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cipate ill the constant depredation upon aa 

 individual. 



• To this prudent decision he was justly 

 influenced by the eagerly expected return of 

 his training groom from a summer expedi- 

 tion, with three running horses of some emi- 

 nence, that had in their excursion of little 

 more than four months, obtained posses- 

 sion of seven iifty-pound-plates. But after 

 having received the different prizes, and 

 discharged all contingent expenses, this 

 FAITHFUL STEWARD, by the dint of 

 arithemetical proficiency, brouglit his mas- 

 ter in debtor, upon the balance, upwards 

 of fifty pounds. This imposition, or rather 

 robbery, too palpable not to be discovered, 

 liis lordship with a degree of liberaUty, 

 superior to persona! altercation, immedi- 

 ately obliterated, and then declared his 'in- 

 flexible determination to discontinue both 

 BREEDING and TR Aixi.\ G ; a resolutiou he 

 steadil}^ persevered in to tlie end of his 

 life; nor has it l)een renewed by either of 

 his successors, though there are in the fa- 

 mily mansion, as excitements, several capital 

 paintings. of many of tiie iv^i horses of 

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