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wishing long health and happiness to Sir John Fagg and 

 his friends, remain yours sincerely, 



' An Amateur. 



'Canterbury, September 25, 1826.' 



' Amateur's ' laments over the low estimation in which 

 the aspirant to the box is held, show the feelings of 

 those days towards the road as a pastime. How just 

 are his reflections on the duties of landed proprietors ! 

 Would that the fly-away rush-up-to-town squire of the 

 present day would take to heart the example of this 

 Kentish baronet, and have his hair cut (the popular 

 excuse for going up to London), or do his hunting in his 

 own county, instead of rushing off to London or 

 Leicestershire, because forsooth ' everybody else does.' 

 Perhaps, if he did so, we should hear less of strikes of 

 labourers and others, which are now unhappily so pre- 

 valent. 



What a heart for driving must Mr. Sackville Gwynne 

 have had, who died in 1874. We read of him in 

 the Liverpool papers as ' a remarkable character who 

 had for some years been well known in the town.' Mr. 

 Gwynne was the son of Colonel Gwynne, and was con- 

 nected with an old family who hold estates in Carmar- 

 thenshire. Some time ago, however, he had some 

 differences with his family, and, in order to avoid worry 

 and harassment, he voluntarily exiled himself. For a 

 long time he drove the Brighton ' Age,' which he horsed 

 himself in grand style with greys. Later in life he 



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