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that RIDERS may be felefted, who will prove 

 inviolably faithful to the didlates of this 

 party ; that could ?iot or would not reconcile 

 an honourable attachment to the firft no- 

 blemen in the kingdom. Thefe are the in- 

 fernal . deceptions and ad:s of villainy upon 

 THE TURF, that have driven noblemen, gen- 

 tlemen, and fportfmen of honour, from what 

 are called country courfers to their afylum of 

 NEWMARKET ; whcrc, by the excluiion of 

 THE FAMILY from their clubs, and their 

 horfes from their subscriptions, sweep- 

 stakes, and matches, they render them- 

 felves invulnerable to the often envenomed 

 iliafts of the moft premeditated (and in ge- 

 neral well executed) villainy. 



Without entering into- a tedious defcrip- 

 tion of the many poffible means by which 

 depredations are committed upon the pro- 

 perty of individuals, whom falhion or incli- 

 nation prompts to fport their money upon 

 fuch occafions ; yet, to render thefe villainous 

 pradliices more fimiliar to the minds of thofe 

 w^ho may increduloufly doubt the poffibi- 

 lity of deceptions of this kind, inftances 

 muft be adduced to eftablifli the certainty, 



