TO 



ROBERT WHARTON, ESQUIRE, 



THE LAST PRESIDENT 

 OF THE LATE 



GLOUCESTER FOX HUNTING CLUB, 



The present brief account of the origin, and some of the 

 pleasant excursions of its patrons and associates, fondly 

 remembered and participated in with you, in your more 

 active and sprightly days, is with lively emotions of plea- 

 sure dedicated. 



Your example of feats of intrepid horsemanship in the 

 rugged course of the enlivening hunts in Jersey, excited 

 the emulation and elicited the applause of your numerous 

 younger friends and companions, by whom you were ad- 

 mired, and to whom you became endeared; thus exempli- 

 fying a happy union of amiable sociability of disposition in 

 intercourse, and dignity of deportment in command, as 

 their Chief in the chase, and President in the agreeable 

 concluding exercises at the banquet. 



So long as life endures, and memory maintains her em- 

 pire, the recollection of those sportive days and scenes 

 must impart inexpressible delight. 



To you, Sir, therefore, these memoirs are gratefully and 

 properly inscribed, by your young hunting companion, 

 and 



~ Sincere friend. 



THE AUTHOR, 



