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is Sir James Boswell, to whose honourable 

 name no less than a dozen horses appeared 

 in the calendar, amongst them General 

 Chasse, the best country horse that has 

 been out for some time. Lord Kelburne 

 is an extensive breeder, and had in his stud 

 those celebrated horses Actseon, now the 

 property of his Majesty, and Jerry, by 

 Smolensko, a winner of the Doncaster St. 

 Leger. The principal meeting in Scotland 

 is the Caledonian Hunt Meeting, at which 

 there are a king's plate of one hundred 

 guineas, two cups, and several plates and 

 stakes. The Duke of Buccleugh gives a 

 whip to be run for ; but his grace confines 

 his sporting propensities to the amusements 

 of flood and field. There are also races at 

 Cupar, Dumfries, and Edinburgh where 

 his Majesty gives a plate, and the Duke of 

 Buccleugh fifty pounds, as well as a gold 

 cup by subscription and also at Kelso, 

 where there is a stakes, called the Oats 

 stakes, to which each subscriber contributes 

 five bolls : Dr. Johnson would have pro- 

 nounced this to have been perfectly charac- 

 teristic. 



After the example of England, racing is 



