MR. J. CORBET— 1800. 13 



BY A VETERAN FOXHUNTER. 1 



The hounds began hunting this season, 1800, at Sundorne 

 Castle, in Shropshire, the noble hereditary mansion of 

 Mr. Corbet, on the 2d of September. 



In a run on the 5th, Jack Barrow, in leaping over a 

 hedge, fell into a stone-quarry, broke his collar-bone, and 

 hurt his horse very much. 



On the 8th, while the hounds were drawing Hall Hole, 

 and Leigh ton Shelf, the rain came on so very violent, that 

 they returned home without finding. My boots (says the 

 writer,) had above a pint of water in them, and I never had 

 such a wetting in my life. 



On the 9th, we hunted in the neighbourhood of Acton 

 Burnell; the hounds divided, and afterwards joined again ; 

 the day was very wet, and the foxes were lost. I had this 

 day the pleasure of the company of two of the female sex, 

 Mrs. Corbet and Miss Brown, and they drank foxhunting 

 in a bumper on their return home. They saw the fox 

 frequently, and enjoyed the sport of all things. 



On the 29th, after killing one fox, and running another 

 to Weston House, which was lost nearly in view, a fox was 

 found at Boscobel Wood ; he was run for an hour, and 

 killed near the Lodge at the Cowhay cover. Many Sports- 

 men were in the field, and we got some most excellent ale, 

 and a true Sportsman's luncheon, at Mr. Lockley's. 



1 A Gentleman, whose courtesy we are proud to acknowledge, has 

 favoured us with the MS privata of a Sportsman for many years well 

 known and highly esteemed in ' The Warwickshire Hunt.' The obser- 

 vations of a man of good sense and veracity, aided by long experience 

 and an extensive knowledge of his subject, are of no common value in 

 the estimation of a well informed and intelligent Sportsman. Fox- 

 hunting, probably, never pressed more closely on the heel of Science, 

 than in the practice of the Gentleman to whom we allude. 



