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butcher did get at him one day, by accident, and would 

 not leave him until he had been paid his long-standing 

 account. But when it was paid, and the receipt duly 

 signed, his lordship drew on a glove, and, taking up the 

 pen which had been used for the purpose, threw it out of 

 the window, in utter contempt for ' such a mean action ' 

 as a man's asking for his own. 



I remember that, in regard to one question largely 

 affecting society, his lordship held a distinct individual 

 opinion. He thought that any restraint on unfortunates 

 would be a far greater social evil than any created by 

 permitting them freedom of action. He reasoned that 

 if restraint were used, the respectable part of Society 

 would meet with much greater molestation and annoy- 

 ance than they are now subjected to. Curiously, for 

 some cause or other, his lordship was always late at any 

 civic feast or banquet which he attended, and invariably 

 excused himself by saying, ' Public business must be 

 attended to, your Eoyal Highness,' or whoever may have 

 been presiding. Such were some of the doings of a 

 nobleman who lived to a good old age, died in harness, 

 lamented by the whole nation, and was accorded a public 

 funeral. 



Sir Lewin Glyn was rather before my time, for I see 

 that he commenced racing in 1828. I have always 

 heard him spoken of as a gentleman who was fond of the 

 sport, and whose conduct was above suspicion. He had 

 Recruit, Jenny Vertpre, and many others that did him 

 good service, considering the smallness of his stud. Be- 

 yond this brief record I have little to say ; but I call to 

 mind that in those early days both himself and my father 

 were grossly libelled in a scurrilous print, known as The 

 Penny Satirist. This was what appeared : 



' John Day pulled up the Duke of Graf ton's mare in a 



