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any one aspiring to the office ; but let ns consider in 

 what does this well-doing consist. It will not be found 

 alone in the tout e?zse?72Z>/e, the faultless appearance of the 

 turn out. Too much attention cannot be paid to the 

 due efficiency of all appointments, with regard to " dogs, 

 horses, and men ;" but an aspirant for fame, as a master 

 of foxhounds, may give an exorbitant sum for a pack 

 of hounds of unquestionable celebrity, — he may give 

 carte hlanche to Anderson, Bean, and Elmore, to fill his 

 stables: — he may secure the services of the best of hunts- 

 men and whippers-in, — he may bring all these into the 

 best of countries, — still it is no paradox to say, that, 

 with all these means and appliances to boot, the thing 

 may not be done well, or as it should be done. I have 

 heard of men, ambitious, formerly, of emulating the place 

 of Lord Jersey, and such performers over a country, 

 who have, in the purchase of the very horses which they 

 had followed as brilliant lights, considered that they had 

 attained the summum honum, the grand requisite to go 

 and do likewise ; and woful has been their disappoint- 

 ment at finding that, without the presiding genius, — the 

 head- piece which has ruled, the hand which guided them 

 to glory, — the implements were but common tools in 

 hands of ordinary workmen ; and they were little, if any, 

 better than i7i statu quo. With all due allowance for 

 native valour, few, I imagine, will maintain that the 

 flower of a British army would, under the generality of 

 commanders, have achieved the prodigies which have 

 rendered the name and fame of WelHngton imperish- 



