CHAPTER XIV 



Mr. Commissioner Selwyn — Lord March's Ascot, 1763 — The Tondino — 

 Letter dated from 'Hotel de Tondino' — His lordship's stockings 

 seized by the Customs— Advice to Selwyn— Anecdote of Selwyn— 

 Lord March at Fontainebleau — Fox and his lordship — Lord March's 

 racing record, 1763. 



The close intimacy which existed between Lord 

 March and Selwyn is evident from the Httle com- 

 missions the peer gave his witty friend. A brace 

 given in a communication from Newmarket ^ also 

 testify to the correctness of my previous statement 

 as to Lord March's dislike of Wilkes; and likewise 

 that he did not always leave Newmarket with his 

 pocket-book well filled. But the next communication 

 to his * dear George ' tells another tale (racing Hope 

 is always so) from Ascot, which, then as now, seems 

 to have been well entitled to its mournful prefix — 

 ' Black ' ; although in this instance Fortune smiled 

 on the Earl of March and Ruglen, as he managed to 

 win £2000 the first day of the meeting, and bring off 

 about £1500.2 



^ Appendix B. . * Appendix C. 



