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to the test of a candle, a difference of tint is plainly 
shewn. Let the room be made dark, then, and candles 
produced." Now mark the result, which we are sorry 
thus to proclaim to the world, particularly as the 
offending party writes Honourable before his name. 
" Let the gentlemen be shewn into the room," said Mr. 
Wilson ; when he pronounced the following verdict : 
"A. wins from B. one thousand guineas !" 
It was a forgery ! Gentlemen of England, dis- 
sociate yourselves from persons who have thus disgraced 
your order ; or, if that be impossible, withdraw your- 
selves at once from the turf. 
On more accounts than one our turf proceedings 
must take foreigners marvel. Some years since, a 
French gentleman visited Doncaster, and gave it the 
appellation of " the guinea meeting," nothing without 
the guinea. " There was," said he, " the guinea for 
entering the rooms to hear the people bet. There was 
the guinea for my dinner at the hotel. There was the 
guinea for the stand, for myself; and (oh! execrable!) 
the guinea for the stand for my carriage. There was 
the guinea for my servant's bed, and (ah I mon Dieu /) 
ten guineas for my own, for only two nights !" Now we 
cannot picture to ourselves Monsieur at Doncaster a 
second time ; but if his passion for the race should get 
the better of his prudence, we only trust he will not 
be so infamously robbed again. Indeed, he may assure 
himself of this ; for Doncaster will never be what it 
has been, nor is it fitting it should be. 
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