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their time, that had been bred by their dit- 

 ferent predecessors. 



This judicious resignation proved only a 

 voluntary prelude to the wonderful anni- 

 hilation of property that has compulsively 

 followed witli those of less prudence, pe- 

 netration, or resolution ; in corroboration of 

 which, we are prevented by delicacy alone, 

 from an enumeration of even the initials 

 only of the names of many eminent and 

 ennobled characters, (formerly possessed of 

 princely fortunes) who now subsist merely 

 upon the scanty savings from the wreck 

 of indiscretion : stripped of the numerous 

 stud and pompous appendages, to which 

 their' titles were blazoned forth in various 

 lists, of '* the famous high-bred running 

 cattle/' as well as the annual ^' Racing 

 Calendar/' Some few of the right ho- 

 nourable adventurers have escaped the 

 '^ general ruin,'' and fortunately retain their 

 possessions and undiminished studs ; but they 

 are so constantly contracting in number, 

 that they serve only to establish the ad- 

 mitted exception to rulc^; in which we may 



