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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



THE JUDGE AT NEWMARKET. 



Mr Clark, who is now Judge of the greater 

 number of the principal South-country Meet- 

 ings, officiated for the first time in the Chair 

 at the Newmarket July Meeting 1822. He 

 now attends and decides at the following 

 places : viz. Newmarket, Epsom, Ascot, 

 Goodwood, Lewes, Chelmsford, Bath, and 

 Brighton, and occasionally also at Egham and 

 Abingdon. 



The present Judge, at the period above 

 stated, succeeded his father, Mr. Clark, senior, 

 who had filled the situation, conferred upon 

 him by the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the 

 Jockey Club, with the greatest integrity and 

 satisfaction during a period of sixteen years, 

 viz. from the Newmarket Craven Meeting 

 1806, until that of Epsom 1822. He was also 

 many years Judge of the Bibury and Kings- 

 cote Clubs, and attended Stamford Races 

 professionally, as well as the places above 

 enumerated. This octogenarian arbiter still 

 figures at the " head-quarters" of Racing as 

 " mine host" of the Greyhound at New- 

 market ; a useless intimation to such as are 

 in the habit of frequenting the place. To those, 

 however, who are not quite so well informed 

 upon this point, we would earnestly recom- 

 mend a trial, as it is said that Mr. Clark's 

 larder and wines are excellent, and accom- 

 panied by attention and comfort ; and not 

 least, though last, moderate charges, which 

 are rarely concomitant at Race Meetings. 



In the Chair he assumes the tripartite cha- 

 racter of witness and Jury, as well as Judge : 

 from his fiat there is no appeal. No after- 

 quibbles, no writs of certiorari, no moves for 

 rules for new trials, occur from his decisions ; 

 and if he enjoys the enviable and proud dis- 



tinction above his learned brethren in escapmg 

 the vexation consequent upon attempts to 

 abrogate his sentences, how infinitely happier 

 are his decrees as to consequences ! Fortu- 

 nately for his feelings, he is not called upon to 

 pronounce a doom which shall entail either 

 loss of liberty, expatriation, or the more awful 

 atonement of an ignominious death, spreading 

 humiliation and dis^grace upon surviving rela- 

 tives and connexions. 



In speaking of the subject of this brief 

 memoir during his public career, such have 

 been his accuracy and quickness of eye, and 

 so great the reliance placed upon his integrity 

 and honour, that his decisions have been rarely 

 questioned. 



napoleon's horse. 



This little Horse is interesting as having 

 been the last that Napoleon ever rode, and 

 almost the first his present Royal owner 

 (Prince George of Cumberland) crossed, at 

 least the first on which he took his lessons and 

 military evolutions. He is a beautiful little 

 chesnut stallion, bred at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and purchased by the late Lord Charles 

 Somerset, then Governor there, and sent to 

 St. Helena for the Ex-Emperor, and was the 

 only Horse he rode in that Island. After 

 Napoleon's death, and on the breaking up of 

 his establishment in the Island, the Horse was 

 brought to this country, and presented to the 

 young Prince by His late Majesty George the 

 Fourth : he is very old, of a perfectly docile 

 temper, yet with high courage, and, like all 

 well-bred Horses, of a lasting and hardy con- 

 stitution. Such is the attachment and feelings 

 of the young Prince to this noble animal, that 

 orders have been given for his declining years 

 to be made easy and comfortable, ranginjf in 



