TH E D I A RY

C O L O N E L P E TE R H AW K E R

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I N S T R U C T I O N S T O YO U N G S P O RT S M E N
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1 80 2 — 1853

W I TH AN I N TR O D U C TI O N

BY SIR R A LPH P A Y N E G A L LW E Y , BA R T
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WI TH I L L US TR A TI O N S

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I H AV E in acceding to the request that

G R E AT P LE A S UR E

I sh o u l d write a short introductory notice of C olonel P E T E R

H A W K E R the A u t hor o f this D iary and of the well known

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I nstructions to Y ou n g S portsmen C olonel H awker s posi

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tion among sportsmen and writers on sport i s mainly owing

to the great reputation he achieved with referen ce to the a rt
of killing wi ld fowl and he m ay most j ustly be termed th
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fa t her of wild fowling fo r he brought this sport to such

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perfection that his name wi ll always suggest itself w herever

du ck shooting is practised in our I slands .

A l t hough C olonel H awker s prese n t reputation is mainly

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based on his proficiency i n this one branch of sport it must ,

not be forgotten that he was equally celebrated i n his own

day for his knowledge of and success in gam e shooting .

Th i mmense popularity of C olonel Hawker s book ’

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I nstructions to Y oung S portsmen was due to the large

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amount of original i nformation i t contained and to the ,

terseness accuracy and common sense with which i t was

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written it is in fact a work every line of which was evidently

penned from actual perso n al experience and nothing else .

I t i s true that I nstructions to Y oung S portsmen may not

seem original in these days but this is because almost every
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writer on shooting since the first edition of the book was

published has so freely borrowed from it .

There is no doubt the C olonel s book stood unrivalled for

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quite fifty years as a manual on guns and shooting and on ,

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all connected with killing game and especially wild fowl and ,

in many respects its contents are wi t h possibly a few al t era ,

tions such as the substi t ution of breech loaders for muz z le

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loaders j ust as useful to the presen t generation as t hey were

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to t h e last and to the one before tha t particularly i n regard to ,

all details of coast fowling .

Th e steel illustrations i n the later edition s of C olonel

H awker s book are S plendid examples of sporting pictures

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and some of them are reproduced in this D i ary I consider .

th e one facing page 1 4 6 is the best Th e best edition of .

I nstructions to Y oung S portsm en i s the ninth which

was dedicated to the Prince C o nsort T h e t enth was brought .

out ten years later and the eleventh i n 1 8 5 9 Th

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being somewhat abridged by the C olonel s son are not so ’

in teresting as the last published in t h e A uthor s l ifeti me i e

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the one of 1 8 4 4 Th e first edition was printed i n 1 8 1 4 t h

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last ( the eleventh ) in 1 8 5 9 .

This D iary only contains extrac t s from i ts original t h e ,

whole of which i f given intact would fil l several more

volumes I n it the A uthor was i n the habi t of setting down
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almost everything he d id thought and said during fifty

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years adding comments on nearly every shot he fi red how

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he killed and why he m issed Th

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of truth and close observation from beginning to end and ,

contains numerous quain t and highly original r emarks very

characteris t ic of the C olonel There are some very interes t ing
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accoun ts of its writer s j ourneys to the C ontinen t both before

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an d aft er the fall of N apoleon and of his expeditions to t h ,

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N or t h t o shoot moor game These lat t er records will doub t

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less entertai n sportsmen of th e presen t t ime when t hey read

of the C olonel s delight at bagging a few brace of grouse

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at places where now hundreds are killed in on e day I .

should say after perusing this D i a rv tha t C olonel H a w ker

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was the keenest and mos t hardworking shoo t er ever kno w n

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such entries as break fasted by candleligh t walked hard
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all day in a deluge of rain bagged 3 co c k pheasan t s ,

gloriously ou t manoeuvred all the o ther shooters came home ,

very satisfied and dined off one of the birds — will show
the thorough S por t sman he was That the C olonel was .

a marvellous shot there can be no doubt whatever and ,

i n th e style of gam e shoo t ing he pursued has probably no

equal in these days ; as a snipe shot he has never been ,

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and perhaps never will be equalled four t een to fifteen snipe ,

wi thout a miss in as many single shots and wi t h a flint gun , ,

speaks volumes as to his skill M y idea of th e A uthor of this .

D iary has always been that he was the hardest man i n

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regard to health t hat could be imagined but it will be seen

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that he was continual ly fighting against illness and frequently ,

incapacitated by his severe Peninsular wound and the way

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in which he was to use his words wont to quack himsel f

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up to enable him t o take the field with his gun i s worthy of

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admiration as an example of Bri t ish pluck C olonel H awker .

wa s it may easily be seen a m an of vast energy and a very

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shrewd observer N othing apparently could escape him

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w hether on his t ravels abroad or in pursuit of game and wild

fowl a t home H e was besides a most accomplished musi cian

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and musi cal cri t ic and was in t imately acquainted wi t h many

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of th e celebra t ed pianis t s and operati c singers of his day .

L ongparish H ouse and its water meadows so oft en alluded ,

t o by the A u t hor of t his D iary an d the river T es t i n which , ,

he caught literally thousands of trout ( when trout could be

caught therein without first crawling for them like stalking
a s tag and t hen throwing a floa t ing fly ) are j ust as of yore
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S o is K ey ha ven n ear L yming t on save t hat there are few or ,

no ducks and geese to be seen there now Th e cottage which .

C olonel H a w ker built is still s t anding and is the large one ,

shown facing in the view on page 1 4 6 .

I must not omi t t o record tha t t he C olonel served wi t h t h

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greatest bravery and distinc t ion under W elling ton and when ,

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merely a boy led his squadron and won the word D ou ro for ,

the colours o f his regiment the then 1 4 th L ight D ragoons ,

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Th e recognition of this gallantry by his old corps is feelingly

alluded to i n the note on page 1 6 3 vol ii , . .

I n figure C olonel H awker was over six feet and stri kingly
handsome a n d up to the end of his life was very erect H e
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was n o doubt somewhat of an ego t ist but it was i n a good

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natured way and a confi rmed but a m u s i n g g ru m b l e r against

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his personal ill luck an d his constant enemy the weather ;

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he was however an instructive and wi t ty companion and a

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conversationalist who al ways commanded attention partie n ,

l a rl y when he related his long an d varied experiences of

sport the adventures o f his younger day s in the Peninsular
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war or conversed on musi c literature and travel

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C olonel Peter H awker was born i n L ondon D ecember ,

24 1 7 86
, .H e was the son of C olonel Peter R y ves H awker ,

who d i ed i n 1 7 90 by M ary W ilson Y onge a daughter of an

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I rish family H is great grandfather C olonel Peter H awker

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( who died was G overnor of Portsmout in 1 7 7

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his father com manded the I s t R egimen t of Horse I t i s .

worthy of note that his ancestors served in the British army

without a break from the days of E li z abeth .

C o l o n e l H a w k er was ga z etted cornet to the I s t R oyal

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D ragoons i n 1 8 0 1 lieutenant 1 8 0 2 and t hen red uced to half

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pay by the peace of A miens ; he exchanged int o the 1 4 th

L ight D ragoons in 1 8 0 3 and obtained his troop i n 1 8 0 4 ; ,

with this regiment he served in Portugal and S pain and ,

i n 1 8 1 3 retired from active service in consequence of a severe

wound received at the battle of Talavera in 1 8 0 9 I n 1 8 1 5 .

he was appointed maj or of the N orth H ampshire M ili t ia ,

and in 1 8 2 1 was made its lieutenant colonel by the D uke -

o f W ellington and afterwards a deputy lieutenant for his

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c ounty .

C olonel Peter Hawker first married at L isbon i n 1 8 1 1 , ,

J ulia only daughter of M aj or Hooker B a rtte l o t

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In he married (
1 8 44second ly ) H el en S u s a n w idow of '

C aptain John S ymonds R N and daughter of M aj or C hatter , ,

ton C olonel Peter H awker died in L ondon a t N o 2 D orset

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Place A u gust 7 1 8 5 3 and is buried at M a rylebone C hurch

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C olonel H awker had by his first m arriage two sons ,

R ichard who died young an d Peter W illiam L anoe for

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some time a captain in the 7 4 thH ighlanders ( who married

in 1 8 4 7 E li z abeth daugh ter of j ohn F raser of S t irling N B )
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and two daugh t ers M ary who m arried M r C harles R hodes .
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in 1 8 4 2 and S ophy married in 1 8 4 3 to th

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P l a y t e rs H ird .

Th e late C ap t ain H awker of the 7 4 th H ighlanders left a , ,

son and a daughter H is son M r P eter H awker formerly of .

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the R oyal N avy the present owner of L ongparish H ouse

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married in 1 8 8 3 the eldest daughter of C olonel A lfred Ti pp i n g e ,

late G renadier G uards ; and his sister M iss H awker is the , ,

talented authoress of M ad emoiselle I x e .

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Besides his celebrated I nstructions to Y oung S portsmen

C olonel ( t hen C aptain ) Peter H awker published anonymously ,

in 1 8 1 0 Th e j ournal of a R egim ental O fficer during t h

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R ecent C ampaign in Portugal and S pain

I ns t ructions for the best Position on the Pianoforte
A n A bridgment of the N e w G am e L aws with O bserva
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tions and S uggestions for I mprovement an appendix to t h e

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sixth edi t ion of I nstructions to Y oung S portsmen which

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w a s dedicated to W illiam the F ourt h .

I n 1 8 2 0 C olonel Peter H awker patented his very ingenious

hand moulds for use on the pianoforte
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R A L PH P AY N E -
GA L LW E Y .

TH I R K L E B Y PA K
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TH I R S K : A ug u st 1 8 93 .

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V ery s c a r c e ; i f a n y r ea d er o f t i s h c ou l d k i dl y l
n en d me a c o py , I s h ldou

f ee l xte r em e l y i n d eb t e d — R P G . .
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TH E FI R S T V OLUM E

P O R TR A IT O F TH E A U TH O R . By A E . . C/za l oi z, R A . F7
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S K E TC H M AP OF P A RSON B ON D S
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P R E S E RV E S . By

Col on el P el er H a w k er l of a ce 5
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S KETC H M A P OF S O LE N T AN D CO A ST . By Col on el P el er
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H UT S H O OT IN G ON TH E FR E N C H S Y S TE M . By Col on el

P el er H a w k er

COM M E N C E M E N T OF A CR I P P LE C H AS E , A FTE R FI R I N G

Tw o P OU N DS OF S H OT IN T O A SKE IN OF B REN T

GE E SE A N D Tw o W I LD S WA N S . By C ol on el P el er

H a w k er

F I RST OF S E P TE M BE R & c . 1 827 . By ! . C/zzl a

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C O LO N E L PE TE R H AW K E R

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a ne 2 l /z — A
rrived at L ongparish
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S ep tem bn
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mont h .

I nstances of uncertainty in killing j ack s n i p e S Th

e first : :

thirteen S hots I had at these bird s this year I killed wi t hout

missing one ; have since fired eight S hots at on e j ack a n d
missed them all .

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bad day s S port Being in wan t of
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ja na a w 2 6 l z .

of a couple of wild fowl I went out with my man this morning ,

about ten o clock Th e moment we arrived at t h

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ducks and I wigeon flew up ; we marked the former do w n ,

and j ust as we arrived near the place it began to snow very

hard which obliged us to secure our gunlocks with the S kirt s
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of our coats N o sooner had we done this than a m allard ros e

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within three yards of me I uncovered my gun and mad e all .

possible haste and contrived to S hoot before i t had gone

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twenty yards but missed it which I i mputed to the S ight o f

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My s ec on d s ea s on o f s p o r ti n g (g
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my gun being hid by t h e snow M y man fired and brough t .

i t do w n but we n ever could find i t ; and ano ther mallard

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c oming by me I fi red and s t ruck him insomuch that before he

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ha d flown a gunshot he dropped apparently dead but we were , ,

a gain equally un fortunate not w ithstanding our dogs were with

us . W hile we were loading the 3 remaini n g ducks came by , ,

a fair S hot H aving reloaded we went in search of them

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b u t could not succeed O n our road home coming through

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th e meadow the wigeon rose i n the same place as before

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S hot at it and wounded i t very much

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we marked it down
a n d S p r u n g i t again i t could h ardly fly from its wounds U n , .

l uckily my gun missed fire an d my man was unprepared

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t hinking it had fallen dead W e marked it into a hedge ; .

before we had reached the place we S pied a hawk that had

f ollowed it from the same plac e the hawk was the wigeon ,

fl e w out of t h e hedge close under my feet I fire d at i t but .

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o wing to agitation had not taken a proper aim ; however a

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c hance S hot brought i t to the ground my dogs ran at it i t

flew up a g a i n b u t could not rise t o any height,but continued
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t o clear the hedges and we n ever could find it again ,

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a d d to our misfortunes we bo t h tumbled into deep water , .

/ — L eft L ongparish H ouse to j oin the th ight

j z m e 4 l z . 1 4 L
D ragoons on the march a t Hythe .

S e p tem be r I s l — F olkes t one

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4 partridges and 1 landrail . .

I went with M aj or T albo t and his brother : we we re out from

hal f past four in th
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a bove five hours before we saw the fi rSt brace of birds .

M aj or T albot killed a brace an d his brother I bird a brace

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o f birds and I rabbi t were shot between us by means of firing

a t the same i n stan t .

1 8 04

F ebr zza f j / I 8 l /z —L
. eft Folkestone to be quartered at D over ,

t il l fur ther orders .

M a r e/z 6 l /z —L eft D over

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M a y 3m — R omney W ent out in the evening saw several

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v ery l arge shoals e f c u r l e w s b u t could not g e t near them just ,

a s it grew dusk I laid mysel f down fla t on the sands every :

flock assembled into on e prodigious large fligh t and pi t ched ,

w i t hin ten yards of me I p u t them up wi t h t he expectation

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o f killing not less than twen t y and my gun missed fire , .

[w ee 1 4 l /z — R omney S.hot an avoset (swi m ming ) T his . .

i s a bird rarely t o be met wi t h but on t h e Ken t ish coast Th e .

above is its name in natural history i t is here known by th e

name of cobbler s awl owing to the form of the beak which

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tu rns up a t the end like t h e awl .

S ep l efl zoer I s l — R omney I n a bad coun t ry we had never .

been in before M aj or Pigot and I bagged nine brace and a hal f

o f birds exclusive of several we lost
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W e sprung one covey .

t o o mall to fi re at
s M aj or Pigot picked out t h e old hen and I

th e cock and bagged them both

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There were sportsmen in .

almost every field I n the course of the day my old dog D ick
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caught 8 hedgehogs .

N vem éer 2 3 r a — M arched from R omney to be q uartered

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a t G uildford .

D eeem éer 2 3 m — L eft G uildford to s tay a week at home at

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L ongparish H ouse .

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M ay 28l/
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— M arched
from G uildford to C hertsey .

[ w ee 1 I l /z — M arched from C hertsey to \V a n d s w o r th

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17 l/ z — M arched from VV a n d s w o r th
. t o H ounslo w Barracks .

2 6 l /z . 1 1 brace of carp with a draw n et average weight

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o n e pound .

2 7 t/z .2 I brace of carp and 3 dozen dace (

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0 l ober 1 7 l /z
5 —M y n e w gun N o 4 5 3 6 arrived from M an ton
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3 1 5 1 — 1 followed a t eal for near four hours b efore I

could g et a S hot at i t and after I fired it flew almos t o u t of
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sigh t and droppe d w i thin a few yards of my servan t John who ,

happened to be riding by and w h o picked i t up .

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D eeem éer into the town of Hounslow

z 7 z/z . M arched .

A S we were ge t ting close to t h

e town a mallard flew up and ,

came round several times within shot of the troops I rode .

on to the C olonel s borrowed his long gun and returned to

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where the bird had dropped which was wi thin thirty yards o f ,

the turnpik e road i n a large pond A fter looking for him for
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some time I heard him fly up behind me from the very place

I had been beating t herefore it appeared I must have gon e ,

withi n a few yards of hi m ; I had however a tolerably fai r

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shot but the gun being very foul hung fire and I missed
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hi m.

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F eér a a ry rabbit and 2 hares Th

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hares ran out of a hedge together I killed them righ t and left .

im mediately i n front of L ord Berkeley s house at Hounslow ’

and while I was hiding under the hedge fearing a keeper ,

might be on the look out at he a ring the gun a dragoon ra n -

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and picked up both the hares gave a view hollow and held , ,

one up in each hand i n order to be seen from the windows of

his L ordship s mansion O f course I retreated immedia t ely
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and luckily g o t off unseen .

G ame killed by me up to F ebruary I s t 1 8 0 6 ( at H o u n s ,

low) : 4 6 brace of partridges 1 2 brace of hares 4 brace o f , ,

pheasan t s .

F owl rabbits and snipe killed up to A pri l I s t 1 8 0 6

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(at H ounslow ) : 8 brace of rabbits —

2 3 5 couple of snipes , ,

1 couple of teal A wi ld duck o x eyes rails fi e l d f a r e s

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redwings herons larks & c , , , .

f m ae 2 2 i za — W ent a gudgeon ’
.fishing at W alton —o n

Thames with a party ; had good sport and re t urned in the

evening .

2 9 l ll — V e n t a gudgeon fishing at W alton

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sport I n the evening tried for barbel and killed 2 the on e
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small the o ther 6 lb

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2 5 t/z —
cock pheasants
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I t rained incessan t ly duri n g th

e t ime I was beating f o r

t hem w h ich obliged me to secure t h

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my j acke t and consequen t ly los t much t ime in firing ; y e t

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although the wind was high and the covers t hick I missed ,

but one S hot .

D ecem ber 1 4 t/z —W ent on leave to L ongparish. .

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ml a — R eturned
to the regiment at D orchester
j a i y I st .

2 2 n a — 4 pheasants I hare I w o o d c o c k a n d 1 wood pigeon

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N otwiths t anding i t blew a hurricane and rained almost ,

the whole time I w a s out I only discharged on ce wi t hout ,

bagging ; I had then a S hot going rapidly down th e

wind and grea t ly intercepted by trees I t was at a phea

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san t which I marked down and ki lled afterwards I s a w

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b u t 5 pheasan t s I cock and I hare all day ; S O (

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exception of I pheasant which rose out of shot ) I brought
home all I sprung up .

2 4 t/z — I n the morning going past a lake I saw 5 tuft e d

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ducks which I fired at on t h

, e water with the long gun a t

about 7 0 yards and winged on e of them O l d D ick i mme

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d i a t e l y dashed i n aft er it and on getting near it some t am e,

ducks flu tte r ed from under t h

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S prang at and in consequen ce lost t h

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to have brought home O n my re t urn by t h . e same place a ,

mallard flew over my head which I winged ( a very long S ho t )

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and lost W hile beating th

. e ditches for snipes I S pied a very

fin e trout which with a piece of whipcord and a stick I i n

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s t a n t l y snared and he proved when dressed to be very well , ,

in seas o n .

G ame killed up to February I s t 1 8 2 partridges 3 3 phea ,

sants 4 3 hares 2 quails and 2 landrails T o tal 2 6 2 head

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[W a e/z r9 t/z — M arched wi t h my t roop to Bland ford to

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remain during th e assi z es at D orches t er .

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M ay 1 0 t/z . L eft D orches t er to rem ain a t L ongparis h

during t h e H ampshire elec t ion .

I 1t l l — Th . e elec t ion began and ended in favo u r of S i H r

M ildmay and M r . C hu t e .

2 7 t/z — L ongparish
. Kil led 2 0 brace of trou t with a fly i
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three hou rs .

3 I s t —Joined
. the regiment at D orchester again .

j u a o 2 9 t/ z — M arched to
. W eymouth .

j u ly 1 0 t/z R eceived orders

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from D orches t er W eymou t h 81 C to G uildford and Basing ,
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1 2 t/ t —M ar c hed to B landford
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1 4 t/ z — T o A ndover
. W en t over to L ongparish h . a d

some i ndifferen t spor t fly fishing .

I 7t / t —
I o i
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t roop a t Basings t oke .

— M arched away from Basings t oke t o Bagsho t

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— M arched from Bagsho t to H ounslow

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2 7 t/z — Th . e regi m en t were revie w ed .

2 9 t/ z Th . e regimen t marched on t hei r way to the east

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coast of S ussex I wen t on leave to L ondon . .

A ug u s t I s t — VV en t to L ord Bridgewa t er s at A shridge

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Park ( Killed a nu mber of rabbits here )

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fi l o — R eturned t o L ondon .

I O t/t —L eft town on my way to S ussex

. .

1 1 t/z —J oi n ed t h
. e regimen t at Bla t ching t on .

I 2t / z — W en t over t o my troop at Bexhil l

. .

I 4 t/t . on leave of absen ce to L ongparish .

S ep tem ber I s t — L ongparish 4 0 par t ridges and 2 hares . .

I had only one gun and S ho t wi t h the same three dogs t h ,

e

whole day R es t ed t w o h . ours in t h e forenoon and left o f f ,

S hooting by S i x o clock
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.

G ame bagged t h e first week 9 1 partridges and 3 hares .

October 2 6 t/e — A woodcock I found hi m in some very

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low wood where cocks seldom resorted and taking him for a ,
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n igh tj ar d id not think it worth while to disturb the cover by

,

fi ring and refused an excellent S hot at hi m ; but soon dis

,

c overing my mistake I followed an d flushed him again an d , ,

fired twice at hi m and although the wood was not four acres
,

h e escaped and completely defeated us

,
But being the first .

that had been seen here this ye a r I w a s so unwilling to give

hi m up that I w en t home an d returned with al l the rabble
,

I could muster and placed B u f fi n in a tree to mark

, We .

began with beating where he first sprang from we had not

gone thirty yards before one of S i n ey s terr i ers flushed him ’

and I brought him down .

N ovem ber 2 0 tb —R eceived a new double gun from M r

. .

J oseph M anton N o 4 3 2 6 ,
. .

1 8 08

G ame bagged from S eptember I s t 1 8 0 7 to F ebruary I s t , , ,

1 80 8 2 17 partridges 1 1 pheasants and 3 1 hares Total , ,

.
,

2 5 9 head .

F ebr u a ry st r i — R eceived an ord er to j oin the regimen t .

7 t/z
.
— L eft L ongparish an d j oined at E astbourne to day -
.

I O t/t — W ent to Bexhill Barracks

. .

M a r /z 1 7 t/z
e —W en t up to L ondon I rode the fat mare to
. .

T onbridge ( above 3 5 miles ) i n three hours and ten minutes ,

from whence I t ook the young mare to W estminster Bridge

( 3 0 miles ) in t w o hours an d forty fi v e minutes -
.

2 0 t/z — R eturned (
. on horseback ) to Bexhill in a little more
than eigh t ho urs .

W ild fowl rabbits & c bagged up to A pri l I s t 1 8 0 8 7 2

, .
,
:

snipes 5 wild ducks 5 woodcocks and 1 4 rabbits Total 9 6

, , .
,

head adding game total 3 5 5 head exclusive of herons , ,

w ood pigeons m oorhens fi e l d f a r es rails & c

, , , , .

M a y 1 4 t/z — M arched from Bexhi l l to Pleydon Barracks

. .

1 6 t/t —W ent a fishing with a casting n et and stop net and

.
,

ki lled 1 1 tench ( average weight above 1 5 j ack 1 eel and , ,

a large quantity of roach .

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1 7 t/z .
— W ent with the same nets to the canal where we ,

k illed a large basketful consisting of bream j ack perch , , , ,

e els roach and dace

,
.

j yul 6 t/ z M arched . away -

from P leydon Barracks to
C ranbrook .

20t z/ — A rrived at I pswi ch with my troop

. .

2 9 t/e —A rrived at N orwich Barracks

. .

S epte m b er 3 r a — R eturned to I pswich while on the road

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t ried some stubbles and killed 1 partridge and 2 more S hot ,

and l os t in the corn .

8 t/e — .1 8 partridges besides a brace S hot and lost , N ot .

w i t hstanding the weather w a s very stormy I only fired three

sho t s the whole day without killing two of which were ,

d ecidedly too far o ff I took three double S hots an d bagged

.
,

both birds each ti me ; and one brace I took while it was

r aining and had to take my gun from under my coat before
,

I fired right and left .

1 0 tb I 3 partridges 4 F rench p a r t r i d g e s a n d 1 turtle dove

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, ,

1 3 t/ — partridges and rabbit wi t h partridges hot

z 9 . 1 2 S ,

a n d lost in four t een shots .

N B .
— O n e of th
. e two S hots missed was a long random on e .

I 4 tl l —W ent out round the barracks for two hours after

.

th e field day and had three single shots and one right and ,

left and bagged 5 partridges

, .

1 5 t/ e 1 2 partridges I F r
.
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ench partridge and I turtle dove
, ,
.

I n eighteen S ho t s t hough a wild windy day and most o f

, ,

them long ones ( fired right and left twi ce ; bagged both
birds each time ) .

1 7 t/z I 4 partridges and 2 rabbits besides a brace shot

.
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a n d lost in twenty one shots O n going out I met wi t h a

,
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.

farmer who ( having the deputation ) told m e I was welcome

to S hoot wherever I pleased provided I would not disturb
his pheasants A fter having beat the whole manor we wen t
.

d own to some rushy ground where D ido came to a dead ,

p oint . T his farmer (who was then in an adj oining field wi t h

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his labourers ) came t o the hedge t o see t h e result of T oho !

F ive par t ridges rose at t h e same instan t all flying diff eren t ,

ways and excessively rapid ; I killed first to the left and ,

then ( t urning round ) to t h e right ; and Pearson who was ,

w ith me killed also a bird w i t h each barrel

,
Th e farmer .

j udging of our shoo t ing by what he had seen and appearing ,

to thin k us dangerous fel lows t o i nvade a manor went up to ,

Pearson i n a violent rage desiring him im mediately to leave

the grounds ; assign ing n o o t her reason than t hat he did ‘

not choose we S hould S hoot any more H e then made U p .

’

to me but I ran t hrough th

,
e river ; and he
(not being willing
t o w et his toes ) relinquished his pursuit and stood bawling ,

an d beckoning for me t o stop w h i ch I of course pretended

,

not t o hear and escaped withou t being warn ed o ff B efore

, .

I was o u t of his S ight the dogs ran into a bog and put up an ,

i mmense nu mber of snipes an d by m aking has t e up I g o t

, ,

S i x S ho t s and bagged 4 snipes besides a fift h shot and los t

, , .

Th e farmer soon disappeared ; and I beat my way to the

alehouse reserving his m anor for ano t her day s sport

,
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2 15 t —
. 8 par t ridges and I red legged par t ridge -
.

O n e of t h e par t ridges which I killed was found by D o n

i n a hedge who caught i t and after I had forced it from him

, ,

by O pening his mou t h wi t h one hand and taking the bird i n ,

th e o ther i t fluttered from me and t hen flew up ; and wen t

, ,

off so strong t hat it was with difficul ty I could fire quick

enough t o bring i t again t o hand .

2 2 r z — I 6 snipes t w o of them j acks and a redshank

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u .
, .

Th e last day I had been S hooting here I found t hese

snipes and avoided t h e farmer
(who had t he d epu t ation ) by
running t hrough t h e water i n order t o save my w arning a n d
, ,

secure a well prepared a ttack on t hem A S t h

-
e whole ground .

t hey occupied consis t ed only of a few small bogs my only ,

chance was to lose no t i me for which I had a S econd doubl e

,

gun Th
. e commencem ent of my attack was a bird wi t h each

barrel ; and then t aking the o ther gun from my man j ohn ki lled ,
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w t i h that also wi t h each barrel A s I fired so many random .

and unfair S hots I did n o t keep accoun t of my missi n g but , ,

my markers said they though t I could n o t have killed more

t han four more S hots I brought home t h e grea t er part o f
'

what I found ; and picked up the snipe whi ch I los t the

other day F inding the snipes I had left were comple t ely
.

driven away I wen t ( with snipe S hot ) over some turnip fields
,

& c and bagged 6 partridges I had two doublets the o t her '

. .

S ho t s were S i n gle and some very long ones e t I only fired

y ,

once without bagging and t hen I broke bo t h the legs of th e,

bird w hich dropped apparently dead in th

,
e next field .

2 7 t/z —1 2 partridges
. .

