381 HISTORY OF THE 



In the commencement of this eventful year, the 

 pubUc generally were astonished by the bankruptcy 



had been used as to the actual nature of the casualty which had be- 

 fallen him immediately preceding it." 



After briefly referring to his justification published in the same 

 number of the Old Sporting Magazine that contained his corres- 

 pondence with Mr. GreviUe, Craven thus proceeds : — 



" In proof of the odds against his horse never having been those 

 quoted by me, Mr. Greville called Mr. Crockford and the newspaper 

 reporter for Tattersall's. Without alluding to the evidence of those 

 parties, I admit, upon the faith of a letter read to me from Col. Peel, 

 that I was deceived by my sources of information, that the price had 

 not been current about Mango, though offered in a single instance, 

 and I have to express my regret for the unintentional error into 

 which I was betrayed, both to the public and to Mr. Greville. 



" Upon the second point, Mr. Dilly, Mr. Greville's trainer, was 

 called ; who stated, that no kind of concealment had been practised 

 as to the accident to Mango ; and also, that he had not a shilling de- 

 pending upon the race for the St. Leger. A letter was read from Lord 

 George Bentinck, to the effect that Mango was galloped by John 

 Day, on the Bunbury Mile, at three o'clock, on the afternoon pre- 

 ceding that event, in his Lordship's presence, a circumstance of which 

 every one at Newmarket might have availed himself; while testimony 

 was borne by the Duke of Beavxfort, Col. Anson, and Cai)tain Rous, 

 to the straightforward, honourable conduct of Mr. Greville in all that 

 related, not only to this case, but to ev-ery other in which they had 

 known him engaged. I have thus given the authorities by which Mr. 

 Greville disproved the statements in my notice of the Newmarket 

 St. Leger, because I would place the affair before the readers of this 

 work, as it addressed itself to me. Having expressed my regret, I 

 have done all that an honourable man can do towards those he may 

 have unintentionally injured. If I have been brief in my notice of 

 the meeting, it arises from want of space alone, and a desire not to 

 j)ermit the earliest opportunity to escape, of informing the public 

 of the result of it." 



We have little to observe, after quoting this ample vindication of 

 Mr. Greville's conduct throughout this aflair, except that it ought to 



