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to, and many bets made in consequence, 

 among our neighbouring friends ; but pre- 

 vious to the day of running, having accepted 

 an invitation to his house, he there jnost 

 honourably offered to pay me the five-and- 

 twenty guineas, before the race, if ^' I would 

 obHgingly condescend to let him xvin'* I 

 have a firm and anxious hope, that every 

 sportsman of integrity, whose feelings vibrate 

 in unison with my own, and who reads this, 

 proposition wdth the indignation it is recited^ 

 will do me the justice to consider it more 

 proper that he should conceive, than becom- 

 ing in me to relate, the particulars of my 

 behaviour upon such occasion. It must suf- 

 fice to say, I rode oyer the course without a 

 companion ; and as the match was made 

 PLAY or PAY, received the payment for my 

 consolation. There are numerous and very 

 powerful reasons why I forbear to make a 

 single remark upon this business; leaving it 

 entirely, with its infinity of annual swiili-' 

 tudes, to the different impressions it may 

 make upon the principles of the different 

 readers to whom it will become subject. 



This was only a single attack, consequently 