C alculating that I wanted S i x brace t o make u p my 20 0

head of game and knowing I should not be able t o have ,

another day s S hooting in S eptember I fagge d till nearly

’

dark and could only make up five brace and a hal f ; i t then
,

got S O l ate I gave it up and drove t owards home O n going .

alo ng the road I S pied a covey feeding ; to whi ch I i m me

d i a t el y ran down und er the hedge and when I t hought I ,

was nearly opposite to them stopped ; b u t before I could ,

discern them they flew up I let fly a t one ( ,

an im mense .

distance ) which I brought down dead and completed my ,

number .

N B — I n looking over my book I find I might have saved

. .

myself all this trouble as I had miscalcula t ed and h ave now ,

made up 2 0 3 head of game which are as fol lows ,

G ame bagged in the mon t h of S eptember 1 8 0 8 177 :

par t ridges ( three brace of which were t h e red legged F rench -

birds ) 2 hares 3 rabbits and 2 1 snipes To t al 2 0 3 head

, , , .
,

of game .

O t b r 1 5 t —6 pheasants 2 par t ridges 1 rabbi t and I j ay

e o e .
, , ,
.

Besides 2 fine cock pheasants which I S ho t and los t i n t h e

under w ood almos t every pheasant I fired at was a snap S ho t

,

among the high cover no t wi ths t anding w hich I am glad t o ,

say I missed b u t t wi ce al l day making my 8 o u t of 1 0 ,

.
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3 ra
’
. W ent from I pswich with a party amounting to near
t wenty beside m arkers and beaters to storm a preserved cover
, ,

belonging to a Parson Bond because he never allowed anyone ,

a day s S hooting and had man traps and dog gins all over
’

his wood I had made out a regular plan of a t tack and line
.

of march but our precision was frustrated by the first man

,

we saw on reaching the ground who was the keeper ; we ,

therefore had no ti me to hold a council of war but rushed ,

into cover like a pack of foxhounds before his face A way .

he went naming every on e he could and we all j oined hi m

, ,

in the hue and cry of W here is Parson Bond ? ’

I n the meantime our f eu a o j oze was going on most

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rapidly A t last up came the parson al most choked with

.
,

rage Th . e two first people he warned off were Pearson

a n d myself ; having been served wi t h notices we k ept him ,

in to w while the others rallied his covers and serenaded

hi m with an incessant bombardment in every direction .

Th e con fused rector did not know which way to run The .

scene of confusion was ridiculous beyon d anything and the ,

invasion of an army could scarcely exceed the noise N o t .

a word could be heard for the cries of M ark D ead ‘ ‘

and W ell done ! interspersed every moment with b a ng

‘ ’

bang and the yelping of barrack curs Th

, e parson at last .

mustered his whole establishment to act as patriots again st

the marauders footboys running one way ploughmen
, ,

mounted on carthorses galloping the other and everyone ,

from the village that could be mustered was collec t ed to

repel the mighty S hock A t l ast we retreated and about .
,

half past four those who had escaped being entered in his
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doomsday book renewed the attack Th e parson having .

eased himself by a vo m i t began to speak more coherently and

, ,

addressed himsel f to those who being l iable t o an action of ,

trespass were obliged to stand in the footpath an d tak e t h

,
e

birds as they flew over at last S O m any were caught tha t the
battle ceased Though a large number of pheasants were
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d estroyed , the chase did not end in such aggregate S laughter

as we expected and n o t more than one third of those brought
,
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down were bagged in consequence of ou r being afraid to turn

,

off our best dogs we brought away some of th e parson s traps

’

one of whi ch was a most terri fic engine and now hangs in the ,

mess room for publi c exhibition O nly one dog was caught
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.

the whole day and whose S hould that be but Parson

,

Bond s ! A ft er l eaving the cover I kil led 2 partridges and

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1 hare .

5 t/z —
4. partridges .

6 tle — W ent to W oolpit for two days shooting ’

. .

7 tb — 8 pheasants
.
3 part ridges an d I hare
, , .

8 t/z 5 pheasants
. and 8 partridges and re t urn ed to ,

I pswich ( 2 3 miles ) by four in the afternoon I n one of t h e .

covers I fired five S hots at pheasants and only bagged one ,

though I brought down my bird every shot I n bo th days I .

lost a number of pheasan ts owing to the brambles being S O ,

s t ron g the pointers would not face t hem I scarcely bagged

a bird except t hose killed dead and t o the bes t of my ,

recollection out of all the pheasants I winged only one was

bagged A S it was with what Pearson and I killed we were
.
,

l iterally obliged t o buy a sack to bring them home which we ,

nearly filled and wha t with the addition of some hares and
rabbits caught by the dogs i t was nearly as much as I could
lift W hat then would our S port hav e been had we bagged
.
,

all those we los t ? I scarcely missed a S ho t in t h e t w o days ,

and certainly never let a fair shot escape .

I 9 t/t 4 par t ridges

.
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I went on horseback from I pswich
.

about t hree in t he afternoon purposely to get a S ho t a t some

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F ren ch par t ridges in hopes of getting the old cock to have

,

s t uffed I w en t into a piece of potatoes (

. where t hey al w ays
laid ) wi thou t a dog ; at last I trod up th e whole covey ,

w hich I forbore shoo t ing at and singled o u t t h e old cock

, ,

w hich I winged and lost ; coming home I killed the above

4 birds .
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G ame bagged by mysel f up to leaving I psw i ch : 2 3 1 par

t r i d g es 9 o f whi c
,
h were F rench red legged 2 9 pheasants
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8 hares 4 rabbits 2 1 snipes

, ,
T otal 2 9 3 head of game
.
, .

2 4 t/z — Th
. e regimen t commenced i t s march for R omford ,

preparative to going on foreign service .

2 6t le.
— Th e first division arrived at R omford
(
to remain
t ill further orders ) .

N o vem ber 4 t/z .

— Th e first division marched from R omford

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o n their way to E xeter .

t/ —M arched to R eading
7
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8 t/e
. M arched to N ew b u ry from when ce I went over to
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,

L ongparish on leave .

17 t / t
.
— L eft L ongparish for D orchester on m y way to
F almouth for embarkation to S p a in .
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C H A P TE R I I

1 8 09

S ep tem ber 2 8 t/z — A rrived

once mor ehome again at L ong
.

parish House having returned from S pain and Por t ugal in

, ,

consequence of my woun d received a t Talavera on j uly 2 8 , .

( A l l m emorandums of my m ili t a ry servi ce and my j ournal

abroad are put by t hemselves in ano t her book and published ) ,

1
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S /zootzug a b ro d —
'

NB I had scarcely any shooting i n

a .

Portugal and t h e only birds I ki lled t here which I had never

,

S hot be f ore were 2 s t orks and a Por t uguese owl .

O n finding t h e S hoo t ing so b a d in t his country I de ,

S p a i r e d of get t ing any i n S pain and left m y gun with the

'

he a vy baggage which I had aft erwards reason to regre t as I

, ,

found t ha t S pain n o t on ly abounded wi t h game but curious ,

foreign birds of every descrip t ion W hile t here I sometimes .

,

borrowed an old gun wi t h which I never failed to have S por t , ,

par t icularly wi t h red legged partridges wild pigeons & c -

, . .

Oc tober 3 a — W ent to L ondon to be under t h

r
’
. e care o f

M r Home for my wo u nd which on t h

. e 4 thhe e xamined , ,

and h a vrn g discovered that the ball had gon e through and
S hat t ered my hip bone advised me t o con tinue in L ondon ,

under his care .

1 8 10

Mr
H ome having daily at t ended m e ex trac t ed tw o
.
,

splin t ers and ins t ructed j ohn how t o pass t h

,
e se t ons which ,

were deem d necessary to be used for a leng th of t ime gave

e ,

[ou r u a l f
o a R eg i m en ta l Ofi eer du r i n g t /ze r eeezzt Ca mp a z
gu i n P or t ug a l
a nd Sp a i n .
(
Lo n do n ,
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me leave to re turn to the coun t ry for a few weeks for chang e

of air as my lungs were i n a very bad state and I had i n
, ,

consequence been dangerously i ll .

a n u a ry 1 3 l l e
— L eft town and arrived at home at L ong
j .

parish H ouse .

2 5 t/z — W hile we were sitting at dinner a woodcock fle w

.

up the l awn and dropped under the parlour windo w A l l .

j umped up and I hobbled to see him as well as I could M y

, .

servant seized a loaded gun and began opening the window ; ,

while he was doing this I eagerly snatched the gun from hi m ,

and killed the woodcock Th e three following circumstan ce s

.

make this occurrence sti ll more remarkable : the first tha t ,

woodcocks are S O scarce in this country I have but rarely ,

killed three in a whole season s shooti n g secondly that when ’

I S hot this bird I was con fined a perfect cripple and could ,

not venture out even to the garden and thirdly that a frien d , ,

of mine had laid a bet that I was well enough to shoot a

cock before this season was over .

Fe b r u a ry 3 r a — W en t out in
’
. my mother s chaise ’
.

E xcept being conveyed from place to place this was th e ,

first time I had been outside the house for six months and
three weeks .

I t ook the gun with me and among other t hings sho t , ,

from t h e chaise I killed a sea gul l and a rook r ight a n d

,
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,

left
.

1 0 t/z -
I adopted the plan of driving the phaeton do w n
the bank s of the river and firing fro mi t at wha t few snipe s
.

I could find They however rose too wild to give me a

.
, ,
.

fair chance .

1 7 th H ave con t inued to drive out almost every day

— ,

t aking my gun an d killing ( ,

from the carriage ) redwings ,

fi e ld f a r e s blackbirds larks & c

,
T o day among other t hings
, ,
.
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, ,

I kil led several snipes .

27 t z
./ —Being a fin e day for fishing I w a s taken i n t h e ,

chaise to the river side where with the assistance of a stick I

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con trived t o suppor t myself S O as to be able t o throw a fly ,

with which I killed 5 brace of trout .

I continued by th e river for about an hour when I ,

became so fain t and my w o u nd so pain ful I could fish no, ,

longer and returned home A ft er restin g on t h e sofa I g o t .

,

again in th e carriage and was driven to t h e com mon where I

, ,

killed a snipe and S houl d have got several more had the
,

bitch behaved well and stood them I came home t o dinner .

about four o clock and dined on trout and fi el d f a e s of my

’
r

own killing .

[W a r / z e 1 2 tl l — L eft L ongparish for L ondon

. I took a .

chaise and pair at W hitchurch from which place I started ,

after four o clock ; and notwi ths tanding I was de tained

’

near half an hour at W es t f o rd b i d g e and the roads were r ,

execrably bad I reached S t aines ( , 4 2 m iles ) by thir t y fi ve

-

minu t es pas t eigh t .

1 3 tl l — Proceeded from S taines to town

. I n th e evenin g .

I hob bled t o t h e new C ovent G arden Theatre .

1 4 t/z — M r Home inspected and probed my wound an d

. .
,

was of opinion that the se t ons S hould be continued several

months longer and therefore advised me to re t urn to th
, e

country .

2 0 t/z — D ined out and went t o the opera from whe n ce I

.
,

had t o crawl all the way up t h e H aymarket wi t hou t being

able to g e t a conveyance home ; and t hen had to sit in a

house while a fellow wi t h a wooden leg went i n search of a
j arvey .

2 I t — L eft t own at one o clock

(with chaise and pair ’
s .
) ,

reached L ongparish a t t en minutes before eight I was .

driven one eight mile stage namely from Basings t oke t o -

, ,

O verton within forty min utes

, .

2 4 tl — R eceived my leave of absence til l N ovember 2 4 t h

e .

in consequence of M r H ome s S ick certifica t e .

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.

— A about four in the morning my mo her s ’

f uu e1 6 t/ z t . t

accident happened S h e was dread fully burn t and los t her

.
,

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right hand by endeavouring t o light her fire with the paper

from a canister of powder .

j u ly 1 3
— 2
. brace of trout (largest fish 1 5 lb weight ) .
,

besides m any thrown in not wanting , .

N B
.
—
. C aught fish by throwing the fly as I sat in the
phaeton .

1 9 tl l —
. R eceived a letter from M r H ome desiring me to .

c lose my wounds by discontinuing the operation of the seton .

N. B —
. T hey have now been kep t open twelve calendar
months al l but eight days .

A ug u s t 6 tl e — W ent fly fishing and caught a number of

.

small trout which I threw in C oming home I saw two wood

,
.

p eckers on the lawn got a,

gun and at one shot k,
illed one
, ,

of them wounded the other and winged a swallow which

, ,

was flying by at the ti me .

7 t/z .
—VVe n t fly fishing to H urstbourne Park ; caught 2
b race of trout ( about 1 5 lb each ) besides small ones thrown
.
,

i n A fterwards hobbled after a shooting party and killed

.

I leveret and 1 j ay .
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them and pressed the hares so hard that he obliged

,

most of them to leave the hedgerows wi thin shot .

4 partridges I woodcock and 1 pheasant besides

2 9 t/z — .
, , ,

2 snipe at on e shot Th e cock was the firs t I had seen or

.

heard of this season I killed hi m a snap shot in high covert .

,

and n ever knew t hat he fell till j ohn found him dead I n .

addition to my day s S hooting I had famous sport with the ’

b a r r i e r s which I m e t in t h
,
e field and followed with my old ,

S hooting pony I found them two hares S i t ting one of which

.
,

I s t a r ted w a s in at the death of and brought home in my

, ,

game bag .

N o vem ber 2 — snipes and ’

1 j ack snipe I w a s ex
u a 4 . .

t e m e l y ill and nervous and S hot infamously bad or I S hould

r , ,

have killed t e n couple .

3 r a
’
2
. snipes besides
-
2 which I ,
fired at with C aptain
H a ff en d o n ( who also killed a couple ) .

N B
. W e beat B ra m s b u ry M oor (
.
-
the very ground where
I yesterday foun d such an im mense n umber of snipes ) and
only saw a couple one of which I got a S hot at and ki lled , .

I n the other places we found but very few more than we k illed .

t / — snipes I r e t u r n e d hom e by some fen s which were

7 z .
5 .

li t erally swarming with starlings of which I killed a large ,

number These birds cared so little for being shot at t hat (

. the ,

moment I had fired bot h barrels ) they returned and pitched ‘

w ithin twen t y yard s o f me T hey li teral ly darkened t h e air .

,

and the noise they made was n o t t o be described .

1 2 t/z — 1 ph t and 1 0 snipe ( one a j ack snipe besides

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.ea s a ,

ano ther shot and los t ) and ( ex c epting t w o long random ,

sho t s which I believe I fired accura tely on t h

, , e birds
) I
, only
m issed 2 one of which I secured w i th my second barrel
, ,

so t hat out of the 1 2 snipes I fired at (

,
within range of my
gun ) I brought do w n 1 1 .

I 6t l l — S a w M r H ome in L ondon who inspec t ed m y

. .
,

wound and gave m e a certificate to extend my leave and

, ,

advised my rem aining in E ngland for at least two months .

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2 1st — R eceived
. from t h
my leave ( e A dj utan t G ener a
-
l)
till j anuary 24, 1 81 I .

6 ta .
— W ro t e
to L ord Bridgewa t er O ffering to el i n , r

u i s h my leave and vol u nteer out wi t h the detachment

q ,

which was under orders for Portugal .

3 0 t/ z —S a w
. L ord Bridgewa t er who approved of my going ,

out and gave m e leave to remain at L ongparish t ill th

,
e

detachment marched by on their w a y from C oventry to

P ortsmouth .

D ecem ber 2 n a — H avin g again equipped myself wi th

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charge rs and appointments for foreign service I re t urned t o ,

L ongparish Walked th . e whole day i n t h e C latford and

A bbot s A n n marshes and on ly got three S hots at snipes O n e

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,

of the t w o I killed I first wounded and he flew up in a high , ,

el m tree and there sat till we pelted hi m out H e t hen flew

, .

off so s t rong that I was forced to stop him wi t h a second

shot .

L y l e — W ent to shoot at L ongs tock an d killed 2 duc ks

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2 sn ipes I red headed

, curre an d 3 bald coots besides 1
-
, ,

snipe 1 duck and 2 coots which I coul d not get out of t h

, , e ,

w ater for want of a good dog I n the evening went o n to .

H oughton L odge where I dined and S lep t ,

.

1 8 tl z — G o t up by candleligh t
. break fasted at break of ,

day and sallied forth for a grand cb a s s e at L ongs t ock i n

, ,

w hich we were sadly disappointed for after being detained ,

there wet through for four hours wa i t i n g for t h

, , e rain t o ,

blow o f f it came on su ch a s t ormy day that the punt could

, ,

not be managed and the boatman ( , who was a very sul k y

e rushes on the m
,

stupid fellow ) g o t me bogged among t h i ddle

of the lake there broke his punt pole and told me we S hould
,

most likely spend the evening o u t L uckily however t h e .

, ,

blockhead was mistaken and my day was finished with only ,

being wet through never ge t ting a sho t losing my am mu , ,

n i t i o n o u t of t h e bag and coming home as sulky as a bea ,

2 0 t/ — VV en t t o shoo t at C ollingbourne W ood

z .
; g o t wet
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through and never fired off my gun I n the evening wen t to

,
.

C lanville L odge t o S hoot the nex t day .

2 I st —A wet day. .

2 2 u a —W a s out al l day and only fired t wice Killed

’
.
, .

1 pheasant and 1 partridge .

2 3rd R eturned to L o n g p a r i s h
. .

1 8 1 1

killed up to — G ame
leaving L ongparish for Por
j a n u a ry

t ugal 2 4 9 partridges
: 1 3 hares 2 4 pheasan t s ,5 rabbi t s 3 , , ,

woodcocks 6 8 snipes 4 quails and 3 landrails T o t al 3 6 9

, , , .
,

head of game Besides 5 ducks I curre coots wood pigeons

.
, , , ,

moorhens water rails fi el df a r es & c

, , , .

6 tl c — L eft L ongparish to go (
. per mail ) to E xeter and ,

from thence to Plymouth to embark once more for Por ,

tugal .

N B .
— M y wound I S not y e t healed
. .

7 t/e A t
. four in -
t h
e morning got into the mail and at ,

eleven at night reached E xeter H ad a delightfully j olly .

party and not being post day the m ail stopped whenever we
, , ,

saw gam e and during the j ourney I kil led 4 partridges

, .

W hen i t was too dark to shoot our party mounted the roof , ,

and sang choruses ( while I j oined them and drove ) and in ,

which the guard an d coachman took a very able part .

9 t b — A t
. one i n the morning got into the mail and at nine ,

reached Plymouth .

1 2 t/z —Th e detachmen t and baggage were embarked

. .

1 5 t/z — W ent ( . although far from well ) to the H angings

near M a vey ( about eight miles from Plymouth ) and k illed .

1 snipe and 3 woodcocks including one which I knocked ,

down apparen t ly dead an d had i n my hand above five

, ,

minu t es when it suddenly S prang from me and after flut t ering

, ,

for a few seconds on the ground flew away as strong as if it ,

never had been fired a t and I stopped it with a second S hot , .

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N B —
.O nly saw 8 cocks (
. very wild ) the whole day 3 of ,

which were killed by those who were with me C onsequen t ly .

,

we only left a couple behind at which by the way we never , , ,

got S hots .

S peci men of what a bag of game in a sor t ie from garrison

usually costs C haise and postboy 2 9s refreshment at ale .
,
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houses 1 3 s ; paid man for his dogs 7 s ; gates 6

,
. T otal ,
.
,
a
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,

2l .
9 s 6 a . W i t h the comfort
’
. of ge t ting wet through and ,

si tt ing benumbed in the chaise for nearly three hours whil e

crawling over ( and often being lost on ) the cross roads .

1 6 t/t — F ound myself extrem ely unwell and was confined

.
,

for the day .

I n consequence of seeing a letter from L ord Bridgewater

wherein he thought that I had embarked for the command o f
the remount I wrote to his L ordship explaining why I had ,

n o t which was my having for several days been very unwell

, , ,
.

— R eceived a letter from L ord Bridgewater to cou n t er

’
2 3r a .

ma n d my going to Portugal and apprising me that he of hi s , ,

own accord had applied to the A djutan t G eneral for an ex

,
-

tension of my leave I n consequence of this I disembarked .

my horses and baggage .

2 4 t/z — Th e convoy sailed and I proceeded hom e again t o

.
,

L ongparish .

2 7 tb — T his d ay . finding myself considerably better I , ,

began to regret that I had not gone abroad and contrary , ,

both to orders and advice resolved on goi ng to Portsmouth , ,

from whence twelve ships of the line were on th e poin t of sail

ing A ccordingly in the night (

. or rather on the morning o f
, , ,

the 2 8 th ) I pos t ed off to,

the above place where I s a w S i r ,

j oseph Y orke of whom I got a passage i n the

,
Vi cto ry and ,
’

r e embarked on t h
-
e 2 9 t h T his ship in addition to her own .
,

crew being stowed wi t h the whole of the 3 6 thR egi men t

,

besides several other military men was so crowded t ha t all ,

those on board were in perfect misery Th e only berth t ha t .

could be got for me was i n th e surgeon s medicine closet o ff

’

,
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D I ARY j AN .

t h cockpi t in total d arkness where th air

e ,
foul that
, e wa s SO

I n several par t s a candle could not be kept alight and the ex ,

tin g u ish e d snuff of it was li t erally a relief from the infernal

s t ench of t h e place O u r m ess in the w ard room consisting

.
,

o f above sixty was so cram med t hat comfort of any kind was
,

out Of th e ques t ion and w e were the whole time S ick and far
, ,

more from t his circumstance than the m o t ion of the ship .

O u r l iving was t h e worst we had seen on board any S hip what

eve n
C ontemplating on what I had to go through how little I ,

was able to bear it and the chan ce of giving great displeasure

,

t o L ord Bridgewater f o r going away in direc t disobedience t o

,

hi s orders and a d vi c e I got into the long boat which was ,

-
,

going ashore in th e evening an d took my por t manteau with, ,

some though t s of not returning and on my arrival a t Por t s ,

mou t h I was S o much a t a loss how to act for the best and ,

so whim sical ly undecided tha t I actually tossed up whe ther ,

I would return to the ship or not The t oss coming in .

favour of m y going agai n on board I returned in t h e long ,

boa t
3 0 tl z
.
— A t abou t eigh t in the morning got under way ,

wi th a fine breeze from t h e eastward .

t —T h wind
'

hi fted directly against but it not

3 1 s . e S s u , ,

bl owing very hard we continued to lay our course and nearly

, ,

reached the mouth of the C hannel .

F ebr u a ry 1 s t —There cam e on a severe gale of wind and

.
,

th e fleet was so b l own about that some damage was done and ,

w e among others broke a mi z en top mast

, , W e were at last -
.

o bliged t o put about and sail in to T orbay where w e arr i ved

, ,

j ust as n ight s e t in D uring the four days I w a s on board I

.

ate scarcely a morsel ; was so weak t hat I fainted several

ti mes and my wound discharged considerably more than it
,

had don e for a leng th of ti me I was in consequence told by .

a l l th e officers on board t hat I was a madman i f I continued in

th e S hip and t his suggestion being s t rongly repeated by the

,
 C O LO N E L H AW K E R S ’
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surgeons induced me once more to relinquish th ,

e a t t emp t of
,

joining t h e army in Por t ugal and I w a s taken on S hore t o a

,

li t tle fishing t own called Brixham H ere I S lep t t h e nigh t

.
,

and in th e morn ing took a chaise and proceeded t o E xe t er , ,

on my road t o which place I w a s over t aken by a man who

told m e t hat th e flee t had again sailed .

4 t/z
.
— H ome again to L ongparish H ouse .

l o t/t — W ent per mail to L ondon .

1 5 t/z — W ent down to L ord Bridgewater s in H ertfor d ’

.

shire .

z — V\7 a l k e d out wi t h t h
e keeper s gun and kille d 4
’
1 6 t/ .

hares 5 rabbi t s and 1 wood pigeon

, ,
.

1 7 t/ z
.
— R eturned to L ondon and took places in the ,

mail of T uesday night for F almouth to proceed once more ,

to Por tugal having given up my S i x weeks leave and decided

,
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on a passage by the firs t L isbon packet l A rrived i n Falmouth

on the 2 l s t .

\
2 4 t/z.
— T ook my passage for L isbon in th e Prin cess
C harlo t te packet an d i n th e evening w en t on board
,
.

2 st h S ailed early in t h e morning and aft er being all ,

day at sea and nearly clearing C hannel w e w e re driven back ,

by contrary winds an d obliged t o re t urn t o Falmou t h R oad s

, ,

w here we dropped anchor abou t four o clock W e t hen ’

.

w ent on shore leaving near l y al l our baggage packed up

,

on board .

[Wa r e/c I s t — Th e wind having shifted to t h e nor t h the ,

signals were fired and we were routed up soon aft er dayligh t

,

and n o sooner had we discharged ou r bills given up our ,

lodgings and were on th,

e point of going on board t han t h e ,

win d returned to its O l d quar t er and th e preparation s for,

sailing were of no avail .

8 t/z — T h
. e wind came again t o the nor th and w e were ,

called up at break o f day b u t it blew such a violen t hu rrican e

,

t ha t it was i mpossible for the boa t s to e t off t il l eveni n g

g ,

when abou t six o clock w e re turned t o our ship

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D I ARY M A RC H
9 t/z — . S oon
aft er eight in the morning we got under way
with a gen t le breeze from t h e N N E accompanied by t h e . . .

whole convoy w hich had so long remained windbound in

,

F a l m o u th harbour .

N umber of miles travelled in my three a tt emp t s to rej oin

the army in Por tugal notwi ths tanding I have been the whole ,

t i me in a bad s t a t e of heal t h F rom L ondon t o L ongparish ,

6 1 ; from L ongparish to P lymou t h 1 5 5 ; back again 1 5 5 ; , ,

from L ongparish to Portsmouth 3 9 ; from Brixham to ,

E xeter 3 2 ; from E xeter t o L ongparish 1 1 2 ; from L ong

, ,

parish t o L ondon 6 1 ; from L ondon to A shridge 2 9 ; back

, ,

again 2 9 from L ondon to L ongparish 6 1 an d from L ong

, ,

parish to F almouth 2 0 4 T otal m iles 9 3 8 Besides four ,

.
,
.

days hard bea t ing in C hannel being i mprisoned at anchor

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, , ,

i n t hree different ships and costing m e about ,

1 6 t/ z —C ame i n full view of t h

. e rock of L isbon early in

the morning and w ere beating to wind w ard all day and
,

n ight .

1 7 tl l — A ft er beating the whole morning off the bar we

.
,

got a fair wind and sailed in t o t h e T agus ,

where we an chored
by four o clock and I went on S h’
ore t o M adame de S ilva s
,
’
.

N B.
— A very comfor t able passage of nine days
. .

2 7 tl c — VV e n t to see the cork convent which i s about a

.
,

league from C intra and inhabi t ed by twelve friars Th ,

e .

w hole o f this li tt le monastery is cut through solid rock s which ,

are beautifully in t erspersed wi th the gardens and temples o f

the monks and com man d a ful l view o f the sea and town of
,

C olaris Th e inside of this convent is entirely constructed

.

wi th cork and from being detached among the most soli t ary
,

moun t ains and having scarcely a ligh t b u t th

,
e gl immering

lamps of t h e altars it has a sepulchral appearan ce truly ,

,

calculated for t h e retiremen t of i t s holy fathers O n ou r .

re t urn we inspec t ed the house which was built by M r

, , .

Beckford and is now in a state of ruin This fine quin t a

,
.

s t ands in a forest of cork t rees overlooking M afra ( w ith t he ,

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D I A RY A PR I L

and lemon orchards where the trees are breaking down wi t h ,

fruit wi th w hich you may load yourself wi thou t dismounting

,
.

tl — R eturned t o Bel arra and took up our abode a t

7 c .
,

M adame S ilva s in j o n q u e i r a
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N B — O u r bill at C in t ra cam e to near 7 0 1 for n ine days

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plain living and no visitors ,

.

1 2 t/z — H aving received a letter authorising me to return

.

to E ngland ( as well as a sanction to the same from G eneral

Peacocke ) and not wishing to avail myself of this wi thout
,

being fully j us t ified in S O doing I had my wound inspec t ed ,

by D r H osack the s t aff surgeon and volun t arily appeared

.
, ,

before t h e M edical Board w h o pronounced me t o t ally un fit

‘
,

for field duty and gave me a certificate accor d ingly

’
.

M y 5
a t/z — A ppeared again before the M edical Board (
. for
a final decision ) and was ordered to return to E nglan d for
,

th e recovery of my health &c

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.
,

I O t/ — E mbarked on board t h S al ly transport which ‘ ’

z . e ,

(wi t h a flee t of 5 8 sail ) was bound for E ngland under convoy ,

of the A bercrombie .
’

1 3 t/z — S oon aft er daylight we got under way but with

.
,

such an unfavourable win d that we were obliged to work t h e

direc t contrary course for E ngland S O far as t o be pas t S t .

