“On a toujours raison, le destin toujours tort.”
La Fontaine.
[2] A genealogical account of race-horses.
[3] Two celebrated spots on Newmarket heath.
[4] Proprietor of the celebrated horse Eclipse.
[5] This was prior to the abolition of the Slave Trade.
[6] The small square white patches on each side the collar of a midshipman’s coat, having an anchor button in the middle of it are facetiously called Weekly Accompts, from their resemblance to a flag hoisted by the port admiral, requiring from the ships in harbour a weekly return of their state and condition. This flag is blue, with a white field in the middle.
[7] In line-of-battle ships the midshipman’s birth, or cabin, is in the cockpit.
[8] Candle.
[9] A dram of rum is here meant, to a bottle of which, it seems the youth was applying for consolation.