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cipate in the coriflant depredation upon an 

 individual. 



To this prudent decifion, he was juftly 

 influenced by the eagerly expected return of 

 his training groom from a fumm.er expedition, 

 with three running horfes of fome emi- 

 nence, that had in their excurfion of little 

 more than four months, obtained poffef- 

 fion of feven fifty pound plates. But after 

 having received the different prizes, and 

 difcharged all contingent expences, this 

 FAITHFUL STEWARD, by the dint of 

 arithmetical proficiency, brought his Maf- 

 ter in debtor, upon the balance^ upwards 

 of fifty pounds. This impofition (or rather 

 robbery) too palpable not to be difcovered, 

 his Lordfhip, with a degree of liberality 

 fuperior to perfonal altercation, immedi- 

 ately obliterated, and then declared his in- 

 flexible determination to difcontinue both 

 BREEDING and TRAINING, a refolutioit 

 he fteadily perfevered in io the end of his 

 life ; nor has it been renewed by either of 

 his fucceffors, though there are in the fa- 

 mily manfion, as excitements, feveral capital 

 paintings of many of the firft horfes of 



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