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Duke of York pronounced some possessed by the Colonel to 

 be the finest in the kingdom. It must be added that with 

 all this parade and display, the business of transporting these 

 many varied matters was so perfectly organised and carried 

 out that everything reached Spye Park in safety. We can 

 only regret that Colonel Thornton did not, on this occasion, 

 include among his retinue George Garrard, to immortalise a 

 scene of such curious ostentation ! 



About the year 1815, the Colonel gave up hawking and 

 retired to France. In 1817, he bought the Chateau of Pon- 

 le Roi, in the Dept. d'Aube, reselling it in 1821. He died in 

 Paris in the spring of 1823, in his seventy-fifth year. 



