1 1 2 The Post and the Paddock. 



well. This subject, of course, was discussed, and the 

 King declared that he would write proposals forthwith 

 to Mr. Nowell, for a looo guineas aside match, at 

 Ascot, the next year. '* Sam, yoii shall ride hej^,'' he 

 added, as that jockey got off Memnon, and joined his 

 brother at the phaeton side. " Run them at New- 

 market, your Majesty !" chimed in the ever- wakeful 

 Jack ; but " No, no ! William, they treated your poor 

 father and me very badly ; I wont run there',' was all 

 the response he received to his officious suggestion. 

 Jack having thus thrust himself into the conversation, 

 was made to furnish a little sport in his turn, and told 

 to canter his mare. Away they went — the mare gaily 

 cocking her tail, and Jack leaning forward in his 

 stirrups, to the intense amusement of the four ; and 

 when he was fairly out of earshot, the King began 

 with — " There s a nice mare — look at Jack, too, hozv he 

 sticks himself out ; he thinks he can ride quite as well 

 as yon, Sam." Just as he was going, he added, " Yon 

 must both look in at the Castle on Fridcy, and Fll 

 show you a hunter tJie very image of a horse we had at 

 Albujy Park, when you were both little fellows with 

 your tuicle tJiere /" and so saying, he shook them by 

 the hand, and laughingly bade Sam to " Jiave a little 

 mercy on my poor Mortgage to-morrowl' This was the 

 last private interview the brothers ever had with the 

 King, and it formed an appropriate pleasant close to 

 their then five-and-thirty years' recollections of him, 

 which dated from the day they sat at Newmarket, one 

 on each knee, and then ran to show their mother the 

 guineas he had given them. 



Ascot, in those days, was the delight of the King's 

 heart, and for three or four years before his death, he 

 had two meetings annually, at a week's interval. In 

 1825, he came for the first time in the royal procession 

 up the New Mile, Lord Maryborough leading the van, 

 and sitting his horse as few men at his age could do, 

 while Mr. Jenncr received the cortege at the Stand. 



