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hoped to be able to retain my hounds, and, without much in- 

 fringement on the sport to which I was so fondly attached, 

 faithfully to represent a powerful constituency, while, at the 

 same time, I enabled him, by the support his purse afforded to 

 Lord John Russell's party, to win the titles that, on certain con- 

 ditions having to do with elections, the Whigs were ready to 

 assign him. Alas ! the step I then took to please was a stone 

 rolled up hill to fall back on my own head, and, if not to crush 

 me, still to occasion me both trouble and unhappiness. I only 

 deal with this matter so far as it regards the maintenance of my 

 hounds. The election in 1832 took place. Mr. Henry More ton, 

 against the wish of the late Colonel Kingscote, and many of 

 those who styled themselves Liberals, declared that he would 

 stand with me, and, though I was remonstrated with for doing 

 so, I persisted in the declaration that, if he or any other eligible 

 person came forward on similar principles to mine, I could do 

 nothing else than take him by the hand. The result of the 

 election was, that I came in at the head of the poll, and Mr. 

 Augustus Moreton ahead by a small majority over Lord Edward 

 Somerset. 



There were no railways in those days, so I became a constant 

 passenger by Mr. Whitbread's coach, driven by Crow, backwards 

 and forwards to London. At times, when a division took place 

 in the House of Commons late at night, or rather early in the 

 morning, I had my carriage ready to post down to the fixture. 

 I did this once, with my hack to meet me at the Cock at Eaton 

 on the great north road, the fixture being at Haleweston, the 

 day terminating in a very good run. Faith was not kept with 

 me, by one whose word I had taken, and I very soon found that 

 my public liabilities were not borne as promised by a larger 

 purse than mine ; I complained, but could get no redress, when, 

 at last, the painful choice was forced upon me, either to resign 

 my place in Parliament or to give up my hounds. Hard and 

 long was the struggle between the alternatives ; but, at last, the 

 desire to aid a brother at all risks and privations, as well as to 

 continue to represent the division of the county in which I was 



