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CHAPTER VII. 



[the friendship of the duke of WELLINGTON. 



The story of his closing hours affords ample proofs 

 of the courage, tenacity, and self-control with which 

 the fourth Duke was gifted, and of his determination 

 to do his duty to the very last. It may also serve 

 as a warning to others not to neglect the slightest 

 wound inflicted by an animal of the canine race. 



His Grace, having to reside in Ireland some four 

 or five years as Viceroy, gave the famous Goodwood 

 pack of foxhounds to the Prince Regent in 1813, 

 as Tom Grant, the old huntsman, said, " to hunt 

 donkeys." Strange to say, they very soon after- 

 wards developed symptoms of rabies, and were all 

 destroyed — a remarkable coincidence. 



A personal friendship existed for many years 

 between his Grace and the Duke of Wellington. 

 The " Iron Duke," when Sir Arthur Wellesley, com- 

 manded a brigade in the Sussex district ; and when 

 the Duke of Richmond was appointed Lord-Lieutenant 



