The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-06-26 00:00:00

DEATH OF MR. LAMBERT.

Mr. Daniel Limbert, the huge man, died, in
Stamford, at 8 o'clock on Wednesday last. lie
had travelled from Huntingdon to that town. On
Tuesday evening he sent a message to the office of
the Stanford newspaper, requesting that, as " the
mountain could nut wait non Mahornet, Maho-
met would go to the mountain"---or, in other
words, that the printer would call upon him, and
receive an order fur executing some handbills, an.
nounciug Mr. Lambert's arrival., and his desire to
see company. The orders he gave upon that oc-
casion were deliviaed without any preseutiment
that they were to be his last, and with his usual
cheerfulness. He was in bed—one of large di.
mensions-4" Ossa upon Olympus, and Pelion
upon Ossa")---fatigued with his journey ; but
anxious that the bills might be quickly printed, in
order to his seeing company neat morning. Before
nine o'clock, on that morning, however, be was a
corpse ! Nature had endured all the trespass she
could admit : the poor man's corpulency had
constantly increased, until, at the time we base
mentioned, the clogged machinery of life *rood
still, and this prodigy of Mammon was numbered
with the dead ! • I

Ho was in his 40th year; and upon being
weighed, within a few days, by the famous Cale-
donian balance (in the possession of Mr. King, of
Ipswich), was found to be 52 stone 11 lbs. in
weight (14 lbs. to the stone), which is 10 stone
11 lbs.. more than the great Mr. Bright, of Essex,
ever wcightxl. Ile bad apartments at Mr. Ber-
ridge's, the Waggon and Horses, in St. Martin's,
on the ground Moor—fur he had been long ince.
peble of walking up stain. His colku, in which
there has been great dilificelty of placing him, is 6
feet 4 inches long, 4 feet 4 inches wide, and 2.
feet 4 inches deep: the immense substance of his
legs makes it necessarily almost a square case.
The celebrated Sarcophagus of Alexander, viewed
with so much admiration at the British Misseam,
would not nearly contain thisimaselise sheer hulk.
The Mau, which consists of 112 superficial
feet of elm, is built upon two sale-trees and four
clog wheels; and upon these the remains of the
pour man will be rutted into his grave; which, we
understand, is to be in the new burial.grountl at
the back of St. Martin's church. A regular de-
scent will be made, by cutting away the earth ski-
piney for sonic distance. The window and wall
of the room in which he lies must be taken down
to allow his exit.--He was to have been buried at
eight o'clock on Friday morning.

The dangerous consequences likely to result
from aleopistg in an out.bouse, during a state of
intoxication, were singularly exemplified on 'Chars.
day last.—A labourer, in the employ of Mr.
LAYBOURN, of Whitney, near Oxford, having
retired greatly inebriated, to recover from a de-
bauch, was attacked by some rats. The liquor
and sleep bad so overpowered the unfortunate
man, that be was incapable either of repelling
these, or eating fur assistance. He continued in
an agonized state for two hours, when his groans
attracted the notice of a person passing the dour,
and who, on entering. found a number of rats' of
a large pp s, essensbled round the feet of the
sufferer' 'eters of whose toes bad been entirely dc-
reared by them.