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be cordially and gratefully admitted, if only as the 

 originator of the ' telegraph-board ' and of the 

 'parade' and 'preliminary canter'; that he was 

 an excellent ' detective,' and spared no pains and 

 expense in thwarting villains, though his motives 

 may have been a little vitiated by an intermixture 

 of regard for his own and his friends' pecuniary 

 interests, nobody would dream of denying ; that 

 he behaved as a nobleman might have been 

 expected to behave in refusing the public sub- 

 scription of ^2,100 collected for a testimonial in 

 acknowledgment of his services, and in requesting 

 that the money might be used as a nest-egg for 

 the ' Bentinck Benevolent Fund,' everybody will 

 agree; and that his presentation (in 1837) of the 

 Waterloo Shield (value ^1,000) for a long- 

 distance race at Goodwood was a munificent and 

 a praiseworthy act, for the much-needed encourage- 

 ment of ' stayers ' (which was even more needed 

 when Mr. C. D. Rose followed suit with three 

 Plates of ^1,000 each at a later time), and far 

 more laudable and desirable than Mr. Blenkiron's 

 later munificent gift of ^1,000 for the Middle 

 Park Plate, there can be no question. Honour 

 to his memory and peace to his ashes for all the 



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