1845.] OF HAMPSHIRE. 141 



" Mr. Scott, and Mr. Baring, jun., Mr. Scott, 

 promise well ; and Mr. Frederick ^ FreT g ' 

 Hey sham has not been to Oxford He y sham - 

 for nothing, and if degrees were taken in a 

 riding-school, I think he would be a first-class 

 man. He is at present rather too fond of 

 hounds, but that is a fault on the right side 

 with a young one, and will, in time, correct 

 itself. 



" Air. George Butler stands high Mr. George 

 among the Hampshire riders, having Butler - 

 served a five years' apprenticeship at Melton ; 

 and I understand that on the day of which I 

 have been speaking, when the coroner was so 

 nearly wanted, he went best of any one in the 

 field. 



"There is one gentleman whom I must not 

 pass over — not only as an old member of the 

 Hunt, and a brother-in-law to Mr. Villebois, 

 but as a most useful member of the common- 

 wealth, in everything relating to fox-hunting 

 and keeping things straight and well in a 

 country — and this is Major Barrett,* Major 

 late of the 11th Light Dragoons, but Barrett 



* Major Barrett was not a Hampshire man. He was the son of a 

 captain in the Royal Artillery, and was born in 1773, near Woolwich, 

 where his father was quartered. His father was appointed military 

 governor of St. John's, Newfoundland, and died there a few years after 

 his appointment, leaving his son quite a child in England. He was first 

 in an infantry regiment for a year or two, and went -with the unfortu- 



