CHAPTER XXI 



Selwyn troubled — The cause — March ' parliamentises ' Selwyn — His 

 lordship's Turf record, 1777 — The ducal coronet looms in the distance 

 — The fourth Duke of Queensberry — His grace credited with a 

 ' brick-and-mortar phobia' — Queensberry recrosses the Border— One 

 of the new order of things devised by his grace at Drumlanrig — 

 Brief description of Drumlanrig Castle — The herd of wild cattle there 

 — Selwyn goes to France— A ' decorative ' letter of Qiieensberry's to 

 ' George ' — His grace's racing record for 1778. 



A LETTER from Lord March to Selwyn, dated New- 

 market, July 9tli, 1777, shows concern for the unhap- 

 piness of one who was ' wont to set the table on a 

 roar ' ; a proof that the greatest wits are not always 

 the happiest of mortals, even when possessed in 

 abundance of the good things of this life. Who has 

 not heard of the physician's advice to a woebegone- 

 looking patient, who ' wanted taking out of himself,' 

 as it were ? ' Go and see Grimaldi, man ! ' And the 

 sufferer answered : ' Alas, doctor, I am Grimaldi ! ' 



What ' George's ' troubles were is difficult to say ; 

 but reference to the text ^ suggests that the Fagniani 



^ Appendix E 2. 



