HUNTING TOURS. ^95 



it is to be hoped, will speedily recover from 

 the accident which has so painfully deprived 

 him of the enjoyment of a pursuit he affects 

 with such liberality and enthusiasm. 



To the prejudicial influence of repeated 

 changes of masters and huntsmen, to which 

 so many packs have been doomed, these are 

 most happily exempted. In the year 1791, 

 till April, 1805, they were hunted by New- 

 man. Shaw then succeeded, and continued 

 in office till 1816, The ever celebrated 

 Goosey entered the service of the late Duke of 

 Rutland as whipper-in, in 1794, and turned 

 the hounds to Shaw till he resigned, when 

 Goosey's promotion took place, and he con- 

 tinued as huntsman till 1842. Thus he was on 

 duty in the Belvoir establishment — wanting 

 only two seasons — the unprecedented term of 

 half a century. He died on the 8th of 

 August, 1847. To his exquisite judgment 

 of the requisites and of the properties neces- 

 sary to be observed in the breeding of hounds, 

 most judiciously assisted during the latter 

 portion of the time by Lord Forester, the 

 Belvoir pack has progressively attained the 

 very great perfection for which the banners 

 of fame are so extensively unfurled. After 



