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to, and many bets made in ccnfequence, 

 among our neighbouring friends ; but pre- 

 vious to the day of running, having accepted 

 an invitation to his houfe, he ' there mo ft 

 honourably offered to pay m.e the five and 

 twenty guineas, bejore the race^ if '* I 

 Avould obligingly condefcend to let him w/;^.'* 

 I have a firm and anxious hope, that every 

 iportfman of integrity, whofe feelings vibrate 

 in unifon with my ow^n, and who reads this 

 propofition with the indignation it is recited, 

 will do me the jullice to roniider it more 

 proper, that \\q, WiovX^ conceive^ than becom- 

 ing in m,c to relate, the particulars of my 

 behaviour upon I'uch occafion. It m.ufl fuf- 

 iice to fay, I rode over the courfe without a 

 companion ; and as the match was made 

 PLAY or PAY, received the payment for my 

 confolation. There are numerous and very 

 powerful reafons, why I forbear to make a 

 lingle remark upon this bufinefs ; leaving it 

 entirely, with its infinity of annual jwiilu 

 tudeSy to the different impreffions it m.ay 

 make upon the principles of the different 

 readers to whom it will become a fubjed:. 



This was only a fingle attack, confe- 



z quently 