U be s an d hal fw ay to C ape S t Vin cen t before we could get

’

, .
,

a favourable offing .

1 9 t/z — Passed a turtle sleeping on t h

. e water A boat .

was im mediately sen t aft er him and when w i th great cau t ion , , ,

the crew had rowed close t o h im h e was taken up and brough t ,

on board .

2 1 s t — H aving nei t her a l d e r m en s cooks n or L ondon r e

’
.

c i e s on board we w ere so hard run for dressing our turtle

p , ,

tha t I was th e man honoured wi t h tha t appointmen t ; and ,

as my recei p t was most highly approved I have made a ,

m emorandum o f th e way precisely in which I d ressed i t viz , .

H aving t h e t ur t le kil led boned and well cleaned wi t h scalding , ,

wa t er over n igh t i t was put in t h e saucepan abou t half pas t

,
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nine i n t h e morning with more t han t wi ce as much wa t er as

,

would cover i t an d t hen left to k eep boi ling A t eleven I put

, .

in two onions ( cut in quarters ) a piece of butter hal f the size ,

of an orange mixed with flour ( and a t easpoonful of fine

sugar ) and a crus t of burnt bread A t t welve I added half a
,
.

pin t of M adeira a small t easpoonful of cayenne a tablespoon

, ,

ful of anchovy essence two ditto of C o ra tc hsauce ; some ,

allspice cloves cinnamon and peppercorn s ; some pickled

, , ,

samphire and c a p s i c o r n wi t h all t h

,
e j uice and half t h e rind
,

of a large lemon A t two I added another squeeze of lemon .

,

w i t h t w o glasses more M adeira and ( aft er it ha d boiled with ,

.

t hese a few minutes ) i t was served u p .

N B —A bout half an hour before we sat down t o dinner

. .
,

the wind at last came fair for E ngland W e had til l then .
, ,

been ( ever S in ce we left Portugal ) working to westward for a

fair wind an d instead of being any n earer to hom e in ou r
,

nine days sail we were this day ( ’

at twelve O clock ) 1 2 5 miles
,
’

farth er from E ngland t han we were when in t h e river T agus ,

viz 3 7 degrees 2 7 miles nor t h latitude 1 4 d egrees 2 0 miles

.

w est longitude ; the L and s E n d bearing N N E 8 5 0 miles

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2 5 tl c E ntered t h
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e Bay of Biscay the wind continuing ,

very fair .

2 8 tl c — O pened the C hannel

. .

2 9t / z —S a w the S tart Poin t (

. which was the first land dis
covered in consequence of the weather being t o o t hick to
,

dis t ingui sh the L izard ) an d continued up C hannel with a ,

beau t i ful wind .

3 0 t/ z —Passed
.
the N eedles and dropped anchor a li t t le ,

beyond H urs t C astle W e were here des tined t o remain t h . e

nigh t having a con t rary wind the t id e a gains t us and being

, , ,

above 3 0 miles from S pithead A S we were nearly opposi t e .

L yming ton i t luckily occurred to m e that I had better (

,
if
possible ) g e t p u t ashore t here I accordingly gave t h e pilot a -

guinea who p u t me across by w hich I saved at leas t 3 0 miles ,

by sea and 4 miles by land A ft er t aking ome tea a t . s .

 C O LO N E L H A\V K E R S
’
D I ARY APR IL
L yming t on , I proceeded t o R omsey where I passed the ,

nigh t and on t h
, e morning of t h e 3 l s t arrived once more a t

L o ngparish .

I m st observe t ha t t h
u e miseries I encountered on t h e

voyage ( fro m being wi thout a soul to attend me excep t ,

occasional assistance fro m a cabin boy and an I t alian steward ,

t ha t w ould t urn t h e s t omach o f a hog

) were ad equately com
p e n s a t e d for by the master of the ship who ( I t hin k it but ,

j us t ice to say ) was one o f the most civil agreeable and ac , ,

c o m m o d a t i n g men I ever saw and ( it may be unnecessary to

,

add ) very far superior t o his bearlike bre thren W e were ( as .

i t i s but fair t o expect and customary ) poisoned to death with

putrid w ater ran cid salt butter fleas and o ther dirt (
,
added t o
,

having our brains nearly beat out between decks ) but I had
no time to grumble or complain having been every day busily ,

employed in taking care of my things cooking my dinner , ,

looking aft er my S heep & c W e were luckily tolerably wel l t h

,
. e

whole t hree weeks we were on board and not at all seasick , .

Th e following i s the diary of our passage from the log

book M onday M a y 1 3 th 5 2 miles Tuesday 1 4 th 5 0 m iles ;

, , , ,

W ednesday 1 5 th5 0 miles ; Thursday 1 6 th 5 0 miles ; F riday

, , , , ,

1 7 th 5 4 miles ; S aturday 1 8 t h3 9 miles ; S unday

, , 1 9 th 47
, , ,

miles ; M onday 2 o th 5 8 miles ; Tuesday 2 1 5 t 8 5 miles ;

, , , ,

W ednesday 2 2 n d 1 04 miles ; Thursday 2 3 r d 1 42 m iles ;

, , , ,

F riday 2 4 th1 1 2 miles

, ,
S aturday 2 5 t h1 2 2 mi les S unday , , ,

2 6 th 1 2 2 miles ; M onday
,
2 7 th 1 2 8 miles ; T uesday
, 2 8 th , , ,

1 2 0 miles W ednesday 2 9 th1 2 0 miles ; T hursday 3 o thnot

, , , ,

worked off when we left the ship but said to be about 1 00 ,

miles Total made good

. miles .

l / — W en in a boat to the N eedles for rock

j u y 9 t z .t

shooting and killed among other birds a cormorant M y

, .

killing the latter bird was considered great S port ; as the

boatman and other people informed me t hat i t was the first
they had seen dead the whole season ; for although every ,

shooting par ty had t ried every way for them the cormoran t s ,
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were so difficult of access and ( even when w i thin reach )

,

carried away so much shot that none had been k illed , .

Th e plan I adopted was being put on t h e ex t rem e point

,

of the N eedles and t hen climbing part of t h

,
e way up t hem
,

and there waiting till t hese birds came over from behind m e .

I t is u nnecessary for m e to rem ark t h e t erri fic grandeur

and majes t ic appearan ce o f th e rocks when these

(as well as ,

every other beau ty we surveyed in the island ) are so w ell

known and have been so often described
,
.

Th e S hooting here is most excellent practice and wel l ,

calculated to t each a person to fire quick an d divest himsel f ,

of that bungling trick of what is called covering my bird as ,

’

you have not only th e rapid flight of these fowls to en counter ,

but the incessant motion of the boat as th e bays with which ,

t hese rock birds abound are seldom without a great swell of

sea : you have therefore your obj ect to catch in a moment

, , ,

an d unless you put the very centre of your S hot on t o the birds ,

they will very rarely fall as the blow they take i s scarcely to
,

be credited They dive so quick that i f you fire at one on the

.

water he will generally be down at the flash and particularly

, ,

i f wing bro k en I was told by the boatmen that a man com

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.

p l e t e l y outmanoeuvred them (a few days S ince ) by one of F o r

s y th s p a te n t l o c k s w h
i chnever failed to kill them on the water
’

, .

C oming home I went ashore to see the white sand pit and ,

the coloured chalk height i n A lum Bay and i n my walk , ,

kil l ed a rabbit .

Th e only obj ection to this excursion was that ( fro m my

having been ill and nervous ) i t gave m e a severe headache ,

which is little to be wondered at when we consider the i n c es ,

sant firing of heavy loaded guns the constant confusion and ,

scramble in the boat and the continual view of the chalk

,

precipices added to the intense heat of a broiling sun and

, ,

th e repeated ( though irresistible ) applica t ion of a beer bottle

t o one s mouth
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.

1 0 t/z —A fter having surveyed F reshwater Bay the cave

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D I ARY j U LY

an d everything else within our morning s sail I again paid ’

my respects to my friends the cormoran t s which by t h e way , , ,

are provincially called the I sle of W ight parsons .

’

I was landed again on the point of the N eedles and this ,

day not having M rs Hawker wi th m e I had no one to be

,
.
,

alarmed and t herefore cl imbed a considerable way up th

, e

rock and t here took a posi t ion in ambush directing the boat
, ,

m en t o p u t to sea a t some distan ce behind the rock and ,

prepare m e by t h e blowing of a post horn for the approach

, ,

of the reverend devourers

‘
A t last there came three of .
’

them suddenly upon m e and I killed 2 cormorants right , ,

and left .

Th e first I brought down by put t ing small snipe S hot

through his head and th e second bird I S hot in the body and
,

wings with N o 3 and t hough I suppose forty yards from

.
, , ,

m e my j o e M anton broke both his wing bo n es S hort o f f from

,

the body and killed him dead I t may be p roper to observe

,
.

that this bir d fell quite lifeless whereas the fi r s t barrel bird ,
-
,

through whose head I put the small S hot paused for some ,

ti me before he fell .

I found t ha t my plan of the horn answered extremely wel l .

I then w en t t o have a few hours pastime under t h e rocks

’

but found the birds S O very w ild t hat I despaired of get t ing
S hots but by din t of perseveran ce k illed 5 p u ffi n s 2 razor
, ,

bills and 3 willocks W e then went an d amuse d ourselves

,
.

taking up the lobster po t s an d in lieu of what we took out

, ,

fas tened a paper with some money i n i t to t h e wickers of

th e pots an d t hen sank t hem again

,
.

2 8 t/z — T his day being the anniversary of t h

. e bat t le of

Talavera makes it exac t ly t w o years since I g o t my w ound

, ,

from which I may now consider m y s e l f j u s t recovered though ,

i t has not comple t ely healed up .

A ug u s t 8 t l — \Vent with L ord H inton w h

c
. o had n ever ,

fished with a minnow before and the trout ran so remarkably ,

wel l t ha t he caught 7 brace of the largest fish we had seen for

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the season in the space of an hour and hal f I killed also o n e.

trout while instructing him how to troll which was the largest
, ,

caught this year weighing 2 lb , .

L ord H inton hooked a trout wi t h a minnow which was ,

so large as to require nearly twenty minutes to get him to

the top of the water ; and while we were i n the very act o f
landing him we had the sad m o r ti fi c a ti o n to see hi m break
,

the tackle and swi m away H e was the largest trout I ever
.

saw and has defeated all the fishermen I should guess hi s

,
.

weight at about 7 lb .

1 9tl l
.
—
A ttended the carpenters and fishermen at the taking
up the weir wherein we thought tha t the enormous trou t ,

hooked by L ord H inton must have concealed hi mself as h

, e ,

clearly went there on breaking the tackle W e of course .

, ,

c a ught every fish that it contained but s a w nothing of hi m

, ,

our larg est fish being but little more than 2 lb .

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C H A PTE R I V

18 1 1

S ep tem ber I st — L ongparish . S unday .

2 ml . partridges 4 hares and 1 quail L ittle a s this

—1 8 , , .

may appear in comparison with our sport some years it is ,

more t han we have ever done in proportion to the extreme

scarcity of birds There never was so bad a breed of or so
.
,

f ew partridges since the m emory of the oldest men in our

,

village W hat we got was by downright slavery

. .

3 ra
’
—
. W alked out with lame do g s after a three o clock ’

d in ner and kil led 1 0 partridges

, (I missed but one shot ). .

4 t /z .
9 partridges
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1 hare 1 landrail,
1 rabbit
,
1 wood , ,

p igeon and 1 teal

, .

N
. B — Killed everything I fi red at except two partridges
.
, ,

one of which was a long dis t an ce from m e and at the other ,

th e gun hung fire .

5 tl z
—.
7 partridges 1 quail and I hare , S hot at E nham
,
.
,

where the extreme scarci ty of birds prevails as well as i n ,

every other place .

6 tl c —
.
5 partri dges 2 snipes and I hare , , .

7 t/z .
4 partridges
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and I hare F ound but one covey .

th e whole day o u t of which I ki lled a double sho t ; I had

,

but S i x S hots with fagging all the morning l uckily however , ,

I killed them all one being at a bird which I knocked down

,

a nd lost and al l ( except the d ouble sho t) single birds .

R eceived an order from L ord Bridgewater to take charge

o f a recruiting party about t o be s t a t ioned at N ewbury

I Z l /t — 2 partridges
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gun which was stocked so di ff erent from my own tha t I

, ,

m issed a third of what I fired at ; notwithstanding this ( and

the day being S howery) I bagged 1 0 partridges 4 hares ,
.
, ,

I pheasant 1 rabbit and 1 woodcock besides a quantity o f

, , ,

game that I only wounded from the gun not coming well to
my shoulder T h e birds here were so wild that we could
.

scarcely get into the fields before they were up an d even in ,

high turnips and cover they sprung out of shot ; but thei r
numbers I could c o m p a r e t o nothing but swarms of bees ; _

seven and eight coveys in a field was quite com mon and ,

through a tract of country for ten m i les ; I am confident

that had I been prepared to go out at A shridge and taken
my own gun had a fine day and plenty of ammunition
, , ,

I could have filled a sack A S to hares you kill as m any as .

,

you want and then leave o f f fifty in a field are sometime s

,

found and all this clear of the preserves

, .

18 12

R ecapitulation of gam e killed up to F ebruary 1 8 1 2

’

1 1 9 partridges 2 0 hares 3 quails 1 landrail 4 1 pheasa n t s

, , , , ,

1 3 rabbits 2 woodcocks
, 4 8 snipes 7 wild ducks I teal , , , ,

1 wigeon T o t al 2 5 6 head
. Besides adding herons wood
, .
,

pigeons fi e l d f a r es & C
, , .

M a r ol t 1 s t A ft er being tortured for three days and three

.
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nights w ith the toothache I had a too t h drawn and driven in ,

again by which severe operation you effectually remove all

,

pain ( by d estroying the nerve ) and at the same ti me restore ,

the too th for mastication .

Ap r zl 1 6t/
'

z — A fter having m ade up my mind to return to

.

th e army in Por t ugal I was this evening t aken with a S light ,

cold i n my loin s and on S u n d a y I completely lost the u se

,

of my li mbs I went to M r H ome for something to give m e

. .

relief and on seeing how far from being recovered I was

, ,

he decidedly forbid my going abroad and advised me t o ,

leave the army on t h e annexed certificate

,
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This is to certi fy that C aptain Peter H awker s general

‘ ’

h ealth i s S O much i mpaired by the w ound in his hip and the ,

par t s so liable to inflame and swell upon sl igh t exertions ,

t hat he is and will continue to be unfit for actual service for

, ,

a considerable time .

(S igned ) E V E R A R D H O ME
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L d
on S kvi ll S t
on , t a c e r ee

May I 7 tl z,

eceived
2 6 tl c —aR letter from L ord Bridgewater
j u ue .

gi ving me choice either to j oin the depot take a recruiting ,

party ( in a district where the new system was not yet es

t a bl i s h e d ) or remain at L ongparish on the strength of my
,

sick certificate .

H aving declined the latter I wrote to L ord Bridgewater ,

t o request his orders for my doing whatever would be i n his ,

o p i n ion most for the good of his regi ment &c

, ,
.

u ly I s t —W ent fly fishing and killed 1 0 trout

j .

A ug u s t I I t/z — T hi s evening received a new double gun

.

f rom M r j oseph M anton N o 5 8 0 2

.
, . .

1 2 tk — A fter trying my gun at paper and finding that it

.
,

sho t tolerably close and remarkably strong I rode over to ,

L eckford and k illed about a do z en coots and moorhens wi t h ,

t w o ducks ; and ( as far as I could then j udge ) think the

gun will suit me .

1 9 l l e — F ished
.
(with a fly ) at W herwell and killed 22 ,

large t rout .

2 4 ta —A greeably to an order received the preceding

.

day I left L ongparish to take up a recruiting party at Brad

,

ford W ilts where on my arrival the place was S O ful l

, , , ,

( owing to the fair ) that I was obliged to take my tired horses

o u t of th e dog cart an d feed them in the back way to t h e

inn ; and aft er riding t h e leader all over t he t own (

which i s
roughly paved and up and down tremendous hills ) and t hen
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galloping tw o m iles t o t h e fair ground in search of my

par ty I heard tha t the men had marched from Ba t h back t o
,

W eymouth instead of to Brad ford owing to a mistake i n th

, ,
e

route I then proceeded to Bath (

. i n order to get a bed ,

and on my arrival found this to be the case .

2 5 t/z
.
—H aving ( till my party could arrive ) nothing to do ,

I s t arted soon aft er n ine o clock for Bris tol and having spent
’

an hour in seeing the lions of that place I mounted the box

‘
,

of th e W elsh mail and went to the N e w Passage in G lou ces t er

, (
shi re ) and crossed the S evern to the B lack R ock (
,
in M o n
m o u th sh i r e ) where after dining on plenty of S evern salmon
, ,

and an excellen t leg of W elsh m utton ( for 3 s I recrossed .

the water in a vessel with 1 1 9 I rish pigs and 4 Tipperary

,

hog drivers and then wen t back to Bristol by t h

,
e return

mail into which I bundled with three old women fro m

,

G lamorgan and what with the incessant roar of t h

, e herd o f

swine and the everl asting clack o f the Taffys my ears were ,

for hours recovering To recover my nerves I got some t e a

.

a n d coffee wi t h C harley L angford of the M iddlesex M ilitia

, ,

an d after S itting with a party there till half past nin e I r e -

,

turned in a hack chaise to B ath where I arrived at 1 1 o clock

,
’

an d went to bed .

3 0 t/z
. H aving got leave to be absen t I went to L ong ,

parish to meet L ord H inton for a week s S hooting ,

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C H A P TE R V

18 12

S p tem ber
e I st —
much corn w a s standing and so exe
So ,

c ra b l y bad was t h e prospect of S port for this year t ha t many ,

fi rs t rate sportsmen declined going out and several of those

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,

who did cam e home wi t h emp ty bags L ord H inton and I .

started between ten and eleven I killed 1 1 partridges and .

1 hare .

4 tb
— W a s out all the morning and never got a shot
.
, .

5 tl e 5.partridges .

N B — A l l we foun d the whole day was one covey of 1 5

. .
,

out of which L ord H inton and I bagged 1 2 .

7 tl c 5.partridges and 2 hares Killed some birds besides

.
,

whi ch I lost i n the corn E xcepting long random shots I

.
,

never missed a bird the whole w eek W i t h the exception o f .

one which towered all my birds fell dead to the gun

,
.

G ame bagged the first week 33 partridges and 3 hares .

T otal 3 6 head of game

, .

N . B —T hough (
. without picking my S hots ) I n ever missed
a fair shot the whole w eek and I had five brace of good dogs
,

t o shoot with yet the above is al l I killed so in famously bad

, , ,

in every respect is the shooting this year

,
.

8 t/z — H aving hired a house for my family at Bradford

.

W iltshire I was on the point of starting for that place bag

, ,

and baggage at seven in the morning when W oollard (

,
wh o ,

had been riding all night) arrived to inform me tha t I w s a

to give up the recrui t ing par ty on t h e 2 4 th inst .

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D IARY S E PT .

I wa however obliged to go to Bradford to settle som e

s, ,

a ccounts & c an d I arrived there by about t hree o clock in ’

,
.
, ,

tim e for the post .

9 t/z — A
. ft er a wet morning I started for A tworth abou t ,

4 miles from Bradford to shoot with M r R obert W ebb W

,
e . .

d i d not start t ill near four in the afternoon and I bagged 9 ,

p artridges besides one knocked down and lost in the corn in

, ,

ten S hots I had two dou ble and six S ingle shots an d every
.
,

bird fel l dead to the gun S hooting and sport of this kind .

being voted a rarity i n A tworth my su cc ess was the talk of ,

th e whole village .

I O t/z —A fter getting up very early I visited M r C o l t a t t

. .
,

of W raxall who is keeper over al l these m anors and landlord

, ,

of the Plough inn consequently by putting up there you , ,

have his good will to S hoot O wing to bad weather however

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, ,

a n d trusting to his dogs I got but four shots and bagged , ,

3 partridges .

1 1 t/z — N ever got a S hot

. I t is S ingular that the only two .

blan k days I had were on the two F ridays and that on each ,

o f those days I foun d nothing but a pair of barren birds ,

al t hough in two different counties .

1 2 t/z — D rove
. my tandem to a heath ( between L ord
L ansdowne s and C olonel Thornton s ) where I killed 5 rab
’ ’

bits 3 partridges and 1 wood pigeon

, , .

1 4 t/z —4 partridges
. and (owing to being baulked by the
d ogs chasing ) I missed within fair distance 1 hare ; I how ,

ever secured her with the second barrel

, .

N B . W ith the exception of some random shots out of

.
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reach and three snap S hots at rabbits in high grass the above ,

fi rs t barrel shot at the hare is the first miss I have made t his
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season making sixty S hots i n succession without missing

, ,

besides some birds killed and lost in the standing corn 8cc , .

N B .
—I never picked my shots to seek the reputation of
.

n ever missing and I i nvariably fired both barrels when

o pportunity offered .
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1 6 tb . partridges W en t in search of a leash of birds

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2 .
‘

which has been seen ( the previous day ) by the butcher and ,

although — S O intensely hot and dry — there was scarcely any

scent I found them and killed a double sho t ; the thi rd bird
,

got off to covert and we could not find him

, .

1 7 t/z —
. 2 partridges W ent out near th e town and as I
.
,

a rrived at a stub ble the farmer came up ; and with his

‘

d amning and swearing frightened up the above brace of

,

birds which I killed right and left before his face put them
, ,

i n my pocke t and wished him good evening

, .
’

1 8 tk —
. W alked out never was more t han a mile from the
,

t own all day and bagged 1 2 partridges (

, besides two shot
and lost ) I killed every bird I fired at and made good the
.
,

only three double shots I fired W e only found 1 9 birds .

all day and on my return I found a note from S quire

,

j ones to request I would desist from sporting in these fields

or near Bradford W ood as they were preserved and telling ,

me he was au t horised to forbid all t respassers n o tw i th ‘

,
’

standing the whole town shot constantly over them and he ,

had previously given his approbation to my S hooting and ,

I had even robbed mysel f to supply him with game .

[If y A u s w er .

D ear S i r to my certain knowledge every fellow in

,
AS
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this town S hoots in the neighbourhood of Bradford W ood I

am almost induced to think you are j oking when you call it
a preserve I regret however tha t you were not a day
.
, ,

sooner i n your application as I have this moment returned ,

wi th the only remaining birds ( fourteen ) in my bag ; four

brace of whi ch I was on the point of sending you when I
received your note and consequently disposed of them other
,

‘
I am ,
&c .

PS —.I . have also countermanded t h

e sending for a capital
 C O LO N E L H AW K E R S ’
D I AR Y S E PT .

poi nter bitch of which I had promised mysel f the pleasure o f

makin g you a present
T h squire sent a verbal m essage that
e I was no gentle
man ! ’

‘
S i r, —I
am surprised tha t you should aggravate your
”
uncivil conduct by saying I am no gentleman I beg to .

observe that d id I consider you as worthy the name of one I

S hould not hesitate to take up your message in a proper light .

I am & c ‘ ’

, .

received the squire s message when getting into my

I
’

t andem for L ongparish and had to turn back to make t h e ,

above acknowle d gmen t of its receipt .

2 3ra — On my retu rn from L ongparish I received the

’
.

following epistle from the squire

Woo ll ey S ep tem b er 1 8t h1 8 1 2
,
.

—
S , As
i r to my knowledge there has not been any fellow
who has sported on t h e estate at Bradford W ood I hereby ,

give you noti ce t hat you are forbidden to S hoot ( or otherwise

S port on the several es t ates of E arl M anvers in the hund red
) ,

of Bradford or the liberty of T rowbridge and I am at the

, ,

same tim e to bring to your remembrance that any officer

sporting on t h e esta t es of persons without leave is contrary

to law ; you are also forbidden to S hoot on the manor of

T r o w l e or on any of the estates of E arl M anvers as well as
, ,

on my own lands subject to a report to the C ommander i n ,

-

C hie f .

I am S i r , ,

Y our obedient servant ,

j O H N J O N E S
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.

T C pt i P H w k
o a 4 L D
a n . a er, 1 . .
’

T h squire being the most u nrelenting tyrant and

e ne

fa rious sinner the an nexed is what

, I returned hi m .
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D I ARY S E PT .

other bird except one brace I gave away to the natives

, , ,

so t hey could not call me a pot hunter .

Having got my dinner I started for L ongparish ( in

the tandem ) at a quarter before eight and arrived home , ,

4 5 miles by two in the morning ; having only stopped for a

,

short ti me to feed my horses and they arrived quite fresh ,

an d tolerably cool .

G ame bagged the month o f S eptember 1 8 1 2 : 7 8 par

t r i d g es
, 7 hares 7 rabbits 3 snipes
, T ota l 9 5 head o f , .
,

game .

Oc t ber 7 t
o /z — 3 partridges 3 snipes 1 pheasant and 1 j ay
.
, , ,
.

I S prung a single snipe and after seeing it fall I

'

, ,

observed another going away which in a few seconds , , ,

t owered and fell in the river so that I bagged two with firing ,

but on ce : the latter bird therefore was evidently killed by , ,

accident on the ground

, .

I o tb — L eft L ongparish for W eymouth

. I took a gun i n .

th e carriage and i n three shots g oing along the road

, I got 3 ,

pheasants which I much wanted .

1 3 t/z —
. W ent over with L ords P o u l ett an d H inton t o
, ,

H inton S t G eorge Park

. .

1 4 tl l — A fter viewi ng the beauties of H inton H ouse I rod e

.

out and killed 2 snipes and 2 j ack snipes which were all ,

t hat could be got as t h e i mmense swarms seen the preceding

,

days were driven away by a change of weather .

I 6 t/z
.
— R e t urned to L ongparish C arried a loaded gun .

in th e carriage t o flank the road occasionally and bagged ,

5 pheasants and 3 rabbits .

2 0 t/z —H aving
. on the 1 9 th received orders to j oin a
, ,

recrui t ing par ty a t G lasgow I left L ongparish and arrived in ,

L ondon this day .

2 4 tl c
. A ft er the post came in I s t arted for A shbridge
-
,

Park ; and having dined with L ord Bridgewater returned to

, ,

town where I arrived soon aft er twelve at night

, .

A S we passed L ord Bridgewater s groun d s we ob served

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his people at o a t cart and his L ordship informed u S that he ,

was this day to finish his harvest T his S hows wha t a late .
’

se ason we have had .

2 6 tl e — L eft L ondon for S cotland

. .

Having taken places for F errybridge I left the Bull and ,

M outh inn per G lasgow mail at a little before eight and

’
, , , ,

after taking up th e bags in L ombard S tree t at the G eneral ,

Post O ffice we proceeded for the N orth ,

.

— O n passing the D uke of N ewcastle s on the right

’
N B . .
,

going down between O llerton and W orksop the enormous , ,

quantity of pheasants which were w ithin twen ty yards of ,

th e road is scarcely to be credited ; t here were nearly 1 0 0

,

of them all close together like a flOc k o f pigeons U nluckily .

f o r me and luckily for his G race it poured S O hard with rain

, ,

th at I never could have unpacked my gun otherwise the guard ,

and coachman woul d readily have brought to for action .

I had i ntended to stop at F errybridge to have taken a

da y at M ethley Park with L ord Pollington ; but finding the
roads so bad and th a t his seat was nine miles out of the ,

highway I had not su f ficient s p are ti me

,
.

W hile passing through L in colnshire & c we saw the people .

a t h a r ves t an d in a f e w hours after the mai l was S O covered

‘

, ,

with snow that in spite of al l coats toggerys and upper

, , ,
‘

benj amins th e whole of the outside crew were wet to the

,
’

S kin an d al most frozen wi th cold

,
I kept my myrmidon s .

well wi t h the never failing remedy of cold gin and beer

,
.

I arrived at M r T hompson s inn The O l d G eorge and

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,

M o r r i tt s A rms at G reta Bridge about hal f past S i x o clock

’ ’ ’
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,

on th e morning of the 2 8 th .

N B .
—I think the north roads as far as possible inferior
.
, ,

to the western They are mended with large soft quarry .

s to ri es which at first are lik e bri ckbats and afterwards like

, , , ,

sand I ndeed wha t with t h

. e wet weather and other circum,

s t ances i t would have been misery to have travel led in any

,

thing but the mail .

