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dark coloured coach, bay team ; Count Batthyany, dark 

 blue and white coach, bay team ; Viscount Powerscourt, open 

 barouche, four greys ; Lord Alford, dark brown and red 

 coach, bay team Lord Alfred Paget, yellow and blue coach, 

 mixed team ; Lord Macdonald, dark brown and red coach, 

 mixed team ; Hon. Horace Pitt, blue and red coach, mixed 

 team ; Sir E. Smythe, Bart., dark green coach, three greys and 

 a piebald ; Mr. A. W. Hervey Aston, dark blue and white 

 coach, two bays and two greys ; Mr. T. Bernard, dark brown 

 coach, bay team ; Mr. J. Angerstein, dark brown coach, bay 

 team ; Colonel Copeland, yellow barouche, four browns ; Mr. 

 George Payne, yellow coach, bay team ; Mr. Lewis Ricardo, 

 dark blue and white coach, bay team. Mr. H. Villebois, Junr., 

 yellow coach, four bays. 



Whatever may have been the criticism bestowed upon the 

 earlier driving clubs, an outline of whose history has already 

 been given, the efforts of the members of the Richmond 

 Driving Club were not, perhaps, uniformly "successful, if, 

 indeed, any reliance is to be placed upon the stinging satire, 

 The ' Chaunt of Achilles,' at first attributed to ' Charley ' 

 Sheridan, but afterwards recognised as the production of 

 Mr. Surtees, the author of * Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds,' 

 ' Soapy Sponge,' and other works of a like character. At any 

 rate, after stating that Lord Chesterfield led the way, this is 

 how the author dealt with the procession : 



Following his track succeeds a numerous band, 



Who vainly strive to work their fours-in-hand. 



For Richmond bound I view them passing by, 



Their hands unsteady, and their reins awry. 



Some scratch their panels, some their horses' knees 



Beaufort and Payne, I class you not with these ; 



For who so smartly skims along the plain 



As Beaufort's Duke? What whip can equal Payne? 



No matter dinner comes, when 'all are able 



To drive their coaches well about the table. 



Ricardo then can driving feats relate, 



And Batthyany swear he'd clear the gate ; 



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