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for the last three weeks suffered much from neuralgic 

 pains flying all over the body, though without fear 

 of immediate danger. Exhausted nature, however, 

 sank under continued suffering, and he died without 

 a struggle on Thursday, at 2 p.m., in the sixty-first 

 year of his age. He had been unable to ride on 

 horseback for the last three years from anchylosed 

 joints from gout, but has constantly, when his health 

 permitted, been present at the meets in a phaeton 

 drawn by his celebrated pied horses. As a noble- 

 man and as a Master of Hounds he had no equal in 

 courteousness of manner and affability to all in the 

 hunting field. The highest and lowest, the rich 

 and poor, the lettered and unlettered, all had a 

 mark of recognition with such a gracious manner as 

 seemed to raise those whom he addressed to his 

 own level, instead of that insulting condescension 

 which many of the would-be great people practise. 

 His management of the field made him much be- 

 loved. A good sportsman himself, he kept his field 

 in order without the acerbity often met with else- 

 where. No day was too long ; indeed, the Beaufort 

 Hounds have been notorious for drawing later than 

 any other hounds in England. As a rider to hounds 

 he was' a few years ago a very good man, preferring 

 timber and walls to hedges, from the fact that if 

 he had a blow it was sure to bring on an attack 

 of the gout. In conclusion, he could not be sur- 

 passed for gentlemanly bearing." This epitaph, of 

 which his descendants may be proud, is only one 



