My faithful groom quick marks them as And counts their noses, undeceiv'd as Whether in close array, or Nem'ne con., gone; Or, scatt'ring wild, in petty parties fall, The latent emblem of a nobler cause. I think of MEREDITH and proselytes; Vengeance and PALLISER to mem❜ry rise, This creeps too low, that springs above AS HARTLEY slow, or uncontrol'd as With rav'nous ardour some devour the prey: O, gentle SAWBRIDGE, lash such friends away! Others with puzzling zeal small objects Judicious LUTTRELL bids them ware a But come, dear Jack, all martial as thou art, With spruce cockade, heroically smart, Come, and once more together let us greet The long lost pleasures of St. James's street. Enough o'er stubbles have I deign'd to tread; Too long wer't thou at anchor at Spithead. Come, happy friend! to hail thy wish'd return, Nor vulgar fire, nor venal light, shall burn; And keener ardours flash from beauties Pride of Fop-alley, tho' a little tann'd : How pine with envy the neglected beaux, While many a feeble frown and struggling smile, Fondly reprove thy too advent'rous toil, And seem with reprehensive love to say, Dear Mr. Townshend, wherefore didst thou stray? What fatal havoc might one shot have made, If not thy life, thy leg the forfeit paid; Or sing'd one dear devoted curl away; Or scar'd with bolder sacrilege thy face. Soon as to BROOKS's thence thy footsteps bend, With gratulations thy approach attend! See GIBBON rap his box, auspicious sign, That classic compliment and wit combine. See BEAUCLERCK's cheek a tinge of red surprise, And friendship give what cruel health denies. Important TowNSHEND, what can thee The ling'ring black-ball lags in BOOTH- E'en DRAPIER checks the sentimental And SMITH, without an oath, suspends the die. That night, to festive wit and friendship due, That night, thy CHARLES's board shall welcome you; Sallads that shame ragouts shall woo thy taste, Deep shalt thou dive in Weltjee's motley paste. DERBY shall lend, if not his plate his And know I've bought the best cham- Is hasty credit, and a distant bill. Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid! On that auspicious night, supremely grac'd, With chosen guests, the pride of liberal taste, Not in contentious heat nor mad'ning strife, Not with the busy ills or cares of life, We'll waste the fleeting hours, for happier themes Shall claim each thought and chase ambition's dreams. Each ray, That spreads too bright a charm ; Oh! veil them, lady, or indeed I soon shall wink with mine; So brilliantly they shine. Yet, in good truth, you seem quite loth, Close up but one, sweet maid, I pray, J. M. L * The Duke's horsemanship that fatal morning was the subject of admiration to all his companions of the chase. After a hard run the horse was kept to his speed across a heavy fallow field, and after leaping a wall, fell, and rolling over the Duke, occasioned his death. The Duke was on a visit to Lord Powerscourt, at his beautiful seat in the county of Wicklow, and hunting with his hounds. § Killiney Hills, about seven miles south-east of Dublin, rising boldly from the sea, and forming a bay, to which they give their name. In consequence of the lamented casualty here described, Lord Powerscourt is said to have expressed a determination of relinquishing his hounds and the pleasures of the chase. THE ....106 The Wiltshire Moon-Rakers---a Law Case, ing, Training, and Management of Horses 113 On Old Stallions, in Reply to Ben. Beacon.... 117 Ride through the New Forest ..................119 Patent Gun-locks--a Trial, Manton v. Manton 119 The Post Horse's Appeal....... On the Levarian Horse Shoe.................... 121 Battle between Shelton and a Suffolk Farmer 129 FEAST OF WIT... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE To Correspondents POETRY. .....129 .........130 734 140 143 The Two Anglers, or How to Catch Fish ......141 Embellished with, I. An Engraving of WILD DUCKS. WILD DUCKS. Engraved by SCOTT, from a Painting by W. SMITH, exhibited this Season at the British Institution. IN illustration of the subject of our first engraving this month, we are informed by DANIEL, in his Rural Sports, that the plumage of the wild duck is little different to some tame ducks, but the neck is slenderer, the foot smaller, the nails more black, and the web of the foot finer; the young ducks are distinguished from the old by their softer and redder feet, and by plucking a feather from the wing; if young, it will be soft and bloody, if old, this extremity will be hard. The wild duck is less in .............144 .......33 size than the tame; its general weight is two pounds and a half. Wild ducks frequent the marshes of this kingdom, where numbers of them breed: they pair in spring, and lay from ten to eighteen eggs; the time of incubation is about thirty days; the young take the water so soon as hatched, which is usually in May; but the growth of their wings is very slow, and they are unable to fly before August. The wild duck is an artful bird, and does not always make its nest close to the water; an instance Mr. Tunstall mentions of a nest being found at Etchingham, in Sussex, upon an oak tree, five and twenty feet from the ground; the old duck was sitting upon nine eggs, which N were |