102 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



The last meet, this season, April ^Qth, 1814, was at 

 Long Meadow Wood. 



The reader, probably, will be surprised that the hounds 

 have not been more freqviently noticed while under the 

 management of Lord Middleton. This apparent omission 

 we shall now explain. His Lordship called upon the late 

 respectable proprietor of the Warwick Advertiser, and desired 

 him not to insert in the paper any accounts of his hounds 

 unless they were sent by himself, or by his authority from 

 one of his intimate friends. This injunction was complied 

 with, but many of the farmers who occasionally joined the 

 hunt, complained of the interdict. ' It is too bad, (said 

 one of them,) when we take so much care to preserve the 

 foxes, and our bvisiness will not permit us to go out with 

 the hounds, to deny us the pleasure of seeing what they are 

 doing in the newspaper.' 



The annual Hunt Ball was held at the Court House, in 

 Warwick, on the 20th of January, 1814. The floor of the 

 room had previously been ornamented in coloured chalk. 

 On the left, was represented a full length figure of Guy 

 Earl of Warwick, in complete armour, complimentary to 

 the honourable house which now bears the title of that 

 redoubtable champion ; and on the right, in the uniform of 

 a member of the Warwickshire Hunt, a gentleman taking a 

 flying leap over a barred fence. The company was very 

 numerous, most of the first families of the county being 

 present ; the scene was splendid and delightful. The table 

 was laid at the Warwick Arms, where the noble Master 

 of the hounds presided. The cawsey, from the inn door 

 down to the Court House, was laid with matting ; and the 

 arrangements, which were made on the Ijest scale, met with 

 the approbation of every one. 



