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than the first ; it is condiLionally. My motive 

 for wishing His Royal Highness to bet to losing 

 six or seven hundred was, 1 thought that sum as 

 much as I could wish His Royal. Highness to risk 

 upon my thoughts about Escape being likely to 

 run .better the second day, from Escape's running 

 the first day. I heard His Royal Highness the 

 Prince of Wales name twice, to gentlemen at 

 Newmarket, on the day after Escape's second 

 running, viz. the 2Jst of October 1791, the exact 

 sum His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 

 betted upon Escape on the 21st of October 1791- 

 It was under four hundred guineas, and it was 

 near four hundred guineas. 



Upon full reflection on past circumstances, I 

 conceive that it may be necessary to throw in an 

 explanatory thought or two upon my changing my 

 orders, after I had received orders from His Royal 

 Highness in person ; and this more especially, as 

 I had some time before intimated to His Royal 

 Highness that I was afraid of riding to Mr. W. 



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