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Leicester) a witty writer, a man of fashion, and a 

 duellist, having fought with Mr. Fawkener, Clerk of 

 the Privy Council, whose domestic peace he had dis- 

 turbed, quite like a member of the Jockey Club, in 

 1786 ; Sir Willoughby Aston (very intimate with the 

 Prince of Wales, and a runner of 'yearlings' in 1790 

 and 1791) ; Sir C. Bampfylde, who was murdered 

 under very painful circumstances in 1823, for having 

 — very many years before — seduced, it was supposed, 

 the wife of the murderer and suicide (for the murderer 

 immediately shot himself), and whose son was created 

 Lord Poltimore in 1831 ; Sir Francis Molyneux (who, 

 according to Pigott, first drove mankind to invent the 

 word ' bore ' to describe him, and to perpetuate it as 

 applicable to his kind) ; Mr. Dalrymple (whether of 

 the House of Stair or not, a General, intimate with 

 the Prince of Wales, and known, according to Pigott, 

 as ' Agamemnon the Great ') ; Mr. Buller (the cele- 

 brated Mr. Justice) ; Mr. Dundas (Henry, who became 

 Viscount Melville) ; Mr. Erskine (the Hon. Thomas, of 

 the Buchan family, the celebrated advocate, who be- 

 came Lord Chancellor, having served in early life both 

 in the army and — like another celebrated Lord Chan- 

 cellor, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford — in 

 the Navy) ; Mr. Fitzpatrick (Colonel and General, the 

 accomplished brother of the second and last Earl of 

 Upper Ossory) ; Mr. Hare (the famous ' Hare of many 

 friends,' who was for many years M.P. for Knares- 

 borough, the intimate of C. J. Fox and Lord Carlisle, 



