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This sensitiveness is the more noticeable, because, had 

 the debt or debts been due to the widow, or the orphan, 

 or the hardworking father of a family for ' work 

 and labour done ' and for ' value received,' both the 

 member of the Jockey Club and the ' bettor round ' 

 would probably have considered an offer of ten 

 shillings in the pound extremely handsome. 



Mr. George Payne (who was nephew to Mr. John 

 Payne, the winner of the Derby with Azor in 1817) 

 must reluctantly be added to the ' shocking examples,' 

 inasmuch as he lost two or three fortunes by racing, 

 cards, dicing, and other objectionable practices, though 

 he was a most amiable, agreeable, witty, and clever 

 man, reminding one forcibly, in failings and talents, 

 of the illustrious C. J. Fox. He died September 2, 

 1878, having achieved very little distinction in the 

 public life for which his talents (as his friends said) 

 were eminently adapted (had he not concealed them 

 in a figurative napkin) , or on the Turf (beyond winning 

 the One Thousand with Clementina in 1847). 



The (twelfth) Earl of Westmorland, who has 

 passed away just as this work was being finished, 

 must, it is to be feared, take his place among the 

 ' shocking examples,' because, though in many re- 

 spects a most worshipful member of the Jockey Club 

 and patron of the Turf, he was a very heavy bettor 

 sometimes, and had to retire, badly hurt, from his 

 favourite pursuit (to which he was more addicted than 

 to hunting, shooting, fishing, and cricket, all congenial 



