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" 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. 



It is scarcely necessary to observe, that most of Mr. Corbet's best 

 bitches were put to this wonderful hound ; and he was the sire of 

 Traitor, Tyrant, Torment, Turpin, and Tarquin, all as fine hounds 

 as ever went into a field , and which hunted in the same pack with 

 their sire, when that pack was sold, in 1790 — Mr. Corbet reserving 

 old Trojan to himself. 



The purchaser of this celebrated pack was Sir Eichard Puleston, 

 of Emral, son-in-law to Mr. Corbet, who sold them some time after- 

 wards to the late Duke of Bedford for a large price ; but their blood, 

 so much honored by their original master, has been carefully 

 preserved to this day by Sir Eichard in the numerous hounds he has 

 bred from his favorite stud-hound Dromo. 



A hound called Champion was also much distinguished in Mr. 

 Corbet's pack when he hunted Warwickshire the second time, and 

 was for some years pvit to his best bitches, whose produce were equal 

 to any hounds in the kingdom. 



It is natural to pursue a favorite system too far ; and so it proved 

 in this instance ; for, by too strict an adherence to the " blood of the 

 Trojans," Mr. Corbet was at one time supposed to have injured his 

 pack, as it was observed by those who constantly hunted with him, 

 that the Trojan sort had degenerated. Though remarkable for 

 stoutness, they had lost their dash. They would be seen meuseing 

 a hedge, or creeping under the bars of a gate, when the rest of the 

 pack would be topping both the one and the other. This, however, 

 was not unobserved by Mr. Corbet ; and, some years before he gave 

 them up, the defect was in great measure remedied by judicious 

 crosses from other kennels, but chiefly by a large draft of young 

 hounds which he had from Sir Eichard Puleston, whom he (Mr. 

 Corbet) was often heard to declare he could never equal in breeding 

 hounds. This candid submission to his superior judgment in breed- 

 ing hounds, from so old and experienced a sportsman as Mr. Corbet, 

 justifies the high compliment paid to Sir Eichard, many years 

 since, by the late Mr. Meynell, that he considered him " the best 

 (gentleman) kennel-huntsman in England." 