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’
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T h posting is
e per mile and very inferior to t hat o f
1s .
9 d .
,

the western road at 1 s Th e people of this m ail and ’

6a
“

. .
,

particularly the r u ffi a n s at the Bull and M outh office are i n ‘ ’

,

general a dissatisfied grumbling set of fellows T heir t urns , .

‘

o ut of horses and harness are beggarly .

I n L in colnshire there are many gen t lemen s parks fenced

’

with w alls of loose quarry stone ; r i c k S made upon rai sed

“

S heds an d t h
,
e carts p u t under t hei r cover second storeys of ,

many houses of spear reed cemented over and under with

, ,

plais t er bread ei ther very white or very brown no medium ,

fires very large and a profuse waste of coals which I learn t , , ,

are 5 s 6 a a car t load free of gates and every t hing

.
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. In , .

H ants they would be 3 o s

,
.

T a bl e f
o ma i l -
coa c hxp e en s es to f l ee G r ou s e flf o or s

l
M y p a c e i n s i d e t o F e r yb r i d g e r 4
O u ts i d e pl a c es f o r tw o s er a n t s v a t 2l . I os . ea c h5
To a d og b r ou g h
t p er ma il 1

To e xt l ra ug g a g e I

r
F e r yb r i d g e t o G r eta B i d g e r 3
h
S i x c o a c m en a n d f ou r g u a r d s , a t 4s . ea c h 2

T o ta l 18

I usua ave the coachmen and guards 2 s for myself

l ly g
g
.

a nd 1s each for my servants though generally more i f they

.
,

were civil and obliging Th e above however is t h e com m on .

, ,

pri ce on t his road .

z — H aving learnt
2 8 t/ . that the grouse were become so
w ild and scarce t hat a man who had a few days ago killed a , ,

brace was S poken of as having don e wonders I despaired of ,

getting any but having travel led t ill I had scarcely strength
,

from my P eninsular wound t o go far ther ( in order to secure a

d a y or two ) I was resolved at all events to look at t h
,
e moors , ,

and i f possible see a live grouse which I had al l m y l i f e been

, , ,

longing to do T his evening therefore I proceeded (

. in a , ,

pos t chaise) on the high road for G lasgow & c and stopped
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a tBowes ( a small place 6 miles from G reta Bridge ) where I ,

bought some shot and drove n to a publi c house ( , 3 miles o -

fur ther ) kept by on e Ki tty L ockey who horses the mail , .

N ever was there a m ore admirable si t uation t han this

public house I t stands in t h
-
e very best part o f t h
. e moor

( this is S t ra t hmoor an d from it we had a fine view

, of
D urham ) ; and being an isolated place the grouse are as
, ,

likely to be foun d close to the house as anywhere farther ,

and indeed the landlord inform ed me t hat he this very morn

ing saw a grouse sitting within a fair S hot of his door and ,

t hat these birds often come close to i t I was of course n o t .

, ,

a li t tle on my metal a t hea r ing this ’

.

Th e public house here is i n every respect remarkably

-

good Th . e place where it stands is known by the name of

S pittle .

I t was curious on passing to t his place ( or rather to Bowes )

,

to observe the quantity of s t anding corn ; two thirds of the -

fields in every directi o n not being y e t reaped or mowed C o m

, , .

mon wheat oa t s and barley standing all over th

, , e country .

A fter supping ( S O my landlord chose t o cal l it tho ugh it ,

was a S i x o clock dinner) on a roast duck Y orkshire ham

’

, ,

and preserve t arts which ( to my astonishment ) I had in per

,

f ec t i o n at this hut I went t o bed with every in ducement to

,

rise early except the weat h ,

er which had been very snowy ,

—
and wet and was still very stormy all much against the
,

chance of my get t ing a grouse .

N B . I t should be remembered that one brace of moor

.
-

game now is equal to 1 5 ( or more ) in A ugus t both for value ,

and difficulty of shooting them .

2 9 tl z — Th e weather having suddenly changed to a very

.

hard frost with sharp winds I after get t ing som e breakfas t
, , , ,

s tarted with my one dog and Kit ty L ockey for a pilo t .

W i thin 2 5 0 yards of my bedroom w indow and directly i n ,

front of the alehouse N ero found 3 grouse then 2 more and , , ,

7 more (
I looked at my watch and found that we had seen ,
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thes e six brace within nine minutes from our leaving the
door ) W i thin twenty fi ve minutes from our throwing off we
.
-

found two packs of about 1 0 or 1 2 each and in S hort saw

, , ,

about forty brace during our walk all within one m ile and , ,

two thirds of them wi thin less than hal f a mile from the
-

public house and some close to the road where the mail and
-
,

o t her coaches pass But the certainty of finding them was

.

sadly coun terbalanced by the utter i mpossibility of getting at

them in spi te of every m anoeuvre I Could scarcely get even so ,

near as 1 5 0 yards t o them and it was o n l v two or three t imes

,

that the dog could come within that distance I contrived how .
,

ever ( by creeping with my hat off behind hillock s and ridges

, ,

which I thought likely ) to get within S ixty yards of some pairs ,

and single ones three of which I fired at bu t with no other

, ,

hopes of killing than a chance S hot taking a vital part A t l ast .

(af t er I had voted it i mpossible to get a grouse i n such weather ,

and S O late in the season ) N ero cam e to a point and ( as luck ,

would have it) the brow of a hill was between hi m and his bird ,

and I by creeping up took him on the hop fired directly he ,

’

rose ( at abou t 4 5 yards ) and down I knocked hi m i n th e act ,

—
of c rowing a t me a fine old cock grouse Bagged also 1 teal .
,

1 j ack snipe and I snipe which (

, with another wild snipe and
,

a flock of g olden plover ) were all I saw except grouse .

O n m y return to the inn I m et a M r G eorge E d w ards (

,
of .

B arnard C astle D urham ) who on my complain ing at n o t

, , ,

being able to m ake up a brace of moor game said that ( wi th ,

such a day & c ) he should n o t have credi t ed m y having killed

.

on e had I not produced the bird

,
.

This gentleman ( as wel l as the landlord ) in formed me

that anyon e who had a freehold ( even under 4 o s ) had a right .

c ) to sport over the whole of these moors (

(if qualified & . for
1 0 or 1 2 miles ) T hus here is no lord of the manor ; but
.
,

every freeholder has an equal righ t to sport Their plan to .

prevent poachers and serve notices is (

,
or ra ther ough t to be ) ,

carried on by a com mittee but so little attention is paid to

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the matter that a stranger may shoo t a whole season wi t h

, ,

little or no opposition and a gentleman would have no troubl e ,

in getting a month s leave ’

.

I n A ugust it is common for a bungler to bag his eight brace .

3 0 t/c — L eft S pi t.tle‘

for P enri t h b ut was obliged to leav e ,

one of my men behind in consequence of the g u ard being ,

un able t o take on my luggage I should observe that nothing .

creates more disputes on t his road t han a gun case as it will ,

go nowhere but the outside of the coach where t h e guard s ,

are forbid to put any t hing ; and from the wretched horses ,

driven th e coachmen have so much difficulty i n keeping their

,

time that they in general are very tenacious of taking any

,

thing more than they are obliged to do They are however .

, ,

much more civil here than far ther upwards .

A s you enter W es t moreland the scenery becom es very ,

r o m a n t i c a n d the approach to A ppleby which you enter down

, . ,

a steep hill presents a magnificen t landscape , .

\
M y reason for stopping at Penrith was to see U l s w a ter ,

one of the fines t of the lakes and the only one I could reach ,

wi thout going nearly forty miles out of my way I hired a .

a n d got a weaver s boy for a pilot ; and in six miles

'
’

g gi , , ,

reached th e village of Pooley at the foot of the lake N othing ,

.

can be more roman t ically beautiful t han the richly wooded

hills that form the side scenery an d t h e m aj estic heights ,

which compose the background of this landscape i n a word ,

the V iew creates a sort of sensation whi ch we feel on hearin g

M o z art s m u s i c seeing S hakespeare s tragedies hearing Bra
’ ’

, ,

ham S ing or seeing ourselves surrounded by a good evenin g

,

flight of wild fowl .

A fter driving a considerable way on the road which is on ,

the edge of the lake I returned to Pooley to make inquiries ,

for sport and found that a M r R ussel had as he termed it t h

,
e .
, ,

farming of t h e fishery and that by pu t ting up a t his house ,

.
,

y o u insured yourself the liberty of angling on the lake for nine

miles Th e following are the fish it prod uces : grey t rout
.
,

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’
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running up to 3 5 lb common t rout charre perch ; skilly

.
,

o r fresh w ater herrings which are caugh t by thousands at a

-
,

d raught chub ; eels and brandlings ,

.

N o wild fowl t o speak of but good partridge S hooting ,

r ound the l ake .

O n my return to Penrith about 5 P M I got a brace of .

t rout dressed some good gravy soup a roast chicken cran

, , ,

b erry tarts j ellies & c al l elegantly served up and with great

, ,
.
, ,

c ivility for 6 s
,
. I thought m uch better bestowed than
o n a lawyer s letter
’
.

A ft er d inner about half past six I got a li ft on to C arlisle

,
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, ,

by t h e M an chester mail .

t — S a w the whole of C arlisle and the only thing I

3 1 s
.
,

O bserved to be worthy of remark is the excellent architecture ,

a n d construction of the two new courthouses which give a ,

g rand effect to the entran ce of this town C arlisle is wel l .

p aved wi t h quarry stone of a reddish brown colour with which ,

th e cathed ra l castle and other edi fices are buil t

, , Th e former .

has a fine window and some good oak carving the latter has
arms for men ; though neither of these is anything
beyond mediocrity .

I should observe that the inns are S O smal l and bad in ,

p roportion t o the numbers who travel through this town that ,

i t is but seldom you can be accom modated with a S itting room

t o yoursel f and you are consequently obliged to l ive at the
, , ,

s ame table with persons of every description .

A t half past three this evening I left C arlisle for M off at

-
, ,

w here I arrived about half past ten W hen you have passed -
.

th e river S arke 3 5 miles beyond L ongtown you enter D u m

, ,

f r i es s h i r e in S cotland where the country soon appears barren

, ,

a n d the little cabins of stones poorly thatched and only on a ,

ground floor contribute to its wild appearance

, .

A fter getting nearly two miles into S cotland you go through

S pringfield which is now the grand receptacle for enamoured
,

f ugitives ; the hymeneal business being now carried on by

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breeches on a S unday and worn till it ro t s without bein g

, ,

cleaned Th . e coachmen are like a set of dir ty gipsies they

drive but one stage each and then look after their own
,

horses Th . e mails are ( from L ondon ) exactly the same a s '

al l others .

N o vem ber I s t — I was prevented surveying this country

by an incessan t pour of rain which lasted the whole day
,

Th e town o f M off at has nothing to make mention of excep t ,

the wild country in which it lies and the mineral waters f o r ,

which i t is frequented in the sum mer one Of the spring s ,

being S imilar to that of C heltenham and the other con ,

s i d e re d good for consumption .

2nd — W ent out i n hopes of getting a blackcock for whic h ,

this place has the name of being good but after slavi n g ti l l ,

I could scarcely get one leg after the other I found but ,

one pack two single cocks and a grey hen all of which were
, , ,

too wild to give me the l east chance I ndeed getting at them .

,

in this country ( after A ugust or S eptember ) appears i m p o s

sible as they occupy the open heights where they generally s i t
, ,

l ike cormorants with a sentry either on a rock or in a tree

, , ,

to give th e alarm I n my walk however I killed 2 wood

.
, ,

cocks which were al l I saw and 3 partridges and S hould

, , ,

have had a brace more an d a couple of snipes but the only

, ,

S hot I could buy was so large that it was quite by chanc e

that I bagged what I did with it .

M y wal k gave me a full view of this place which lies i n a ,

.

fine valley among smal l rivers and is surrounded by a per,

fe et amphitheatre of mountains Th e oa t s and barley were

.
:

standing in every direction and some quite green

, .

M y guide was on e D avid D inwoodie who gave m e an , .

excellent ac count of M offat as a S porting place and among ,

other information corroborated what I had before heard

,

here that in j une and j uly) the salmon trout fry were so
,

plentiful that the boys would go out with an artificial fly and

bring in 4 0 0 of a day They are however small ; as they
.
, ,
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r un about the S i z e of a smelt ; but they are most delicious

e ating an d as red as any salmon
, .

I n consequence of having seen at a distance a great many

d ucks I tired as I was after get t i n g my grouse and a
, , , ,

cranberry tart for my d inner poured a flask of whisky into ,

m y boots whipped on a box coat an d posted off to the S ide

, ,

of the stream but on ly saw 5 ducks which were too

, ,

f a r from me to fire at .

I w e n t to bed with my loins in such pain from walking

t hat I was fearful my wound would break out again ; b u t

luckily by taking someth

, ing warm I soon recovere d ,
.

3 r a Being
’
. told
-
that the only possible way to get black
c oc k s was to creep after them in the morning by daylight I ,

s tarted off with my friend D avid D inwoo die and after de ,

s a i ri n g
p of seeing any we espied a pack
,
at feed ; but the
moment we stopped they flew up although they were on the ,

O pposite S ide of an i m mense valley from the hill on which

w é w e r e A fter taking a long flight like ducks they perched on

\

a plantation of high larch firs among some stone walls ; accord ,

i n g l y I began to creep when about 5 0 0 yards from them

, ,

but having got to t h e end of my ambush I found the ,

d istance too far ; I then in preference to firing at random

, ,

c rept over the wall and succeeded i n getting to another

, ,

where I had a safe march to a breach within forty yards of an

o l d cock who was the vidette and after crawling on al l fours
, , ,

with my heart in my mouth for about 1 0 0 yards I gained , ,

th e point and down I knocked him a fine old black

, ,

c ock. I was thu s lucky in getting both specim ens of the

g rouse so fine for stuffing .

N B — . I t is somewhat remarkabl e that in the very act of

.

getting over this wall I found on it a S hilling which inspired ,

me with confidence of success .

Th place where I was being near M offat S prings ’

‘
e ,

which is where the sulphur waters are drunk I took a l ook ,

i n a n d tasted t hem and they w ere qu ite S parkling a n d very

,
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co ld though of a strong bri mstone flavour They are under a

,
.

lock u p S hed in a rock close to the mountains their distance

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,

from M offa t is nearly tw o miles an d that of the consumption ,

waters nearly seven bo t h lying t o the north east of the town

,
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.

I must do D avid D inwoodie the j ustice to say he was one :

—
of the most obliging men I ever met with not with an obj ect
i n his civili ty as is often the case in the N orth for he w a s
, ,
.

absolutely affronted when I offered to reward hi m for his a t

tendance N o t so with Kitty L ockey for he not only took
.
,

care to ask for mon ey directly he had attended me but mad e ,

the mos t imposing charges in his bill I t is i n deed t oo often .

, ,

the case t ha t when they get a gentleman in an alehouse they ,

take good care to mak e him pay his footing .

’

I got back to M offat about half past nine where afte r -

,

taking my breakfast I proceeded in a chaise for D ouglas

mill which is about halfway to G lasgow I took my gun ready
, .
,

loaded in the chaise ; a n d aft er killing I magpie out of th

,
e

window while going on to test the barrel that I feared would

, ,

hang fire I was prepared for anything I might see on t h

,
e road .

I b a gged 3 partridges and S hould have had 2 i f not , ,

more had I not laboured under the disadvantage of the

,

large S hot which to so small a quantity of powder and

, ,

i n such little charges as a double gun holds has neither , ,

velocity enough to cut through the feathers of a bird nor com ,

pression sufficient to avoid his escaping very often among

the intervals Th e diff erence between large and small sho t in
.

a gun is that the former goes in like the back of a kni fe and
, ,

occasionally only an d the other like a ra z or with unerring ,

certain t y N o 7 is best for everything un less you take a

. .
,

duck gun .

I should make a memorandu m of the posting in this

country which as well as the inn s where you change horses
, , ,

more forcibly depicts m isery than even the travelling in S pain .

Th e horses are scarcely good enough for dog s meat being

’

, ,

R d M ff t i m t dm i bl b t f
oun p t i dg
o a s a os a ra e ea or a r r es .
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half starved and kep t i n S heds of loose stones ; the chaises

,

are of the very worst description and the travelling on an ,

average I found to be about 4 miles an hour

, .

Th e road from M offa t t o D ouglas mill has nothing for -

remark except that it is one of the most wretched deserts I

,

ever passed T here are several small rivers in this wild

.

country which the postboy or rath e r t h

,
e ra
g a m uffin who , ,

drove me said were full of tr out N o coach whatever e x c ep

,
.
,

the mail makes it worth while to pass this road to G lasgow

,

but all the carriages of conveyance go round by D umfries .

I reached D ouglas mill between seven and eig h -

t at night .

4 t/
.z — I started on my j ourney soon after S i x in the
morning having got an excellent chaise with a decent d r iver ;
,

and having foun d every t hing at and from D ouglas passable

except the roads I flas h ed them occasionally an d bagged
, ,

I snipe and 4 partridges I am sure had I time dogs and .

, , ,

small S hot I c o u l d k i l l a h
, a m p e r f u l of partridges in t hi s
’

n e ig hbourhood as from the coun t ry being S O li tt le inhabi t ed

,

they are in great abundan ce and you may shoot un molested ,

and from the corn being out in the fields and some of i t
'

standing th e birds lie nearly as well as in S eptember

,
I tried .

the grouse a s I passed th e hea t h b u t get t ing anywhere near ,

them proved i mpossible I reached the town of H amilton .

soon aft er twelve and there found the posting nearly as good
,

as in parts of E ngland I a rr i ved in G lasgow between two and

.

three o clock this day

’
.

Th e post arrives at G lasgow from L ondon on the

four t h day ; for ins t a nce if a letter be put i n on M onday it ,

arrives on T hursday morning Th e mail leaves L ondon . .

M onday evening at eight an d gets into G lasgow T hursday ,

morning before eight ; it leaves G lasgow soon after two on

M onday aft ernoon and arrives in L ondon very early Thurs
,

day morning ; and so o n through t h e week except that no ,

pos t comes into G lasgow on W ednesday nor goes o u t of i t ,

on Thursday Y ou have 3 hours from half pas t t e n to half

.
,
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p ast one sometimes more

, in which you may answer le t ters ,

by return of pos t .

T able in order to S how for how much a g en t l e m a n a n d his

'

s ervant the former inside with 1 4 lb

,
of luggage the latter .
,

o utside with 7 lb of luggage may go from L ondon to .

,

G lasgow with two breakfasts two dinners and two suppers

, , ,

3. 1
( .

I n s i d e t o F e r r yb r i dg e f r o m Lo n d o n
G r e ta B i d g e r
Ca r is e l l
G a sg o w l
10 8 0
O u ts i d e t o F e r r yb r i dg e
G r eta B r i d g e
Ca r is e l l
G l a sg ow

I n s ide se v
g u a r d s a t 2 s ea c
en h
h
.

l
s i x o n g s ta g e c o a c m e n
-
a t d i tto
tw e ve l S ht t g
or -
s a e c oa c hme t hl f n a a d i tt o
O u t s i d e, f o r m a hl f p i
n, a r c e of th
e b o ve a

G r a nd t o ta l

9 tb
—W ent
. per mail to E dinburgh .

z — H aving S pent the whole of the previous afternoon

1 0 t/ .

i n seeing this fine city I got up very early in the morning ,

a n d went all over L eith from whence after buying 1 00 oysters , ,

a n d a live c o d fi s hof 2 4 lb weight for 3 s I returned to . .

E dinburgh two miles saw the remainder of the town and

, , , ,

a t t welve started by t h e heavy coach to return to G lasgow

, .

A lthough this machine carr i es S i x i n and ten outside yet it ,

g oes the 4 2 or rather 4 5 miles including

,
the suburbs in S i x , , ,

hours and a hal f Th e horses and indeed t h e whole concern

.
,

o f this coach are superior to the mail ; and it performs t h

, e

j ourney in the same number of hou rs a s do also I am told , , ,

the five or S i x other coaches which start every day to and

from G lasgow F rom the extreme roughness of the S cotch
.

roads and consequently the stiffness of the springs and

, ,

streng t h wi th which they are obliged t o build these coaches ,

we found the n oise so great inside that t h e passengers could ,

scarcely hear each other speak .

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On passing Bathgate ( in the secon d stage where we ,

s topped to wa t er ) we were saluted by two old women or ,

r ather fairies one S ix ty eight the other a few years younger

,
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, ,

a nd each very little more than three feet high These .

L illiputians are not related to each other except i n their ,

o ccupation which entirely consists in presentin g them

,

selves to the diff erent coaches and the diversion and novel ty ,

w hich their appearan ce affords the passengers generally

p roduces them plenty of halfpe n ce and by this means alon e ,

t hey gain thei r livelihood .

Th e road by which I returned from E dinburgh to G lasgow

i n this coach lies nearly parallel to that which I cam e by the

m ail the two roads are often wi thin a mile and never more ,

t han four from each o t her ; they are about the same in
,

p oint of goodness and distance and unite in one at about a ,

m ile from G lasgow and somewhat more than a m ile from

,

E dinburgh .

N B
. .
— I found E dinburgh full as dear as L ondon ; for
e xample ,
2s for fire and 7 s for lodgings 2 s a m ile for a
. .
,
.

h a ckney coach & c without a ten t h part of i ts com for t s

, . .

Th e castle
(built on a stupendous ro c k ) is one of the
s trongest fortifications and the finest t hing of the kind I ever
,

beheld but wi t h regard to everything else i n this town t h e ,

h igh ex p ecta t ions I had raised were sadly disappointed .

I 1 t/z — W alked out from th e town of G lasgow (

. aft er twelve
o clock )
’
and bagged 4 partridges and 1 pheasant a very —
,

o l d cock bird Th e latter was spoken of as an extraordinary

.

circumstance in thi s country and from what I heard it , ,

a ppears to be one that several people had been a long time

in pursuit o f .

I got a random S hot at a wood cock whi ch I could see ,

n o thing of at the moment of firing and as the l airds of t his , ,

c ountry take especial good care to t urn their t imber in t o

money before it is l arge enough t o bear a man s w eigh t I ’
,

w a s prevented being able t o moun t my marker in a tree ‘ ’

,
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D IA RY N OV .

which is of cou rse the sure w a y to secure a woodcock f o r

the bag .

I fired but five ti mes ; I killed the pheasant full S ixty

yards and a partridge a t nearly the same distan ce ; and
, ,

in deed all my S ho t s were extraordinary lucky ones

,
.

N
. B .
—I S hot wi t h N o 8 and B u t t s s H oun slow cylinder
.
,
’

powder which I found superior to M anton s I see every day

,
’
.

more and more the consummate stupidity of people who

abuse sm al l shot .

1 6t /
z — A ft er having passed the morning i n goin g to the
.

C ollege and seeing the invaluable collection i n H unter s

’

M useum I started for D umbarton on my way to L och

, ,

L omond and slept at the E lephan t and C as t le inn which

’

, ,

i s kept by a M r M c N i c o l and far superior t o any I had met

.
,

with in S cotland ; I had an ex cellent bed a good aecom ,

m o d a t i o n wi t h a moderate bill and great civility

, , .

1 7 t/z Proceeded in a hack chaise to L uss inn thirteen

.
-

m iles farther Th e last eight miles of this road are on th

. e

indescribably beautiful L ake of L och L omond and present a ,

’

magnificent view of w ooded islands and mountainous scenery ,

together with the tremendous Ben L omon d and other snow ,

’

capped mountain s .

O n arriving at L uss inn w hich is close to the lake I set , ,

out partly to S ketch and partly to S hoot an d was far better ,

repaid my j ourney by th e landscapes than the sport as t h

'

e ,

game was so very scarce that althou g h with l eave over the ,

whole of M r M c L a u g h l i n s grounds and with the a tt endance

.
’

o f his man I killed b u t 3 snipes and 1 woodcoc k which were

, ,

all I shot at and all I s a w ,

.

1 8 t/z — H aving heard that there were several ro e deer on

.

S i r j ames C o h obtained his permission

’
oun s r o er t
p p y I t o ,

sport for a few hours but could not succeed in finding any , ,

at which his keeper a respectable m an who attended me , ,

seemed rather surprised the only shooting I got was firing

both barrels at a hare A fter getting an early dinner I set .
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took my dog and gun ; but the latter we were obl iged to
leave behind on a rock after crawling with it strapp ed to th e
,

b a ck as far as possible ; we found no ptarmigans ; indeed ,

they are now become very scarce .

Th e killing of these bird s is from what I was told no , ,

merit beyond the labour of traversing the fro z en pyramids ,

a n d the novelty of getting them as they will sit on an open ,

ston e as tame as chickens and suffer themselves to be p elted

,

before they will move and are very frequently killed with
,

stones Ben L o mond has on it so me white hares but we

.
,

saw none .

Th e ascent to the summit of this mountain is even in ,

winter sometimes very passable ; an d in summer so m uch

,

so that l adies very common ly go up and sometimes take

, ,

with them a piper and other apparatus for dancing Th

, e .

sum mer may perhaps have a di ff erent eff ect but for my own
, , ,

p art I was so exhausted t hat being unabl e to walk hom e

, ,

from the inn I hired a boat and returned by water

, .

I n several of the most solitary glen s we saw the caves

where the s mugglers manufacture the famous H ighla n d
whisky which i s S O far superior to the ordinary by being
,

distilled from the pure malt and smoke d with the peat .

They usually do this work in the dead of n ight There are .

various opinions about where the H ighlands begi n i n con ,

sequence of t h e E nglish language having within these few

years extended itsel f to where the G aelic was spoken ; but ,

as that language appears still familiar to most of the old

people even as far as L uss we m ay safely say that L uss is
, ,

i n the H ighlands at al l events they unques t ionably begin a

few m iles b eyon d that place A fter getting my dinner at .

L uss inn I returned to D umbarton where I went to bed very ,

unwell .

2 0 t/
z — H aving had every com fort the preceding night I
.
,

foun d myself better and returned by the D umbarton coach , ,

t o G lasgow .
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2 1st . from the filthy lodging of M r s S h

— R emoved e dd o n .
,

94 G eorge S treet to the cleanest house I had

, seen since I
left E ngland a M rs W atson s in C lyde Buildings
,
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.

M rs S h ed d o n
. having swore that I had engaged her
lodgings for two months when I particularly expressed before , ,

witness that I would not even en g age them for more t han a
,

week I was the previous evening served with the le t t er of

,

a lawyer which was brought me by a most assassin like

,
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looking fellow with a hare lip cut throat face an d in a

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,

beadle s l ivery M rs S h
’
e dd o n having this day refused to
. .

go before a magistrate ( which in this country is op t ional ) ,

and she having preferred a suit at law to increa se my ‘

,
’

t rouble and expense I was obliged to employ a M r D onald , .

,

to enter on a regular lawsuit ; an d M r Provost H am ilton .

was so ki n d as to stand bail in order to get a certificate for ,

the removal of my baggage which had remained all the ,

morning under quarantine Th e action is of course going on . .

T his is a common species of i mposition in G lasgow ,

M r D onald having had many S imilar cases in hand

. .

2 7 tb — Partly from illness and partly from seven days

.
,
’

rain ( with scarcely any intermission ) I have been prevented ,

using my gun till this day when I went in M r M ackintosh s , .

’

—
chariot accompanied by his son and M r Horrocks to — .

Keiss estate belonging to M r S terling ; but only fired my

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, .

gun twice the whole day .

D ecem ber 8 t/c — A S before I have ( partly from i llness

.
, ,

and partly from bad weather ) been deprived of shooting till

this day when I walked out of this execrable town and all the
,

game to be found was 2 hares 1 of which I fired at and killed , .

I O tb — W alked out for a few hours near the town ; fired

.

my gun five times and bagged 2 hares 2 partridges and , ,

I fi el d f a re .

1 3 tb —Th
weather having for nearly a fortnight been
e .

intensely severe I went by the evening mail to G reenock to

, ,

try for wild fowl .

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1 4 t/z .
—H ired
a boat and found several flocks of barnacle
,

and other fowl but getting even near enough to fire ball at
them proved i mpossible I ndeed as far as can be j dged .
,
u

from what I have seen n o coast can be worse than this for
,

water shooting as here are s c a rc e l v any rivers but wha t

,

free z e ; and t h e lakes being also susceptible of frost the fowl ,

daily frequent th e open C lyde where no device whatever will ,

succeed in getting at them and by night they usually feed , ,

!
on the mud in which you mus t walk an d stand up to you r
,

knees to get a bad evening flight .

