MR. THORNIIILL.— 1833. -273 



In speaking of this ungentle manly vice, I beg to be 

 understood that I do not class the Warwickshire fox-hunters 

 amongst these cocktail performers ; as Warwickshire can 

 produce some as good Sportsmen and hard riders, and 

 amongst them some regular welters, as anj'^ county in 

 England. 



A case in point particularly struck me yesterday, when 

 the hounds found their fox on Ladbroke-hill ; there was 

 evidently a most burning scent, but before the hounds were 

 half settled to their fox, the whole body of tailors charged 

 the hounds, and drove them from the line, half a mile to the 

 right ; the consequence was that the scent was not again 

 recovered till after considerable delay, and a slow hunting 

 run was the result, instead of j)erhaps a tickler. The day 

 was of course voted bad ; ' no scent, ungentlcmanly country, 

 no use staying poking here, let's light our baccy, and be 

 off homewards.' 



Now mark well the prognostications of these ' terrible 

 high bred cattle.' We drew Itchington-heath, when a good 

 old fox was soon viewed away ; the hounds now set to run 

 in good earnest, as most of the Field had left, and not 

 there to do mischief. They made to Chesterton, round the 

 wood, and away for Chadshunt, at a rare slapping pace, 

 where some difficulties and checks occurred ; but after some 

 beautiful hunting the hounds recovered him in Lighthorne 

 Rough. Away they went again for Lord Willoughby's, by 

 Bowshot, to the right of Moreton, and through Chesterton 

 Woods, nearly to Harbury, and so on over Ufton Bottom, 

 perhaps the deepest, stiffest and severest country in England, 

 almost in view to Ufton Wood, where, at four o'clock, the 

 hounds changed, and were consequently stopped, and 

 taken home. 



