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members of this long-established club, which affords 

 so vast an amount of pleasure to the numberless 

 admirers of coaching who attend these festive 

 gatherings. Nor were these the only members of 

 the Royal family who were present ; for their Royal 

 Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh 

 drove up in an open carriage, drawn by four 

 clever ponies, ridden by postillions, with outriders 

 preceding. 



The coaches being marshalled into position, were 

 started in the following order : — First, the Treasurer 

 of the Club, Lord Aveland, who, in the absence of 

 his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, the President, 

 headed the procession, followed in succession by Sir 

 Henry Tufton, General Dickson, Count Munster, 

 Lord Poltimore, Mr. H. W. Eaton, Colonel Stacey 

 Clitheroe, Sir Thomas Peyton, Colonel Williams, 

 Major Percival — who drove Colonel Ewart's drag ; 

 Viscount Castlereagh, Captain Needham— tooling 

 the coach of the 1st Life Guards ; Sir Henry Meysey- 

 ThompsOn, Captain Bastard — a thorough good 

 coachman, who performed on the coach of Mr. Vil- 

 liers, handling four handsome, young, and rather 

 raw bay nags in a very workmanlike form ; Lord 

 Londesborough — Avith a coach-load of distinguished 

 passengers, handling his handsome, well-appointed 

 team in his customary scientific manner; Lord 

 Charles Beresford, and last, and certainly not least, 

 Lord Carington, whose blood-like and good-looking 

 team, though in the rear this day, are usually found 

 as they should be, in the front rank. The number 

 attending was small — seventeen in all ; but I never 

 remember seeing a meeting more successfully carried 



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