/O THE SPORTING WORLD. 



difference between the position of a country squire 

 with, say, fifteen hundred a year, and the noble- 

 man with fifty thousand, will account for this. 

 Probably the squire is not intimate with such men 

 as the late Lord Darlington, the Marquis of 

 Exeter, Lord Eglington, and many others against 

 whom it would be profanation to utter a word of 

 suspicion as to their straightforward intentions on 

 the turf. The squire only hears of certain men 

 whose transactions are not of the highest order. 

 Now the noble lords mentioned, probably knew 

 each other, and if not perfectly, well knew the 

 character of each other. They would, probably, 

 be just as loud in their condemnation of certain 

 characters as could possibly be the squire, but 

 though they censured the acts of such men it 

 would not lead to their condemning racing alto- 

 gether. And that there are some exceptions, eyen 

 in country squires, I would mention Sir Tatton 

 Sykes as an instance. But as "one swallow does 

 not make a summer," nor woulc^ a great many. 



