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tinned through life, and Major Cartwright was 

 not so much absorbed in political speculations as 

 to be prevented from entering with apparent 

 pleasure into those discussions on hawking, bear- 

 hunting, wolf-catching, and deer-tracking, in which 

 he had once taken an almost equal interest." 



These pleasant relations must have been par- 

 ticularly tried at the time that the Duke of New- 

 castle, to whom the Captain was particularly at- 

 tached, treated his brother John with much sever- 

 ity and appointed another officer as major of the 

 Nottinghamshire militia in his place. 



In 1803, at the time of the electioneering dis- 

 turbances, George Cartwright was barrack-mas- 

 ter of Nottingham, and '' though holding an ob- 

 noxious situation, and known to be a violent Tory 

 politician, he used to walk and ride through the 

 streets in the midst of the popular commotion; 

 and while others on the same side were afraid to 

 show themselves, a way was invariably made for 

 him to pass without insult or molestation." 



During his residence in Nottingham he lived in 

 a house in Broad-marsh, which afterwards bore 

 the sign of the Black's Head,^ and was generally 

 known as " Old Labrador." He much enjoyed the 

 sport of hawking, and '* previous to the enclosure 

 of the open lands, in the vicinity of Nottingham, 

 he might be seen wending his way up the Mans- 

 field road, during a fine autumnal morning, on 

 horse-back, with his servant behind him, and the 

 hawks on his wrist, in pursuit of his vocation. 



* At this Inn Lord Byron's body lay in state on July 15 and 16, 1824. 