1 5 t/c —C rossed the C lyde to D umbarton withi n t hree miles

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,

o f w hich ( opposite C raig end ferry where there are good boa t s )
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the wi ld fowl are in myriads and t h e solid squares of barnacl e ,

have the appearan ce of black islands W e found it however .

, ,

i mpossibl e to come within even a quarter of a m ile of them .

I took my dinner at D umbarton and went to a place , ,

called the meadow for evening flight S a w nothing but ten

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wild fowl which dropped i n one at a time (

,
by moonlight ) , ,

wi t hin si xty yards of me I fired at them al l in a cluster .

,

( with a huge gun ) and literally swept the pool where they
,

were but they all escaped by diving at the flash O n my

, .

return to the inn I sent for one R eade a blacksmith ( the head ,

shooter ) who informed me that t w o couple of fowl here were

,

reckoned a good day s sport a n d that w i th the many tons o f

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am munition that were every year fi red in the C lyde not fifty
b arnacles were killed I t appears that even the punt S hooting
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and cask burying systems fail here

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1 6 t/z .
—O u t for morning flight ; saw but two small lo t s of
fowl and never fired m y gun W ent at high water to shoot at
,
.
, ,

th e scaups and was shown the best plan of getting at them

,

w hich is to keep concealed at a distance from the river an d ,

when the birds dive t o spring up and run as fast as possible to

,

the water and on t heir coming up (

,
perhaps within ten yard s
of you ) t hey will ins t antly t ake wing and give you a beautifu l ,

shot I killed 5 of them

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T hough the most bitter cold day that could be described the ,

fly fishers were if possible more numerous t han the S hooters

, ,

their tackle is quite coarse and the t rout t hey k ill very small , .

F rom the natural propensi t y S cots m en have for staring at

a nythin g new it is highly diverting to S how them any gun
,

beyond the most com mon S ize or inferior value O n my .

producing a j o e M anton to the blacksmith I had a mob , ,

similar t o one attendant on a dancing bear or a man killed ,

i n the street .

17 t l z — M r s H a w k er having com e to me at D umbarton from

. .

L ondon t h e previous evening I went to Ballock ferry to S how ,

her L och L omond where I k illed 2 divers 1 wood pigeon , , ,

a n d 1 teal which wi t h the excep t ion of a wild duck that I

, ,

knocked down and lost for want of a d og and a water ousel ,

that I unfortunately missed from having too large shot were ,

a l l I fired at T his evening we got back to D umbarton and

.
,

there put fresh horses to our chaise and returned to the vile , ,

st i nking foggy asthmatic town of G lasgow

, , .

1 9 t/ z — D ined on some of the best trout I ever ate which

.
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proves that these fish are not only to be caught but worth ,

catching here all the year,

.

N B
. O h my return received in formation that the lawsuit
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with the relentless M r s S h e dd o n was at last decided in my

.

f avour .

2 1st — W ent with C olonel D ouglas to D umbarton ; and

.
,

through having a very clever spor t sman to manage the boa t 1

,

we at las t got within about 1 2 0 yards of a few barnacle geese ,

by means of getting between them and the sun and sculling ,

down on them W e then fired wi t h slugs ( . C olonel D ouglas

with a S panish barrel and I with a huge wall gun ) and killed , ,

a barnacle ; besides a second one which was picked up by

another shooting party .

2 2ua —O u t again killed only a golden eye duck

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my wal l gun several t imes among flocks of barnacle and other

1
O j h M ine ( ll d M
o i g )nth f ym f C ig
en z es dca e n a s ,
e er r a n o ra en .
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fowl at not much more than a hundred yards and plainl y

, ,

discovered that the barrel was a bad and weak shooter had I
one of my own duck guns I should no doubt have astonished , , ,

th e natives with the bulk of my bag N o wonder these birds .

are wild N o t less than a do z en boats are out every day filled
.

wi th shooters who as well as those from the shore are

, , ,

incessantly firing at all distan ces I n the evening we returned .

t o G lasgow .

D ecem ber 3 1 s t — V e n t to D umbarton for the purpose o f

V
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shoo t ing nex t day ; but on my arrival had re a son to regret

leaving G lasgow by a discovery that it is the custom of thi s
,
.

place for every soul who can carry arms to go out S hooting o n
N e w Y ear s D a y
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of — Th
this e beginning
day was ushered
j a n u a ry I st i n

with such incessant firing that what with the guns from t h e , ,

castle and every other explosion down to the boys firing o l d ,

pis t ols in the street I could compare the town to nothing bu t

,

a place besieged A n d the innumerable shooting parties i n

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,

the fields and round the river were like light infantry in con ,

fusion I had several narrow escapes of both S hot and ball

.
,

not only round the town but in the very streets I con t rived , .
,

however in the midst of this besieged country to bag 3 par

, ,

t r i d g e s and I j ack snipe which with anot her snipe M o s t w ere

, , ,

all I fired a t I went out m er el v to see whe ther or not I

.

could beat t his whole host of shooters and as far as I could , ,

learn fully succeeded O n my return about one in the fore

,
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,

noon I saw a mob of people assembled and was inform ed

, ,

that they were met for a purpose of charity namely to pay ,

S ixpence a S hot with bal l at a small target for the ben efit o f ,

a poor old man who was to furnish the winner wi t h a cheese

, .

I repaired t o the place and gave hal f a crown for the ,

poor man an d as l was in formed that although an im mense

, ,

number of S hots had been fired n o one had touched the target , ,
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I was induced t o draw my sho t and p u t a pair of balls in th e ,

double gun and t o t h e as t onishmen t of t h

,
e elegan t company
,

by which I was surrounded p u t th e said pair o f b a l l s in t o t h

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e ,

target I t h . e n left word t hat i f I won t h e Ch ees e I would ,

give i t to the old m an again and wen t away B u t unluckily , .

, ,

about two hundred more sho t s were fir ed and of course ou t , , ,

of t hat number some nearer th e bull s eye t han mine though

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I heard non e of t he m hit it .

U nder a hope t hat all the S hoo t ing rabble would repair t o
the alehouses abou t dusk I wen t o u t flight shoo t ing b u t i t ,

appeared tha t t hose who had any powder left s t ill kep t bla z in g ,

away I n shor t I h
. a d n o sho t s and was very n ear get t in g
, ,

wrecked on my re t urn by being dashed by th e curren t on t h , e

rocks under C lyd e bridge where four of u s in a little cock boa t ,

were t humped l ike a S hut t lecock expecting every momen t t o ,

go t o pieces .

2 u cl — R eturned to Gl asgow
. .

N B — I mus t remark t h
. .
e cheapness of my bil l at D u m

barton I had two excellent breakfasts ; two dinners w i t h

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soup fish flesh wild fowl sweet t hings wine and a bowl o f
, , , , , ,

punch each day S oup in th e middle of the day board for

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, a

s ervant and a dog also a capital bed with fire in my bed , ,

room and the a tt endance of a waiter shooting and my bil l

, ,

f or all only amounted t o 1 1 4 s . .

4 tl c —
3 par t ridges
. and 1 2 snipes I killed the 1 2 snipe s .

successively This is great l u ck in a place where they

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a re s o scarce as you generally have your S por t in t erspersed

,

with random S ho t s making allowance for these however , ,

I may venture t o say t ha t I have killed 3 0 or 4 0 snipes i n '

succession .

6 tl c W ent wi th M r M acintosh t o D umbar t o n a n d t hen

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,

proceeded t o A r d e n c a p l e inn t e n m iles far ther where w e , ,

passed the n ight wi t h very good accommoda t ion , .

7 tl c Bagged 1 S parrowhawk 1 hare and 5 woodcocks

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which wi ththe exception of on e fine sho t t ha t I missed by

, ,

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ge tt ing a bough direc t ly in my face were all I fired at and , ,

either 7 or 8 were all we saw which for this place is , , ,

reckoned a miserable scarci t y W e then got a grouse that

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, ,

by means o f my previously striking with a long random S ho t ,

sat till t h e dogs very near caught him I also got a wi ld snap .

shot at a grey hen which I hit so hard tha t we were m uch dis
,

appointed a t not bagging her and by bad l uck and our dogs
, ,

going down wind we lost shots at some more grouse and

,

blackcock which to our astonishmen t lay t ill the dogs were

, , ,

wi thin a short dis t ance of them A n d but for some showers .

,

w hich came on about twelve we should have had some fair ,

partridge shooting ; as it was I lost a brace by my barrels

,

h anging fire Thus it m ay be seen with what a beauti ful

.

varie ty of game A r d en c a p l e abounds and how decidedly this ,

place is t h e paradise of the country to a sportsman .

Th e li t tle strip of wood in which I killed my fi rst 3

cocks begins within a gunshot of the inn door I t was some .

what singular that M r M acintosh although a good fag an old

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, ,

S portsman and an excellent shot only got two chances the

, ,

w hole day and only one of them at a cock which was out of
,

reach A fter getting ou r dinner at two o clock we left thi s

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beautiful place for D umbarton where we d rank tea as the , ,

best refreshment after fagging and we then returned to G las ,

gow W e having been obliged to post all the way and en t er

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t ain some myrmidons made our expenses for everything j ust

,

t en guineas .

1 2 t/z — This evening

. I hired a buggy and drove M r s , .

H awker over to A rd en c a p l e which place we reached after

,

d ining at D umbar ton .

1 3 t/z —W e walked out shooting from about ten til l one

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,

a nd
,
findi ng that not a single woodcock was to be s ee n I ,

mounted the hills and had th e extraordinary luc k to bag 4

,

grouse as wel l as 1 hare and 1 partridge Besides which I

,
.

knocked down another old cock grouse with my second barrel ,

having secured on e of the hens wi th my first but he escaped ,

i n th e heather .
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vered the expenses by t a k i n g n ea r l y all the officers of t h

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depot M uch as lark ing was in force there had been no S pree
.
,

to to p this S ince the lads had been together W e ( b eing t aken .

for th e U nion coach ) galloped past all t h e gatekeepers had

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repea t ed applica t ion s for a cas t and s t opped to mal t it a t all ,

the hedge alehouses W e had some pri me sl a n g on t h

. e road ,

and of course blew up every spoony fellow we could mee t

, ,
.

A fter seeing t h e race won e asy by C ap t ain C o l e s s bro w n

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horse we repaired fro m Blandford race down to the C rown ,

’

where dinner was ordered for t hirty at 7 s a head and w e .

,

having nearly drun k t h e land lord o u t of both his E nglish and

F rench win e a gran d a t tack was made on the j ohnny raws

,

of Blandford in which were said t o be captured fift een

,

knockers t hree signs and a barber s pol e Th

, , e boys then
’

re turned to their broth an d finished th e evening wi t h some

,

pri me grub swi z z le and si n ging

, ,
.

O n the morning of the 2 3 r d after my getting S haved by ,

th e barber and sounding hi m abou t his pole a n d making t h e ,

waiter fiddle country dances while we a te our break fast w e ,

re t urned in t riumph wi t h C ap t ain C oles th

, e winner on t h e , ,

roof ; and having larked all the way down th e road we took ,

a turn up and down W eymou th wi th t h e royal accession o f ,

t w o monkey faced chi mney sweepers tha t we had picked up

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on the road and made s t and on th e coach the one tuning up

~

wi t h his brush and shove ! and t h e o t her bearing a huge N elson

,

h a ndkerchie f from a pole t wen ty feet long O u r whole crew .

t hen began C h eering screeching and horn blowing t o the

, , ,

irresis t ible laughter of even the graves t codgers in W eymouth ,

and the delight of all th e damsels from those in t h e peerage ,

d o wn t o beggar wenches A l l t h e windo w s were full the

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,

esplanade very gay and wha t with bells ringing children

, ,

squalling misses giggling and dogs barking t h

,
e fun was n o t
, ,

to be described .

O u r career was finished by landing a t t h e barracks where ,

we had no sooner left the coach than i t was mobbed by tag

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rag and bob tail and as quickly covered with children as a

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piece of meat is wi t h crabs when thrown in the sea N o lark .

could possibly end wi t h more good humour on all sides or ,

more liberali ty ; as we even remunerated t h e fellows t hat we

blackguarded with beer and left every place wi th the name of ,

nice gentlemen I had t h e honour of working the whole o f

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th e ground and drove to the sa t isfaction of al l my passengers

, ,

al though every s t age I was bothered with some proper rusty

’
d i vi l s .

l ll a r cb had agreed wi th M aj or Baker for t h

7 tl c .
—I e pur

chase o f his maj ori ty but was refused the recommenda t ion
,

for no other reason than because I had been unserviceable

from the wounds I received in the service notwiths t anding ,

I off ered t o go abroad forthwith and t o resign immedia t ely if ,

I p roved unequal to do my d uty I n consequence of this .

shameful inj ustice I was driven to send in my resignation at ,

th e same time stating my reason s for so doing t o the C o m

mander i n C hief who ( -

after a personal interview ) most hand
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,

s o m el
y offered it back in opposition to L ord Bridgewa
,
t er .

B ut I having pledged my word to M r F oster that in the

,
.

event of my not succeeding to th e maj ority his son should

have my troop and his memorials having reached the W a r

,

O ffice and his money being lodged as well as M ajor Baker

, ,

having then hesitated to risk his resignation I felt it righ t , ,

under all circumstances to decline his R oyal H ighness s kind ,

’

off er and submi t ted to the m o r ti fi c a t i o n of retiring from th

,
e

regiment as eldest captain .

2 5 tb — R eceived official in formation t ha t I was gazetted

.

out ( on Tuesday the 2 3 rd ) and that C aptain F oster s com

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mission bore da t e the 1 8 th instant .

D uring th e few months I had t o remain in suspense

about the final arrangement of my business I had ( what wi t h ,

having to go to S co t lan d and wai t ing on L ord Bridge w ater 81 C ) .

miles to t ravel .

S tatemen t of t h e circums tances from wh ich I left the

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’
D I ARY M A RC H
army : Th e un fortuna t e circumstance by which I was so
unj ustly driven out of the service was as follows I ( being .

eldest captain ) had agreed to give M aj or Baker guineas

for his maj ori ty and he had promised me his resigna t ion t h
, e

m o m e n t I could be recom mended I wro t e to L ieutenan t

.

C olonel Hervey ( then in S pain ) to ask his sanction and he

declared t hat he had nothing to do wi t h any ec o m m en d a r

t ions at home and t ha t t hey all went through L ord Bri d ge

,

wa t er a t the same time informing M aj or Baker and (

,
according ,

t o M aj or Baker s letter to m e ) promising that I S hould have

’

his recom mendation I then applied to L ord Bridgewa t er

.
,

who ( t hough I transmitted hi m C olonel H ervey s answer ) said

’

that the business must be referred to C olonel H ervey .

I nim ical however to this shuffling and evasive trea t ment

, ,

towards me C olon el H ervey had occasion to come t o E ngland

, ,

and I ( who had tak en a recruiting party in S co t land till I

heard of his arrival in L ondon ) lost n o time in ge tt ing to
town to learn the result of his interview with L ord Bridge
,

water being extremely anxious to secure my promotion and

,

j oin my regimen t i n t h e Peninsula I should observe tha t

.

previously to my leaving S co t land M aj or Baker wro t e m e ,

word that L ord Bridgewa t er had signified to him tha t he ‘

would do no t hing in the busine s ti ll he had consulted the

s

L ieutenan t C olonel A n d subsequent to this L or d Bridge

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wa t er refused to forward my memorial to the C ommander i n -

C hief under the excuse t ha t I had t herein s t a t ed t h e pro

b a b i l i ty of a vacan cy of which he n o t only declared himsel f

,

( both priva t ely and officially ) perfec t ly ignorant but gave m e ,

his word that he thought it highl improbable a t the very y ,

ti me he was conferring wi t h M aj or Baker on th e subj ec t .

O n my arrival in L ondon I wro t e to L ord Bridgewa t er

( who was then at A shridge ) t o ask i f in the even t of,

a
vacancy I might hope for the honour of his recom menda t ion
, ,

as I wished to j oin my regimen t which I of course would , , ,

not do as long as there existed an i mpediment to my pro

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motion and saying that if a reply to such a questi o n was the

,

least irregular I should esteem it a favour i f I migh t be

,

al lowed to speak with him ( L ord Bridgewater ) on th e subj ec t .

A n d he returned an evasive answer merely persisting tha t he ,

had heard nothing of M aj or Baker s in t ention to quit and ’

nei ther giving m e a word in answer to my l etter nor allowing ,

me to speak to hi m I about the sam e time received

.
, ,

C olonel H ervey s determination ( by letter ) which was that i f

’

M aj or Baker intended to quit ( which at present he much

doubted ) it was his determina t ion to recommend C aptain
,

M illes to succeed him C aptain M illes w a s t hen in E ngland

.
,

and according to the report of his own friends brought hom e

, ,

purposely to supersede m e who when he was a young , ,

cornet was a captain in the regiment I had of course

,
.
, ,

made up my mind to leave the service in the event of not

succeeding and had pledged my honour to L ieutenant
,

F os t er s father that if I could n o t be recom mended to t h

’

, ,
e

maj ority he should have my troop for his son and accordingly
, ,

agreed with him for the sale of it I had at last no other .

, ,

alternative than sending in my resignation and previously ,

stating to the C ommander i n —C hief my reasons for so doing

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.

C olonel H ervey ( having no doubt heard of my agreemen t

w i t h M r F os t er ) wro t e to M aj or Baker to reques t he would
.

con t inue in the regiment ; at leas t I am j us t ified in supposi n g

so by M ajor Baker s answer which was ’

D ear H ervey I will remain if you wish i t

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,

T hus being foiled at all points in the maj ority I fel t ,

myself bound in honour to refuse my resign ation ( which hi s

R oyal H ighness most handsom ely off ered back to m e con ,

t ra ry to the entreaty of L ord B ridgewater ) and was driven ,

out of the servi ce by the C olon el and L ieutenant C olonel for -

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no o ther reason than wha t ought to have been a r e c o m m e n d a

tion namely th
— e very severe wounds with which I had t ill
,

lately been deprived from doing my duty Fo r ( as I s t a ted .

in writing to th e C om mander i h C hief) I defied ei ther

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L ord Bridgewater or C olonel H ervey to give any other
r eason
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.

A n nexed is a list of my losses by leaving t h

e servi ce vi z ,

f Com m i s s i on s
’
Cr . P a ia or .

In t he I st ( or R o ya l D ra g o on s ) C o rn e tc y
L i e u ten a nc
y
B ei n g r e d u c ed , by t h
e p ea c e , in 1 80 2 , I hd t p y (
a theo a

r eg u a l ti o n ) f o r e c xh a ng e to l
f u l pa y i n th 1 4 thL i g h
e t
D ra g oon s
(In a f ew m o n t h s a f te r th hl f e a -
pa y Li eu ten a n ts we r e

i
r e n s ta ted g ra ti s .
)
h
B es i d e s m y o t e r c o m m i s s i on s p a i d M a j o B r o w n e f o r tr o o p r o

(h l r l
S o r t y a f te r a t o o p w en t f o r l i tt e m o r e t a n t e r e g u a ti o n , h h l
a nd a no thr w i th t p
e h ) ou u rc a se .

B e s i d es a ll thi I hd s m h vy l a so e ea o s s es by a Q ua r te r

Ma s t er , wh m i pp l iod m y w h
i l sa e on e e I wa s on l e a ve .

T o ta l 0

Dr . R ecei ved f or Com m i s s i on s .

T ro op
L i e u te n a n cy

C o r n e t c y, p r o i d e d i t i s v s ol d b ef o r e t h er e c o m e s a p ea ce

h
( r
ot e wi se I o s e i t) l 735 o o

l
P r i va te y p r o m i s e d b y M r F o s t er .
4 00 o 0

L o s t by m y c o m m i s s i on s 10 0

T o ta l 0 o

N B . .
—I
was a C aptain of D ragoons soon after I was
s eventeen years old but paid dearer for it t han anyon e in the

s ervice .

Ap r i l 1 3 t/t V en t to L ondon
V
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M a y 1 8 t/z —I nstead of leaving town ( .as intended ) I was ,

this day sei z ed wi t h another violent a tt ack of my w ound ,

w hich obliged m e to be put to bed I t here lay in torture .

t ill t h
e 2 4 th w hen I was grea t ly relieved by three smal l pieces
,

o f bone being cut out of my thigh S i r E verard H ome on .

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seeing this c onsidered t hat my life was saved by the circum

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s tance o f my being driven from t h e army

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t/ —
I left L ondon a nd arrived thi s evening at L ong
3 0 z .

p a rish .

My reason for being so an xious t o leave t own was that ,

my li t tle child had been at the point of dea t h and when ,

given over by S i r E H ome I saved his li fe by strong port

.

wine negus and nutmeg .

j une 9 tl c — N otwithstanding
. my little infant (R ichard
Hawker ) h a d c ompletely recovered his health and appetite ,

he was this even ing suddenly sei z ed wi t h another relapse ,

and died be t w een nin e and ten o clock a t nigh t ’

.

1 2 t/ z — L ongparish
. H ouse M y wou n d having got so .

much better as t o admit of my walking ( wi th a stick ) I went

fly fishing and killed ( ,
yesterday and to day) 1 4 t rou t -
.

1 4 tk .
— 1 0 t rout ( average weight 1 lb each ) in t hree .

quarters of an hour and had I not broke my fly rod (, ,

which
obliged me to leave off ) shou ld have had ex t raordinary spor t , .

1 8 ti c —H aving been in formed t hat an outlying buck ( for

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h
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w ich I and I believe several o t hers had been above a for t

, ,

night hun t ing ) had been seen feeding near Budge t F arm ,

about ten o clock the previous ni g ht I t his evening repaired

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to th e place and aft er my lying in wait in a r i c k h

,
o u s e and ,

peeping through its crevices t ill daylight had almost dis

appeared t h e gentleman suddenly presen t ed himself i n a fin e
,

a tt itude a t a gap in the bottom of C as tle field b u t i ns t ead

, ,

of advan cing towards my entrenchm ent he stole up very ,

cau t iously under th e hedge t ill he got to the t o p of the field

, ,

and left it again by an upper gap F rom t h e approaching .

darkness i t became necessary that no time S hould be lost and ,

foll owing him ( wild as he was ) appeared my only C hance .

A bout five min utes aft er I had reached the t o p of the hil l I ,

could j us t discern hi m at a considerable distan ce ( ,

in our
standing corn ) maki ng o ff at a full gallop O n t his I de
,
.

s p a tc h e d j ohn to t h e farm with directions t o mount a horse ,

,

and make an i mmense circle at full speed i n order to out ,

flan k him while I lay in ambush a t the last gap by which he

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had passed This plan succeeded so ad mirably w ell tha t in

.
,

a few minutes j ohn turned him and up he came bounding

, , ,

like a kangaroo direc t ly towards me I had my bes t duck

,
.

gun loaded wi th swan S hot and an old army rifle but being
, , ,

loth to depend on either the lat t er or my own n erves I deter ,

mined o h receiving him with a volley of s w a n d r o p s I n a .

few seconds he came up an d suddenly s t opped at about fifty ,

yards in a place from which had he turned either righ t or

, ,

left he would have been lost to my view so I opened my

, ,

fi e — bang— directly in his face but with so little good (

r wel l ,

as I had levelled th e gun

) that the shot had no other eff ec t

than to drive hi m directly back again into th e s t anding corn .

H ere j ohn played his part well W hile I with the rifle was .
, ,

f o l l o wmg t h e deer he o u t fla n k e d hi m a second time and

, ,

drove him back H e t hen came across me within fort y

.
,

yards a t full speed I fired the bal l directly through his

,
.

neck and he never gave a struggle Thus aft er an i n d e f a t i g

, .

able pursuit ( i n spi t e of my ill health ) had I the fortune to

bag the outlying buck H e was remarkably large and in very .

fair condition .

N B —Having previou sly heard of this deer I practised

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,

wi t h the rifle for t h e first time I ever fired with one and in ,

eight sho t s at a hundred yards I put si x balls ( two of wh i ch

were i m mediately in the centre ) into a newspap er T his .
,

however is but average S hoo t ing un less i t be considered t hat

, ,

my rifle is an old on e that was c a s t from H o rn p es c hs corps ’

as being unserviceable and given m e by an officer ,

.

2 7 t/z —D isas t rous ill luck with two more deer

. This .

morning abou t S i x o clock I was hurried out of bed by being

,
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in formed that t w o more deer were feeding in the next field but
one to our house A fter running up and placing myself in
.
,

a hedge one of them was after a li ttl e beating s tarted from

, , ,

th e peas and being turned at a favourite gap w here I had

, ,

previously placed a vedette for tha t purpose galloped up to ,

within t w en ty yards of me and ( as the d evi l would have it ) ,

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N B
. .
—
T his unlucky day ended wi t h the following truly
afflicting circu mstance Poor Annesley Powell after coming .
,

here ( unexpec t ed ) and dining with a quiet sober party was

, ,

t hrown from his horse wi t h his head on t h e point of a flin t

,

s tone which so fractured his skull and occasioned such a con

, ,

c u s s i o n of the brain that ( melancholy to relate ) he never spoke

,

a word aft erwards and expired the following morning S i n

, ,

c ere l
y regre t ted by the whole neighbourhood and (what is ,

still more to his credit ) by all the poor to whom his chari t ies ,

were unbounded .

u ly 3 r a —A ttended the funeral of poor Powell who was

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,

this day buried in W herwell church .

7 t/z
.
— 1 stone cu rlew which I killed
(
on my return
,
from
wai t ing for the deer ) late at night by calling i t close to me ,

with i mi t a t ing its whis t le .

— H aving been out most mornings at daybreak and

9 t/z
.
,

regularly every evening in search of the deer I this day

scoured the country with old S in ey and his h
, ,

ost of t erriers ,

b u t t o no purpose notwi t hstanding we found several places

,

where the deer had bee n browsing .

2 i st .
— O n e of t he deer aft er a long armis t ice having been, ,

again seen I t his morning got up during a mi z z ling rain a t

,

t hree O clock and wi t h my rifle sat among the branches of

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, , ,

an oak till long aft er sunrise but never saw h im W hat , .

induced me to persevere was th e deer having been seen near

,

t his tree overnight by a friend who al t hough wi t hin two ,

yards of him was t antalised by hearing him ea t wi t hout being

,

able to level his gun in consequen ce of the wre t ched in t er

,

feren ce of a huge bl ackthorn hedge which to such a nice t y ,

pro t ected the animal t hat my friend could occasionally see

his ears but no thi ng more had any person five inches tal ler
,

been there he might have blown his skull o f f I t was pro .

vo k i n g t o me who from my height could have seen his whol e

, .

head that I S hould have cruised past the croft b u t a few

,

min utes before he came out S uch a chance may n ever .

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recur as t h ,
e shyness o f these deer now exceeds all d e s c i
p r

tion and L ord Portsmou t h s keepers have been always so

,
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completely outman oeuvred by them t ha t they have given a

general leave for their destruction .

z 3 ra — S tarted wi t h a party and a car t ful of prog & C t o

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amuse ou rselves i n M i ller s pond and N e t ley A bbey ponds ’

.

A l t hough equipped wi t h rods snares a casting net and plen ty , , ,

of cocculus indicus we only g o t som e small carp an eel an d , , ,

some roach and the grea t er part of the carp I killed with a
worm I having landed 3 brace
, .

A ug u s t sta L eft L ongparish for L ondon on way to

.
,

the moors i n Y orkshire .

8 tb — L eft L ondon per mail and after a j ourney with a

.
,

very pleasant set and a profusion of noise mir th and fun on

, , ,

the road reached F e rr yb r i d g e at nine on the evening of t h

, e
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9 t h ,
and t hen got to M ethley Park eight miles in a chaise by , ,

ten o clock ’
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1 1 t/z — W e nt wi t h a party consisti n g of L o rd Polling t on

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M r H awkins and M C hadwick to H o l m fi r th a wild

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r .
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man ufacturing town among small mountains and about four ,

miles from the grouse moors .

1 2 t/z — W e were all u p at three o clock and off by dayligh t

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but the birds were so extr emely wild that it was almost
impossible to get near t hem and Ou r going quietly to work ,

was o u t of th e question as the moors wer e swarm ing w ith ,

disciples of G eneral L udd who a lways allow t hemselves a ,

holiday on th e 1 2 th of A ugust pur posely to see the S por t ing

on th e moors I t was chiefly by firing snap shots that I g o t

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any game and I soon saw enough to convince m e tha t t h

,
e

grouse shooting in Y orkshire is now very po or add to this ,

I had t h e disadvantage of being accom modated wi t h two wild

u n s t ea d
y d o
g s only nin e months old and they never had seen ,
“

a bird killed to them ; while L ord Pollington with dogs which ,

he off ers t o challenge all E ngland a nd wi th two guns was , ,

working the finest part of the moor which h e had signified his ,
 C O LO N E L H AW K E R S ’
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posi t ive intention of keeping quiet till aft er dinner when we ,

were abl e to join him .

