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sentation to him of his portrait painted by F. C. Turner ; 

 the work was afterwards engraved by Barraud, and the 

 original is, or was not very long ago, in the possession of 

 Mr. Charles Start, of Pebmarsh, Essex. The picture in- 

 cludes portraits of sundry Elast Essex sportsmen, among 

 others, Mr. Caswell Newman, Mr. Thomas White, Parson 

 Cox, and Meshech Cornell. Mr. Newman himself is re- 

 presented riding a white horse, while the hounds are 

 breaking covert. He gave up the hounds in 1842, when 

 the hounds and the stud were disposed of, and in 1849 he 

 died. 



Mr. H. R. G. Marriott, of Abbots Hall, Shalford, 

 kindly sends us the following particulars concerning the 

 East Essex country : — 



" Mr. Newman was master a long time, probably 

 twenty years or more. My father was born in iSoi, and 

 I have heard him speak ot hunting with Charles Newman 

 when he was quite a young man. A committee had the 

 country in 1842, and my father, Richard Marriott, became 

 master in 1843. My father was a master of harriers for 

 twenty-four years before he took the East Essex country. 

 He was left without father or mother at the ao;e of twelve, 

 and his guardians, I suppose, were not very strict, and did 

 not stiiU him as to money, for he has told me that before 



