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Queen and Pitt. The loss of a thousand per annum 

 was nothing to this Dives, but his amour propre 

 was profoundly hurt. Nevertheless, other officials of 

 noble birth, including the Marquis of Lothian, Lord 

 Carteret, and Lord Malmesbury, received their conge 

 for the same reasons. The Duke's desertion of his 

 sovereign does not seem to have parted their friend- 

 ship, for, in spite of this little peccadillo of his old 

 lord -in -waiting, the King remained on good terms 

 with him. 



1789 has been recorded by superficial Turf writers 

 as Queensberry's ' red-letter racing year,' an assertion 

 which the reader could, if he hked, deny. True, the 

 results 1 are better, if the stake values are alone con- 

 sidered, than for some few years past, amounting to 

 over three thousand six hundred pounds, though the 

 average of the events won to engagements is much 

 as the past years — eight to thirty-two. However, the 

 year under review records some good matches for 

 fairly large sums, two thousand five hundred guineas 

 alone being credited to three events won by Bash. 

 The subsequent year, 1790, shows how fitful a 

 thing even a cleverly managed racing establishment 

 is ; as, though he started at sixty-six with an intention 

 to uphold his racing laurels, the Duke of Queensberry 



^ Vide Eacing Analysis. 



