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we entered the private enclosure adjoining the royal box 

 reserved for members and friends. The Prince was to 

 distribute the prizes given in award, and we seated 

 ourselves one on each side of Mr. Lawson, owner of the 

 London Telegraph newspaper. Mr. Lawson had ac- 

 quired much wealth in the publication of his paper, 

 and it was a well credited rumor that Mr. Lawson had 

 lately accommodated the Prince with a loan of ; 100,000 

 as the wants of the royal heir had been much in excess 

 of his large income, and it was estimated at the time 

 of his accession to the throne of England after the 

 decease of Her Majesty the Queen, that his existing 

 personal indebtedness exceeded a million pounds ster- 

 ling, all of which was undoubtedly liquidated from the 

 very large fortune he inherited from his mother upon 

 his becoming King. 



Upon the arrival of the Prince in the royal box, 

 attended by the Duke of Portland and a few equerries, 

 he looked over the adjoining box, which was spacious, 

 as well as his own, and sent his equerries with com- 

 pliments to various prominent parties in the reserved 

 space with invitations to join him in the royal box. 

 Something of a thinning out from the reserved box oc- 

 curred, and Mr. Lawson evidently expected to receive 

 the royal invitation, and seemed to experience an agita- 

 tion palpable to Mr. Lincoln and myself as the thinning 

 out occurred without a royal summons for him, and 

 when an equerry presented an invitation to Mr. Lin- 

 coln and myself, Mr. Lawson rose with us and made 

 his departure from the exhibition. He has, however, 

 been knighted since the Prince became King, and the 

 omission of him from an invitation was doubtless an 

 intended act upon the part of the Prince, since Mr. 



