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Royal Family, went from Kensington to Richmond New Park, 

 to hunt a Stag : During the Chase the Princess Amelia had 

 the Misfortune to be thrown by her Horse, and her Petticoat 

 hanging on the Pommel of the Saddle, she was dragg'd near 

 200 yards, but most providentially receiv'd no Manner of 

 Hurt : The Right Hon. Harry Pelham took her up. Her Royal 

 Highness afterwards remounted, in order to pursue the Chase, 

 but the Queen would not permit it, so she returned to 

 Kensington in a Coach an Hour before the Sport was over, 

 and was blooded in her own Apartment by Mr. Ranby, one of 

 the King's Surgeons. His Majesty order'd the Stagg's Life to 

 be spared, to the End he might be hunted again. Several 

 persons were unhorsed in the Chase." 



Saturday, August 24, same meet. — Princess Amelia gone 

 to Bath. Their jNIajesties and the rest of the Ro3^al Family 

 present at the meet, which attracted the usual crowd. " A 

 Woman whose curiosity had carried her thither with a Child 

 of about two Years old in her Arms, had the Infant thrown 

 down by a Horseman's riding over her, and a Coach and Six 

 Horses flying by at that Instant the Babe was trodden to 

 Death and the Woman miserably bruised." The Earl of 

 Londonderry * — " a Youth of about 17 Years of Age who 

 was at School at Cheam " — ^joined in the chase, and after he 

 had ridden about a mile was thrown and killed on the spot. 

 This fatal accident threw a cloud over the run ; beyond the 

 record of the grief nothing else has been recorded, except that 

 the field included Prince Charles, " nephew to his most Serene 

 Highness the Elector of Treves," accompanied by two German 

 noblemen ; there were also present two Indian chiefs f from 

 America, who had brought with them, as a present to the 

 King, the " body of a flying horse," which died on the voyage. 



Wednesday, August 28, Hounslow Heath. — The King having 



* Thomas Pitt, second Earl of Londonderry. 



f These were Tomo-chichi and another chief of the Creeks. They arrived 

 from America to do homage at Court. They were " Buffalo Bill'd " by Colonel 

 Oglethorpe. Query if the " Flying Horse " was a Bucker Mustang, and so 

 called by the animal's ability to send its rider flying. 



