84 Silk and Scarlet. 



was not until the Prince of Wales and " Bedford," 

 " Grosvenor," " Abingdon," " Barrymore," and some 

 ten other equally choice spirits, threw their souls into 

 the cause, that it revived in earnest on Newmarket 

 Heath. 



The Warren Hill "A View of Noblemen's and Gentle- 

 in 89. men's trains of Running Horses, with the 

 Grooms and Horses in their full liveries," was the 

 popular print of 1 790. The Warren Hill is the scene 

 of the afternoon's revel. Quiet little Newmarket just 

 peeps forth in the hollow, in the centre of that restless 

 panorama, and In the far distance the Ely Minster 

 turrets cut the cloudless sky, and struggle manfully 

 for pre-eminence with Highflyer Hall. In the fore- 

 ground is the Prince, by the grace of the artist a 

 somewhat slim-looking buck. In a sort of Don Caesar 

 de Bazan beaver, standing up in his phaeton with four 

 greys, and booking a bet with the shrivelled Duke o. 

 Orleans, on horseback at his side. His brother 

 "York" has alighted, and is gaily pointing out to "A 

 lady" (as the key observes), a long sheeted string, 

 which are. West Australian fashion, cutting down the 

 Warren Hill like a scythe, in the direction of King 

 Charles's cupola chair. On the extreme left, the 

 Countess of Barrymore, in the costume of 



"Those teacup days of hoop and hood. 

 And when the patch was worn," 



sits In the phaeton by the side of her eccentric liege 

 lord, (who was so soon to fall lifeless in her arms, as 

 his hand held the reins), and listens to the animated 

 periods of Charles James Fox as he exults in the 

 coming laurels of his Seagull and his Put. John Duke 

 of Bedford is also amid the throng, and so are Hag- 

 gerston, George Hanger, Wyndham, Captain Gros- 

 venor, and Bullock. That ancient oddity. Colonel 

 Thornton, though not much of a racing-man, has 

 wandered off here as well, and Falconer's Hall, where 



