Siege of Washington, D.C., written expressly for little people
Title: Siege of Washington, D.C. Author: F. Colburn Adams Release Date: November, 2003 [Etext #4668] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 26, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of Siege of Washington, D.C. by F. Colburn Adams ******This file should be named sgedc10.txt or sgedc10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, sgedc11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, sgedc10a.txt
presented them to him, it frequently happened that his avidity exceeded
their zeal, insomuch that he would prostrate himself upon the ground to
lap up the water, of which he could never have enough." And the
nightmare incidents of the Arabian tale all culminate in a most terrible
heartburn. Could the conception of Vathek have first come to the son
after a City dinner?
Though a magnificent host, the elder Beckford was no glutton. In the
year of his first Mayoralty, 1763, Beckford, stood by the side of
Alderman Wilkes, attacked for his No. 45 of _The North_ _Briton_. As
champion of the popular cause, when he had been again elected to the
Mayoralty, Beckford, on the 23rd of May, 1770, went up to King George the
Third at the head of the Aldermen and Livery with an address which the
king snubbed with a short answer. Beckford asked leave to reply, and
before His Majesty recovered breath from his astonishment, proceeded to
reply in words that remain graven in gold upon his monument in Guildhall.
Young Beckford, the author of "Vathek," was then a boy not quite eleven
years old, an only son; and he was left three years afterwards, by his
father's death, heir to an income of a hundred thousand a year, with a
million of cash in hand.
During his minority young Beckford's mother, who was a granddaughter of
the sixth Earl of Abercorn, placed him under a private tutor. He was
taught music by Mozart; and the Earl of Chatham, who had been his
father's friend, thought him so fanciful a boy--"all air and fire"--that
Title: Siege of Washington, D.C. Author: F. Colburn Adams Release Date: November, 2003 [Etext #4668] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 26, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of Siege of Washington, D.C. by F. Colburn Adams ******This file should be named sgedc10.txt or sgedc10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, sgedc11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, sgedc10a.txt