N otwi t hstanding all thi s advantage he took in order to

excel an d then I suppose to crow over his par ty he only
, , ,

beat me by one bird and t hat one o f his followers told me

,

w a s a bird which some other person had wounded I k illed .

1 0 grouse including on e which M r H awkins had slight l y

, .

struck before me I k illed all I could have done t ill t h

. e

la t ter end of the day when I was sei zed w i th a fit of S ickness

, ,

and was S O ill that I l ost three birds by missing fai r shots ,

a n d m any others from being unable to walk up to the dogs

when they did point which was very seldom the case , .

I returned from the moors ver v faint and under all circum , ,

s t ances thought proper to take my departure and sent to

, ,

Huddersfield for a chaise which brought m e to that place by

about eleven at n ight .

N u mber of bird s k illed : L ord Pollington including a ,

d oubtfully clai med bird 5 & brace ; mysel f including bird , ,

hi t by M r H awkins 5 brace M r H awkins 2 brace

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M r C hadwick 1 5 brace
. gamekeeper 1 brace
, Total , .
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1 5 brace .

1 3t/z — Proceeded about twelve o clock per heavy coach to

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W akefield and after there waiting an hou r for the S heffield

, ,

c oach I found it quite ful l ; but some b a g s m en being also

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d isappointed I j oined in a chaise and proceed ed with them t o

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S heffield where after passing for a traveller being treated as

, , ,

such and l uck ily for the low estate of my purse charg ed as
, , ,

such and buying some hardware as such I went to bed

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I had nearly omitted to mention that on our way

from H uddersfield to W akefield we passed the village o f
A lmondbury noted for the following droll circumstance : A
,

chimney sweeper being wanted in a hurry to perform t h e

office of his profession and at the moment unable to attend , ,

sent a stupid boy as his l ocu m ten en s to make the chimney

fi t for use and with a message that he would come himsel f on
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the morrow and sweep it completely Th e boy got up the .

t unnel and aft er giving t h

,
e usual salute and flourish wi t h his

brush on the outside descended by a wrong t unnel which , ,

brought him direc t ly i n t o t he office of a pettifogging at t orney

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who was alone w i t ing by the gl oomy light of evening Th

r e .

quill driver had scarcely streng t h to support himself on seeing

this fiend and while struggling with the gu il t y conscience of
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a lawyer an d t his hellish appearance th e boy said i n a low ,

sepulchral tone I am come for you t o day and my m aster

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will at t end you to morrow A way ran th e lawyer

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and G o d .
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knows what becam e of him .

I got to bed a t S heffield having retired from the bagman s

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room abou t eleven and at t hree s t arted by th

,
e S lope heavy
,

coach for N or thamp ton where after travelling with sixteen , ,

passengers bad wheels and restive horses , we arrived by

, ,

abou t t e n a t night W e s t opped at N ottingham for break

. .

fast and L eices t er for dinner ; b u t neither of these meals

,

being provided nor even a cloth laid we got nothing till the
, ,

l ast moment when bolting and pocketing were the order of

,

th e day .

I w a s obliged to enliven mysel f this tedious j ourney by

passing for divers charac t ers fi rs t a fellow who had ti pped ,

th e double to som e baili ffs on the Y ork road t hen for a naval ,

officer & c I had a fresh character t o each fresh passenger

, .
,

as the travellers on t his road only go a few stages and then ,

stop t o do business .

N umber of miles travelled for one very bad day s S hoot

’

ing L ongparish to L ondon 6 1 to F errybridge 1 7 2

: , ,

M ethley Park 8 to the moor town 2 1 (,

H o l m fi r th
) to the ,

ground and back 8 ( mountain travelling ) back direct to

,

L ondon 2 0 6 ; through L ondon and back 6 (

, about ) ; hom e ,

to Longparish 6 1 in all 5 4 3 m iles ! , ,

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C H A P TE R V I

18 13

S ep tem ber 1st .

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L ongparish
partridges I never saw . 14 .

the birds so wild the first da y in my li fe and the scent was ,

so infamously bad that the dogs could do n othing and w e

had to shoot in a p o u r of rain al most al l th e aft ernoon L ord .

H inton returned home to a seven o clock dinner I remained ’

.

out t ill near eigh t .

Th e bags were filled as follows L ord H inton 3 brace and ,

1 hare M L r . 2 5 brace myself 7 brace dogs caught 1 5 ,

brace T otal 1 4 brace and 1 hare

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.

A l l th e game we could bag the fi rst week is as follows

L ord H in t on 1 2 brace of partridges and 1 hare ; M r L

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95 brace of partridges , 1 hare and 1 rabbit ; mysel f 2 1 5 brace ,

of par t ridges and 3 snipes ; divi ded birds 3 and dogs caugh t ,

3 ; in all 4 6,
brace of partridges 1 brace o f hares 3 snipes , , ,

and 1 rabbi t T otal 9 8 head .

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.

I 5t l.z — W ent out wi t h S iney and his troop of terriers to

our home field a nd killed ( in six snap S hots ) 5 rabbits H in
, .

ton k illed 1 rabbi t and 1 par t ridge an d M rs H awker shot 1 , .

cock pheasan t out of a fi r tree for which I le t her my gun ,

n

with h a l f a charge .

23 dr —,
7 par t ridges I hare 1 snipe and 2 wild ducks ,the ,
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latter o f w h ich I had killed right and left with N o 7 shot at i m .

mense distances aft er lyi ng on my back for nearly half an hour

,

before I could g et them to pitch I saw 1 0 in the air at fi rst .

,

but they divided and 5 went ou t of S ight and the other 5 kept
, ,

wheel ing round till they fan cied they might rest in security .
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2 5 tb .
—4 partridges
hare and 1 snipe ( which was the ,
1 ,

last remaining bird of a w i s p of eight that took up their abode

in our fen I having killed every one of them ) and coming
, ,

home I made a very long S ho t at a sparrowhawk which had ,

for Some time annoyed us .

2 7 t/z — W ent to see and made a drawing of S tonehenge

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,

the principal inform ation about which we got from a poor old
man aged 7 2 who since losing his hand by a gun bursting
, , ,

when firing at a bustard has frequen t ed this sol i t ary S pot for ,

the purpose of ga thering mushrooms and picking up what h e ,

can from the company who come to visit it Th e stones are .

ninety four in number vi z ninety in the D ruidical circle

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and four detache d Th e absurd stories about this place are

.

too ridiculous for remark ; su f fi ce it to say therefore tha t , ,

the stones are one mile and three quarters from A m esbury -

and abou t a quarter of a m ile beyond the hills where th e

D ep t ford I n n and Heytesbury roads divide T hey are form d . e

near ly in a circle and are I have no do ubt a composi t ion, , , ,

as they will i mmediately on their being broken dissolve in

, ,

water like lump sugar .

G ame bagged up to the end of S eptember I 1 3 par t ridges ,

7 hares 5 rabbits
,
1 2 snipes 9 wi ld ducks T otal
, 1 4 7 head , .
, .

3 0 t/z —W ent to. M r C hamberlain s farm near Bere in .

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D orse t shire .

N B .
— C hamberlain (
. with whom and with whose one
excellent dog I shot ) killed 9 pheasants 5 partridges 1 hare , , ,

and 2 rabbi t s I saw hi m miss but twice and both t im e s

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,

much beyond fair distance S o he killed 1 7 o u t of 1 9 .

,

making 5 5 pieces of game in 5 9 shots between us ; two of th e

misses quite o u t of reach a third secured wi th second barrel ,

and a four th a long S hot at the hare that I crippled .

This would be mere average S hoo t ing were i t n o t

that C hamberlain and I fired ( and always do fire) long sho t s
instead of never S hooting beyond 4 0 yards as so many ,

do who have a wish never t o miss and t herefore con ,

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tent themselv es with firing only one b a rrel at a covey merely ,

from t his mistaken idea of real good shooting .

— pheasan’
ts partridges by the road
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Oc tober 2 n a 3 .
7 o n, ,

my way to Hyde whither I went to see and pass a day or two

,

with M r Knight Th
. e only S hot that I did not kill was at a
.

hare a long w a y off w h

,
ich I s t ruck so hard t hat she never
,

would have escaped had not she run into forbidden ground .

I n these two days withou t picking my shots ( ,

which I
n ever d o ) I killed 3 8 head of game and wounded 1 out of
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forty times firing and al m s t every thing died in the air

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5 partridges and on e lost 1 j ack snipe and I , ,

pheasan t W ent back to Hyd e saw a brace of birds mark ed

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t hem down and bagged 1 with each barrel vi z 2 partridges O n

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g etting near Hyde we had a narrow escape from an accident .

M y leader t ook fright and with one prodigious spring in spite

, ,

o f bo t h rein and whip applied i n due ti me j umped off a terrace

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road into a bog o u t of whi ch I flogged him up again and he

, ,

mad e a second bolt into t h e bog where he bec a me restive ; ,

b u t luck ily I kept my wheeler in so as to hold hi m ti ll the

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leader was taken off and everything ended well , .

S ince being in D orsetshire I had ( including a f ew birds ,

l ost ) killed 8 2 head of game before I missed a fair shot .

ri m —
4 rabbits ; a n d los t a fine old cock pheasant at ,

w hich I made a very long shot .

1 2 t/z —. A fter having spent our t ime very pleasantly wi t h

th e Knights M r s H awker and I t ook our leave and left
,
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,

Hyd e on our way home to L ongparish by way of W areham

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b y which road I t ravelled for t h e purpose of reconn oi t ring

th e country and finding o u t t h

,
e bes t coas t for wild fowl ,

should I be disposed for an excursion in t h e w in t er W hile .

the tandem horses were baiting I hi red a post horse and

surveyed th e I sle of Purbeck and went t o the village of A rne , ,

which is well S ituated b u t so des t itute of even th , e roughes t ,

a ccom moda t ion t hat I could fi nd no plan be t ter than resolvin g

,

e ither to p u t up a t Poole or one of t h e passage houses in

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the least assistance literally held and struggled with hi m f o r

,

several minutes at nearly a mile away from the i nclosed

country T his cursed nine lived buck then escaped a fter
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ward s evaded Tw y n a m s pack of b a r ri ers and then was seen ’

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qui t e lame going off towards Freefolk W oods

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I had given up all i d e a o f this buck having laid out for hi m ,

since about A ugust 3 0 when it was reported that he had ,

returned to the park and been there shot and up to which ,

period I had been days and nights slaving after him .

4 o ’
clock R M T he buck was seen
. close to t he par k
near W hitchurch .

[Vo vemb er 8t/z — Posted up to L ondon purposely to attend

.

j o e M anton while altering and repairing t hree o f my guns by ,

which means I got them in five d a ys done right i nstead of ,

five months done wrong .

9 t
.n — W a s nearly tortured to death by a relay of thre e

d entists who failed in drawing a tremendous tooth and

, ,

finished with breaking my j awbone and complimenting m e ,

for the s a ng f r oi a with which I braved t heir infernal operation s

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1 3 t/ z — H aving secured my gun s an d bound up my head

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I left L ondon in the pains of the damned and to mend t h

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speed o f my j ourney got horses that had j ust returned from ,

previous j obs at every s t age and was nearly eleven hours ,

getting down .

O n my arrival had the great satisfac t ion t o find a lette r

,

from the S ecretary at Wa r saying t hat his R oyal Highness

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th e Prince R egent had been graciously pleased t o order m e

th e pension of one hundred a year commencing from ,

D ecember 2 5 1 8 1 1 in consideration for the wounds which I

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had received in his M ajes ty s service ’

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14 t/z — L ord H in t on came to us and left us on th

. e 1 9 th , ,

and during his stay he had some excellent sport ; for wha t ,

wi th the fall of the leaf having d riven o u t L ord Portsmou th s ’

hares and pheasan t s and a good flight of snipes having come, ,

the S hooting was far better than i t usually is here in N ovember .

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I crawled out on the 1 5 th and killed 1 pheasant t hen came,

home and wen t t o bed and here I have been l aid Up in ,

t or t ure with my j aw with scarcely a moment s intermission

’

f rom pain an d wi th occasional spasms t h

,

,
a t have almost taken
away my senses and my only ease has been when do z ing
,

under the influence of laudanum ; my unmercifully ha n dled

j aw having defied blisters leeches and every o t her remedy , ,

that could be devised .

2 0 t/ z — W a s for a few hours this evening nearly free from

.

pain ; this is literally the first tim e I have been free from
severe pain for these twelve days and twelve n ights .

2 1 s t — M y pains having returned I became again almost

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,

distracted when by my own wish a leech was applied to the

, , ,

very nerve of my gum ; it kept m e for twenty minutes in

great misery and continual pain but the permanen t relief I ,

got is al most incredible .

2 st/ c.
— W a s well enough to walk out ; so I took my gun ,

and killed 1 rabbit and 1 partridge .

2 9 tb — W a s able to renew my shooting

. for which I ,

believe I have to thank the leech that was applied to my gum .

Killed 3 hares 2 partridges 2 snipes an d 1 j ack snipe

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.

D ecem ber 2 a — snipes ’

j ack snipes teal and wood
3 n
3. 2 2 , , ,

cocks .

I had seen some t eal the previous day when being , ,

unable to mark them down I was forced to give them up ; ,

and I was out all the evening and up an hour before dayl ight ,

in search of them this morning but to no purpose ; and , ,

having returned to breakfast I left my duck gun and wen t to ,

W hitchurch and t hen beat t h

, e whole river down wi t h m
y
double gun a n d snipe shot with which I killed the above two ,

t eal ( all I saw ) and coming home I put up a couple of cocks

, ,

and killed them both after having j ust m ade a capi t al right
,

and left at two j ack snipes in a gale of wind I never missed .

all day and never was I better pl eased with any shooting at
,

L ongpari h s .
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4tl c —
4 pheasan t s and 4 snipes A l l I fired a t except a
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,

long sh ot a t a par t ridge t hat I wounded and lost and another ,

snipe which I ought t o have killed .

N B .
—S ince D ecember began I have had 3 4 S ho t s out of
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whi ch I killed 3 1 wounded I and missed 2 , , .

6 t/z — L eft L ongparish on a reconnoi t re of t h

. e D orsetshire

coast and wi th a tired horse reached C ranborne where in

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consequen ce o f th e fair the inn was in one general scen e of ,

riot and drunkenness and I had a t hin parti t ion only between ,

me an d room s fi lled with fellows who were drum ming fi fi n g , ,

fiddling dancing and screeching till S i x in the morning when

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nothing but threatening to S hoot them prevented them from

breaking into my room .

7 tl i R eached Poole and proceeded to the H aven Pass

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age H ouse where rooms were prepared for m e a n d roun d

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which th e wild fowl were flying in hundreds though too far for ,

a S hot I could plainly see that if hard weather comes t his

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place will be a paradise to a shooter I killed on the road

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1 pheasan t and 1 par t ridge .

8t e/ — I took the mor ning flight an hour before dawn a n d

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of course the e vening flight bu t altho u gh the geese d u n b i r d s

, , ,

and wigeons were in myriads yet none flew low enough even ,

for swan S hot I this day surveyed every creek and corner
.
,

and al though getting any good shots a t fowl proved al most

i mpossible yet in order to be ready t o receive them on the
,

approach of proper weather ( wh i ch should be ei ther very

rough or very severe ) I decided on remaining here and , ,

accordingly sent j ohn away with my dog cart and t o re t urn ,

here with M r s H awker ; I also hired an old fisherman with

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,

his boat an d a canoe to attend me on all occasions and go ,

water errands catch fish for me & c and I adopted t h

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e hours , .

o f S i x for breakfas t two for dinner six for t ea ( or pipe and

, ,

grog ) and nine for bed by which means I avoid going w ith an
, ,

empty stomach to the cold creeks and sandbanks morning , ,

even ing and night .

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o ther shooters were round the pond I t herefore got 2 in a .

l ine knocked them bo th over but lost 1 ; so bagged but I

, ,

wigeon W ent out all day shooting Killed a j ack snipe all I
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,

S ho t a t ,and a t n ight lay up a t t h e pond and k illed 2 divers

, , .

I 6 t/z — A ttended the ponds an hour before daylight as

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well as ( in an incessant pour of rain ) the whole afternoon but ,

sa w no living creature except four other S hooters and in , ,

short never fired a gun all day

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1 7 t/z — E xcep t at a large diver which I knocked down and

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could not ca t ch an d a gull which I discharged my gun at and

,

killed I never fired a S hot ; i n the aft ernoon the pilot and I
,

were over taken by a gale of wind whi le paddling in a canoe ,

an d was too happy to escape with merely ge tting well ducked .

2 0 t/z — W ent i n a small boat to C hristchurch haven about

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four t een m iles S a w t housands of w i ld fo w l chiefly ducks and

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mallards under the cli ff s at Bourne bot t om though never got a

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S hot except at a large diver which I killed

,
A fter surveying ,
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th e harbour and finding it far inferior to our own head

, q uarters ,

I tramped in water boots to the town of C hristchurch and ,

having seen al l there I t ook a chaise to t h e public house

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commonly called Kay pond i n hopes of a flight of ducks as -

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this place lies directly off Bourne bot t om bay but the swarm s -
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of birds which were there at midday never appeared and I ,

w alked home to the H aven having left my boa t at C hrist ’

church haven to come off by the tide nex t morning .

2 1st —A ft er k ill ing 2 partridges 1 pheasant 1 j ack snipe

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and 5 o x birds I was taken very ill and o bliged to return to

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the haven I t was obvious t hat what I su ffered was from

.

d ining on cold boiled beef at C hristchurc has I n ever p a r took ,

o f this refreshment at inns where boiled beef is gen erally i ll ,

cured hal f done and stale M y case t herefore required t artar

, .

e me t ic and th e diffi culty of getting a boat agains t tide t o Poole

, ,

an d th e distance t here by land being above five miles I was ,

almost in torture t ill I luckily t hough t of sending t o B ro w n s e a

C astle where M , S t urt who was fortuna t ly at home and had
r .
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e
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s ome of th e medicine very kindly sent i t and I am sure saved , , , ,

m e from a very serious illness .

S o en t hus i as t i c is my mania of waiting for an evening

s ho t at wild fowl t hat while under the influence of the medi
,

cine I lean t on a bank by th e seaside wi t h one duck gun in

my hand and another ready loaded N o thing however cam e

,
.
, ,

within reach and I was soon too i ll to support mysel f and

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t hen went to bed .

2 2 n a
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a na 23 a — H aving considerably recovered was out
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a gain b u t as usual never fired a shot and t h

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e lat t er day was
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c hiefly employed in recovering my N ewfoundland d o g which ,

ha d decamped after a quarrel with my pointer .

2 4 t/ z — C ompleted the twenty seventh year of my age

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T his day was spent in a very pleasant sail t o t h e t w o pyra

mids called O l d Harry and his W ife of which a s wel l as th e ,

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rocks and other curious places I had a regular survey I of , .

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c ourse ,
t ook my gun and among these cliffs made an i m , , ,

m en s e l y long flying sho t a t a goshawk I also knocked down .

several o x birds but got no sho t s at w ild fowl excep t one

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o u t of reach but the evening flight was like the roar of the sea
, ,

t hough n o t one string of birds came low enough t o be fired at .

2 9 tl i — T his and t h
. e two previous days I passed i n sailing ,

S hoo t ing gulls o x birds divers & C w hich were neither killed
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for prac t ice nor w anton cruelty bu t as tit bi t s for C aleb S t ur ,

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n ey my fisherman and pilot who regularly fe a s t ed on t hem

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and swore t ha t t hey w ere as good as backside fowls

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killed among o ther rubbish a speckled diver which I n ote

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down being the first I have been able t o secure I n t h

, e .

evening I buried myself in the sand near where I observed ,

th e fowl generally flew ; but owing t o t h e unparalleled mild

wea t her t hey came over too high ; my plan however so far
, , ,

succeeded t hat I got a diving duck and should have had m ore
, ,

sho t s had there been cold wea ther or wind t o lower t h e flight , ,

o f the birds .

3 1st — . Fo t he firs t day S un d ays excep t ed I gave up the

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morning fligh t and lay in bed till dayli g ht W e were out

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from ten t i l l three after the geese but never got a shot I ,
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was a l s o from five t ill nine at the pond without firing and ,

having been equally unsuccessful i n a canoe from nine till '

twelve we re t urned home to oysters and with a good bowl o f

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punch drowned t h
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e execrably bad sport of 1 8 1 3 and d ran k ,

in the year 1 8 1 4 surrounded by a crashing chorus o f j o l l y

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smugglers This grand crew was within a thin partition of us

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so I ordered them a huge bowl of punch and had then an o p ,

o r tu n i ty of partaking of their mirth without being bored by

p
their company an d e d i fi ed by a b reeze from the n ort heast
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and a hope o f proper weather

G o t all the guns fired in 1 8 1 4 and wen t to bed
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18 14

Buri ed —myself in an old sugar cask in the

j a n u a ry I st

mud where I remained from ten till two reading and wai t ing
, , ,

for t h e geese which were coming i n i mmense force precisely

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w here I wished them till some scoundrel in a canoe rowed

,

aft er them t o no purpose and S poiled me a shot which I , ,

certainly S hould have had with my largest 2 5 l b shoulder -

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gun I n the evening I wen t by moonlight to my pond

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w hich was infested by a multitude of g unners I killed a ‘ ’

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S ingle dunbird and missed a heron which i s the first t ime I

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have failed killing within distance since my arrival at t h e

haven .

3 r a A
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. pour
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of rain which tu rned to snow and with a ,

tremendous gale of wind and hard frost continued without ,

intermission t ill the night of the sth .

6 t/i —W a s out with every hope of sport but literally saw

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n o wild fowl except one small flock of c u r res at an i m mense

,

distance ; I w inged one and afte r a long chase he bea t the

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boa t and escaped .

Th e wea t her was t his day so severe that the small birds

pitched on the boat in full sail and wh en we went on shore

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few hou rs notwithstanding this was a day appointed for a

,

general than k sgiving an i mmense levy en m a s s e o f shooters

,

was assembl ed at all points and there was n o t a neck o f l and

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bank or standing place of any kind but what was crowded

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with blackguards of every description fi ring a t al l distances , ,

an d complete l y annihilating the brilliant prospects of sport .

1 4 tk
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I t blew such a tremendous hurri cane that com

p a r a t i ve l
y few birds would fly as they could remain, u n m o

les t ed in the harbou r from the impossibility of the n umerous

host of boats and canoes being able to follow t hem S om e .
,

however came out and would have aff orded charming spor t
, ,

but after I had been at the trouble and expense of making

proper m asked entrenchments of every kind I had in all ,

quar t ers the m o r ti fi c a t i o n to find mysel f C losely surrounded

by vagabonds of every descrip t ion who were standing quite ,

exposed firing at sea gulls o x birds and even smal l

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bi rds and repea t edly as the geese were coming directly for
, ,

me like a pack of hounds full cry I had to endure the provo

, ,

ca t ion o f seeing some dirty cabin boy spring up and d rive

them away with the paltry discharge of an old rus t y popgun .

H ad i t been possible for me to have lain peaceably i n any

one place I should have filled a sack ; as it was however I
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had no further sa t isfac t ion t han t hat of killing more than al l

these r u f fi a n s p u t together I g o t 3 wigeon 2 grey plover
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2 cormorants 1 ring dotterel I 8 o x birds and 1 dusky grebe

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H ad t h e coast been quiet I should o f course have only fired

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at proper wild fowl W hen t h . e rabble could n o t see to S hoot

t hey adj ourned t o the H aven to drink and w hen t h e liquor ,

gave them fresh courage the gun s were again t aken o u t and ,

finding it too d ark to see to fire at any t hing they began to

amuse t hemselves with shooting i n the air till I was obliged ,

to put a stop to it .

Thus do these gunners in large bodies from places 5 6 and

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even 1 0 miles o ff make a point of assembling for the whole

,

t ime the hard w ea ther l as t s and li t erally make a merit of

,

their was tefu l expendi ture in ammuni tion .

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I t hi s day by firing at random contrived as usual t o bea t

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the sum total of the shooters here with 2 wigeon and 2 c u r es

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and j ohn S hot another wigeon which a rabble wan t ed t o ,

claim till I soon stopped their impertinence

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.

1 7 t/z — F inding it impossible to get within even bulle t

.

shot of th e fowls I amused myself with sailing about and,

S hooting grebes gulls redshan ks o x birds 81 C and a snipe , , ,

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1 8 th I fell dead lame with my right foot from having

—
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some days ago had some boiling water thrown over my

ins t ep I however hobbled to the shore got carried over
.
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the creeks and lay up in a barrel in an incessan t pour of

,

rain for it t his day began to t haw Th

,
e flight as usual .
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was dreadfully slack : killed a l l the fai r chan ces I g o t ,

1 golden eye and I curlew -

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1 9 t/z M y foot became so bad that I was obliged to be

.

carried again to my ambush where I s a t in the rain all ,

day and got 2 brent geese .

2 0t l z — W a s called before daylight but was in such pain

.
,

w ith my foot t ha t I was obliged t o send j ohn out and remain

in bed H e began by getting hal f killed by the recoil of

.

my large gun and w hile he and the gun were lying together ,

in the sno w th e geese came C lose over hi m i n one grand

army t his gave him fresh spirits and he put in hal f a charge ,

and knocked down four of t hem I contrived to crawl out .

for evening fligh t but th e geese then took another rou t e l and
, ,

I only killed a wigeon .

Birds bagged while at H aven 6 brent g ees e 3 ducks and ,

mallards 3 t eal I 7 wigeon d u n b i rd s and c u rre s 2 curlews

, , , , , ,

3 plover 3 1 snipes
, ( all the latter but 3 at Hyde ) .

N B .
— O n our leaving the haven the geese w ere in tens of
.

thousands before t h e windows .

z 6l lz — I t began to thaw and the weather became very

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mild I t his evening bagged a wild goose

. .

A m m y a n m i fi f y i g ht i w i ti g d t hv h l k t g
a re a n t n s n a n a n no a e t e uc o et

un der th g e d my f g ra n thi i
a r v y t i
o
j h i ees e , a s e r c ou rs e s so er u n c er a n . o n, t

a ea r s , thi m i g h d tht l
s k d d
o rn n b t w l d h v k i ll da l g a uc a n no ou ou a e e a a r e
pp ,

nu mb er b t f th
u v h k hg t t t i g
or e se e re c ec e o a s a rt n .
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D I ARY

E ight of t h e fine large grey geese pitched in front of t h e

house and I had to hobble a long distance roun d before

,

I cou ld get within 1 0 0 yards from them I therefore made a n .

i mmensely long S hot at this one as well as wounding another ,

which ( after being knocked over) recovered and flew away .

Ap r i l 2 n d — R eturned to L ongparish .

1 2 tl z —\Ven t ou t fly fishing and notwi t hstanding a bright

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sun t h e whole ti me I i n a few hours killed 3 6 t rout

,
.

N B —M y flies were (
. . what I always use ) t he yel low dun

a t bot t om and red palmer bob ,

.

1 5t / z — 2 8 trout
. .

1 6 t/z — 24 .trout ( average weight above 1 lb each a n d .

,

m any of them weighed 1 5 A lso a great ma n y fair sized -

o nes which I threw in .

I had all this admirable sport in less t han two hours and
a half and the weight of these fish was so much that they
,

w ere quite a burthen to carry home .

I n the evening I was ludicrously amused with th rowing a

fly on horseback which answers as well as on foot ; though
,

I t hen caugh t no fish large enough to save owing to the ,

wind having shift ed to a cold quarter .

1 8 t/z — 1 5 trout
. .

2 1 st — 4 trout after killing which and throwing i n many

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,

s mall ones was driven in by an incessant pour of rain

, .

2 3 r cl 2 1 t rout
. .

2 6t /z — 1 6 trout
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2 7 t/ z —1 2 trout
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8 l /l — I 3 trout average weight 1 5 lb each fish
.
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2 9 t/z — 1 4 trout
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— 1 7 trout which make up in eleven days angling

3 0 t/c
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1 0 0 brace .

