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of Valenciennes, where he was thirty-five times 

 in the trenches, and in storming the batteries 

 of Lincelles with the brigade of Guards ; being 

 then very severely wounded he was incapaci- 

 tated for active service, and retired upon half- 

 pay. He lived at Woodcote. 



" On Tuesday, April 5th, the H. H. h. h. races, 

 Cup, run for on Worthy Down, was p ' 1803, 

 won by Colonel Cumming's brown gelding, 

 beating four others." 



This vear Mr. Compton resigned New Forest 



t~T hounds, 



the management of the New Forest 1803. 

 hounds. He was succeeded by a committee, 

 consisting of Lord Cavan, Mr. Charles Mitchell, 

 and Mr. Williams, who were called "All the 

 Talents." At this time the king and royal 

 family spent some time at Cuffnells. 



The Portsea harriers, kept by Mr. The Portsea 

 Pittis, hunted regularly twice a week. amers - 



Mr. Thomas Blake brought a pack ,_ _ 



« i Mr. Thomas 



of harriers from Wiltshire, and kept Blake's 

 them at Winchester for some years, 

 but left about 1816, and returned with his 

 pack to Stratford, near Old Sarum, where, 

 with the assistance of his nephew, Mr. John 

 Blake, he kept hounds until his death, in 

 1851, when they were hunted as a subscrip- 

 tion pack by the present master, Mr. Walter 

 Flower. 



