:J(J DENNIS O KELLY. 



social friend, keeping- a plentiful table at Clay/till, and giving- the choicest wines. 

 His usual summons for the desert was" John, bring us the apples," (pines). 

 His sen ants used to retail with much relish his Iricisms and quaint sayings. One 

 of them, afterwards in the service of the present writer, was ordered on a sudden 

 preparation lor dinner, to go down to Epsom for some fish. Returning, he in- 

 formed his master that none could be procured: O' Kelly, being in great haste, 

 railed out " Co back, sirrah! go back ; and by Jasus, if you can't get fish, 

 bring herrinu's." It has been said that he was a liberal and punctual paymaster ; 

 but in all probability, there may be something to detract from this account, and 

 Mich is the uncertainty of the human character, from the favourable part of our 

 statement likewise. AVe ha\e heard that the Count, as well as his betters, who 

 mortified him with a persevering refusal of admission into their clubs, was occa- 

 sionally lonii and largely in arrear with his jockies ; and poor old Tom Cammell 



has said to us-" 1) u his fat, pampered guts; I have kept mine thin, and rode 



main a hard race to stuff his, and now can't get my money, without a still harder 

 run over the course at Westminster Hall." This might happen in consequence of 

 runs of ill luck, and having very large outgoings in so extensive a concern, 

 /i/, almost by himself, filled a middle rank between our Sportsmen of the 

 and the professional betters; and although it may be presumed, he 

 \\ as not a man overladen and depressed in his career by scruples, his character, as a 

 man of the Turf, in all probability, would not suffer in comparison with the highest 

 of that class. We have not, nor is it likely we shall again soon, see his like. 



For the first spoke- which O' Kelly put in the wheel of fortune, he is said to have 

 been indebted to his connection with Mrs. Charlotte Hayes, to whom he was after- 

 wards married ; a lady of big&Dpte in her day, and of the highest consideration in 

 her line. His nail in fortune's wheel was finally clenched by the purchase, first of 

 the half, afterwards of the whole of the Race Horse, ECLIPSE. The most painful 

 diurnal and nocturnal attention to the business of play, and the devotion to that 

 end, of a en ius and temperament singularly calculated for it, enabled him to make 

 this purchase, and likewise the more heavy one of the (state at Epsom, where, 

 ii|Kn the Downs, and on the verge of the course, he built a suit of stabling, replete 

 \\ it h every convenience, for the purpose of breeding and training the RACE HORSE. 



