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London, too, one of his equipages created no little 

 sensation in St. James's Park by the Horse Guards. 

 The vehicle, in which were the ladies Molineaux, is de- 

 scribed as having resembled two large chaises fastened 

 together, one behind the other, the shafts being removed 

 from the second chaise. The two bodies were on four 

 wheels, and behind the united chaises there was a species 

 of dickey for the groom. This made three departments 

 for passengers ; with the groom there were eight per- 

 sons, and a pair of horses drew the vehicle. After 

 giving up the hounds Lord Sefton hunted for a few 

 years, and later on we read of him in the Greville 

 Memoirs. 



" Five new peerages came out yesterday," wrote the 

 Clerk of the Council on the 15th June 1 83 1, "Sefton, 

 Kinnaird, Fingall, Leitrim, and Agar Ellis." Mr. Gre- 

 ville, who went to Goodwood for the races and was kept 

 there by an attack of gout after every one else had left, 

 was not perhaps in a very good humour when he wrote 

 on the 20th August, after his arrival in town : — 



Sefton has just been here, who talks blusteringly of the peers 

 that are to be made, no matter at what cost of character to the 

 House of Lords, anything rather than be beaten ; but I am not sure 

 that he knows anything. In such matters as these he is (however 

 sharp) no better than a fool — no knowledge, no information, no 

 reflection or combination ; prejudices, partialities, and sneers are 

 what his political wisdom consists of; but he is Lord Grey's dme 

 damnie. 



To return to hunting, however, the stables at Quorn 

 were a sight to behold, and at sunset a patent lamp, 

 shedding what in those days was considered a great 

 amount of light, was suspended at every fourth stall. 



"Cork-legged Jones" having died just before Mr. 

 Meynell gave up the hounds, Joe Harrison, who succeeded 

 him, and Tom Wingfield were Lord Sefton's whippers- 



