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of Nimrod (Diana, it is supposed, left no progeny), and 

 that — 



" Those may hunt, who ne'er did hunt before, 

 And those who always hunted— hunt the more." 



There is nothing speculative in my statements, as to the 

 financial regulations, or general policy ; all are strictly 

 matters of fact. I shall never forget the concluding 

 advice of Lord Petre, to whom, some years since, I 

 applied for hints on these subjects ; he having, for a 

 very long period, maintained a pack of foxhounds in 

 an unvarying style of excellence in all departments. 

 Having, one morning, at Arthur s Club, in St. James's 

 Street, kindly and patiently assisted me in committing 

 to paper the details of all evident and probable 

 contingencies, he wound up our conference by this re- 

 mark : " Remember, however, that after all this, you 

 will never have your hand out of your pocket, and must 

 always have a guinea in it." It is immaterial to the 

 world, how far I have found this memento borne out by 

 my own experience. My only motive for offering any 

 estimate of the funds requisite for carrying on the war 

 in our provincial, is the hope that it may not, at some 

 future day, be found wholly useless to my successors, 

 long after the rest of my lucubrations may have been 

 forgotten. Any account of expenses actually incurred, 

 must be far preferable to the best estimate of those 

 which may be (however reasonably) anticipated ; at the 

 same time, a faithful extract from my own accounts, for 



