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saw the original — particularly as regards his seat on his saddle. He 

 is a good horseman and rides well up to his hounds. Undertaker 

 was a most superior hunter. He was got by St. George out of a 

 Trinculo mare, and Mr. L. had also another very clever hunter out 

 of the same mare, got by Atlas. They were both bred by a medical 

 gentleman of the immortal name of Nelson. 



Few people follow a pack of fox-hounds regularly for any length of 

 time without meeting with some serious accidents, the marks of 

 which many of them carry to the grave. I am sorry to have to 

 record a most serious one that befell Mr. Lambton three years ago, 

 which very nearhj cost him his life. He rode at a fence in chase, 

 and his horse falling, he was pitched upon his head, and taken up 

 lifeless. Paralysis was the consequence of the injury, and for a long 

 time he was considered to be in imminent danger. Having a good 

 constitution he gradually recovered ; but most unluckily the year 

 afterwards he got another fall, which was worse in its consequences 

 than the first. He was riding a very old hack from his home kennel to 

 his house at Merton, a distance of about three miles, when he fell 

 with him, and he was again pitched upon his head. I am, how- 

 ever, happy to say that he is now once more in very good health, 

 although at times he suffers from the injuries his frame received, and 

 his head and neck are a little distorted from their natural position ; 

 but I have great pleasure in adding, his spirits are as good as ever, 

 and he seemed to stand his work well. 



It is said by a writer, whose celebrity perhaps does no great 

 honour to the feelings of human nature, that, let a man die amidst 

 ever so many lamentations and regrets, if he could rise again from 

 the dead, after a lapse of a few years, his re-appearance on earth 

 would not be found to be productive of unmingled satisfaction among 

 his friends who wept over his closing grave. As this experiment has 

 never been tried, all we can do is, in charity, to doubt the fact : but 

 I think I can assert, that few men in England in private life would 

 have been more sincerely or longer regretted than Mr. Ealph 

 Lambton, had this accident been fatal to him ; neither do I think 

 the resurrection of such members of society would ever be deemed 

 unseasonable : for, if weighed in the scale in which I balance 

 the qualities of mankind, he would be found to be thumping 



