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Jerseymen, we learn the names of General F. Davenport, 

 John Lawrence, Capt. James B. Cooper, Capt. Samuel 

 Whitail, Col. Heston, and Col. Joshua Howell, of Fancy 

 Hill, New Jersey, Samuel Harrison, Esq. and Jesse Smith, 

 Esq. the present High Sheriff* of Gloucester County. 



The writer had the pleasure of fi-equently coursing the 

 pines and the plains of Gloucester County, between the 

 years 1810 and 1818, the period of the decease of an es- 

 timable friend and able tutor in the art of hunting and 

 horsemanship. Captain Charles Ross. 



Deaths, resignations, and mercantile misfortunes con- 

 sequent in the restrictions and general embarrassments 

 of trade and business, which had continued to exist for 

 many a previous year, and was onward pressing with de- 

 structive force, paralizing the energies, and wasting the 

 substance, of the once wealthy merchant, called his atten- 

 tion fixedly, to his altered fortunes, and ruinous prospects, 

 The ranks of the Club became thinned, its few adherents 

 were disheartened at the gloomy change, and perceived 

 dismal forebodings of the dissolution of their long-lived 

 and once delightful association. When Captain Ross 

 died, the death blow of the declining club was receiv- 

 ed; it at once ceased to exist, because the soul of its 

 the frail existence, the last master spirit, had departed. 

 His funeral knell sounded that of his favourite's, 

 "THE GLOUCESTER FOX HUNTING CLUB," 

 at which he was wont to be one of the most ardent 

 in the chase and liveliest at the banquet. He pos- 



