A NOTICE OF NIMROn. 



rode up to the cover-side, after having been very 

 riotous on the previous evening in the servants' hall 

 of a neighbouring gentleman, " They are a nice 

 couple ; at all events they seem to enter well." 



On leaving Rugby young Apperley received a com- 

 mission in Sir Watkin Wynn's Fencible Cavalry regi- 

 ment, called the Ancient British Light Dragoons, but 

 known in Ireland, where he joined, as " the bloody 

 Britons," from the active part they took in crushing 

 the Rebellion of 1 798. " The severity of the losses of 

 the ' Ancient British ' may be judged of by the simple 

 fact of my having been gazetted youngest cornet on 

 the 1st of April, 1798, and becoming nearly senior 

 lieutenant in little more than a year and a half ; " 

 and he was paymaster to the regiment at the time 

 it was disbanded. A year or two after this Mr. 

 Apperley married Miss Wynn, a cousin of Sir 

 Watkin's, and a daughter of Mr. Wynn, of Peniarth, 

 once M.P. for the county of Caernarvon ; and in 1801 

 he took a house at Hinkley, in Leicestershire. The 

 Quorn was then in its glory ; the renowned Mr. 

 Meynell had just given up the hounds, but Apperley 

 met him in the field, and no man ever did the thing 

 in better style than his successor Lord Sefton, who 

 built the famous " long stable," had two packs of 



