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With the nose of a bloodhound, his pace was a killing one ; 

 and as a proof of his powers in chase, Mr. Corbet has often 

 been heard to say that he was the only hound he ever had 

 who could leap Chillington Park wall after a fox. This 

 circumstance, perhaps, may have given birth to the other 

 story of the park wall exploit. It appears that Mr. Corbet's 

 hounds found a very dark-coloured fox in Chillington Park, 

 in Staffordshire, the seat of Mr. Gifford, which had beaten 

 them twice. The third time they found him Trojan leaped 

 the park wall after him, but, in consequence of the rest of the 

 pack not being able to follow him, old Cjesar, as the gallant 

 fox was called, beat them again. The following season Trojan 

 found this fox again, nearly in the same place, and leaped the 

 wall close at his brush, but from the cause before mentioned, 

 although he afforded a good run after the other hounds got 

 around to him, he beat them once more ! In short, in spite of old 

 Trojan, ' Caesar's fortune ' attended him to the last, as he was 

 never killed by hounds, neither was it ever known in what 

 way he ended his life." 



II. Colonel Thornton. 



Colonel Thomas Thornton was so conspicuous a figure in 

 the sporting world during the later decades of the eighteenth 

 century and the earlier years of the nineteenth, and was also 

 so liberal a patron of art in its sporting aspects, that more 

 than passing notice of him seems desirable. He was born in 

 the neighbourhood of St. James's about the year 1755, his 

 father being Colonel Wm. Thornton, who raised a troop of 

 yeomanry one hundred strong, and maintained it at his own 

 cost while serving with distinction under the Duke of Cum- 

 berland in the Scottish Rebellion. Young Thornton was sent 

 to Charterhouse where he remained till he was fourteen ; 

 when having made rapid progress, he was removed and sent 

 to Glasgow University. When about sixteen years of age 

 his father, then M.P. for York, died somewhat suddenly, and 

 Thomas Thornton, at the age of two-and-twenty, came into 

 possession of an immense fortune. Sport, and above all 



