This eccentric individual, who is recorded on the 23d of May, died in
the workhouse of St. Leonard’s, at Cambridge, on the 16th of September,
1825. He had for many years been in the receipt of an annuity of five
and twenty pounds bequeathed to him by Mr. Gordon, a deceased relative.
Several confinements in the town gaol left Gordon at liberty to write
memoirs of himself, which are in the possession of Mr. W. Mason,
picture-dealer of Cambridge. He may amuse and essentially benefit
society if he publish the manuscripts, accompanied by details drawn from
personal recollections of the deceased biographer, with reflections on
the misapplication of talent and the consequences of self-indulgence. It
is an opportunity whereon to “point a moral, and adorn a tale.”
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