The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-03 00:00:00

DLOOMFIELD ALIAS D. SMITH

This town and neighbourhood have this week
liteeti honoured with the visit of a person calling
`himself Dr. Bloomfield, of Clifton, who wears the
garb of a gentleman, and whose practice would, no
doubt, have been extensive, had not urgent neces-
sity obliged him to leave somewhat abruptly. It
scorns that this gentleman rides, a milk-white poavy,
is dressed in black, his hair powdered, a broad gold
ring upon his finger, a bunch of seals, with all
the other decorations of a man of fashion, sur-
mounted by a beaver, twisted and ended, d to mode
de Paris. On Tuesday he called at the cottage
of a labouring man named Lacy, in the parish of
Llanvihangel Torytnynydd, in this county, and
learning that the poor man's wife was in an ill state
of health, he very kindly offered to part with two
bottles of an invaluable medicine (four bottles of
-which he fortunately bed with him, intended for II lady
he was going to see, ) one he generously made the
poor man a present of, the cost of the other to be
12s. 6d. The husband, anxious fer the recovery of
his faithful helpmate, counted out 12s. 6d. of his
hard earnings, and a quart bottle being procured,
two half pint bottles were emptied of the precious
tompoultd, and particular directions given that the
patient should take one tea-spoonfull every four
hours, in about a wine glass full of dandelion and
voltsfoot tea. Mistrustful of its virtues, the poor
Iran and his brother-in law trudged over to Moir-
mouth the next day, to show the physic to a drug-
gist, and finding that it was nothing but the mixture
of a Doctor Humbug, they brought the medicine
and the complaint to cut office, that we might
" put the impostor in the news." Of what ingre-
dients, gentle reader, do you think this valuable
mixture Was composed ? About one penny-worth of
tincture of Benzoin, to a pint of aqua pumpaginis.' In
the afternoon of Tuesday, the Doctor took up quar-
ters at the King's Head Inn, in this town, where he
made himself very agreeable, and where, as every
gentleman fregnenting that house is sure to be, he
VMS hospitably entertained by the worthy host, and
our gentleman enjoyed himself much. While at the
King's Head, a hatter of the town was ushered into
the presence of the doctor of medicine, and a new
hat which the latter had brought with him, was
handed over to have a more fashionable curl put to
it, (which, as the sequel will show, he omitted to
pay for.) Unluckily for Dr. Bloomfield, he was re-
cognized at the White Swan, where he ventured to
call in for a glass of spirits and water, on Tuesday
evening, (after inquiring of a person opposite,
how long the people had lived at the house,
and being wrongly told, about twelve months,)
as the identical. Doctor Smith, who had been
there about four years ago with a pair of white ponies
and aced livery servant—the said Doctor Smith
having, one morning after breakfast, gone out for a
tide, and never returned to partake of a good and
substantial dinner which he had ordered to be put
on the table at four o'clock precisely. Pestered
afterwards at the King's Head by applications from
the White Swan, for sundry items of account un-
discharged by Dr. Smith four years ago, Dr. Bloom-
field evaded the matter that night, honourably dis-
charged his bill on going to bed, and in the morn-
ing, observing to the ostler, to whom he gave di-
rections to look out for another poney for him, as he
should want one for three days, while his own
rested, that there must be a very fine view from the
hill in sight, (the Kymin) felt an inclination to ride
so far before breakfast, and has not been seen since,
leaving ostler, chambermaid, and hatter unpaid, and
the White Swan account in abeyance.—Monmouth.
shire Merlin.