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ago also never to my knowledge bred a bad 

 hound; her name Desperate. She came 

 with a young unentered draught from Sir 

 T. Mostyn's pack, when Mr. Shaw hunted 

 them. She was got by Sir W. Rowley's Dar- 

 ter, out of Mr. Coke of Norfolk's Rally. I 

 once put her to the New Forest Senator, his 

 dam or gran-dam was got by Lord Stam- 

 ford's Rattler, a famous good sort. I gave 

 a whelp to the late Mr. Pawlet, of Hamp- 

 shire, and when at his kennel, a short 

 time before he gave up his hounds, I ob- 

 served that I thought that a family likeness 

 of old Symmetry, the name of the bitch I 

 gave him, ran through the kennel. He said 

 " it is very true, half my pack are bred from 

 her and Lord Egremont's sort." I know not 

 if the present owner of this pack has any of 

 the breed, as I could not procure his list. 

 Yet we have our partialities, and I confess I 

 was always partial to Lord Egremont's sort, 

 happening to live near the Duke of Rich- 



