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of the same year. The picture was engraved, and 

 the print bears dedication to General Manners. 

 It may be added that in 1824 King George IV. 

 re - estabHshed the Royal Harriers, purchasing 

 drafts from Mr. Loraine Smith, of Enderby 

 Hall, Leicestershire, and thirteen couples of the 

 pack sent up to Tattersall's by Lord Maynard's 

 executors. Charles Davis, who had succeeded 

 George Sharpe as huntsman of the Royal Buck- 

 hounds in 1822, undertook to hunt the harriers on 

 non-staghunting days. George IV. was a keen 

 sportsman and appreciated the joys of pace ; when 

 Prince of Wales he accepted a Mastership of Fox- 

 hounds during his residence at Critchill, in Dorset- 

 shire. His father was fond of the chase, and in 

 1780 established a pack of foxhounds with Sharpe 

 as huntsman ; but His Majesty's weight was against 

 him in the field, and, according to Lord Ribblesdale, 

 he was not in the habit of tempting Providence 

 by trying big places or of riding too hard. 



In 1822 Davis painted for the Duke of York 

 a portrait of his horse, Moses, which in Tom 

 Goodisson's hands had won the Derby of that year. 

 His Royal Highness is said to have been a good 

 judge of a horse, and Moses he bred himself out of 

 Sister to Castensa by Whalebone. This picture 

 was shown at the Academy of 1823 ; an engraving 

 of the work by J. Scott was published in vol. Ixi. 



