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a favourite charger of that name, which his Eoyal Highness 

 " rode in Scotland during the late unnatural Rebellion." A 

 groom reporting the circumstance in Windsor, " the Publick, 

 without enquiry catched the News, and with swifter currency 

 than the Tide, it came to Town." On the 10th of this month 

 the Princess Amelia was sworn into the office of Ranger of 

 Richmond New Park by the Chairman and High Bailiff of 

 the City and Liberty of Westminster, at Kensington Palace — 

 an appointment which, directly and indirectly, led to great 

 contention and lawsuits during the ensuing ten years. In 

 August, Cranborn Lodge — which had been occupied by the 

 late Duke of St. Albans — was given to the Duke of Cumberland 

 for the natural term of his life. On the 8th His Royal High- 

 ness took possession of this Lodge, when the occasion was 

 celebrated with a cricket match between " the Duke of Cum- 

 berland's XI. V. Sir John Elvill's XI., which the latter won by 

 an innings." On Monday, July 12, the Duke and a large field 

 were out with the Buckhounds, and this is the last allusion 

 we have met with relating to the runs with the pack during 

 this season. It is improbable that any of the Princesses hunted 

 with the pack before September 8, on which day the Court 

 went out of mourning for the late Prince of Wales. Poor Fred 

 had been devotedly attached to the Royal Hunt down to the 

 time when, by the specious policy of Walpole, he was forced 

 to seek other hunting quarters. Like the Princess Anne, in 

 the days of yore, he cast long lingering glances after the Royal 

 Buckhounds, and it is alleged that he employed scouts, during 

 the period of his banishment from Windsor, to inform him 

 (when he was in residence at Cliefden and Kew) whenever 

 the pack ran in those directions. A saddled hunter was con- 

 tinually kept in readiness ; and whenever an opportunity 

 of this sort presented, Fred unexpectedly fell in with the 

 hunt, and enjoyed the sport to his heart's content. During 

 his exile in Hanover he was trained on sausages and sower- 

 crout (orthography not warranted sound in wind or limb) ; 

 nevertheless there must have been a good current of true 

 British blood in his veins. On his arrival in England he 



