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(who narrates in his pamphlet, 'Genius Genuine,' that 

 * the row ' was entirely of the noble baronet's own 

 seeking) was well able to turn tiie arguments em- 

 ployed by Sir Charles against himself; he asked that 

 the in-and-out running of some of that gentleman's 

 own horses should be explained : ' Bellario gets beaten 

 by a bad horse one day, and the next goes and beats 

 a very good animal. How comes that to pass ?' asked 

 the jockey. 



Sir Charles enjoys the credit, or the discredit, as 

 some people think, of having instituted two-3'ear-old 

 races. In the olden time races were usually run over 

 the long distance of four miles, the horses, as a rule, 

 carrying from ten to twelve stone. Personally Sir 

 Charles was a man of good means. His father, the 

 Rev. Sir William Bunbury, was originally a clergy- 

 man, and Vicar of Mildenhall in Suffolk. That gentle- 

 man ultimately succeeded to a title and the estates of 

 his uncle. ' H. B.,' the caricaturist, was a younger 

 brother of Sir Charles. Horace Walpole described the 

 productions of ' H. B.' as being the work of a second 

 Hogarth. 



The horse-racing baronet had a seat in the House 

 of Commons, and was also at one time Secretary of 

 Embassy in Paris. Sir Charles is known to have 

 suffered very much from domestic troubles ; his first 

 v.'ife was the beautiful Lady Sarah Lermox, whom he 

 was necessitated to divorce in 1776, in consequence of 

 her adulterous connection with Lord William Gordon. 



This brief notice of Sir Charles may be wound up 

 with the following piquant anecdote : Sir Charles's 

 training groom, a person of the name of Cox, being 



