SPEECH BY MR. CONYERS. lOT 



appreciating, that noblest and most gallant of sports. No 

 other country in the world is capable of understanding, 

 much less of practising, a pastime which has this great and 

 peculiar characteristic, that it equally contributes to the 

 enjoyment of the rich and of the poor, of the exalted and 

 of the lowly. No other country but England knows any- 

 thing of a sport which allows a chimney-sweep or the 

 lowest man of the community to ride by the side of a 

 duke. The humblest man in the population, provided only 

 he be decent and well-behaved, ma\- ride by the side of a 

 duke when both are in pursuit of the fox, but in what other 

 country but dear Old England could such a sight be seen? 

 When I come to think of the blessings of foxhunting I 

 have no language to do justice to the subject. It is easy to 

 talk ot love and its sweet return, but what is there that pro- 

 motes love, and kindness, and benevolence, and benignity, 

 and everything that is good, genial and kindhearted 

 amongst countrymen and neighbours like foxhunting ? At 

 a foxhunt men of the most opposite opinions — men who, on 

 questions of religion and politics, have scarcely one senti- 

 ment in common — Whigs, Tories, Radicals, and anything- 

 arians can mingle together with as much harmony, good- 

 humour and good-fellowship as if they had been all their 

 lives on terms of the most cordial unanimitv and the most 



