LORD DRUMLANRIG AND CHARLES GREVILLE. 391 



on Thursday. The Muscovite commission, how- 

 ever, he kept secret from Drumlanrig, denying to 

 him, when questioned, that he himself was backing 

 that horse. Upon discovering the truth, Drum- 

 lanrig went up to Greville in great dudgeon, and 

 told him his mind. He ended by throwing down 

 the list of bets which he had taken for Greville 

 about Adine, and told him to collect them for 

 himself. Greville was in great perturbation about 

 the affair, partly from consciousness that he had 

 acted shabbily, and partly because he knew Drum- 

 lanrio- to be one of the most courap^eous and im- 

 petuous of men. Several messengers were sent by 

 Greville to Drumlanrig, but nothing would soften 

 him ; and so Payne took him in hand.^ Approach- 

 ing him with a bonhomie peculiarly his own, he 

 said, ' Well, Drum, I hear that old Charles Greville 

 has been doing by you what he sometimes does 

 even by me, who am his confederate. At times I 

 feel inclined to kick him round the course ; espe- 

 cially so at this moment, when I have a bone to 

 pick with him about a matter with which I need 

 not trouble you.' Having thus spoken, away he 

 went, and returned to the charge after a couple 



1 Sir W. Gregory was not aware that Lord Drumlanrig's resolve 

 to horsewhip Mr Greville was abandoned, not in consequence of 

 anything done or said by Mr George Payne, but at the earnest 

 entreaty of two of Lord Drumlanrig's younger friends, who repre- 

 sented to him that it would be regarded as a cowardly act on his 

 part were he, an accomplished " bruiser," to strike a man of Mr 

 Greville's age, crippled by gout, and not of a very masculine type. 



