Deep mourns Sir Guy the fatal fray, No further aid nor hound is near, That instant roused the mighty boar, And ripped him up the thigh. What matters that the true blood-hound The fates, at such a cost, allow? All is fulfilled the Druid said, He ne'er shall bring that wild-boar's head In all the pomp of feudal state !— They bore the baron to his keep; This legend of the olden time Alone remains; except the oak* 'Neath which the warning Druid spoke! Peterborough. N. W. There is no question that the mighty oaks on Morehay-lawn, formed a druidical temple, from their extraordinary age and circular position. They now look like the inhabitants of a former world, and fancy may well imagine them to be the skeletons of the giants of old, as their blighted and outstretched arms glare whitening in the sun. NO. LXIV.-VOL. XI. 2 N The Chase. THE following letter arrived too late for insertion last month. We readily give it admission, though the passage alluded to did not specify any gentleman; and we feel assured, that no one who comes forward, as Mr. Watson has done, to free himself even from suspicion, will ever think of doing such an act as the one complained of. GENTLEMEN, North Seaton, June 27, 1836. HAVING observed in the number of the New Sporting Magazine of this month, an article, entitled "The Chase," charging a gentleman with the impropriety of drawing some of Sir M. Ridley's covers with his harriers, and destroying thirteen foxes in one day, I cannot but suppose that this accusation is levelled at me, as I am the only gentleman in that neighbourhood keeping a pack of harriers, with which I have occasionally run a fox; but your informant is wrong in asserting that I drew any of Sir M. Ridley's regular covers, or committed the havock among the foxes he alludes to.-I should be sorry to interrupt in any way the sport which Sir Matthew shows to the gentlemen of this county. Requesting you will have the kindness to insert this letter in your next number, I remain, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Canterbury, June 18, 1836. DEAR EDITOR, YOUR correspondent, "A Passionate Lover of Fox-hunting," in his description of some covers in East Kent, falls into error. That portion of the Bleans, drawn by these hounds, are, he says, from sixteen to eighteen miles in length, and five in width. I can safely assert, that they are only nine in the former, and not exceeding two in the latter, and the best scenting covers in England, if they were only full of foxes. These are the woods which he mentions as near Canterbury. Though large, they are capable of showing sport, if a fox does break, and that very often happens; the Herne is a deep, muddy, sporting country, with a yawning brook or two, and many a clipping day have I seen in it. Stone-street and West-wood are one and the same. West-wood a large cover, but foxes seldom or ever hang in it. A splendid thing from it last season, appearead in one of your numbers, over the vale, and nearly all grass; numerous symptoms of extreme distress; probably your correspondent was one among the defunct. I wonder he did not mention a " woodland called the Covet, and another the Denge; now these are rough places; I have spent many a whole day in the former. There is no such a place, as "Thorn-street;" there is a Thorn-wood, the best cover in the hunt, on a line with Ashley and Horton-park. In short, a man, to give a description of a country, ought to have taken more time than your correspondent appears to have done, to have perfected himself in his geography. With regard to the hounds, I give him every credit for the just encomiums he bestows on them as a pack; but when they are described as "small and compact," the reader would be led to infer, that they are not the fox-hounds, but only Dwarf fox-hounds. They certainly do not come up to the large size of many on the other side of London; but, all things considered-and this is a subject which