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— I of course have reckoned only t hose fish which
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I killed namely such as were 5 lb and up w ards But

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h a d I killed all t h e small ones and added them t o my

n u mber it would have amounted to between 4 0 0 and 5 00 fish
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loaded wi t h 5 lb of shot it was made to S hoot so pleasant

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, ,

and set up so manageable that I killed with i t 2 peewits a n d ,

2 swift s out of 5 single S hots flying , .

4 tl i.
— Killed 8 trout 1 leveret and 2 peewits , ,
.

1 0 t/ z M r an d M rs j o e H awker L ord H inton a n d

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M r C udmore came to us
. .

1 t1 /z — 9 . t rou t and in the evening

,
ki lled a full grow n -

young wild duck a t flight .

1 4 t/ i M r C ud more never having seen a bird killed

. .

flying I took h
,
i m out to see me fire 1 0 shots at swifts a n d
swallows 2 at moorhens 2 at sparrows an d 1 at a half
, , ,

penny thrown up I killed every bird and handsomel y

.

m a r k ed th
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e halfpenny .

2 4 t/ z M r and M r s j H awker and M r C udmore left us

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,

aft er our having spent a fortnight most agreeably M usic w a s .

the order of the day and never were M ozart s works more ,
’

delightfully enj oyed M r C udmore petrified the whol e . .

neighbourhood with his astonishing pianofort e playing an d ,

convinced even the bigots of C ramer that although perfec t ,

master of three other instruments no man now i n E ngland ,

could play th e piano wi th so mu ch taste fire and executio n , ,

as himsel f .

2 9t /i — L e f t L ongparish and arrived a t our old winte r

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quarters the S outh H aven Passage H ouse Pool e H arbour

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A rri ved about dusk and i m mediately went out and killed a
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wild duck .

t / — T ook a cruise out in harbour and killed 4 young

3 0 i .

sheldrakes and 9 o x birds -

.

These s h eldrak es ( burrough ducks or barganders ) tak e

t heir young ones o u t to sea as soon as they are hatched and ,

being in this mon t h nearly as large as the old ones they are ,

much followed as ( while young ) sheldrakes are very good

,

eating Th
. e S hoo t ing however is tame ; the flocks disperse , ,

so much on you r ge t t ing near them that you can seldom bag ,

more than one at a shot and that oft ener swi mming than ,

flying .
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A ug us t 3ra .
—A ft er
having some capital sport net t ing an d
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spearing large flo u n d e rs and bringing in as many as I could ,

possibly carry we sailed over to Poole and brough t back

,

L who arrived t here per coach .

4 tb
— I nspected the castle and the whol e of the island of
.

B ro w n s e a .

5 tl i .
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This
evening anchored off the haven the L ord ‘

N elson pilot vessel for which I agreed to give 1 5 l for a

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run over to F rance A n incessant gale of wind however and .

, ,

that unfavourable detained us from sailing ,

6 t/z — G o t under way for F rance at hal f past S i x in the

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evening and after having en countered a very heavy sea

, , ,

dropped a nchor in C herbourg R oads at hal f past seven on the -

morning of the 7 th Th e t ide not serving suffi cie n tly t o .

bring our lit t le vessel into harbour we came ashore i n a boat , ,

by doing which we reached the quay n o further observed t han

by the custom house officers who did their du ty in a -
,

gentlemanlike manner .

This proved a fortunate circumstance particularly for M r s , .

Hawker as our crew on sailing under the quay were at t acked

, , ,

by the whole ca n a i ll e of the place and so pel t ed wi t h larg e ,

quarry stones that M r W ills the m aster who bravely stood .

, ,

to his helm was severely wounded and afterwards confined

, ,

under a surgeon This outrageous conduct originated from .

the determination o f the F rench to suppress by m u tiny th e , ,

exportation of corn and cattl e for which purpose t hey sup ,

posed that our litt l e par ty of pleasure had en t ered t heir por t .

Th e military were called out and a mob of about t w o t housan d ,

were soon dispersed and this was more done by the resolu
tion of the colonel than any disposi t ion for quie t ude on th e

pa r t of t h
e soldiers for they are most en t husias t ically devo t ed
,

t o Buonaparte and t heir daily prayers are to have hi m again

,

at thei r head T hey abuse poor L ouis to absolu t e treason

. .

H ere are thousands of i d lers (now unemployed ) who are

ripe for murder and insurrec t ion and the farmers are almos t ,

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starved wheat bein g abou t 61 a load and they having on

, .
,

hand more than enough f or t w o years consumption ’

.

A ft er having made ourselves as comfortabl e as being in a

d irty F rench seaport would admit of we lost no ti me to i h ,

spect the to w n and environs of which I may give a brief ,

accoun t by the following memorandums .

E ntrance of C herbourg a very fine and formidably strong

S itua t ion . O n the right a dockyard for fi rs t rate ships of war -
,

e ntrenched all round . O n th e left in en t erin g are two forts

( L a L iberté and I m p er i a l ) which were made by Buon aparte

i n the midd le of the sea on e on a rock an d the o t her entirely
,

buil t on an ar t i ficial foundation of stone N ear these are .

fl oating buoys for the assistan ce of shipwrecked mariners .

Th e town lies under an i mmense rocky height which has on ,

i t a few fortifications an d which com mands t h

,
e town with a ,

fine basin or second harbour for large ships A 7 4 ( th e .

D uquesne is stationed to take down the names of all who ,

must lie to under her stem for this purpose for which the ,

captain goes on board her W ent to m ass C hurch built by . .

E nglish ; no thing par t icularl y fine except t ha t as far as I , ,

could j udge in a bad light and d uring service t h

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e statuary ,

at the altar a ppeared t o be good .

T own much like L isbon wi t h the addi t ion of chimneys, .

L amps suspended by a rope from each house to t h e middle of

th e s t reet and about 1 5 0 yards apar t I I o u s e s buil t of small

.

stone and badly slated Three thousan d infantry h

. ere with a ,

general noise and incl ination for dis t urbance Police ( as in .

a l l F rance remarkably go od E xtensive barracks an d mili ary

) . t

works on a grand scale T own coarsely paved views round

.

i t fine and ex t en sive . W e put up at t h e H Ot e l de F rance no

less from a wish to enter into the F rench language and cus
t oms than to avoid t h e risk of being insul ted by t h e mob at

th e Bri t ish Ho t el w hich we probably should h a ve been

,
as ,

in consequence of t h e landlord ( M r R obbins ) having spe e n .

l a t ed in t h e expor t a t ion s h i s house was a tt acked and he dare

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A fter having kept up our inspection of all that could be

seen till dark night we supped pleasantly at the table d h ote
,
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and went to our beds which although in filthy r o o m s w er e in

, , ,

th emselves clean and comfortable .

7 t/i .W ent
-
out shopping N o stamps for receipts used
.

he re A l l articles about one third the price of w h

.
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at they
are in E ngland Th . e only taxes are on houses and windows ,

the latter levi ed by Buonaparte T hirty francs are paid for .

a shooting l icence ; game i s private property and killed ,

at any ti me that the cutting corn will admit of but one ,

mus t have a regular perm ission to carry firearms which ,

of course i s granted to all respectable persons G rea t .

civi li ty to be met with from the police and custom house -

departments ; but the port charges m ay be avoided by

anchoring out of harbour where there are very good ,

moorings .

T his even ing I was sent for by the prefect who had r e ,

ported twelve ringleaders o f the mob H e was very polite .

t o me .

t / —R epassed the guardship and the 74 at six this morn

9 z .

ing ; b u t not being able t o lay our course for E ngland

, ,

were obliged to make for an eastern port not choosing to e h ,

counter a second entry into C herbourg A fter being properly .

tossed o ff B a rfle u r we put into that port a small fishing town

, , ,

where we were most h ospitably taken compassion on by M .

D elamare commissaire d e marine who insisted on our being

, ,

his visitors t ill we could put to sea and soon after we became ,

acquainted used every endeavour to get our promise of

spending a week wi th his family B a r fle u r and L a H ogue .

are a few miles separate and celebrated for the mos t danger
,

ous coast in the whole C hannel and are places which are ,

charac t eristi c f o r S hipwrecks O n entering B a r fleu r you

.

have literally to wind between hidden rocks Y ou pass .

a superb lighthouse and the vi llage of G atteville .

A ft er a dinner at two ou r good h o s t d i d everything in

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his power to am use us and took us in every direction to ,

gra ti fy our curiosi ty .

W e went over his farm gardens and es t ate and t hen , , ,

walked to see t h e environs called M o n f a re l l e H ere is a large .

church built of the same granite that composes the destruc t ive
rocks of B a r fle u r and upwards of 6 00 years old C arving ex
,
.

t r e m e l y good and the ceiling one well turned arch

,
N ear -
.

here t h e guns were firing for a wedding ; a custom in t his

country where there is also a peal of bells on such occasions

,
.

R ever t ing to the farm I should observe that the land is most
,

excellent but the farming very bad indeed Th

,
e farmers .

here are poor men who hold from 4 to 1 0 acres at about 4 l a

,
.

year per acre ex t remely cheap for such land and work hard
, ,

themselves assisted only by two or three servants and all

, ,

they look to is mere existence They carry everything here .

on small horses and only thresh their corn wi t h common

,

s t ick s as fast as they want it .

I o tn — S ailed at S i x and aft er losing sight of land were

.
,

t aken in a dreadful gale of wind and driven again in t o ,

B a r fleu r in sight of another vessel which went to pieces on t h

,
e

rocks O u r crew were all seriously alarmed

. .

A gain we took up our excellent quarters and in the even ,

ing directed our attention to other sights Being then low .

water we first surveyed the rocks from which we had so pro ,

vi d en ti a l l y escaped a n d whe r e S O many have perished and

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, ,

then went over the lighthouse which is on e of the best I ,

ever saw I t has an excellent safeguard from lightning

.
,

which is a conductor from the very summit into a well at t h e

bo ttom .

We then visited G attevi lle where the people are all red ,

hot f o r Buonaparte in consequence of his having found them

plen ty of lucrative employment I t was from t his p lace t ha t .

he took all the s tone t o build t h e P lace des Victoires a t

Paris .

1 I t/i.
—W indbound again W alk ed nine miles and through .
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two small villages to inspec t t h e ch a teau of S t Pierre and .

,

the park of a French nobleman a t w hich we arrived after ,

having taken some luxuriou s refreshme nt at th e house of a

F rench officer H ouse very large pain t ings in one room by

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,

R ubens and o ther fine masters ; the others not very good
tapes t ry fine an extraordinary mixture of splendour and
,
:

beggary common deal dining tables in a room magnificentl y

decorated F loors s e t i n squares and polished ; grounds
.

l aid o u t formally trees i n avenues 8 C

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1
, .

D ined at t h e hotel where we had an i mmense choice

, .

Th e town of S t P ierre is only o f note for a great marke t

.
,

on w hich th e conscription has made such an i mpression t ha t

o u see about twenty women to one man and t h e same pro

y ,

portion of m ares to on e horse .

W e having wal ked about twenty miles got back to B a r fleu r

, ,
'

by night when the C herbourg expor t a t ions had been heard

,

of and in consequence mu ch disturbance had t aken p lace

,
.

H ere the women were the champion s and in a mob assailed ,

our crew and searched the vessel but finding n o corn t hey
,

directed their attacks on another being then assisted by ,

some men who were assembled from all parts M D elamare

, . .
,
.

however S oon restored order by his prompt and well con

,
-

ducted interference .

1 2 t/i — A fair wind

. S ailed at six in the morn ing and
.
,

reached Poole harbour aft er a deligh t ful passage of eleven

h ours .

Th e custom house officers here are the mos t savage set

"

of blackguards that ever were heard of t hey kept my property

all n ight so that I was deprived e v en of the comfort o f
'

cleaning myself and this because they chose t o give t hem

,

selves a holiday at the offi ce M y servan t was de t ained

.

in close arres t so long tha t in coming ho me he was cas t

,

away and left on t h

, e mud all nigh t .

1 3 t/z — A ft er
. get t ing my tru nks & c free from t hese .

i nfernal S harks we set o ff a lit t le before t w o o clock in my

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C H A P TE R V II

18 14

S pe tem be r —Th e . partridge shooting here deferred t ill

th e i 4 thinst by mutual agreement in consequence of t h
. e ,

late ha rvest .

1 4 tk — 22
. partridges Bird s nearly as wi ld as i n
.

N ovember A l l ful l grown and the young as strong on

.
,

wing as the old ones S cent very bad I could only fill my
.

bag by firing at all d i stances .

G a m e b a g g e d from 1 4 th to 3 o t h S eptember : 1 00 partridges ,

3 hares ,3 snipes and 1 rabbit T

,
otal 1 0 7 head .
,
.

O c to b er I s t — L ord H inton left us I walked out alone .

and ki lled 1 6 pheasants 5 hares I partridge and 1 rabbit , , , .

A mong the former was the celebrated white pheasant which ,

h ad been so long heard of in W herwell great wo od and had ,

e scaped all t h e sportsmen the bagging of this bird raised a

general rej oicing and I f ortunately killed him very clean f o r
,

s t uffing A lthough I have often brought home much more

.

than 2 3 head of game yet I estimate this as the best day s,

’

sport I ever had at L ongparish when I consider the following ,

circumstances Though it blew a tremendous gale of win d

.

th e whole day and I only saw 1 9 pheasants

, y e t I secured ,

16 : I bagged every t hing I fi red at except two partridges , ,

one of which was quite out of reach and the other a ,

long shot whi ch I wounded t hough I ought to have killed

, ,

it. E xcept abou t two hours in W herwell W ood I beat over ,

a coun t ry where everyone goes and indeed knew of n o ,

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o her place t o try wi thou t begging a favour or giving offence

t .

I ki lled all my game t o one s t eady pointer and a N ewfound

l and dog and g o t 1 1 cock pheasan t s t o 5 hens
, M y having .

found al l t his game where tw o brace is considered a very

g ood day s spor t I impu t e t o t h e wind having carried t h
’

, e

pheasants from L ord Por t smou t h s preserves from which I ’

was a mile or t w o t o leeward I only s a w 5 hares all day .

,

a n d 4 of them were long snap S hots .

—
4 t/i 4 pheasan t s 2 par t ridges 1 snipe an d 1 j ack snipe
.
, , ,
.

C oming home with all I had fired a t I flushed a wood ,

c ock and aft er working t h

, e cover t ill not a dog would s t ir

from my heels I left it and re t urned with every man and

,

d o g I could mus t er and aft er a laborious task t o find hi m ,

a gain I had the m o r t i fi c a t i o n t o miss a fair sho t at him I ,

however knocked hi m down wi t h my second barrel b u t never

, ,

could find him though I worked t ill dark and hal f t h , e next

da y .

1 8 tn — G o t
intelligence of another whi t e pheasan t which
.
,

a ft er a hard fag in a pour of rain I found and bagged I got ,

5 ho t s only and brough t home 2 pheasan t s 2 hares and

S , , ,

I rabbi t .

2 0 t/z — I was under t he pain ful necessi t y of ordering poor

.

T iger my favourite N ewfoundland dog t o be shot in con

, , ,

sequen ce of an unusually virulen t dis t emper which had defied ,

all t h e doc t ors and every prescrip t ion and wi t h whi ch t h e ,

poor fellow was dying in agony N ever could there have .

been a more fai thful crea t ure des t royed or a more severe and ,

irreparable loss to a sportsman T his dog was o f t h e real .

S t j ohn s breed qui t e black wi t h a long head very fine

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a c t ion and some t h

,ing of the ot t er skin and n o t th e curly ,

haired heavy bru t e that so oft en and so com monly disgraces

the na m e of th e N ewfoundland dog H e was j ust in his .

prime t hree years old and from his sagaci ty a ttachmen t

, , , ,

g ood temper high courage and a personal guard as well as

, , ,

his excellence i n shoo t ing for t h e fields for t h e cover for t he , ,

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hedgerows for the marshes and above all for night work with
, ,

the wild fowl I m ay not disgrace the lines of our i mmortal

,

poet by saying
T k h im f ll i ll a e or a n a ,

W hl l t l k p h i lik g i e S a no oo u on s e a a n.

24tl z —L eft L ongparish

. for L ymington with the intention ,

of embarking i m mediately for F ran ce havi n g only been ,

waiting for a fair wind to mak e a second excursion to that

country O n arriving at L ymington however I found tha t
.
, ,

the O rder in C oun cil from the L ords C ommissioners of t h e ,

1

T reasury had been sent to S outhampton and I was obliged

, ,

to send a m an there and back 3 6 miles to request th e favou r , ,

o f ge tt ing permission to embark here where I had been ,

i n formed my order was lying and for which purpose I came ,

here 3 9 miles instead of to S ou thampton which i s only 2 4

, , ,
.

Th e loss of t his night however proved an in t erferen ce of , ,

Providence as had we sailed we m i ght have fallen vic t im s to

, , ,

a directly con t rary gale of wind in which our vessel m igh t ,

have been lost off the N eedles .

z — I n consequen ce of t h
2 5 t/ . e tremendous hurricane which

blew last nigh t t h e mate of our vessel whom I had sent to

, ,

S ou t hampton was unable to recross the passage to Hythe

, ,

and therefore did not return ti ll this afternoon when t h e win d ,

and tide were fair for ou r getting under way but instead of
t his I was d i rected t o appear myself a t S outhampton I t hen .

hired a most extraordinary pony that took me with t h e grea t ,

est ease and wi t hout whip stick or spur to Hy t he twelve , , , ,

miles in three quarters of an hour and I was a t the custom

,
-
,

house between t hree and four miles more by water in a very

, ,

l ittle more than an hour altogether O n j ust saving t h e hours .

o f busin ess I was informed t hat my being sent there was all
,

a mistake as the only person whose presence was absolutely

,

n ecessary w a s the master of the vessel who m ust appear a ,

W i th
out w ichhm y g uns a nd d og s cou ld n ot be em b a r k ed , o r , if t hy w
e ere ,

t hy w l d b
e ou e s u b ec tj to v e ry h vy d
ea u t i es o n bri n g i n g t hm hm e o e .
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on the stones according t o French custom t h

,
e coot s w ere i n ,
'

t housands around them but the wild fowl took care t o keep ,

in t h e middle of t h e lake and when I fired a shot t hey would ,

pi t ch again and in short had the usual audacity peculiar to

, , ,

t heir nation I winged some wild fowl and some coots a t long
.
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dis t ances but my s oi —a i s a n t N ewfoundland dog would n o t

,
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venture his worthless carcase so far as they fell Th e lake of .

G a t t e m a re i s half a m ile broad and upwards of a mile long

1
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and for the multiplicity of coots and w i l d fowl pa r ticularly of ,

d u n b i r d s it surpasses anything I ever saw

,
W e adj ourned .

our shooting till a boat could be c o n vey e d overland t o this

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place as wi t hout i t nothing can possibly be done we having

, ,

t ried all day and nearly all night on the banks

, ,
.

3 0t c/ —
. W ent on some poor horses on a miserable road to
a miserable place called R eville where we wen t to mass and ,

inspected th e ruins of a ch a teau and we finished t h e day with ,

other excursion s a nd visits .

3 1 s t
.
— A ft er a great deal of trouble a boat was carried ,

overland to G a th e m a re lake but on my arrival I found what ,

they here called a little shooting canoe was a yawl large ‘ ’

enough for twelve people which of course sprung all t h e fowl , , ,

th e moment we got t o the middle of t h e lake I then got .

set ashore on a lit t l e bank of rushes and had some excellent ,

diversion w i t h the coo t s which I S hould not have thought ,

wor th firing at singly but to amuse t h e F renchmen who m I , ,

astonished not a li tt le wi t h M anton s guns b u t t h e infamous

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behaviour of my water dog spoi led all my amusement he was

t o o sulky to bring t h e birds b u t chopped t hem and n o t only , ,

left t hem but S ulked on t h e islands and preven t ed others from

‘

coming near me O u t of 1 2 coo t s and 1 0 wild fowl which I

.

brought do w n I only bagged 7 coots 2 scaup ducks 2 wigeon

, , , ,

an d 1 snipe .

T h ly m i
e on s ery o f S h ti
oo ng h p e re , a r ti c u a r l ly a t t i tht y
h nig hv t , s a ou a e o

l
s tu m b e o v er roc k s a nd w a de th g hm ro u ud f or th mi l
r ee d th t t m p es , a n en o ra

i n d eep sa n d f or a bo v e a mi l e m o re .
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N B —
. I fi nished my day wi t h shooting the d Og at th
. e ex ,

press desire o f M r s H awker and to the great sa t isfac t ion of

.
,

all who were with us .

N o em ber I s t
v — W ent with the p r em i er cba s s eu r of Bar
fleur and a large party to surround the pond but t h e fowl ,

im mediately left owing to the noise t hat was ma d e w e t hen

,

went to t h e ena s s o with th i s g en t l e m a n s dogs said t o be t w o

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fi rs t rate animals
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Th e one ran home and the o t her was so
.
,

slow t hat I preferred beating for mysel f Th e par t y killed .

no t hing ; I bagged 1 hare 2 partridges and 1 snipe which , , ,

was considered as wonderful and was t hough t more of than ,

all the wild fowl .

2 na
’
—W ent to V a l c a l vi l l e where as a great favour I
.
, , ,

had permission to S hoot i n what was there called a forest '

my day however ended as usual wi t h finding nothing

, , , ,

the whole d a y bu t one small covey of birds I killed .

2 partridges which were considered a bon n e c/za s s e

, W e t hen .

returned to a poor hovel where I contrived to get some eggs ,

and th e produce of an almost barren garden with which I ,

knocked up a few dishes and we contrived to din e mos t ,

hear t ily ; and I sent to the n eighbouring priest to beg some

wine and coff ee .

3 r a
’
—T.o day I proceeded
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to the village of N eville where ,

I met a large dinner party and passed the night a t the house
of a jolly priest named C r u el y .

6 tlc — A ft er a miserable ride of about seven hours on an

.
,

execrable road ( and after losing M rs H awker s horse for .

’

some time in the forest ) we reached the town of Valognes , ,

6 leagues from B a r fle u r and once t h e winter residence of

,

many nobility .

Th e following are the market prices of B a r fleu r

Fr e n c h
.

sous

20

12
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I lb . of s a lt
1 lb . o f c o m m on s oa p
1 lb . of e
p pp e r
1 d o z en eg g s

2 f ow l s

2 du c k s

2 bu s hl e s of p o ta t oe s

1 tu r k ey

1 lb . of b r ea d
1 ha re

2 p a rt ri d g es

I bu s hl f t e o oa s

12 bo ttl f l r t
es o c a e

6 bo ttl f b
es o dy ra n

2 bo ttl f l d hl l
es o o o a n ds

7 t/z
— A t .f er the account we had heard o f Valognes an d ,

k nowing it to be one of the first towns in N ormandy we at ,

least expected to see something decent but of all the filthy ,

ugly dirty imposing miserable places I ever saw I may

, , , ,

n ame this as one of th e most abominable A fter a tedious .

crawl we got home to B a r fleu r by another route which gave ,

us a fin e and picturesque V iew of L a H ogue .

I O t/ z — H aving some business at Valognes (

. from whence it
i s seldom the custom to return the same day ) I went there ,

and back wi thin eight hours notwithstanding I stopped hal f ,

an hour at t h e great cotton mill of Vast which was established ,

under the di rections of a M r O rford late of the 7 th( E nglish ) .

,

L igh t D ragoons .

1 2 t/i —This morning we left M D elamare s and took

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some excellent lodgings at th e house of a M adame A vr e l

p ,

viz 2 sitting rooms ; apar t ments for 3 servants and our

. :

selves ; a ki t chen ; stabling yard th e whole use of a wel l , ,

stocked kitchen garden ; the use of a horse plate linen 81 C , , .

for 1 0 0 francs per calendar mon t h .

1 4t /z —
4 snipes and 5 d u n b i r d s
. I fired at 3 d u n b i r d s .

V e ry d ea r n ow .
2
Fo r a bu s hl e of l h
E ng is oa ts 1 s . I Oa
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embarked my man and S hooting apparatus in the S outhampto n

packet having previously secu red places for M r s H awker
,
.
,

myself and maid for R ouen on our way for Paris , , .

tl — Being called up soon af t er five and having break

9 z .
,

fasted a li t tle before S i x this morning we tramped in the dark ,

and in the rain to the bureau des messageries where o u r ,

voi ture t h e grande diligence was prepared as follows :

,
Tw o ,

horses at wheel and three abreast leaders the driver with a

, ,

smock frock pig t ail powder and a pair of water boots was
, , , ,
1

mounted on the near wheeler wi t h strings ( or smal l ropes ) t o

that and t h
,
e o th
er four horses were harnessed in a sort of raw
hide leather fi tted up with ropes By the tre mendous appear .

ance of this carriage and miserable looking horses we w e re led -

to expect that we should t ravel very slowly and in constan t ,

danger with al most every misery that could be endured but

, ,

to our agreeable surprise and astonishment we found the ,

whole concern in some respects superior to even our own stage

, ,

coaches in E ngland Perfectly safe very fast ? very easy very .

, ,

com modious and on most excellent turnpike roads E very

, .

thing most carefully regulated and instead of being troubled , ,

with repeat ed cal ls at public houses an d interruptions o f -

,

guards and coachmen you have only to se t tle on ce for all , , ,

on reaching your destina t ion where you pay the fare and in , ,

short arrange the tou t en s em bl e There is also no danger o f

,
.

not being called in the morning as t here is a ma n regularly ,

appointed to wait on you an hour before the coach star t s and ,

should he n eglect this you can oblige hi m to pay you r fare ! ,

W e reached R ouen about 4 P M after an unusually long .

j ourney of t e n hours Th e d istance is 2 2 post leagues ra t he r

.
,

under 6 6 E nglish miles whic hwe should have perform ed in ,

eight hours but for the incessant rain whi ch had made the ,

roads particularly heavy and bad .

A w g t f th p th
s e o d th d i v w
a r h d th
er u t thi l g e ro a e r e rs o re s o es , a n en s e e r e s

i n to s tu p en d o u s p i rs a of
j a ck b o o ts a b ou t t h e S i z e, a n d m o re t h th w
a n e ei
g h
t , of

c om m on b u t ter c h u rn s .

2
T h ly e on s to p p a g es a r e f or t h hg
e c a n e of h o rs es , w h
i hi c s c o m p etedl wi t h
m o s t w o n d er f u l x
e p e d i t i on .
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T h country which we passed was beautiful and

e , our

journ ey really comfortable in spite of the rainy wea ther Th e .

en t rance to R ouen where you descend a w o o d ed hill and hav e

,

in constan t V iew the S eine winding through the valley i s ,

really magnificen t b u t the town itself is more celebra t ed for

,

its almost unlimited commerce and grandeur than any t hin g

to gra t ify the traveller I t has however a museum a garden
.
, , ,

of plants an opera and a theatre ; but our having engaged

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places in the diligence to proceed to Pari s the nex t mornin g

made it more prudent to relinquish anything beyond a V iew
of the town get our suppers and go quietly to bed W e p u t
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up at the H Ot el de V a te l where w e found perfect cleanliness , ,

good living and civility but as is now t h

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e case at and every
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where near Paris with an extravagant bill , .

