CHAPTER XIX 



Excerpts from letters continued— Lord March and the 'grim tyrant'— 

 His valetudinarianism — A long list of racing engagements — Result 

 — His lordship's references to Colonel Crawford — Not affected by the 

 Colonel's position — Good advice to Selwyn — Madame la Marchesa 

 Fagniani and Selwyn — Letter written by her to Selwyn — Remarks 

 —Lord March's Turf record, 1772. 



References are made in a letter ^ wliicli may assist 

 the reader to form an opinion of tlie characters of 

 Lord March and his friend Selwyn. Thus, the 

 remark of Lady Townshend that Selwyn would be 

 a good exponent of the great surgeon John Hunter's 

 philosophy of death, gives opportunity for an allusion 

 to the stoical disposition of his lordship. Though 

 the allusion is some years antedated, it is scarcely 

 out of place at this point to record Lord March's 

 fearlessness of man's greatest physical enemy — Death. 

 Those who have formed, perhaps, a prejudiced 

 opinion of Lord March's character, and condemned 

 him as moralty, socially, and intrinsically bad, have 

 been struck with this nonchalance of his, so different 



^ Appendix W 1. 