has occupied my thoughts very considerably-I am for an animal neither too big, nor too little. I will compare a fox-hound for any country, with the best of weight carriers for a hunter, viz:--a horse, about fifteen hands one inch and a half in height, to fifteen hands two inches, with lots of depth and length in the proper place. I hope he does not call such bitches as old Tiffany, Tragedy, Desperate, Scornful; such dogs as Tarquin, Chorister, Tomboy, Radical, "small and compact. The stamp and character of these hounds are, big proportions every where, without lumber. A word or two more and I have done. It has always been my maxim through life, that, if I could not give commendation, I would never wound the feelings. Now I do consider the allusion to Tom, to partake of rather the invidious and sarcastic order, thus, ("whether or not, he had any other name, I know not, it may have been forgotten, owing to the length of time which has elapsed since his birth.") That parenthesis was not necesaary; it would not have been an irksome task to have become acquainted with his name. Your correspondent very justly eulogizes Mr. Brockman as a sportsman, and as a gentleman; but I think I know sufficient of the master of the East Kent fox-hounds, to feel convinced that he would willingly dispense with such eulogy, when it is passed coupled with observations any thing but palatable to the feelings of a good-hearted, worthy, clever, civil servant, like Tom Arnold. I make these few remarks without any feelings of anger, but with a wish to direct a gentleman a stranger to the country, from a crooked into a straight path; for his ideas regarding the East Kent country, and the style of hound employed in hunting it, are generally very far from correct. Your obliged servant, P.S. The hounds I have mentioned, are Sykes, Beaufort, and Mainwaring blood. NOMINATIONS FOR THE DERBY AND OAKS, 1837. THURSDAY.-A Renewal of the DERBY STAKES for one year only, of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yr. olds:-colts, 8st. 71b.; fillies, 8st. 2lb.-Last mile and half.-The owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the expense of additional Police Officers. All other condtions as usual. -One hundred and thirty-three subs. Albemarle, Lord, na. Mr. W. Edwards's br. c. Prospero (dead), by Augustus, out of Destiny Albemarle, Lord, na. Mr. W. Edwards's br. c. by Peter Lely, out of The Balkan Berners's, Lord, b. c. by Lamplighter, out of Camarine's dam, (Brother to May-day) Berners's, Lord, br. c. by Oscar, out of Spotless (Brother to Malvina) Bowes's, Mr., ch. c. own Brother to Trustee Bristow's, Mr, b. c. Brother to Doctor Slop Browne's, Mr., b. c. by Count Porro, out of Daucier, by Walton, out of Stella Burgess's, Mr., b. c. by Scipio (Son of Filho), out of Cantaloupe, by Soothsayer Carter's, Mr. T., Nelson, by Lamplighter, out of Naiad Chesterfield, Lord, na. c. by Emilius, out of Bee-in-a-bonnet Chesterfield, Lord, na. c. Zumalacarregui, by Humphrey Clinker, dam by Walton, out of Helen, by Hambletonian Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by Priam, out of Arachne Chesterfield's, Lord, c, by Priam, out of Mayflower (half-bred) 'Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by Picton, out of Malibran Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by Shakspeare, out of Eliza Leeds Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by Priam, out of Octaviana Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by. Y. Phantom, dam by Whisker, out of Tiamp's dam Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by The Colonel, out of Miss Clifton Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by Sultan, out of Rachel Chesterfield's, Lord, c. by Voltaire, dam by Cervantes, grandam, by Camillus, great grandam by Precipitate, out of Mendoza's dam Chifney's, Mr., f. by Rector, dam by Haphazard, out of Miss Holt, by Buzzard Chifney's, Mr., f. by Rector, dam