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gentlemen : yet truth obliges me to record one 

 inftance, in which I hope I was mifinformed. 

 It was faid ****** received three parts of a 

 pail full of water, to enable him to be beat de- 

 cently over the couife, by *********. Every 

 fportfman, I hope, holds in equal deteftation 

 with myfelf, the memory of the brutal and cal- 

 lous-hearted Frampton, who dead to the foft 

 feelings of compaflion, and urged by fordid 

 motives of gain, cut his favourite horfe, Dragon, 

 and ran him inftantly to death in his flreaming 

 blood ! Was there not one fingle atom of the 

 fweet, but furious and vindiftive enthufiafm of 

 humanity, in the hearts of the fpeftators ? Was 

 there no inftrument of vengeance at hand, to 

 **** **% *** *****-5«* **%*4^* p J never view 



the portrait of that favage fportfman, without 

 difcovering in the hard lines of his face, and the 

 knowing leer of his eye, all the treachery, cun- 

 ning, and inhuman profligacy, of the loweft 

 blackguard retainer of the ftable. A labouring 

 fmith of Yorkfhire aflured me laft year (but I 

 will not warrant the goodnefs of his authority) 

 that certain irons, which had the appearance of 

 being inftruments of torture, were found in the 

 houfe of old Frampton after his deceafe. 



It is univerfally known, that by the cuftom 

 of England, all difputes relative to the affairs of 

 the turf, may be referred to the opinion of the 



Jockey 



