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again. He then ran to Hampton, where he crossed the 

 Thames, and proceeded by Moseley Hurst away to Walton, 

 where he recrossed the Thames, and came back to Hounslow, 

 where he was run into and killed "after a chace of above forty 

 Miles." The King, Sir Kobert Walpole, Lord Harrington, and 

 Sir William Cope were up with the hounds during the whole 

 of the run. " Mr. Serjeant, Master of the Crown Inn at 

 XJxbridge, had the Misfortune to break his Thigh, by his 

 Horse running away with him near Hampton Town," and was 

 so ill that his life was despaired of. The Prime Minister was 

 likewise laid up at his Lodge in the New Park, "having 

 suffr'd a Great Fatigue in attending his Majesty in the long 

 Hunting Chace." 



Wednesday, September 18, Hounslow, — The King, Duke of 

 Cumberland, " and several of the Nobility," were at the meet. 

 No details of the run ; nevertheless it must have been a 

 " full head " one, as it was soon after announced that " His 

 Grace the Duke of Newcastle recovers daily from his Indispo- 

 sition, which was a violent Cold, he took in attending his 

 Majesty a Hunting some Days ago." Sir Kobert Walpole was 

 also on the mending list, and congratulated accordingly. Sad 

 to say, the Prime Minister's chief motive in so constantly 

 hunting with the Buckhounds was not exclusively attributable 

 to his love for the chase. His presence here drove the Prince 

 of Wales out of the field, and Walpole perceived that 

 every encounter between the Prince and his father, amid such 

 harmonising surroundings, would tend to heal the rupture 

 which kept them apart. His equestrian portrait, in the 

 summer costume worn by the followers of the Royal Buck- 

 hounds in those days, is engraved after the original picture by 

 Wooton. It is more interesting as a souvenir of the Royal 

 Hunt in the reign of George II., than as a work of art. 

 Divide et iinpera was the motto of this minister ; in no 

 instance did he practise that precept more successfully than 

 in fomenting dissension in the Royal Family. The heir- 

 apparent being thus boycotted, and practically prohibited 

 of hunting with the Royal Buckhounds, which he so dearly 



