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message, and therefore endeavoured to appear as 

 if I had not heard it. 



I assured Gaskoni how vexed I Vv'as at tlie 

 prospect of His Royal Highnesses losing the Oat- 

 land Stakes, upon which more money, I believed, 

 was depending than was ever known upon one 

 race, and this entirely from His Royal High- 

 ness's man that is with the horses not knowing 

 liis business ; and what teazed me more so is be- 

 cause I know it, and no other person can be made 

 to know it ; so that I am not likely to be believed. 

 But it is not seasonable for me to say any more 

 upon the subject, I wishing to reserve my opinion 

 upon it till 1 had an opportunity of submitting it 

 to His Royal Highness. Gaskoin went to Bag- 

 shot, and I to Egham, where I met with Mr. 

 Sykes the bettor, and took him five hundred to 

 thirty that Baronet won the Oatlands. On my 

 arrival in town the next morning, I instantly 

 wrote a note to Mr. W. Lake, to forbid him to bet 

 any money for me upon Escape, for the Oatlands. 

 I sent it, with Bill Price's letter, by a porter from 

 G 2 Hatchett's 



