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which he did about the year 1820, when the 

 country again became vacant for a few years. 

 Subsequently to that period, Mr. Pardoe and 

 the late Mr. Frederick Stubbs have had the 

 hounds, the latter gentleman, on and off, 

 some twenty years, having been relieved at 

 intervals by Mr. Dansey and Lord Gifford. 

 The indefatigable zeal and perseverance ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Stubbs secured to him the 

 greatest esteem and popularity, and he was 

 supported in every respect except in the 

 very important item of the exchequer, which, 

 not being adequate to the expenditure, com- 

 pelled him occasionally to draw on his own 

 private resources — a condition of affairs 

 which ought not to exist. Even gentlemen 

 who keep hounds with the utmost liberality, 

 without receiving any subscription, are not 

 at all times exempt from annoyance. This 

 has been very recently exemplified by the 

 abuse of one of the oldest and most cele- 

 brated establishments in England in the 

 columns of a journal which it could scarcely 

 have been credited would have condescended 

 to publish such contemptible, incorrect calum- 

 nies, which every sportsman acquainted with 

 the circumstances knows to be void of truth, 



