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recently appeared in " Porter's Spirit of the Times," where it 

 might be taken as authoritative, a mass of stupid forgery ; which, 

 as it must be immediately detected, would tend to injure his 

 repute. 



This pedigree stales that " Fanny Kemble, the dam of 

 Kemble Jackson, was owti sister' to Miller's Damsel, the dam 

 of American Eclipse, and got by Duroc, sire of American 

 Eclipse." 



According to this farrago of nonsense, American Eclipse 

 was the son of his own half-sister. Did any man ever hear the 

 Hke? 



Miller's Damsel was by Messenger, out of the PotSos mare, 

 dam by Gimcrack, out of Hebe, by Snap — concerning whom 

 there existed so long a doubt recently solved. So far was 

 Fanny Kemble from being the daughter of the PotSos mare, 

 that the PotSos mare was dead nearly twenty years before the 

 distinguished lady, from whom the dam of Kemble Jackson 

 took her name, was born — much more before her name was 

 known on this side of the Atlantic. 



The truth is as follows, — 



Kemble Jackson was got by Andrew Jackson — dam Fanny 

 Kemble, sister to Charles Kemble, by Sir Archy ; gd. Maria, 

 by Gallatin ; g. gd. by Simms's Wildair ; g. g. gd. by Moreton's 

 Traveller, out of an imported mare. 



Fanny Kemble was, therefore, perfectly thoroughbred, al- 

 though she had no more relationship to Miller's Damsel than 

 she had to Queen Pomare. 



Andrew Jackson, the most celebrated trotting stallion of 

 his day, was got by Young Bashaw, out of a grand-daughter of 

 Messenger. Young Bashaw was by the imported Tripolitan 

 Barb, Grand Bashaw, his dam, a daughter, said to be thorough- 

 bred, of Messenger. 



This blood is good enough, one would think, to content any 

 one ; as Andrew Jackson himself had at least three-fourtlis of 

 thoroughblood, and Kemble Jackson, the son of a thoroughbred 

 mare, consequently had, at the most, but one-eighth of common 

 blood in his veins. 



But to proceed ; in this same year appeared Ethan Allen, 



