clear and Seagul, were purchased of Mr Fox, at four thoufand guineas, with their engagements. Lord Bar rymore availed himself of the poffeflion of fuch capital horfes, and made many matches and engagements with them, and won large fums of money. In the autumn of the year 1792, Lord Barrymore fold Chanti lear to the Duke of York, for two thoufand feven hundred guineas, the value of the horfe was increated by four judicious matches made by Lord Barrymore against Lord Grofvenor's Asparagus, for 500 guineas each. In 1791, his Lordship purchased of Mr Bullock, Mofes, Putt, Old Gold, and Halbert; he bought alfo Tree Creeper, from Mr Panton, and feveral others. From the above lift, it will appear that no perfon ever poffeffed fo many capital horfes in fo fhort fpace of time as Lord Barrymore; and the curious may fatisfy themfelves by a reference to the Racing Calendar, that no one ever managed them with more judgment, or engaged them oftener,, or more fuccefsfully.

which he acquired upon the turf, were generally loft in the card-room in the evening. He was too volatile, too much upon the wing of thought, to encounter the experi enced players of the Macaroni-room: he betted very deep at whift, with the greatest players of the prefent day who can wonder that he was unfuccefsful when engaged against the attentive Duke of Bedford, the judicious Mr Vernon, the all-comprehending Mr Fox, and the indefatigable General Smith? His Lordship alfo often played at quinze with equally bad fuccefs: one evening he loft at this game two thoufand eight hundred guineas; and repeatedly very large fums: he did not fufficiently confider the difadvantage of engaging against confummate experience, and the difficulty of playing with a profpect of fuccefs again't gentlemen who were in the conftant habits of exercifing their faculties, to derive all honourable advantages from the judicious playing of the game :the quinze table at Newmarket is generally attended by Mr Fox, General Smith, Mr Sneyd, Mr Church, and occafionally by most of the members of the Jockey Club..

With this great establishment at Newmarket, and at fo early a period of life, the punctuality with which he made his payments to the different dependents employed in and about his ftables, was wonderful, and proves inconteftibly, that in the midst of pleasurable purfuits, his Lordship paid an uncommon attention to the happiness of the people employed in his service; this is an incontrovertible truth, which his training grooms, his riders, his boys, and the numerous tradesmen he employed at New market, muft fubfcribe to; and it is a bold, but true affertion, that no gentleman with an establishment equal to Lord Barrymore's at Newmarket, ever quitted the turf, leav- in a very extraordinary manner beging fo few demands upon his exe

cutors!

Lord Barrymore was remarkably fuccefsful at racing, and, in the iffue, a great gainer, but thofe advantages

Many inftances have occurred when accidental neglect has been productive of ferious advantageDuring the October meeting of Newmarket, in 1791, the Duke of York and Lord Barrymore were playing the game of All Fours for a confiderable fum:-t -the game stood thus, the Duke was five, and Lord Barrymore eight, confequently the former wanted five points, the latter only two-Lord Barrymore dealt, and the Duke,, who had taken a glafs of Burguudy too much, overlooked his cards, and

ged one, which was granted, though. he held the ace, deuce, and jack of trumps; and Lord Barrymore the king and trois. The Duke played his deuce, which was won by Lord: Barrymore's

Barrymore's trois; who then played his king, which the Duke captured with his ace, and by that means got all fours, and won the party, though the odds against fuch an event taking place were as ten pounds to half a crown.

It has been imagined, that he won a great fum of money from Mr Fox at Newmarket, in confequence of the nervous orator's wearing polifhed fteel buttons on his coat, which reflected the cards in his hand.

I believe, in matching his herfes on the turf, occafions were fought and taken to touch his nerve of irritability; and by artfully undervaluing fome part of his ftud, to make him indifcreet and inclined to back it for more than it could perform. An intimate with Lord Grosvenor informed me very lately, that his Lordship had won more great bets than any member of the Jockey Club in his time; and yet, on a moderate calculation, connecting all the advantages with all the expences, he was minus two hundred thoufand pounds. This is running into the Devil's Ditch with a vengeance!

deceit practifed at Wargrave upon all ftrangers, ycleped The Brogue Makers; it was thus: one of the gentlemen was requested by the noble hoft to fing the fong of The Brogue Ma kers, at the fame time preparing the unknowing and unfufpicious vifitor to expect a high trait of wit and humour. The chaunter, after many apologies for his hoarfe. efs, began, in a loud key, the fuppofed fong, "There were three jolly Brogue Makers." At the conclufion of the line he was interrupted by one oppofite, who affirmed, that was not the tune. After fome few diftant remarks upon the rudeness of ftopping a gentlemen in his fong, who was at bet labouring to oblige the company, he began again, and was again ftopped by another in the fame place, with an objection fill more harth. Thefe interdictions operating ftrongly to the difappointment of the ftranger, who had been taught to expect fome very comic effufion; and who had been fitting with his mouth half open, in the very zenith of highwrought defire, he generally addreffed Lord Barrymore upon the propriety or impropriety of fuch interferences; who conftantly fortified his received difguft, by declaring that the ftranger's remonftrance was juft, that he was extremely forry the general entertainment was protracted by fuch indecent conduct, and concluded by defiring the fongfter to begin again, to oblige the ftranger and himfelf, if no other gentleman. In obedience to this fummons, the fong was again begun, and again oppofed by fome remark more rude than the preceding. This generally formed the climax of the vifitor's refentment who role, with great indignation, and applied fome intolerable epithet to Lord Barrymore was the most apt the perfon who had been inftrumenand fuccefsful perfon in beginning and tal in destroying the harmony of the purfuing a focial fpecies of impofition evening. This was the cue for a concalled humbugging, I ever fat with or teft; both parties inftantly ftripped obferved. There was an innocent to decide the difpute, a la Mendoza,

