Samuel Horsey, a famous go-kart, billy in bowl, or sledge beggar. He claimed to have had both legs amputated by the surgeon John Abernathy in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Works at Charing Cross and the door of Coutts Bank. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817.

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