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on the capital of the Moguls, Sir John Lawrence, 

 impatient at the delay, wired to him, " Clubs are trumps, 

 not spades? Anson took the hint to strike, but died of 

 cholera when he was yet forty-seven miles distant from 

 Delhi. 



Here is Captain Ross's account of the great match : 

 " The Ross and Anson match was made in a boat 

 on the Thames, the party being Lord de Ros, Colonel 

 Anson, and myself. Time, month of July, 1828 ; place, 

 between the Red House and Whitehall. Lord de Ros 

 said that it was evident no one had a chance against me 

 at pigeons, and asked, * Had I equal confidence in my 

 power of shooting at game ? ' I replied that I thought 

 I was able to hold my own against any man I had 

 yet seen in the field ; that I had no objection to put the 

 matter to a fair test ; and that I would make a match to 

 shoot game against any man in Great Britain, and allow 

 his lordship till next shooting season to fix on his man. 

 Lord de Ros said that a match at game in covert- 

 shooting was a very uncertain affair, as it was hardly 

 possible so to arrange it as to give both parties fair 

 play ; that he thought on the whole a match at 

 partridges was the most likely arrangement by which 

 two great shots could try their powers ; that he had 

 rented some very good shooting quarters in Suffolk 

 (Mildenhall) ; that he thought we might settle on 

 a match to come off there ; and that he would do 

 his best to make it a pleasant party. After a little 

 further conversation we had arranged everything ; in 

 fact, it was all settled before we reached Whitehall 

 Stairs. The terms were that on November ist I should 



