TO HIS GRACE 



THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, K.G. 



&c. &c. &c. 

 " Quod spiro et placeo (si placeo) tuum est." — Hor. 



My Dear Lord Duke, 



I HAVE been impelled alike by the circumstance of 

 your having been so long at the head of one of the 

 first fox-hunting establishments in the first country in 

 the world, and by the consideration of the patronage 

 which your refined taste and judgment have ever led 

 you to bestow upon literature and the arts, to solicit 

 the honour of such an appendage as that of your name, 

 to an Essay upon " The Noble Science." 



In dedicating to your Grace the following pages, 

 as to one whose character reflects lustre upon his own 

 order, and that class whose examples I have humbly 

 endeavoured to uphold, I claim that indulgence which 

 you are ever ready to accord to all who have the hap- 

 piness of your friendship, and to him who has the 

 honour to subscribe himself, with equal respect and 

 regard. 



Yours, 



Most faithfully, 

 F. P. DELME RADCLIFFE. 



HiTCHiN Priory, 

 Dec. 31, 1838. 



