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Mr. Horlock, by preserving the hunting regu- 

 larly, had caused it to be restocked with foxes, 

 and urged that under the changed conditions 

 and after hunting it for so long, he could not 

 be expected to give it up again. This view 

 ultimately prevailed. 



Mr. Morland's difference with Lord Gifford 

 was more serious : it created so much excite- 

 ment at the time, and is often referred to with 

 so much interest now, that we give the cor- 

 respondence in full was it as published by 

 Messrs. Baily at the time. 



One of the first things Mr. Morland did was 

 to consult his friend, Mr. Drake, who said : — 



Dear Morland, — I never did hear of disputes 

 about hunting coverts being referred to Masters of 

 hounds. You stand upon your arrangement made 

 in 1832. If any owner of a covert withdraws his 

 permission to you to draw his coverts, my decided 

 opinion is that no man ought to consent to draw it 

 without your approbation and then only upon suf- 

 ferance. Every country has its boundary, and if 

 foxhunting is to be supported, that law must be 

 abided by. 



Yours ever, 



June 2 1st. T. DRAKE. 



Correspondence between Messrs. Morland, and Cripps, 

 Button, &c., when Lord Gifford takes the V. W.H. 

 Country. 



Friday. 

 Dear Morland, — We saw Lord Gifford after 

 I saw you on Thursday, at 12 o'clock, and you shall 

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