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call for assistance, he had to remain there, ruminating 

 over past pleasures, till discovered in the morning by one 

 of his labourers, attracted to the spot by his moans. 

 Assistance was got, and, terrible and unpleasant as his 

 experience in the night hours had been, he recovered 

 from its effects with the vigour of a good constitution. 

 It resulted, however, in shortening his leg, and in his 

 subsequent lameness. But, beyond this slight disfigure- 

 ment, the fall appeared to have done him no harm ; for 

 he lived many years afterwards, in the enjoyment of 

 buoyant spirits and the full possession of his faculties 

 and physical health, retaining to the end his love for the 

 alluring society of the other sex. He died at his seat at 

 Stockton, when he must have been about ninety. 



Lord Palmerston kept horses with my father about 

 the year 1817, and had several good ones. Amongst his 

 early possessions may be mentioned Enchantress, Ean- 

 villes, Biondetta, Luzborough, Black and All Black, Fox- 

 lury, and Grey Leg ; and, later, Toothill, Iliona, Zeila, 

 Homsey, Dactyl, and Buckthorn. But I think that, in 

 racing circles, he will be better known as the owner of 

 Iliona than by any other. The name of Priam's daughter, 

 on her appearance in public, caused a sensation among 

 the most learned orthoepists. A discussion took place as 

 to the proper pronunciation between the then Lord 

 Maidstone and Mr. Gregory, who, now Sir William, and 

 just returned home from many years' foreign service in 

 good health, was in those days fresh from Alma Mater. 

 The dispute ended, as I think most disputes of a like 

 kind do, by each advocate thinking he was in the right. 

 But a greater sensation was created when she won for 

 Lord Palmerston his first Cesare witch. In early life his 

 lordship was always credited with being poor ; and, until 

 he married, anything like a substantial cheque was 



