Sir John M‘Mahon left a large personal property, amounting to £90,000. One of his bequests is thus worded: “To Thomas Marrable, a dear and esteemed friend, £2000; and with my last prayers for the glory and happiness of the best-hearted man in the world, the Prince Regent, I bequeath him the said Thomas Marrable, an invaluable servant”. The latter was a member of the household of King George IV., and one of his confidential agents. A full-length portrait of him as one of the procession is given in Sir G. Nayler’s history of the coronation of that monarch.
Among Gillray’s Caricatures is an amusing one, engraved but not designed by him, published in 1804, representing the Heir-Apparent, mounted on a tall horse, with the much smaller person of M‘Mahon consequentially riding on a diminutive steed at his side, passing the gates of Carlton House. The quotation from Burns engraved on it suggests that the Prince might still prove a worthy occupant of the throne.—Ed.]
[82]. [As if written by Robert Adair, who had previously indited “Half a Letter to Mr. Fox”.]
[[83]]Non usitatâ nec tenui ferar
Pennâ biformis per liquidum æthera
Vates.
[[84]]——Non ego, quem vocas
Dilecte, Mæcenas, obibo,
[[85]]Nec Stygiâ cohibebor undâ.
[[86]]Jamjam residunt cruribus asperæ