98 llEillNISCENCES, ETC. 



(the Staunch) with which he demolished four large junks in 

 the Chinese seas. Yet it has been said that Mr. Smith was 

 a fox-hunter and nothing more. The verdict of true 

 Englishmen will be very different. His motto in many 

 pursuits was, " Deeds not Avords." He did not make long 

 speeches for the good of his country, but many a record 

 of silent worth will place him high on the list of its 

 benefactors. 



CHAPTEE YT. 



GRAND MEET AT ROLLESTON IN 1840. — MR, SMITH BUILDS THE GREAT 

 CONSERVATORY AT TEDWORTH. — TRIES HYDROPATHY. — ANECDOTE OF 

 THE FOX-HUNTER ^YH0 TRIED IT. — WORCESTER AND PORTHDYNLLAEN 

 RAILWAY. — MR. SMITH FINED FOR AN ASSAULT. — HE HUNTS THE 

 TEDWORTH HOUNDS UNTIL A SHORT PERIOD BEFORE HIS DEATH. — 

 HIS SEVERE ILLNESS AT VAENOL IN 1856, AND PARTIAL RECOVERY. 

 — RELAPSE AND DEATH IN 1858. 



** Euunt equites et odora canum vis." — Virg. 

 " Veteris stat gratia facti," — ViRG. 



From 1830 to 1856 — viz. to the period of rather less 

 than two years before his death — Mr. Smith continued to 

 hunt his hounds regularly at Tedworth, generally until the 

 latter end of March, when the heat and the London season 

 made him hang up his liunting-whip till the autumn. His 

 summers he spent either at Vaenol, or on board his yacht. 



In 1840, he went into Lincolnshire on a visit to Sir 

 Eichard Sutton, who had for some time been disabled from 

 following his favourite sport by a severe accident. He was 

 requested by Mr. Greene of llolleston, one of his best pupils 

 in his Leicestershire days, to take his hounds once more 

 into his old country on his way thither, Mr. Hodgson, who 

 then hunted that country, placing the best fixture at his 

 disposal in the handsomest manucr, Mr. Smith accepted 



