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Pelham, then Secretary of State, and the niece of 

 the Duke of Newcastle, then prime minister ; but 

 his suit was rejected ; whether on account of his not 

 being at that period in possession of the immense 

 fortune he afterwards succeeded to, or the gaiety of 

 his private hfe, does not appear. This created 

 what is called a sensation, in the fashionable world 

 of that day ; and it is not unworthy of remark, that 

 both the lady and her rejected suitor continued 

 single to their deaths, Miss Pelham's preceding 

 that of her lover's by only a few years. His Grace 

 was very charitable in private, and occasionally 

 contributed most nobly to national purposes. 



Richard Goodisson, of Newmarket, trained and 

 rode for the Duke for many years. His Grace's 

 name first appeared in the Racing Calendar in 

 1743, and for the last time in 180G. No nobleman 

 had ever better cause to complain at the continued 

 scurrility of the diurnal writers of his day than he 

 had ; but he appears to have treated all the coarse 

 invective levelled against him with the greatest 

 good nature and forbearance. We have given the 

 two following extracts as specimens of the coarse- 

 ness of that period of party rancour ; while at the 

 same time it must be confessed that they bear hard 

 upon some of his eccentricities, to which we shall 

 not more particularly allude. 



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