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pointment or his senatorial engagements will permit. 

 In the field his lordship takes an active part, and being 

 always well mounted invariably secures a good place 

 in a run. His excellent judgment in horses is decided 

 by the very superior animals which he has of late years 

 selected for the hunting stables. 



The youthful Lord Glamorgan,* who has already 

 made a good commencement, generally accompanied 

 his noble grandfather in the phaeton, with a pony in 

 attendance, and escorted by an experienced, careful 

 groom. When the hounds found, he mounted his steed, 

 and, riding to points, was enabled to see a great 

 portion of a run, unless it might be at a very fast pace 

 with an uncommonly straight-necked fox. The young 

 nobleman evidently takes vast delight in all the pro- 

 ceedings, closely watching every operation in the event 

 of a fox being killed, and investigating every minutiae 

 when the hounds mark their game to ground. So well 

 brought up, his lordship cannot fail to become a 

 talented sportsman. t 



* Now Marquis of Worcester. 



tAt the moment of these pages going through the press, the sad 

 intelligence arrived of the dissolution of the Duke of Beaufort, which 

 melancholy event took place at Badminton on the 17th of November, 

 1853. His Grace had suffered considerably from his painful enemy 

 the gout, but immediate danger was not apprehended till the pre- 

 ceding day when it was found necessary to send an express to the 

 Marquis of Worcester, to announce the dangerous state of his noble 

 father's health. With all the celerity of railway communication, his 

 lordship was unable to reach home before the vital spirit had fled 

 from its earthly tenement. 



If the whole of this volume were devoted to the purpose, it 

 would be insufficient to enumerate the exalted and amiable virtues 

 for which the departed duke was distinguished. But when the head 

 of a noble family, with whose history and fortunes we have for a 

 long time been acquainted, descends into the tomb, we cannot, in 

 common with the surrounding neighbours, fail to cherish the deepest 

 concern and sympathy. That voluntary respect which is paid to rank 

 becomes mingled with courteous and affectionate reverence. The 

 mortal remains of Henry, the seventh Duke of Beaufort, were 



