
loudest against Mammon were foremost in worshipping
the successful representstive of the golden guinea. At
hie grand entertainments, Nathan, who was • very
uneducated man, and scarcely able to write, covered hi.
igmorance by an affected brusgorrie of speech and
manner which, though it imposed on some, made him
extremely ludicrous in thee's, of °them Thus he was
• constant merit for the satirists of the day. His huge
and slovealy appearance; the lounging attitude assumed
when leaning against his pillar at the Royal Exchange;
his rugged speech, with etrong'y marked Jewish
&mot and idiom, made caricature easy, and gave him
up • helpless victim to his enemies. Of these he bad
many—louse of them meted, no doubt, by envy—but
also • large number of others whom he bed rained, or
who fancied themselves raised by him. Few weeks
pared in the latter part of his caner without his re-
vering threatening letters, informing him that unless
he should deposit • certain sass of money at a given
Ose. he would be shot or pole:used, or, more thornily,
blown up in his hoses in Piccadilly. These threat+
sesetistee took each an effect upon Nathan guubeebild
as to haunt his. bite a 'tighteners. One day, two tall
ormalsohiood noes it mutt be remembered that
this was the aati-sitonstaoltioed period were
I shown into his private parker at the 81,.
lan* ectuating-boarm. Nathan bowed' the visitors
' bowed. Nathan arose; and his bearded visitors
moved close no to him, their heads fumbling about in
the pockets of their uretst•oosts. Nathan saw it at
• gimes—the moustaeltioed fellows had come to shoot
him, their booth tearohiag for deadly weapons in their
pooksaa Quick as lightning. Nathan took up bin
brass-bowed lodger and hurled it at the heads of the
strangers, at the same time screaming " Murder I o is
• parozynn of fright. The somas brought all the
clerks and porters of the hones into the sanctum of the
millionaire. Explanations took pisse, when it was
found that the two mouei.cbioed strangers were rioh
bankers from abroad, who, with • little nervous
anxiety in the pressmen of the Cm-ar if the Stock En.
cheap, had fumbled in their pockets for ltoth-rs of in-
troduetion and other nosessary credentials. "You must
be • Nippy man, Mr. Rothschild." said ones • gentleman
sitting at MANLY' benumpting table, and glancing
around at the superb appointments of the mansion of
his beet. "Happy I—me happy?- was the reply,
"What? bappy, when just as you are going to dine
you hare • letter placed in your bands, saying, you
do not mad me 1:500. I will blow your Mains out I'
Happy! me4py r—lnsheed of with his wife, Nathaa
frognsistly with • lair of loaded *Sole by We sade.
' Pow Noakes &Woo Aim