APPENDIX III. 



no difficulty in having it determined by reference according to 

 the laws of fox-hunting, and in a way that I doubt not will be 

 received as satisfactory by all interested. 



I remain, 



Yours most truly, 



(Sgd.) A. GILLON. 



Mr GiLLON to Mr Sandilands. 



New Club, Wednesday, \st April. 

 MY DEAR SANDILANDS, 



I beg to hand you my view as requested, on the 

 L. S. Hounds question, &c., &c. I now submit them for your 

 and Mrs Eamsay's consideration alone. There are one or two 

 things that I did not like to allude to, — for instance, the death 

 of the youth named, — life is always uncertain, or he might not 

 care to carry on the hounds. 



The hounds, I see, are branded with E., which is, I believe, a 

 new arrangement. I withdrew my subscription before you were 

 ever named as likely to hunt the country. 



Yours ever, 



(Sgd.) A. G. 



[Note. — At first sight, it might be considered that these letters of 

 Mr Gillon's were private — in this light I regarded them, until, by 

 his letter of the 1st May, it appears that they had been read at a 

 public meeting at Linlithgow, and that the county proprietors and sub- 

 scribers are to be " put in possession of a copy of the letters which have 

 passed." I omit the concluding paragraph of the last of these letters 

 until Mr Gillon gives me permission for its insertion. — J. S.] 



Mrs RAMSAY'S STATEMENT. 



Barnton, 22nd April 1857. 



Captain Sandilands having given me a letter addressed to 

 him by Mr Gillon, in which he expresses a doubt as to my 

 right of ownership of the hounds, I beg to state, that at the time 

 of Mr Eamsay's death, which occurred on the 15th March 1850, 

 the hounds were at Golfhall kennel, and that they remained in 



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