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' macaronis,' as so many members of the Jockey Club 

 were) ; Mr. Sheridan (the witty author of ' The School 

 for Scandal,' but not ' of much account at horse- 

 racing,' as an American would say) ; Mr. Tarleton 

 (General Sir Banastre Tarleton, Bart., G.C.B., Gover- 

 nor of Berwick, and for twenty-two years M.P. for 

 Liverpool, who ran Wilbraham at Newmarket in 

 1789-92) ; and Mr. Topham (Captain, Major, and 

 Colonel, editor and proprietor of The World, a periodi- 

 cal whereof the title, and perhaps partly the style and 

 spirit, is still preserved amongst us, an officer in the 

 Horse Guards, it is said, originally, and a man of 

 means and fashion, connected probably with Dr. John- 

 son's fashionable friend, Mr. Topham Beauclerc). 



In not one of these cases does 'Louse' Pigott 

 warn his readers, as he does in others, that the person 

 mentioned was not really a member of the Jockey 

 Club, but was joined with them as being * tarred with 

 the same brush,' and there is very good reason to 

 think that the great majority of them did belong to 

 the Club, though their credentials are not forthcoming. 

 That Judges should be members of the Club, at that 

 date, is not at all surprising ; we have had and have 

 such cases of Saul among the prophets in our own 

 cl a y — witness Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice 

 Hawkins, to seek no further. 



We may now get on to the personages whose 

 membership is capable of actual proof. 



Let us begin with the three royal brothers, of 



