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which the latter replied there was not. Jackson 

 dechned to accede to the demand of £300 more, with 

 the result that Lord St. Vincent ' posted ' him at 

 Tattersall's the following morning as having paid him 

 that amount short. Lord St. Vincent soon discovered 

 that he had acted wrongly to Jackson, for he found the 

 missing note for £300 in his waistcoat pocket, having, 

 in an absent-minded moment, stuffed it there. An 

 ample apology to Jackson followed, which the book- 

 maker freely accepted, and all was smoothed over. 



