THE CHACE. 
Although most foreigners express vast surprise that 
we should go to such expense in hunting the fox, 
unattended by the parade of the continental chasse, yet 
several of them have of late been induced to make their 
appearance in Leicestershire ; and some few have shewn 
that, had they been born Englishmen, and rightly 
initiated in the art, they must have been conspicuous 
characters in the field. The performances of Count 
Sandore, an Hungarian nobleman, who resided one 
year at Melton Mowbray, on a visit to Lord Alvanley, 
have already met the public eye ; and his daring horse- 
manship, and consequent mishaps, formed the subject 
of an amusing tale. From a ludicrous description 
given of them by himself, a series of pictures were 
painted by Mr. Ferneley, of Melton-Mowbray, repre- 
senting him in as extraordinary and perilous situations 
as the imagination of man could have conceived. 
Fiction, however, was not resorted to, every scene 
being a real one; and the Count the delight of the 
Meltonians carried them to his own country, on his 
return, together with some English mares to produce 
hunters, having had a good taste of the breed. He was 
mounted by Mr. Tilbury, a celebrated horse-dealer in 
London, who found him a stud of eight horses for the 
season, for the moderate sum of one thousand pounds, 
including every contingent expense, even to the turn- 
pike gates. Count Bathyany is a resident at Melton ; 
Counts Hahn and Bassewitz, from Germany, spent 
part of one season there ; and Count Matuchevitch, the 
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