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Exclusively of the honours bestowed on him by his Sovereign, Sir 

 Hussey has some private, though not less signal, trophies of his 

 well-earned fame. His own regiment, the 7th Light Dragoons, 

 gave him an elegant vase, which looked very handsome on his 

 dinner table ; but, what is still more to his honour, the 18th Light 

 Dragoons, on being reduced — in gratitude for the victories * he had 

 led them to — presented him with a silver trumpet purchased by the 

 non-commissioned officers and soldiers out of their share t of horses 

 captured from the enemy, and which trumpet was to have remained 

 in the regiment for ever ! The officers of his own regiment also 

 honoured him with an elegant sword, which, with the trumpet — in 

 compliment to the. donors — is suspended over the fire-place in this 

 gallant soldier's dining room. I am a poor poet, but yet I must 

 be allowed to say. 



Well may this trumpet sound tlie note of Fame, 

 And Echo, from the woods, return a hero's name. 



Sir Hussey Vivian's father was on a visit to him when I was in 

 the Forest, and is an example to all men of the good effects of a 

 country life and country sports. Mr. Vivian resides at Trewan in 

 Cornwall, where he has kept hounds for a great number of years 

 (hunting fox after Christmas), and where he fulfils some of the most 

 important offices of a country gentleman. Although nearly arrived 

 at " the age of man," Mr. Vivian is young in constitution, and as 

 firm and strong a horseman as I ever met with. 



On the second day of my hunting with Mr. Nicoll, I had the 

 pleasure of seeing the well-known Mr. Butler. Although we had 

 never met, we had heard and read of each other ; and, as some one 

 observes, "where there is a sympathy of thought and sentiments, 

 noble souls make acquaintance at first sight " — a slight introduction 

 put us completely at our ease. Mr. Butler informed me that the 



* On the eve of the battle of Toulouse, Sir Hussey took a most important post 

 with the 18th Light Dragoons, but received a severe wound. 



I There is nothing new under the sun. The scholar will go back to the 

 golden shield in the Temple of Jupiter, on which the lines, thus Englished, 

 were engraved : — 



" Th' Athenians, Argives, and lonians tamed, 

 Tanagras' sons this golden bowl have placed 

 A sacred gift — of all their spoils the tenth — 

 For vict'ry with their friends the Sijartana gained." 



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