Old Hewson and Smollett's "Strap."

Perhaps the enclosed extract from an old newspaper of April, 1809, will throw some light upon this subject: "SMOLLETT'S CELEBRATED HUGH STRAP. "On Sunday was interred, in the burial-ground of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the remains of Hugh Hewson, who died at the age of 85. The deceased was a man of no mean celebrity. He had passed more than forty years in the parish of St. Martin's, and kept a hair-dresser's shop, being no less a personage than the identical *Hugh Strap*, whom Dr. Smollett rendered so conspicuously interesting in his life and adventures of Roderick Random. The deceased was a…