342 THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. 



fresh trainer, and for some cause or other never won 

 a race with him. The horse never ran in rny hands 

 at all; but he was in the Lymington Stakes at 

 5 st. 7 lb., and probably would have been in the two 

 autumn handicaps at the same weight ; for the 

 Admiral knew how badly he had run in the Selling 

 Plate at Newmarket, and that Lord William was an 

 unlikely person to play tricks with his horses. But 

 as Mr. Murphy left me in so ungentlemanly and 

 shabby a manner, I contrived to put a little spoke in 

 his wheel by telling the Admiral what Romulus 

 really could do, who accordingly clapped 8 st. 7 lb. 

 on his back for each race, and of course they did not 

 accept. 



I had very great difficulty in getting a settlement 

 of my account from this grateful young gentleman, 

 and when the needful did arrive, it came in several 

 large packages of post-office- orders, one-pound notes, 

 and other negotiable documents of a varied descrip- 

 tion. In this, no doubt, he thought he had his 

 revenge ; but I was simply delighted, for I had 

 be2,'un to think that I should have to sue him for the 

 recovery of the money, or lose it altogether. To 

 show what I thought of Romulus, I may say that I 

 got Mr. Parker to buy him for a stallion. But he 

 was, as many good horses are, a failure at the stud. 

 He had, however, but few mares, and those not good 

 ones, which was a greater hindrance to his becoming 

 fashionable. 



