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Repository are journey horses, or 
hacks, «carriage horses of all deserip- 
tions; occasionally all sorts: the sale 
day, Wednesday. The chief City Re- 
positories are, Dixon’s, in Barbican, 
and Sadler’s, in Goswell Street; their 
sale days, Tuesday and Friday. The 
Christmas Cattle Shows are held at 
Sadler’s. The Barbican Repository, 
formerly held by Langhorne, is of long 
standing, and, I believe, preceded Tat- 
tersall’s. Carriages are there sold, and 
great numbers of inferior low-priced 
horses, particularly those from the pub- 
lic roads. 
- -Tattersall’s, at Hyde Park Corner, 
was founded about the year 1760, by 
the grandfather of the present gentle- 
man. The first Tattersall had been 
clerk and chief manager to Mr. Beavor, 
and afterwards became steward to a 
noble duke, whose service he soon 
quitted. There is an excellent portrait 
of him in the Sporting Magazine, with 
a memoir, at considerable length, by a 
barrister, his old crony. Tattersall was 
a man of a very respectable appearance 
and demeanor, and singular character ; 
the chief point in which was a saving 
grace. He spoke little, but always to 
the purpose. This trait never forsook 
him in the pulpit; where, however, his 
brief but pithy oratory was universally 
admired. He was the great favourite, 
to his death, of all our highest classed 
sporting Corinthians ; and, in his time, 
toe oracle of Newmarket. Tattersall, 
truly his own faber fortune, clenched 
the nail in the purchase, at six thou- 
sand guineas, from Lord Bolingbroke, of 
the celebrated race-horse Highflyer, in 
1777, named from a walnut, so called 
in Suffolk. This horse was bred by 
Sir Charles Bunbury, late the father of 
the course, and unwarily sold by him, 
when a yearling, at a very inconsider- 
able price, perhaps about seventy or 
eighty guineas. On the mansion of the 
estate, which Mr. Tattersall subse- 
quently purchased in Cambridgeshire, 
of Mr, Potter, of cheap bread and Col- 
chester election memory, he bestowed 
the name of Highflyer Hall. 
_ During the life of old Mr. Tattersall, 
the Repositery had reached its height, 
as.a place of general resort, and for ex- 
tent of business, particularly in sporting 
horses, breeding studs, sporting dogs, 
and carriages. ‘The greater part of the 
commerce in horses, for exportation, 
was also transacted there. His son, 
the late Mr. Tattersall, succeeded: to, 
and retained a vast business. At this 
Monruty Maa. No. 407. 
Repositories of the Metropolis. 
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Repository, exclusive of every animal 
in the sporting line, are to be found 
horses of all kinds, cart horses except- 
ed, which are seldom seen there; the 
Eastern or City Repositories, adjoining 
Smithfield Market, are the places of 
sale for these. 
The sale days, at Tattersall’s, formerly 
on Monday, and Thursday, were after~ 
wards confined to Monday, but of late 
the Thursday’s sale has been reyived. 
The viewing days from Saturday to 
Monday, before twelve o’clock, when 
the sale commences. The horses may 
be viewed on Sunday forenoon, but not 
led out of the stables. Trials are al- 
lowed in the yard and the ring, which 
is a very convenient ride. Formerly, 
a trial was allowed in Hyde Park, but 
I believe that custom is discontinued. 
There is a subscription room, occupied 
chiefly by professional betters on the 
turf. The subscription is twenty-five 
shillings yearly, commencing January 
Ist, five shillings of which go to the 
clerk. Commission and tax on the sale 
of horses, at the hammer, two shillings 
in the pound; on private contract, one 
shilling in the pound; on horses put 
up to auction, but not sold, three shil- 
lmgs each; keep, three shillings 4nd 
six-pence per night each horse. 
The Horse Bazaar, formerly barracks, 
King Street, Portman Square, was 
opened for the sale of horses and car- 
riages by- auction, in 1822, by Mr. 
George Young. It is the most exten- 
sive and splendid establishment, hither-" 
to known in the world for such pur- 
poses, and well merits inspection, if only 
from the motive of mere curiosity. The 
immense increase, of late years, in the 
population and commercial opulence of 
this country, with the concomitant oyer- 
flow of capital, necessarily demand and 
stimulate every possible addition to 
convenience and luxurious accommo- 
dation. Thence the origin of the 
Bazaar; which, notwithstanding the 
bold and unlimited expenditure with 
which it is conducted, has, it is averred, 
been hitherto successful. The plant is 
quadrangular, inclosing two acres of 
ground. The whole originally con- 
sisted of stabling, shew rooms for car- 
riages, sadlery and harness, riding house, 
farriery, auction range, with the quad- 
rangle and straight rides for the exer- 
cise and shew of the horses. Altera- 
tions, additions and improvements have, 
however, been made, to a vast extent, 
within the last twelvemonths. The 
space above stairs, allotted to the car- 
s riage, 
