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the vehicle he is about to ascend. He in- 

 variably casts his scrutinising eye over his 

 horses, his harness, and his carriage, and, if 

 the least thing be out of place, detects it in 

 an instant ; nay, more, he will assist in putting 

 to the horses ; and, if I required an illustration 

 of what I have asserted, I should find it in 

 the person of the Duke of Beaufort, who, at 

 the sale of Sir Thomas Barrett Leunard's 

 hunters, last October, before mounting the box, 

 aided in putting the team together, and, when 

 his Grace ascertained that all was right, started 

 off in a manner that would have gratified the 

 heart of Sir Henry Peyton had he been alive 

 to witness it. 



