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pator, and Mark Anthony. On one occasion, 

 shortly before his death, the Earl accompanied the 

 Prince of Wales to Bagshot, and it being winter, 

 and his Lordship being at the time much indis- 

 posed, had wrapt his head in a sort of flannel hood. 

 Thus equipped, the Prince and his companion pur- 

 sued their journey, the passengers remarking what 

 an excellent young man he was, " to go out thus 

 an airing with his old aunt, the Princess Amelia !" 

 His Royal Highness used often to quote this ludi- 

 crous circumstance, as an instance how men some- 

 times got credit for good actions, without ever 

 having dreamt of deserving them. 



In the month of October of this year, not only 

 the turf, but the nation at large, sustained a great 

 loss, by the death of the Right Hon. Charles James 

 Fox, then nominally Secretary of State for Foreign 

 Afl"airs, but virtually Prime Minister. Mr, Fox 

 was always extremely partial to the pursuits of the 

 turf, on which he commenced his career as joint 

 confederate with the Hon. Mr. Foley (afterwards 

 Lord Foley) in 1 772, and from that period up to 

 1793 they were the owners of a numerous and 

 first-rate stud. Among the names of the most ce- 

 lebrated horses in the stud of this confederacy, 

 we find those of the following winners, viz : — 

 Trentham, Pyrrhus, Pumpkin, Pantaloon, Firetail, 

 Revenge, Spitfire, Zamora, Rosemary, Musselman, 

 Ulysses, Rodney, Oliver, Swallow, Blandish, Sisy- 

 phus, Balloon, Grey Diomed, Cormorant, Maid of 



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