[33] 'Colonel Dennis O'Kelly, the celebrated owner of Eclipse (this racehorse won everything he ran for), amassed an immense fortune by gambling and the turf, and purchased the estate of Canons, near Edgware, which was formerly possessed by the Duke of Chandos, and is still remembered as the site of the most magnificent mansion and establishment of modern times. The Colonel's training stables and paddocks, at another estate near Epsom, were supposed to be the best-appointed in England.'—Hone's 'Table Book.'
[34] A clever drawing, which has never, apparently, been engraved, Colonel O'Kelly Enjoying a Private Trial previous to his Making a Match, belonging to John West, Esq., is noticed in the [Appendix].
[35] Sévigné, vol. vi. pp. 98–157.
[36] Place des Victoires. A circular open space, surrounded by houses, forming together one design, built by Mansard, 1686. Portions of the original statue of Louis XIV., raised by the Duc de la Feuillade, in the middle, which was destroyed during the Revolution, are now in the Louvre: it was replaced by a statue of General Desaix, which, in its turn, was removed for the present one of Louis XIV. in the costume of a Roman emperor, by Bosio.
[37] Wooden Gun. See Public Characters, 1806, p. 99.
[38] 'Lord Barrymore's phaeton was a very high one; and after our midnight revels in town I have often travelled in it with him to Wargrave. One very dark night, going through Colnbrook, in the long street called Featherbed Lane, he kept whipping right and left, breaking the windows, delighted with the noise as he heard them crack—this he called fanning the daylights.'—Angelo's Memoirs.
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