302 NIMROD'S NORTHERN TOUR. 



The character of these hounds and their owner may perhaps be best 

 ppreciated by the insertion of the following paragraph, from the Aber- 

 deen Journal of October 2nd, 1835. 



DINNER— AND PRESENTATION OF A PIECE OF PLATE TO 



THE EARL OF KINTORE. 



" On Wednesday last, a dinner was given to the Earl of Kintore, at 

 Cooper's Inn at Turriff, by the Proprietors of Fox Covers in that neigh- 

 bourhood, and other gentlemen who are in the habit of hunting with his 

 lordship's hounds. Amongst those present, we noticed Mr. Duff of 

 Hatton, Mr. Leslie of Dunlugas, Mr. Forbes of Blackford, Mr. Urqu- 

 hart of Craigston, Mr. Leslie of Rothie, Mr. James Ramsay, Major 

 Dunbar of Mountcoffer, Mr Morison, younger, of Auchintoui, Mr. Nesbit, 

 &c. Sir Michael Bruce, Mr. Grant of Tillyfour, Colonel Gordon of Park, 

 Mr. Bissetof Lessendrum, and Mr. Buchanof Auchmacoy, were prevented 

 by unavoidable circumstances from attending. Mr. Morison was in the 

 Chair, and Mr. Leslie of Dunlugas, acted as Croupier. After the cloth 

 was removed, and the health of the King, the Queen, and the other 

 branches of the Royal Family had been drunk with all the honours, a very 

 handsome Piece of Plate, which it had been intended to present to the 

 Noble Earl at the conclusion of the last hunting season, but which had 

 arrived too late, was placed on the table before the Chairman, who, in 

 proposing the health of his lordship with all the honours, expressed the 

 great gratification he felt in being deputed by the gentlemen of the 

 neighbourhood in which his lordship had now hunted for several seasons, 

 to convey to him the sense of obligation that those gentlemen enter- 

 tained for the kindness and urbanity which had ever distinguished his 

 lordship since he came amongst them ; and, at the same time, to beg his 

 lordship's acceptance of the Piece of Plate now before them, as a mark 



