226 THE HUNTING FIELD 



He kept hounds himself during the Peninsular War, 

 and divers good stories are related of them and 

 their huntsman (Tom Crane), whose enthusiasm used 

 sometimes to carry him in the enemy's country, a 

 fact that he used to be reminded of by a few bullets 

 whizzing about his ears. 



What a number of noblemen we have seen keeping 

 hounds or acting as Masters of Hounds. The Dukes 

 of Richmond, Rutland, Buccleugh, Beaufort, Bedford, 

 and Cleveland ; the Marquises of Salisbury, London- 

 derry, Hastings, and Tavistock ; Earls of Derby, 

 Harewood, Ducie, Chesterfield, Scarborough, Lons- 

 dale, Fitzwilliam, Fitzhardinge, Radnor; Lords Anson, 

 Middleton, Southampton, Forester, Petre, Yarborough, 

 Hawke, Elcho, Portman, Gifford, Althorpe, Hastings, 

 Glasgow, Kintore, John Scott, Bentinck, Redesdale, 

 Sufneld, Parker, Galway, and others, whose names 

 do not occur to us at this moment. 



Many of the above hunted to great ages, and lived 

 all their lives in enjoyment of excellent health, from 

 the invigorating pursuits of the chase. Lord Lons- 

 dale, we believe, rode till he was near eighty, the 

 late Duke of Cleveland hunted his own hounds till 

 he was well up to seventy, and the late Lord Hare- 

 wood may almost be said to have died in the saddle, 

 somewhat turned of that age. Lord Evergreen might 

 pass for fifty, though he has not much change to take 

 out of sixty. 



But let us take a glance at the " order " generally. 

 Though the style and magnificence of our nobility 

 is very imposing in London, still it is in the country 

 that they should be seen to appreciate their true 

 influence and importance. In London there are too 

 many of them ; they are too closely packed, to say 

 nothing of being over-ridden by the dazzle of the 

 Court, for them to shine singly in their individual 

 lustre. In the country they rule despotic. They are 

 the great stars of their respective hemispheres. Great- 



