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favourable arena for the exercise of their peculiar virtues, 

 or Avhether they possess an inherent right to administer 

 to the wants of our soldiers and sailors on their return 

 from abroad, and therefore choose this spot, and others 

 like it, that they may the more readily relieve them, it 

 is not necessary here to inquire ; let it suffice to know 

 that they formed not the least flourishing part of the 

 community. 



Among the most conspicuous of this otherwise inte- 

 resting race was one who, away from his other pursuits, 

 would pass himself oif for a sporting character, and would 

 often intrude himself into the society of those who 

 indulged in similar amusements. However odd it may 

 appear for a Jew to be a lover of the turf, where the 

 chances of accumulation are not so positive and certain 

 as his ventures mostly are, still we have lived in a time 

 when we have seen one of the same race sharing in 

 and promoting to the greatest extent this national amuse- 

 ment.^ He was a man of pleasing exterior and of 

 tolerably good address ; his speech quite free from that 

 accent that mostly distinguishes the less wealthy descend- 

 ants of Abraham. 



He bore the same relative position to the brethren 

 amono; whom he dwelt as does the Baron to his fellows 

 in London, and, like that Leviathan, took his pastime, 

 not in the waters, but on that other element where the 

 greatest quantity of food is likely to be supplied to their 

 ever open and widely-extended jaws. 



I was riding with others, my associates, to our annual 



1 The Baron Eothschild. 



