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young nobleman, Lord Forester, and His Grace subscribes 

 one thousand two hundred pounds per annum towards 

 their support ; but the Duke himself no longer hunts, 

 neither is there the annual assemblage of sportsmen that 

 was wont to be within the walls of Belvoir Castle. These 

 are circumstances which have caused much regret ; for His 

 Grace retires with the good name of all the fox-hunting 

 population. He ' did the thing ' with princely magnificence 

 both indoors and out, and if materials had been sought 

 for to furnish a faithful representation of the style and 

 grandeur of the genuine English nobleman, giving a fair 

 part of his attention to the arrangements of the chace, we 

 have reason to believe they would have all been met with 

 at Belvoir. 



Although most foreigners express vast surprise that we 

 should go to such expense in hunting the fox, unattended 

 by the parade of the continental chasse, yet several of them 

 have of late been induced to make their appearance in 

 Leicestershire ; and some few have shown that had they 

 been born Englishmen, and rightly initiated in the art, they 

 must have been conspicuous characters in the field. The 

 performances of Count Sandore, an Hungarian nobleman, 

 who resided one year at Melton Mowbray, on a visit to 

 Lord Alvanley, have already met the public eye ; and his 

 daring horsemanship, and consequent mishaps, formed the 

 subject of an amusing tale. From a ludicrous description 

 given of them by himself, a series of pictures were painted 

 by Mr. Ferneley, of Melton Mowbray, representing him in 

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