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Pond, John, and Racing Calendar, 

 23. 



Pope, Alexander, lines by, on 

 Catharine, Duchess of Queens- 

 berry, 34, 106. 



PotSos, when foaled, 26. 



Prior, Matthew, poet, 35, 106. 



Privilege, curious question of, 11. 



QuEENSBERRY, Catharine, Duchess 

 of, lines upon, 34 ; letters by, 

 35 ; lines by Horace Walpole on, 

 36 ; and ' a century of praise,' 

 36 ; idiosyncrasies of, 43, 53, 54 ; 

 and Lord March, 53 ; and 

 Duchess of Richmond, 70 ; at 

 coronation of George iii., 74 ; 

 gives away her robes, 75 ; and 

 domestic economy, 76 ; re- 

 stored to Court favour, 75 ; 

 and the Dean of Lincoln, 76 ; 

 kindness to servants, 105; anec- 

 dote of, 106 ; adopts a negro, 

 107 ; hears Court secrets, 130 ; 

 and Mrs. Bellamy the actress, 

 131 ; death of, 150. 



Charles, third Duke of, 67 ; 



death of, 155. 



William, fourth Duke of, 



his callous conduct, 157 ; vi- 

 sits Drumlanrig, 157 ; and 

 spring velvets, 160 ; and the 

 education of ' Mie-Mie,' 164 ; 

 his seat at Amesbury, 166 ; 

 racing success at Newmarket, 

 1780, 168 ; entertains at 

 Amesbury, 169; engages a new 

 chef, 170; his claim on Selwyn's 

 stationer, 171 ; purchases a 

 Richmond residence, 171 ; opin- 

 ion of, as to London out of the 



season, 172 ; wins Revolution 

 Stakes, 1782, 173 ; sends race- 

 horses to France, 173 ; a politi.- 

 cal bet by, 174 ; and the 

 Scotch Kirk, 175; wins Claret 

 Stakes, 1784, 175 ; made an 

 English peer, 176 ; a gluttonous 

 wager made by, 179 ; his horses, 

 Mulberry and Dash, 181 ; and 

 George iii.'s mental illness, 182 ; 

 receives his cong4 from George 

 III., 183 ; and Madame du 

 Barry, 184 ; his opinion of the 

 ' Escape ' affair, 185 ; given 

 another sobriquet, 185 ; * racing 

 star' declines, 188 ; compared 

 to Richard, seventh Earl of 

 Barrymore, 189 ; estimated 

 racing gains, 195 ; competes 

 with Lord Clermont for father- 

 ship of Turf, 190; reference to. 

 In Hoiv to make a Jockey, 190 ; 

 reported death of, 192 ; lines 

 on same, 192 ; at seventy-three, 

 194 ; finds out why stocks fell 

 in 1798, 198 ; collects bric-a- 

 brac, etc., 197 ; Sir Nathaniel 

 Wraxall and, 198-200 ; dines at 

 the Duke of Norfolk's, 200 ; 

 singular fact relating to, 201 ; 

 retains Pere Elvizee as physi- 

 cian, 201 ; pTirchases the Coun- 

 tess of Northampton's residence 

 at Richmond, 202 ; a dinner- 

 party at Queensberry House, 

 Richmond, 203 ; orgies at Rich- 

 mond, 203 ; opinion on ' Father 

 Thames,' 203 ; patronises local 

 horse-races, 206 ; anticipates 

 the unearned increment, 207 

 and Michael Kelly, actor, 214- 



