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rise or fall in the public funds to suit their 

 own especial ends for the time being. Now 

 here the man of influence does not trust to 

 his superior acuteness in judging of the proba- 

 bility of such event, neither does he alone avail 

 himself of superior information; but he by his 

 own acts and those deputed by him, produces 

 an event for the sole purpose of robbing others 

 and profitting himself. He robs the public that 

 he may gain. 



In such light stands the better on many 

 occasions, and I can fairly say that rarely has 

 a momentous piece of rascality been brought 

 oif in racing matters in which the betting-men 

 (that is a portion of them) were not concerned, 

 or have been, I may add, at the bottom of it. 

 In this, if he does not neutralize, he throws a 

 damp on the efforts of honourable men to sup- 

 port the turf, for it is not to be supposed that 

 owners of race horses will stand a target to be 

 shot at by the envenomed arrows of scoundrels 



