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parties at Doncaster might well nigh have heard the 

 ringing shout, as the Prince, with the present Earl 

 Fitzwilliam in his arms, stepped forth into the por- 

 tico, and gave " The King's Health," " Happiness to 

 the People/' and ' ' Prosperity to the Manufactures of 

 Yorkshire/' as his toast, through a speaking-trumpet. 

 Tot's Doncaster Cup victory formed a sporting finale 

 to the visit, in the course of which Traveller was 

 added to the royal string for 1,500 guineas. 



The Duke's stud of thirty-two animals, including 

 seven hacks and ten grey ponies, was brought to the 

 hammer on February 5th, 1827, just three months 

 from the date of his death. The Duke of Richmond 

 gave 1,100 guineas for Moses, who was very beautiful 

 in every point except his feet, which were sadly in- 

 firm ; while Mr. Payne bought Figaro, who had run 

 Moses in for the Derby, at 200 guineas more. The 

 King also gave 560 guineas for Rachel ; but racers 

 hacks, carriages, and dogs, only produced 8,804 

 guineas a mere molehill,, compared with the 

 Skiddaw-like pile of debts which he left behind him. 

 Rundell and Bridge, his jewellers, had such an ac- 

 count, that Cape Breton was ceded to them in lieu 

 of it by the Government of the day : and his taste in 

 their line may be judged of by the fact that his rifle, 

 which brought fifty guineas, had a gold pan and 

 touch-hole. 



Nimrod has dashed off Colonel Mellish's whole 

 contour with such a masterly hand, that our own 

 touches would seem clownish after it. We will there- 

 fore simply add that that quick-looking, pale-faced, 

 and black-haired "Crichton" measured 5 feet 10 

 inches, and weighed list. 71bs. He was no Sir Fop- 

 ling Flutter, either in dress or mind ; and his friend, 

 the late Earl of Scarboro' was never more delighted 

 than when he heard him set two disputatious young 

 Oxford divines right, over the Sandbeck dinner-table, 

 about the whereabouts of a certain passage in Livy, 



