70 BEAUFORT HUNT: PAST AND PRESENT, 



There bis love of all that appertained to sporting soon displayed 

 itself, and he presently became one of the whips to the late Duke's 

 fox hounds. In 1807 be was made first whip, and ten seasons after 

 he became huntsman. His appointment proved as satisfactory to 

 his noble master as to the country generally. In the kennel he has 

 long rated as a professor of all its difficult details ; and in the field, 

 you shall go farther than the country he lives in to find bis like. 

 His seat upon a horse is perfection ; bis frame muscular, bis habit 

 spare. His career has not passed unbonoured ; he has had public 

 testimonials of the most sterling sort offered to his worth ; and private 

 proofs innumerable of the consideration by which he is held by all 

 classes. Most excellent of Diana's disciples, we bid thee good speed. 

 ' To you what trophies of the chase belong. 

 You won them well, and may you wear them Long ! ' 



" No. 30. John Lovell, Esq. The equestrian art appears to 

 be an inheritance of the Lovell family, and this gentleman possesses 

 it in the utmost perfection ; when hounds run he is sure to be with 

 them, and is always well mounted. 



" No. 31, AuDLEY Lovell, Esq. Not so regular an attendant 

 as his two brothers, but like them he is equally gifted in the attributes 

 of a horseman. 



" No. 32, NiMROD Long, The youngest son of WiUiam Long, 

 the huntsman ; a very promising lad, and mounted on his donkey 

 has contrived to follow the hounds through many hard days. It 

 has frequently been said to him by gentlemen in the field, that a 

 pony should be substituted for his long eared charger, and his reply 

 to one of them who made the remark was tolerably shrew and ap- 

 propriate — ' A great many of the gentlemen. Sir, have told me that 

 I ought to have a pony, but none of them have ever given me one.' 

 He was then rising eleven years of age, 



" No. 33. William Stansby, first whip. This excellent servant 

 came from the Worcestershire hounds about ten years since. He 

 is a capital horseman, a nice weight, and particularly neat in his 

 appearance. His mare, Ida, is faithfully pourtrayed. 



" No. 34. Second Horseman. 



" No. 35. The Rev. Townsend Stephens is here introduced 

 merely as a friend of the Duke of Beaufort, As the Reverend gentle- 

 man does not keep a stud of hunters, the inference may be drawn 

 that he does not consider the chase orthodox in one of his cloth, 

 beyond an occasional attendance at the covert side, 



" No. 36. Lord Curzon is but an occasional attendant on these 

 hoimds ; hunting principally with the Quorn, the Athorstone, and 

 the Warwickshire, with which packs he has distinguished himself 

 as a very hard rider. He has a particularly fine seat on his horse. 



