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on the preceding evening I heard the Prince of Prussia 

 mention that three weeks previously, in Prussian Saxony, 

 during two battues, which had lasted five hours, the king 

 and his suite had killed one thousand three hundred and 

 sixty-seven hares. Another day, sixty-eight wild-boars ; 

 and upon another occasion, I forget how many stags and 

 fallow-deer; but the last chasse was remarkable from a curious 

 incident. In the first drive they came upon a herd of deer 

 so numerous and so compact, that the king, firing into the 

 midst of them, had killed three fallow-deer with his first 

 barrel, and two with the other ! 



By way of citing one more instance of the quantity of 

 game sometimes killed in one day in a royal chasse in 

 Germany, I shall transcribe the official list of several that 

 took place during the month of October, 1847, in the do- 

 mains of the Emperor of Austria, and at which Lord 



W , our minister at the Court of Vienna, was present. 



The invitations for these Imperial shooting-parties are 

 imprinted on large cards, on one side of which is inscribed 

 the rendezvous, the day, and the nature of the chasse, and 

 on the other is traced a small map, which gives a very good 

 idea of the topography of the ground. These shooting- 

 parties lasted three days, and were of three different descrip- 

 tions. The first, with pointers only, took place on the 

 plains of Laxemburg, and below I have transcribed a note 

 of the game killed and bagged in less than three hours. 



Pheasants 559 



Partridges 1514 



Hares 8 



.Rabbits 1 



Hawks 1 



Owls 1 



Total . 2084 