Yet all this apparent madnefs thefe interfecting flights from the Sweating-room to the Betting poft: from Ditch-in to the Four - Mile Courfe, and finally, to the cafle of Suicide, Bancho Regis, or the Bilboes, may answer fome falutary end which Reafon cannot defcry!-perhaps it is an intellectual probation expedient for future purpofes.-We are all obliged to be adhefive with the Devil in fome way or other: the only difference is, that the knavish are empowered to ride upon his back, while the meek and the deferving are compelled to pull him by the tail.

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In the wildneffes of his juvenility he was in the habit of taking a hackney coach, with a few perfons as wild as himself, and ordering the driver to go through Oxford-ftreet; while the carriage was proceeding, he would imitate the voice and fhrieks of woman in imminent distress; exclaiming, 66 you fha'nt, you villain; "I wont, you barbarian; I'll tear your eyes out" as the voice of a female in mifery ever did, and I truft ever will be tenderly interefting to a Briton's bofom, thofe loud indications of ravishment quickly caufed the coach to be stopped; which was no fooner done, than the parties within leaped out, and drubbed the wellmeaning interlopers for their afcribed impertinence, in arrefting a carriage on the King's high-way.

His attachment to Wargrave, as a country residence, furprised me, as I could not difcover any objects near it particularly alluring, except the Thames It is a mean, dirty village, fituated in a hollow between the Bath and Oxford roads; the lanes are nearly impaffable, and it has no market, yet in it are faid to be the remains of a royal palace; it is mentioned as having been a burial place for the Saxon warriors.-The beft apology for his predilection toward fuch a barren fpot is, that it was the fcene of his puerile ambition, where he vegetated from boyilhnefs to youth: the veneration we entertain for that hamlet, or even that tree, which we imagine, as a Hamadryad, has witneffed the gambols of our probation, is pleafant, but irreconcileable to mature thinking.The late King was fo fond of Hanover, that he even enjoyed its filthinefs in idea! When riding through Brentford in dirty weather, the good old man was accustomed to fay rap

turoufly to his courtiers, "I do love "tis place, dis fo like Yarmony."

From Lord Barrymore's attendance on bruifing matches, which, to their difgrace be it mentioned, was a few years fince, common to many of our nobility, he had acquired a pugilific fkill, which led him into affrays and contentions,

"That would have been more honour'd
in the breach
"Taan the obfervance."

When driving his phaton on the Bath road, the waggoners would not unfrequently interrupt him by their unaccommodating obftinacy,; if, on fuch occafions, the driver used many harfh epithets, he leaped from his carriage, and fought the man—if Lord Barrymore was the victor, he generally gave the fellow a guinea; if he was worsted in the encounter, he always fhook his antagonist by the hand, and wifhed him better manners, and a good journey.

Lord Barrymore was not permitted to pafs through the fpell-fraught circumrotation of dancing fashion, without fuffering difmemberment from the genteel villany of domestic plunder!-Pharo had not an eftablithment in the upper circles,to which he was not most preffingly invited.— I called upon him at his hotel one morning, when a fervant brought him a card of invitation to become a facrifice at a fimilar altar, from a lady, whom, as I knew to be benevolent, I was abafaed to find mercenary.-As the point of time interfered with a preconcerted arrangement, he asked me, jocularly, if he fhould go to the well-dreffed banditti to

Square. My reply was, that were I in his fituation, I fhould hold it as a debt due to my own integrity and wifdom, to confider if I had a tradefman unpaid, before I offered a note from my pocket-book to the rapacity of nefarious elegance,

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Lord Barrymore was very fond of circumnavigating, or, as he called it, taking measure of the understanding of the common people in the country: the following whimsical dialogue took place between him and a garrulous old woman, at Abingdon in Oxfordshire, who did not know his name or his quality:" I am told, Ma"dam, that Mr Efculapius, the "apothecary of your town, is dead, and that Mr Boreas has married "the widow." "Lord, Sir, I never heard of fuch folk, there was an "outlandish perfon that travelled this 66 country fome years agon, with "fome fuch a cramp name as Borus, "but I am told he is fettled in the "north." "He did wifely, Madam,