Note 56 — IV TOPHAM BEAUCLERK 1739-1780 AND BENNET LANGTON 1741-1800
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It is a pity he did not live to read the jolly American Ballad of Bon Gaultier, which seems to have a sort of muddled clairvoyant knowledge of this transaction:
“Every day the huge Cawana Lifted up its monstrous jaws; And it swallowed Langton Bennet,(!) And digested Rufus Dawes.
“Riled, I ween, was Philip Slingsby Their untimely deaths to hear; For one author owed him money,(!) And the other loved him dear.”