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ANECDOTE OF THE MARQUIS OF GRANBY.Every person who has ever heard or read of the exploits of the late Marquis of Granby knows that his expenditure was most profuse, and his charities almost without limits. In riding along the lines of the British forces, when he was in the chief command of them on the Continent, he used to throw down ducats to every soldier’s wife who asked him for them, without discrimination. He not only on these occasions spent all the money he had about his own person, but used to borrow promiscuously of every member of his staff who happened to be near him. His Lordship’s generous heart could not bear to keep a person who had asked charity of him a single instant in suspense, and he in consequence drew so lavishly on the pockets of nis staff, borrowing of them so hastily, that he used to forget from whom he had received these momentary loans : that they used to find it convenient either to accompany their General with, in the true sense of the word, “ a soldier’s pocket,” or to make some excuse, as often as possible, not to attend him on his morning rides through the lines. On one of these occasions, a sudden fit of economy seized the Marquis, and on the first soldier’s wife begging of* him that morning, he pulled out a ducat from his pocket, and desired his Aid-de-Camp (Capt, Cartwright) to procure him silver for it. His staff were full of curiosity to see the end of this novels and unexpected circumstance; the woman herself seemed thunderstruck; but of course no remark was made.-— As soon as the Aid-de~Camp had brought the change, he gave it to his General, who was then in conversation with the wo-man, hearing her tale of woe. On receiving the money, the Marquis poured it from one hand to the other, listening attentively to the petitioner’s story, and at last put the whole of the silver that he bad in change for the ducat in her hand*
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London St James Chronicle and General Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Oct 05, 1824
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