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taking office. It is less, therefore, on behalf of masters 

 of hounds, than as a matter worthy the consideration of 

 any hunt, about to commence de novo, or having the 

 power of improving the usual order of things, that I 

 have alluded to defects in the management of countries, 

 and have expressed a desire for change of system. In 

 offering a shew of reason for such a wish, it will be 

 right to point out a few of the present evils, which 

 appear to me chiefly to require new enactments, and 

 for such a taste I may not be, perhaps, altogether un- 

 qualified, considering that in Hertfordshire they have 

 been allowed to increase, and arrive at an extent, which 

 has, I believe, no parallel in any other country. In so 

 doing, inasmuch as I cannot contemplate the prospect 

 of any change in my own time (nor could I countenance 

 the hazard of such an undertaking, were it more feasi- 

 ble than it is), I must be acquitted of any other motive 

 than that of arousing the attention of those whom it 

 may concern, to the importance of the subject. It is 

 money which forms the sinews of war — it is the 

 " money makes the mare to go." Without money, 

 hunting must fail ; and if there be in all countries more 

 or less difficulty in the provision of adequate funds for 

 its support, it is so much the more necessary to guard 

 against the entail of any unnecessary expenditure. Of 

 the two principal evils of the present system, to which 

 I allude, the one is the natural consequence of the 



