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approach hirn on any pretence whatever. Yet I am 

 reminded that his butcher did get at him one day, 

 by accident ; and would not leave him until he had 

 been paid his long-standing account. But when it 

 was paid, and the receipt duly signed, his lordship 

 drew on a glove, and, taking up the pen which had 

 been used for the purpose, threw it out of the window, 

 in utter contempt for ' such a mean action ' as a man's 

 asking for his own. 



I remember that, in regard to one question largely 

 affecting society, his lordship held a distinct indi- 

 vidual opinion. He thought that any restraint on 

 unfortunates would be a far greater social evil than 

 any created by permitting them freedom of action. 

 He reasoned that if restraint were used, the respect- 

 able part of Society would meet with much greater 

 molestation and annoyance than they are now sub- 

 jected to. Curiously, for some cause or other, his 

 lordship was always late at any civic feast or banquet 

 which he attended, and invariably excused himself by 

 saying, ' Public business must be attended to, your 

 Royal Highness,' or whoever may have been presiding. 

 Such were some of the doings of a nobleman who 

 lived to a good old age, died in harness, lamented by 

 the whole nation, and was accorded a public funeral. 



Sir Lewin Glyn was rather before my time, for I 

 see that he commenced racing in 1828. I have always 

 heard him spoken of as a gentleman who was fond of 

 the sport, and whose conduct was above suspicion. 



