Published by W. & T. DARTON, May 20th, 1809.

PORTRAIT OF
MR. DANIEL LAMBERT,
WHOSE ASTONISHING WEIGHT PRIOR TO HIS DEATH WAS FIFTY TWO STONE ELEVEN POUNDS,
BEING SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE POUNDS, THE WEIGHT OF SIX ORDINARY PERSONS;
The surprising Circumference of whose Body was Three Yards Four Inches; and of his Leg One Yard and an Inch;
WHO WAS FIVE FEET ELEVEN INCHES IN HEIGHT;
AND THOUGH OF THIS AMAZING SIZE,
ENTIRELY FREE FROM ANY CORPORAL DEFECT.

THIS very remarkable personage received his birth in Leicester, at which place he was apprenticed to an Engraver. Until he arrived at the age of twenty years, he was not of a more than usual size, but after that period he began gradually to encrease in bulk, and continued to do so until the day of his death. He was much accustomed to exercise in the early part of his life, and excelled in walking, riding, and shooting; and more particularly devoted himself to field exercises, as he found himself inclined to vulgarity; but to the great astonishment of his acquaintance, it proved not only unavailing, but really seemed to produce a directly opposite effect. Mr. LAMBERT was generally in full possession of perfect health, and whether sitting, lying, standing, or walking, was quite at his ease, and required no more attendance than any common sized person. He enjoyed his night's repose, though he did not indulge himself in bed longer than the refreshment of sleep continued. He was particularly abstemious with regard to diet, and for nearly fifteen years had not taken any liquor, either with or after his meals, but water alone. His manners were most pleasing; he was well informed, affable, and polite; and having a manly countenance, and prepossessing address, he was exceedingly admired by his acquaintance, and those who had the pleasure of conversing with him. His strength (it is worthy of observation,) bore a near proportion to his wonderful appearance. About eleven years ago he carried more than 400 weight and an half, as a trial of his ability, though quite unaccustomed to labour. His parents were not beyond the moderate size, and his sisters, who are still living, are by no means unusually tall or large. A suit of cloaths cost him twenty pounds, so great a quantity of materials were requisite for their completion.

It is reported that among those who have recently seen him was a gentleman weighing twenty stone. He seemed to suffer much from his great size and weight. Mr. LAMBERT on his departure observed, that he would not (even were it possible) change situations with him for ten thousand pounds. He visited London twice, and first left his native town for that purpose, (to the regret of many) on Saturday April 4, 1806, in a carriage built on purpose; and on his arrival in Loudon took apartments in Piccadilly, where he saw and conversed with company every day excepting Sundays.

On his second visit, his apartments were in Leicester Square; and after his again

departure he visited many popolons cities and towns in different parts of the kingdom, until he reached Stamford, there intending to receive the visits of the curious who might attend the ensuing races. On Tuesday evening he sent a message to the office of the Stamford paper, requesting that, as "the mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain." Or in other words, that the printer would call upon him to receive an order for executing some hand bills, announcing Mr. LAMBERT's arrival, and his desire to see company.

The orders he gave upon that occasion were delivered without any presentiment that they were to be his last, and with his usual cheerfulness. He was in bed--one of large dimensions--("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 next morning.

Before nine o'clock on that morning, however, (Wednesday, June the 21st, 1809,) he was a corpse! nature had endured all the trespass she could admit: the poor man's corpulence had constantly increased, until, at the time we have mentioned, the clogged machinery of life stood still, and this prodigy of Mammon was numbered with the dead.

He was in his 40th year: and upon being weighed, within a few days by the famous Caledonian balance, was found to be 52 stone 11 pounds in weight (14lb. to the stone), which is 10 stone 11lb. more than the great Mr. Bright of Essex ever weighed.--He had apartments at Mr. Berridge's, the Waggon and Horses, in St. Martin's, on the ground floor-- for he had long been incapable of walking up stairs.

His coffin, in which there has been great difficulty 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 Museum, would not nearly contain this immense sheer hulk.

The coffin which consisted of 112 superficial feet of elm, was built upon two axletrees and 4 cog wheels; and upon these the remains of the poor man, after the wall of the house had been taken down, were drawn by eight men with ropes, and rolled into his grave. His funeral being on the market day, hundreds of Spectators attended it.

London: Printed and Published, August 1st, 1809, by W. and T. DARTON, No. 58, Holborn Hill.