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be in town about six, and I shall set out the next day for 

 this place. 



The meeting begins well. How it ends is more to the 

 purpose ; but I think I shall have certainly won, in about 

 two hours, two hundred at least. The odds are three to 

 one on my side. Lords Gower, Bridgewater, and the 

 usual Newmarket people are here. I expect to hear of 

 the arrival of the Russians every minute, and have invited 

 them to dinner, which is the only dinner I shall have at 

 home this meeting. 



Lord Northumberland is to be a duke by that title, 

 and Lord Cardigan gives up his place, and is likewise to 

 be a duke. If this is not known yet, it will be very soon. 

 If you are in town, don't tell it as my news ; but you 

 may whisper it to some of our politicians. I wish you a 

 good journey, and intend nothing so much as to be with 

 you. Di quelqioe cJiose bien tendre pour moi a la caret 

 Luisina, et donnez hit mille baisers de ma part. Adieu, 

 my dear George ! . . . 



APPENDIX R. 



The Monday after the Meeting. 



My dear George, — I had your letter yesterday, and 

 was in some hopes that you might have received the one 

 I wrote to you from hence last Wednesday, because I 

 directed it to the Cherubim,^ to be forwarded to you, accord- 

 ing to the time you left London, either to Dover or Paris. 



The meeting has ended very ill, and I am now near a 



^ A sobriquet for the then proprietor of 'White's,' of whose late 

 proprietor, R. Mackeith, he was a relative. — J. R. R. 



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