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calculated at twelve hundred per annum, if he does the 

 thing as it should be ; but where there is a strong spirit 

 of rivalship, a great deal more. This is not all : the 

 constant circulation of money on the road does a great 

 deal of good ; and the probability is, that if there were 

 not this strong temptation to spend it here, it might 

 either be taken out of the country, or left in some gam- 

 bling house in London. Nor indeed can there be a much 

 more rational way of spending it by those who have it to 

 spend. What can be more pleasant than the use many 

 gentlemen make of their teams in the London season ? 

 Instead of stewing in the streets, or going through the 

 same dull round of the Park, they drive their friends, 

 male and female, a few miles into the country to dinner, 

 and return in the evening — if they wish it — in time for 

 the Opera, or any engagements they may have. Rich- 

 mond is one grand rendezvous on these occasions, and 

 Greenwich — to eat whitebait — another; to each of which 

 I have accompanied many pleasant parties. To prove, 

 however, that the taste for this species of amusement is 

 not much on the decline, I subjoin a list of no less than 

 forty-six gentlemen who have teams, or who, in more 

 technical language, are now at work. 



Sir Henry Peyton. 



Mr. Annesley. 



Mr. Harrison. 



Sir Bellineham Graham. 



Mr. Ackers. 

 Mr. Cox. 



Honourable Fitzroy Stan- 

 hope. 1 



1 Mr. Fitzroy Stanhope is one of the best gentlemen coachmen we have, 

 a first-rate man on his box, and an excellent judge of everything belonging 

 to a carriage. Messrs. Wright and Powell have just turned him out one of 



