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Guard, " To be sure 1 did ; all Lunnun to a cheesecake, if the thieves 

 had'nt poison'd him." 



Nimrod. '' TF/io poisoned him?" 



Guard. (He here mentioned the name of 



a person, who I am quite sure had no more to do with it than I my- 

 self had.) 



Nimrod. " For shame ! How can you speak so disrespectfully of a 

 person of such respectability, and one of your own county too V 



Guard. '^ D — n 'em, there's nought they won't any on 'em do to get 

 money; he was the man, as sure as you are on this coach!" 



Here our conversation on this subject dropped, and it was time it should 

 drop. But see the mischief these turf robberies have occasioned in les- 

 sening the respect of the lower for the higher orders of society ! Neither 

 does it stop here. It is true, the character of a country should not be 

 implicated in isolated cases, originating in individual motives of reckless- 

 ness or of avarice ; but the character of England is at this time suffering 

 in the eyes of the whole world from the almost every-day exposure of the 

 villainy practised at our principal race-meetings, to which no final check 

 appears to have been as yet given, or even attempted to be given from that 

 quarter from which it would be most effectual. I have every reason to 

 believe, that the noblemen and gentlemen who compose our long esta- 

 blished, and, hitherto, highly regarded Jockey Club, have from time to 

 time, adopted rules and regulations to restrain villainy and reward integ- 

 rity, but still, year after year, these robberies occur. It can only be 



