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Leicester) a witty writer, a man of fashion, and a 

 duellist, having fought with Mr. Fawkener, Clerk of 

 the Privy Council, whose domestic peace he had dis- 

 turbed, quite like a member of the Jockey Club, in 

 1786 ; Sir Willoughby Aston (very intimate with the 

 Prince of Wales, and a runner of 'yearlings' in 1790 

 and 1791); Sir C. Bampfylde, who was murdered 

 under very painful circumstances in 1823, for having 

 very many years before seduced, it was supposed, 

 the wife of the murderer and suicide (for the murderer 

 immediately shot himself) , and whose son was created 

 Lord Poltimore in 1831 ; Sir Francis Molyneux (who, 

 according to Pigott, first drove mankind to invent the 

 word ' bore ' to describe him, and to perpetuate it as 

 applicable to his kind) ; Mr. Dalrymple (whether of 

 the House of Stair or not, a General, intimate with 

 the Prince of Wales, and known, according to Pigott, 

 as ' Agamemnon the Great ') ; Mr. Buller (the cele- 

 brated Mr. Justice) ; Mr. Dundas (Henry, who became 

 Viscount Melville) ; Mr. Erskine (the Hon. Thomas, of 

 the Buchan family, the celebrated advocate, who be- 

 came Lord Chancellor, having served in early life both 

 in the army and like another celebrated Lord Chan- 

 cellor, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford in 

 the Navy) ; Mr. Fitzpatrick (Colonel and General, the 

 accomplished brother of the second and last Earl of 

 Upper Ossory) ; Mr. Hare (the famous ' Hare of many 

 friends,' who was for many years M.P. for Knares- 

 borough, the intimate of C. J. Fox and Lord Carlisle, 