by Sir Harry Dimsdale, out of Orelia by Eagle Chifney's, Mr., b. c. Lent, by Rowton, dam by Emilius, out of Surprise (foaled in 1828) Cookes's, Mr., b. c. Norgrove, by Stumps, out of Bentley's dam Cooper's, Mr., ch. c. by Augustus, out of The Philosopher's dam Day's, Mr. John, br. c. Mustee, by Lottery, or Mulatto, dam by Whisker (foaled in 1828) out of Mercutio's dam Derby's, Lord, br. c. Argante, by Langar, out of Armida Edwards's, Mr. Wm., c. Sir Peter, by Peter Lely, dam, Miss O'Neil, by Camillus Edward's, Mr. Wm., c. Pupil, by Peter Lely, out of Maiden, by Orville Exeter's, Lord, br. c. Brother to Cactus Exeter's, Lord, b. c. Brother to Beiram Exeter's, Lord, ch. c. Brother to Augustus Exeter's. Lord, b. c. by Priam, out of Green Mantle Exeter's, Lord, ch. c. by Redgauntlet, out of Augusta's dam Farrall, Mr., na. gr. c. by Albany, out of Agnes, by President Finch's, Mr. C., ch. c. Malton, by Humphrey Clinker, out of Lady Newton, by Oiseau Fox's, Mr. S. L., br. c. by Waverley, dam by St. Patrick, out of Comedy, by Comus Gardnor's, Mr., b. c. by Peter Lely, out of Phantasima, by Phantom Gardnor's, Mr., br. c. by Camel, out of The Etching Grafton's, Duke of, b. c. by Sultan, out of Devise's dam Graham's, Sir S., c. by Emilius, out of Bravura Graham's, Sir S., by Shakspeare, out of Mervinia Gratwicke's Mr., br. c. by Brother to Bracelet (foaled in 1820), out of The Mar gravine, by Little John Greville's, Mr., br. c. Mango, Brother to Pickle Greville's, Mr., ch. c. Laocoon, by Priam, out of Sycorax Haffenden's, Mr., Brother to Jenny Vertpré Haffenden's, Mr., Brother to Sluggard Haffenden's, Mr., b. c. by Trumpeter, out of Captain Arthur's dam Heathcote's, Sir G., b. c. Trim, by Laurel, out of Orleander Heathcote's, Sir G., b. c. Lupus, by Laurel, out of Nannette, Sister to Glaucus Heathcote's, Sir G., br. c. Aleppo, Brother to Damascus, by Reveller Herbert's, Mr. S., Compton, by Humphrey Clinker, out of Carnaby's dam Holmes, Mr. T., na. b. c. Pegasus, by Shakspeare, dam, Isabella, by Comus Hunter's, Mr., gr. c. Brother to Morotto Hunter, Mr., na. gr. c. by Gustavus, out of Emma, by Orville Jersey's, Lord, c. Brother to Mahomet Jersey's, Lord, c. Flare-up, by Lamplighter, out of Mosquito's dam Kirby's, Mr., br. c. by St. Nicholas, out of Olive-leaf, by Blucher Lautour's, Mr., ch. c. Glenvarlock, by Nigel, out of Esperance, by Partisan Lichfield's, Lord, Hector, by Priam, out of Portrait's dam Lichfield's, Lord, Cartoon, by Priam, out of Sister to Portrait Mott's Mr., b. c. Premier, by Priam, out of Rosalind, by Paulowitz Nowell's, Mr., b. c. Brother to Margrave Nowell's, Mr., b. c. by Muley, out of Clare (Marpessa's dam) Nowell's, Mr., b. c. by Muley, out of Young Sweet-pea, the dam of Tarick Nowell's, Mr., b. c. by Muley, dam by Orville, or Walton, out of Mufti's dam Nowell's, Mr., by Longwaist, dam by Cato, out of Omphale Orford's, Lord, b. c. by Mulatto, out of Medina, by Selim Orford's, Lord, ch. c. by Catton, out Spavina Osbaldeston's, Mr., gr. c. by St. Nicholas, dam, Fickle, by Smolensko Peirse's, Mr. W., c. Brother to Elizabeth, by Waverley, out of Swiss's dam, by Shuttle Peel's, Col., ch. f. by Bedlamite, out of Garcia Peel's, Mr. E., b. c. Canwell, by Cadland, out of Noodle's dam Peel's, Mr. E., ch. c. Clifton, by Cain, out of Mouche Pettit's, Mr., b. c. by Tranby, dam by Abjer, out of The Duchess Phillimore's, Mr., br. c. by Camel, out of Verbena, by Comus Rawlings's Mr., b. c. Barclay, by Stumps, out of Theophania, by Walton Rawlinson's, Mr., b. c. Chadlington, by Fungus, out of Ruby Ridsdale's, Mr., b. c. Rienzi, by Tramp, dam by Cervantes, out of Marciana Ridsdale's, Mr., br. c. by Tramp, out of Octavia, by Walton Ridsdale's, Mr., b. c. by Tramp, out of Lunacy Ridsdale's, Mr., ch. c. Chersidamas, by Priam, out of Flora, by Camillus Roe's, Mr., ch. c. The Hermit, by Defence, out of Artichoke, by Skim, out of Mushroom Rush's, Mr., b. c. by Camel, out of Romp |