1 1 8 The Post and the Paddock. 



Doncaster might well nigh have heard the ringing 

 shout, as the Prince, with the present Earl Fitzwilliam 

 in his arms, stepped forth into the portico, 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 Don- 

 caster Cup victory formed a sporting finale to the 

 visit, in the course of which Traveller was added to 

 the royal string for 1500 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 Rachael ; but racers, 

 hacks, carriages, and dogs, only produced 8804 

 guineas a mere molehill, compared with the Skid- 

 daw-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 in- 

 ches, and weighed list. ;lbs. He was no Sir Fopling 

 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. His 