I O tl i — Proceeded by the grande diligence on our way for

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Paris which is 2 8 leagues (

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about 8 4 E nglish miles ) fro m
R ou en . W e started at five this morning an d at half pas t ,
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twelve reached M agny ( within a league of halfway to Paris ) ,

where we stopped t o dine I nstead of being served with a .

dirty stage coach dinner as in E ngland our tabl e was spread , ,

in a manner that would have done credit to a nobleman s ’

house and wi t h everything good clean an d com fortable

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S ilver forks & c for which (

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with wine fruit S pirits and ale )
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we paid 3 francs a head H aving thus comfor t ably refreshe d .

ourselves we proceeded on our road which al l the way from

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M agny to Paris ( about 4 4 miles ) was well paved and w e

travelled nearly as fast as a L ondon mail coach having en t ered ,

th e ga t es of Paris by half past six o clock A ft er wai t ing t o

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S ign our names a t the coach office and got our luggage we , ,

repaired t o our hotel b u t from thence were sen t adrift i n

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consequence of it being full ; we then deposited ourselves ,

goods and chattels in t h

, e H Ot e l des S ept F r eres M a ons
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ably described and judgma t ically cri t icised in almost every

newspaper a t t his present time I shall merely note down a ,

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memorandum of what places I may s e e and ( in s t ead of wri t ing ,

even for the few minu t es a day which I usually do ) make use
o f every moment t o see a l l I can and then g e t out of t his ,

s t inking i mposing place,

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I I t/c —F inding t hat a passport was indispensably n e c es

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sary I was obliged t o go t o th

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procure on e This bei n g done w e saw th . e following places ,

T uileries and gardens w i th my thological s t a t uary & C and ,

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m os t o f t h e magni ficen t edifices in tha t direc t ion Then .

i nspec t ed an d ascended the monu men t ( C olonne de la P lace

V en d e ) w hich was erec t ed by Buonapar t e and is buil t ,

wi t h t h e cannon t aken i n t h e battle of A usterli t z & C and ,

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from which you have a panorama of Paris and i t s environ s

t hat surpasses any description I ndeed t h e unbounded mag .
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n i fi c e n c e o f all t h e public buildings here i s such t ha t one can ,

h ardly refrain from adding superfluous panegyrics t o memo

ra n du m s S a w the greater part of the F rench cavalry (
. con
s isting of hussars c u i ra s s eu r s dragoons and lancers ) Th
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c u i r a s s eu rs w ere infini t ely th e best appoin t ed and fines t

l ooking troops S a w s t atuary of the bes t artists out of
n umber and in every d irection diff erent edifices with the
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g randest sculp t ure an d carving ; walked i n the C hamps

E lys ees ; and aft er taking refr e shmen t a t a r es ta r a teu r s
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p romenaded t he stree t s saw t h e F ontaine d es I nnocents , ,

Palais R oyal 81 C an d in th
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e evening wen t to t h
, e T h ea t re

C omique where we were much pleased wi t h t h

, e opera of

j o c o n d e and in t,
hi s
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t h e singing of M ar t in .

1 2 l li H ired a coach n d saw t h

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a

Fa m o u s f o r hv ia n
g a pi a zza ( or l
C o i s te rs ) in w h
i h c a re ahfi t
ll t e rs a nd (
of

c o u rs e ) thm e ost e xt v ra a
g a nt S hpo s , r es t a u r a teu r s , &C .
, a nd wh
i hm y b c a e ter m ed
t hB
e on d S tr eet o f P i a r s .

2
A p ri v a te c a rri a g e is 25 f ra n cs
p er d a y ; a ser v a nt (t
ou of liv e ry ) wit hi t
4 f ra n cs, a nd w ht v
a e er f ee yo u h c v h hm
o o s e to g i e t A t f v d e c oa c a n . s or o co ere

h hi
o n e- 5 f
o rs e c a se, 1 ra ncs A . hk y h(
a c w i thf tm
ne
) 3coa c
p d i v oo a n 0 sous er r e

(w hth l h t ti l l th m ) ll v
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e g er on or s or s a e sa d y g e
y g i a n
4 m ou f en e ra e s o us o re or

th m e Th h k y
en . e a c ne c oa c h d p bl i t w v i t
es a n u h c m
o hb tt
n o u r es ere a re uc e er ,

d i fi i t ly f t th b t th p i v t l i k th p i v t
a n n n e a s er, a n in L d
on on ,
q ip g u
( e r a e e u a es e e r a e

h ) o u s esv yf i f ia re er a r n er o r .
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sufficient meri t to stand high i n Paris ; wardrobes from ,

which were shown us the robes canopies & c of all t h e high , .

priests kings & C ; the Pope s chair his robes and all his
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nonsensical apparatus B u o n a p a r te s crown of laurels in ’

gold his sceptre and his hand of justice ; ditto of C harle

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magne M aria L ouisa s crown & c and the most magnificent ’

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church pla t e ( chiefly i n massive gold set in bri lliants rubies , ,

and emeralds ) among this there is a service given by Buona

parte on his coronation church curiosi ties such as c r u c i fi x e s ,

in coral goblets in crystal & c ; a fine piece of statuary of

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our S aviour taken from the cross ; superior carving in oak ;

the finest marble candelabras given on the birth of the li ttle
King of R ome fine painted glass 81 C ,

W e had j us t time to partake of a sump t uous dinner at

the table d h ote of our house and drive off to th
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e I ta i i a n ,

O pera W e had here P a i s el l o s d elightful composition I l

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R e Theo doro A S far as the band was concerned we were

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highly gratified but i t was vexatious to hear a c/zef cl ce u vr e of

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such acknowledged merit murdered by the most infamous set

of singers I ever heard E xcepting C rivelli and a passable .

comic S inger there was not one fit to exhibit on a coun t ry

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s t age S cenery very good house poor and shabby orches

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tra about fifty musicians .

1 3 t/i A ft er inspec t ing t h

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e H alle a u Blé (a grand and fi n e
built ro t unda for w hea t and flour ) w e took breakfas t and ,

proceeded with our carriage to the S pectacles W ere d i s a p .

pointed i hbeing refused ad mission to t h e G obelins tapestry for ,

wan t of an order from some baron so proceeded t o th e Bic et re , ,

or madhouse containing one large factory w here c o n va l es

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cen t s carry on differen t trades A n i mmense wall where the .

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bucke t s 81 C weighing . lb are w orked by abou t fifty .

men to a wheel and emptied by an iron catch as large as a

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ship s anchor ; five minutes required for the drawing of a

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bucket of water and noise like thunder grea t laundry kit ,

chen and o ther offices for lunatics whom we saw in all C lasses
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C abinet de aturelle con t aining t h

l H i s to i r e N
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e greates t ,
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collection in th e w orld of beas t s birds and fish every speci , ,

men i n conchology fossils prec i ous stones 81 C surpassing de , .

scription a superior library of natural his tory and in short , , ,

everything in t hat study that can possibly be i magined G arden .

of plants of all the rarest sorts .

C abine t of A natomy of the whole crea t ion and all valuable ,

kinds of animal curiosities preserved in spirits wax specimens ,

for human anatomy 81 C L ive wild beasts L ive birds of ,

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all sor t s land and water, .

Bureau d A r t i l l er i e or ordnance containing first al l the

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s t ores cannon 8 m and secondly a museu m for every model

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of arms and o ther i mplements used in war with a most valu ,

able collec t ion of firearms of all countries th e armour of all ,

the great men standards sidearms & c , , ,

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tura and drove off to the celebra t ed O pera of Paris Found .

th e house spacious and well built though shabbily decorated ,

an d fitted up Th e band very fine and immensely strong

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t o o much so for t h e choruses it consisting of at least six t y ,

professors Th e singing mos t disgracefully in famous and t h

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ac t ing nearly as bad but the scenery dresses and decorations , , ,

far surpassed all our E nglish theatres i n every respect T h e .

O pera was L e s A b en c é r a g es in this was in t roduced a M r .

A ubert who da n ced and played on the guitar and although

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wi t h the addition of having t o execute considerably on t his ,

the only music t o which he danced he was d ecidedly superior ,

t o any in the ballet which was ,

A lthough t hey
could not complain for want of having a c/zef l ce u vr e to per -
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form i n yet the dan cing was far shor t of what I had been led
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t o expect from t h e pompous account I had everywhere had of

th e F rench O pera dancing Th e carriages aft er the opera was .

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Th F e h v d r en c f ne th p er d hv i t l i k thi
r es s th p b l i
or e o er a ,
a n a e , e e r o er u c

pla c es ,
p l y l i t p i f t hi d thi di t d di hbi ll i t d f fi h
oor u ,
a s o e e r r a n s a e n s ea o ne c a n

d li
e ll
er s a d th hro un t hy hv e l y l t f l m p p d d f m th
o u s e, e a e on a c u s er o a s su s en e ro e

t d
c en r e , a n w f t g l mp
on e ro o s a e a s .
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over w ere w e l l r eg u l a t ed by t h
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e horse and foo t gendarmes who ,

act as life and foo t guards do in L ondon and ins t ead o f a l l o w

ing M r s S uch a one s carriage to s top th
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obliged t o draw on as fast as i t arrived and therefore you mus t ,

be ready t o seize t h e oppor t uni ty o f g e tt i n g in w i t hou t delay .

1 4 t/z Th e L ouvre con t aining such a collec t ion of t he ar t s

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as I never supposed i t possible t ha t any one place or even ,

metropolis could boast o f F ully prepared as w e were t o be

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lost in as tonishmen t yet th e collec t ion here far very far sur
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passed all t h e descriptions we had heard from t hose who had

seen i t To inspect this grand depot of sculp t ure and painting

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would require at least a mon th and we were t herefore obliged ,

to con t en t ourselves with hurrying through i t i n five hours i n ,

order t o see a lit t le of the o t her in exhaus t ible S igh t s of Paris .

H ere are sculpture mosaic 8 C most superior of all t h , e grea t

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masters ; paintings of t h e F rench G erman D utch F lemish , , , ,

I t alian E nglish and i n S hor t t h

, , e very bes t of every school in
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E urope O n e of t h
. e rooms here is above feet an d con ,

tains abou t i mmense pictures of R aphael R ubens Ti t ian , ,

C arracci A lbano D omenichino Vinci L eonardo and G uido

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added t o many o thers of th e first ancien t and modern ar t is t s .

I nside of the T uileries I n get t ing permission to en t er .

here while th e King is i n Paris it requires some t rouble an d ,

in t eres t b u t we were fortunate in mee t ing wi t h C olonel A th

, o rp e ,

of our R oyal Horse G uards who had a card for himsel f and ,

par ty which he kindly invi ted us to join A fter en t ering the

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palace and passin g through very s t rong guards all in full dress ,

uniforms and with a mos t stately appearance w e had some

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t rouble even with our printed document t o get admission

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b u t all these difficul t ies were perhaps magnified by t h e royal

servan t s wi t h a view of ge tt ing a li tt le E nglish money ; a t

las t we en t ered a nd saw all the magnificen t apar t men t s in t his
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spacious and richly decorated palace t h e saloons halls S t a t e , , ,

bedrooms billiard room chapel thea t re S1 C H ere w e had an

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H th i m m i
ere a re
p f h fi
re e m i I v wen s e ec es o t e n es t o sa c e er s a .
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man of taste in furnishing ; everyone should see it as no one ,

c a n help being deligh t ed with it Th e E mpress j osephine .

was some time here and this is the house which A lexander ,

C hose for his residence during t h e two months t h e R ussians

w ere here ; b e however selected one of the worst rooms

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a n d preferred his camp bed on a sofa to the luxurious beds

a n d couches of t his palace of comfort .

I n going to the Bourbon E lys ee we saw the two c i a eva n t

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palaces of the Bourbons which are exac t ly ali ke and are , ,

n o w used one for t h e bureau of the M inis t er of M arine and

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th e other as t h e residence of dragoon officers of rank Passed .

T alleyrand s house and t h e C orps L égislatif 81 C

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B oulevards or i mmense streets round th e town with foot ,

pa ths and double rows of trees on each side

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N ational L ibrary of Paris : contents above valuable ,

books This library is formed in three fourths of a long

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q uadrangle the parti t ions average about 1 0 0 yards long

e ach by a very considerable breadth H ere is also another 2
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fine room in which two stupendous globes celestial and

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t errestrial are sunk from within a large gallery that surroun ds

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t hem into a fine hall below

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I n th e first grand room there is a w e l l e x e c u t e d statue o f ~

Vol taire a group in brass and copper and a correc t model of

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th e Pyramids of E gypt .

W e t hen descended to the hall and C loisters below and ,

aft er passing a room hung with framed plates we entered a ,

l ibrary of tolio engravings I t m ay be needless to say they .

a r e perhaps most likely the best i n the world and of every

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na t ion where th e ar t s are known .

C a f e M o n t a c i er O u r hard morning s work and glut of

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more novel ties obliged us to finish with walking over this

place which was a large and handsome thea tre and is now
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h
T i s i m m en se re
p o s i to ry o f lit t era u re is a ll in on e ro o m , a nd
p en to t e
o h
p u bl i whm y
c, o a r ea d h
t er e , o r l k v
oo o er l
fo ios o f en g ra vi n
g s, a t si x s ous
p er d a
y .

L g th5 4 4 En g li hf ee t , a n d b rea d t h1 2 8 f ee t
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(stage boxes
,
pit and all
, ) conver
,
t ed into a magnificent coff ee
room where is the grand resort in the evening of all classes
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o f Parisian loungers .

I omitted t o mention to day my having passed nearly an -

hour in the morning to inspect the shops and work of th e firs t

g unmakers of Versailles and Paris an d in my life I never ,

saw such infamous concerns by way of fowling pieces ; t h e

S prings of t h e locks were worse than any musket I ever

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handled ; t heir breechings a most bungling imitation of our

o l d discarded pa t ent ; their touch holes three t imes as thick -

as they had need to be and the locks literally ready t o scra t ch

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your hands for want of being l e t into the stock W hile all .

these ma t ters which real ly contribute to the in t rinsic value o f

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a gun are t hus neglected t h

, e whole study of the workman ,

a ppears to be directed t o t h e exteri or ornament of t h e gun ,

a n d thus you see a machine worth about two guineas fi t ted up

w i th l ool wor th of gold silver and even carving I n t his they

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appear to t hink solely consists the perfec t ion of a gun and ,

o n my endeavouring to suggest
(most civilly and for their ,

informa t ion ) a few of our unquestionable i mprovemen t s their ,

utter ignorance in argument and obstinacy were although ,

d isgusting really laughable

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F inding w e had a few minu t es before dinner would be ready ,

we took a S ight of the baths which are arranged on an extensive ,

scale on e side for men the other for women and well built
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Th e moment we had di ned we star t ed off to Fr a n c o n i e s

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O lympic T heatre which is t h A s t l ey s of Paris and in

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every respect p recisely on the same plan Th e horsemanship .

w a s good but on t h ,
e whole rather inferior t o E ngland ; a
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horse there was brought f orward who was taught to fe t ch ,

and carry like a dog and finished his exploi t s by marching

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off with an ol d woman s cap from t h e boxes Th e pan t o

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m ime a sort of romance was very well got up and we gave

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it the preference to th e average of those in E ngland Th e .

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W hole did credit to the theatre Th

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want of n ew doing up only b u t it was better lit than the other ,

theatres or even t heir opera houses ,

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by candleligh t an d started in ou r
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voiture for Versail les 4 leagues from Paris b u t about 5 ( 1 5 , ,

m iles ) from our hotel O n getting out of the suburbs we d rove .

for a very long tim e by the ban ks of the S eine on a road which ,

is the whole way most excellent and nearly all on pavemen t , .

j ust beyond the bridge of Vien na we had a full view o f

th e E cole M ilitaire and C hamp de M ars a place extending
i n a circle of 6 miles and formed in various sorts of ground ,

for every kind of artificial warfare O n the right opposite .

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i s th e beginn ing o f a pal ace which was intended for the little
King of R ome .

S aint C loud and t h e Palais A lovely place overlooking

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al l Paris from a com mandin g and cheerful si t uation and ,

where the royal residen ce is i f possible more grand than the , ,

o thers it is like t h e rest

: one blaze of magnificence wi t h
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every lu xu ry t hat can be devised and the marble and m a n y ,

other orna m ents are mos t valuable and exquisitely fine .

R oyal M anu factory of P orcelain A place as large as a

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palace where there is made the most elegant china t hat can
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be conceived and where almost every thing is manu factured ,

equal to fine sculp ture for i ns t ance flowers & c and lace so , , .
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I f yo u brea kf a st a t a c o ff ee h
yo u c a n s e d o m g et s er ed b ef o r e n i n e,
o us e l v
w h er ea s to sa v
e o ur ti m e I a w a ys g e t m y b r e a l
f a s t b e f o re e i g t , a n d t e d i ff e re n c e k h h
n ot on ly i n x
c o m f o r t, b u t e p en se , w a s c o n s id er a b e , a d t e a ue of a b r ea f a s t l h hv l k
b een m y j
o b ec t f o r i n s ta nce

i
f
ee lzou s e A m i s er a b l m ll p t f i di ff
e s a o o n er en t c o ff ee, a ro ll , a nd a l i ttl e pa t

of b u t ter , s er v ed wit ht
ou a c o l th m bl l b on a a r e S a , c os t me 36 s o us .

A t my ow n r oom Tw o l g ht F h ll
a r e o r en c ro s, 2 sous p p o r ti o n a b e
ro
q u a n ti t
y l
o f s u er i o r b u tt e r , 2
p sous ; ne w m i lk ; , I s ou a s m uc h l d e i c i o us c o a r ed b o a r s ll
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hdea a s I c ou ld ea t, 8 s ou s . T t l 3
o a , 1 sous .

T h us b y b u yi n g yo u r tea a
,
nd c o ff ee , yo u k l x
m a y b rea f a s t u u ri o u s y b y yo u r l
own fi r es i d e f o rh h
a lf t eht hl f b k
p ri c e t a a a r ea l
f a s t w o u d c o s t yo u a t a ca f é
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N B . .
— Thht l d t fi d b
e kf t
o e s o no n r ea a s , a h
n d m os t o f t em fi n d n o t i n g bu t h
wi n es a n d l iq i wh
i h y di
u eu rs , t hv n c c a se ou ne a , or a e yo ur d i n n e r f ro m , a r es ta u r a
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centre of the gardens the groves lead off to all points and ,

you can see nowhere without a display of fountains before you .

C olonnade A rotunda of 3 2 marble column s an d 2 5

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fo untains with fine s t atuary in the cen t re

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G reat basin wi th fountains representing the chariot of ,

Phae t on which t hrow the water 5 5 feet high

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Palais d u G rand T rianon A nother i mmense and magni .

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again is perfected for grandeur and luxury and yet with ,

comfort in no wise forgotten this palais is entirely on a

ground floor and therefore th e site is considerable
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A nother .

large collection of the finest paintings in the world a nd in ,

which C laude L orrain Poussin and Vernet stand conspicuous , ,

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A n im mensely long gallery is here richly fit t ed up ; the ,

walls hung with pictures of the best masters and th e opposite ,

S ides
(from the best light for the paintings ) are decorated
w i t h large an d valuable models of the diff erent s h ips of war .

H ere are a variety of slabs fonts & c made from solid ,

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pieces of the prod u ction of copper mines ( a sort o f green

l ike marble I forget the n ame ) said to be the largest speci
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mens in existence A small piece of carving i n agate of very

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great value M any valuable things nearly of the same de

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scrip t ion as those in the other palaces or to speak more , ,

to the purpose of every description ,

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A whispering room which has the effect of the gallery at ,

S t Paul s but is quite square instead of being formed in a

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circ l e like t h
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occupied by the infan t King of R ome and his attendants ;

it is very near the G rand Trianon and is perhaps of al l , , ,

others the situation which a private individual would prefer

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to live in .

M anufactory of arms on a large scale ; b u t no good

T hg e r ea te r p a r t, if n ot a ll, of h
t es e w e r e p r es en ted to B u o n a p a r te by th e

E m p er o r A lx
e a n d er .
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work except as I before remarked in car ving and inlaying ;

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the manufacturer was civil and I therefore preten d ed t o ,

adm i re .

W e got back to Paris by five bolted our dinners and flew ,

to ano t her t heatre .

L e Th ea tre d u Vaudeville A house of comedy & c

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much th e sam e as our l ittle theatre in the Haymarke t after

seeing a littl e of t h is we found it so crowded as to be h o t and

un com fortable and having a wish to see t h e

C afé M o n t a c i er lit up we proceeded there an d took some ,

i ce and cakes N othing could be more gay than the illu .

m i n a te d co p a ce i l of this B a c c h
a n a lia n t emple Th e order
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of the day seemed to be burnt brandy and sweet cakes but

t ea coffee and about twenty different kinds of refreshment
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were passing among the im mense concourse here assembled .

Th e c i a ev n t stage was filled up with groves of trees and

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flOw ers ; and on the whole thi s appeared to be a perfect

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t emple of gaiety .

W e then s t ar t ed on foot and took a view of the dissipa ,

tions in the Palais R oyal which was crowded to excess and ,

notwithstanding we saw about 2 00 ladies of the demi monde -

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t here was literally not one but was worthy of being remarked

for extreme ugliness H ere were coff ee houses all thronged .

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from the garrets down to subterraneous vaults ; and where ,

had we thought it prudent to com e a l ittle later we might ,

have seen th e very essence of dissipation .

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letters to write & c I lost a par t of this morni ng ; we saw .

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however enough to say that our time was well bestowed

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A fter inspecting the triumphal arch of Buonaparte and

the gate of S t D enis both of which we had before passed we
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proceeded to the Boulevard d u Temple F irst we saw here a

fine fountain to which the water is conveyed from th
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e distance

I m a y b e w r on g i n u si n g t i s ter m , a s I b e i e h l v e, b ei n g a c o ff ee h ou s e, n o wine
is a ll v h
o w ed , b u t e er yt i n g e s e i s i n a b u n d a n c el .
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o f 5 leagues
2 and which spouts from
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e mou ths of eight

lions placed two and two octagonally

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L A bb a y e S t M
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c onverted in t o a repository for models of al mos t every sort of

manufac t ure and where in one spacious range of apartmen t s

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you see the process of almost every work Thi s is highly .

grati fying t o a mechanic and somewha t in t eres t ing t o every ,

on e ; we real ly found relief in seeing things of a sober colour ,

a ft er being day aft er d ay so da z zled wi t h t h e splendid blaze

o f magnificent palaces

C afé d A p o l l o n A really good thea t re fitted up wi th

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chairs and t ables instead of benches and where by calling for , ,

even a glass of spirits an d water you may every night see a ,

comedy and a pantomime with a passable orchestra I am told ,

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t hey are wor t h seeing but the cheapness and freedom o f ,

eating brings that sort of company which makes this place

exceptionable in the evening .

W e saw some in f erior waxwork and many other triflin g

things in these Boulevards which are entirely full o f all sorts ,

of little spectacles ‘
small theatres t emples an d coffee ,

garden s out of number which are every night t hronged with ,

i dle people of pleasure .

1 8t/z —W ent to the T uileries to see the R oyal Family go

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in state to prayers being E nglish we were readily ad mi tt ed

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in t o t h e saloon t hrough which they passed as follows : D u e

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de Berri D uke of A ngoul eme M onsieur C omte d A r to i s

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L ouis X V I I I D uchesse d A n g o u l é m e marshals a t t endants

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&c T h . e affabili t y and good natured look of his M aj esty could -

n o t but be admired by every honest man .

A ft er leaving t h e Palais we d rove t hrough the C hamps

E lys ees and passed the Barri ere d e N euilly a s tately lodge
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with the finest avenue we had seen and near which t here is , ,

hal f fin ished ano ther of the C orsican s triu mphal arches t o

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his own memory as usual Then the Bois de Boulogne a , .

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royal hunting wood at th e beginning of which are places o f ,

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1 9 l li . C abinet
of M ineralogy and M edals and after this , ,

having g o t an order from Baron M onier we proceeded to ,

the G obelins tapestry celebrated for being unques t ionably th

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best in th e world ; we here saw many fin e paintings which

wer e left at t his manufactory t o be worked and after bein g ,

astonished with some of the finest tapes t ry that could be

described going through the whole process of making we
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w ere sho w n a fi nished piece which represented the death o f

G eneral D e s s a i x and which astonished us (

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even though we
supposed i t was a pain t ing ) f o r its admirably fine colouring
and spirit .

O bserva toire R oyal a sort of obelisk from w h ich y o u

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have a panorama of Paris but by no m ean s a better one than ,

from many other edifices which we h a d mounted .

D ined at M V é ry s R estaurant To have dined here i s

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to h ave seen one of the lions of Paris ; and we therefore ‘ ’

direc ted our steps to the Palais R oyal for this purpose Th e .

printed bill of fare was about the size of a newspaper and ,

the whole place seemed to be a temple of unbounded luxu ry .

W e dined on as many of th e best dishes as we could possibly

get through an d had aft erwards ices liqueurs & c t h

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whol e bill for which cost exactly an E nglish guinea for M r s .

H awker and mysel f ; everything served up in silver and i n , ,

short this place is so noted for good living that t h

, e E mperor

A lexander and the King of Prussia made a point of dining at

V é ry s while the A llies were in Paris and S ince which th
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highly illuminated room ( where we din ed this day ) is called

the A lexandre .

C atacombs subterraneous passages which extend

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for nine miles under the streets and boulevards and from ,

which the stone was taken ( 6 0 0 years ago ) to build Paris .

H ere are two millions of skulls arranged with bones ( like win e
in a cellar ) a spring of water with gold and silver fish and an
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altar where mass is said once a year ; several tombs & c all .

nearly thirty yards below the surface of the earth and where , ,
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had we extinguished our two glimmering candles we shoul d ,

have lost our places in the coach for C alais I t luckily how .
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ever happened t hat only one light went Ou t at a time and

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we got t o our ho t el j ust with ti me to partake of a scrambling

dinner .

P a ris for public edifices museu ms and in shor t for

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S plendid palaces an d as a grand emporium for science a n d

literature may be t ermed t h ,

e capital of the world ; but so

truly filthy are t h e streets houses and inhabitants a n d so , , ,

poor and vulgar are the almost numb erless places of enter ~

t a i n m en t that i t was to us astonishing how any of the E nglis h

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could remain t here a prey to i mposition a day longer than

was absolu t ely required to see th e principal S pectacles .

A t t w o o clock having on a former e xcursion had eno u gh

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of F ren ch pos t ing ( for instance waiting while horses wer e ,

taken from a plough or caught from a fi eld a league dis t an t ) ,

and having been much pleased with th e diligence from H avre ,

we had taken our places at t h

, e G f a n d e M essagerie f o r
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C alais .

A t twelve a dear and bad supper at Beauvais 1 8 leagues ,

from Paris .

2 1st — A t h a lf past eight breakfast at A mi ens 3 0 leagues

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from Paris ; ran t o look into t h e magnifi cent Cath edral than ,

which no t hing can be finer in the architectur e .

A t half— pas t five found a most excel lent dinner wi t h , ,

good wine great C ivility and very reasonable C harges a t

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A bbeville 4 0 leagues from Paris ,

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2 2 n a — A t a quarter before eight a pretty good breakfas t

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and things comfor table at Boulogne 6 2 leagues from Paris , .

A rrived by t w o in C alais 7 0 leagues from Paris T o t al , .

1 9 3 5 E nglish miles .

N B — T ronchet in his guide book says 1 8 6 5 b u t he i s

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wrong as in many other statemen t s

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Thus w e crawled for for t y eight hours at a trifle more -

than four miles per hour notwithstanding th e roads were,

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i n the best condition from the hard frost ; add to which we

were repeatedly annoyed by trifling accidents on the way .

W e were however induced to bear all with patience and even

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good humour from the great civility and attention of

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M M assin the conducteu r

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O n our arrival we found C alais a perfect scene of con

fusion ; the hotels were all crowded and in preference to , ,

starvation and S itting in the yard we j oined the table d h ote ,

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w hich I could compare to nothing but an ill regulated kennel

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o f foxhounds Th e i mposi t ion the m isery and the aping of

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the E nglish was at this place truly laughable

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A t eight this evening went on board to sail but it cam e ,

o n to blow so fresh that we al l had to march back ag a in .

Being an old campaigner I took care to get a bed out of the

hotel and to offer a premium to an old woma n for which a
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good breakfast and hot rol ls were prepared ready for u s the
n ext morning .

23 a
r — S ailed at nin e and at half past on e reached D over
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We came in a F rench packet the Parfaite U n ion C aptain , ,

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M ascot who I suppose in consequence of his having piloted

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his M aj esty on a day when the cabin boy might have brought
i n the vessel thought his passengers (
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about sixty instead of ,

twenty which he ought to have taken ) unworthy of the least

civility or attention further than to secure their money before
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they were fairly in sight of D over W e had most fortunately .

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a n E nglish sailor who was a passenger on board and showed ,

the crew how to manage the vessel .

Th e whole o f the luggage was carelessly thrown together ,

a n d among which were t h e poor su ffering passengers many ,

o f them ladies rolli n g in sickness and every thing that was

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fi lthy with the risk of having their brain s beat out O u r

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g etting into the boat which came alongsid e was so far bad
t hat we thought it miraculous that only two passengers fel l

overboard A l l our campaigning was a j oke for the time i t

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las ted t o these four hours and a hal f W e had several women
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6 t/i —2 . snipes 1 j ack snipe and 1 partridge I n the even

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ing as usual lay up in my canoe on t h

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e mud where t here ,

were thousands of wigeon ; but owing to the C hristmas

shoo t ers I never g o t a flock near enough to fire at
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7 t/i . T h e army
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of shoo t ers had driven every fowl from
the mud except a few coo t s a t which I fired my capital j o e
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M an t on duck gun with common S hot and s t opped 6 a t ,

the enormous distance of 1 3 2 yards which we accurately ,

measured wi t h a 9 foot pun t pole I ndeed this ex t raordinary -

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gun has scarcely ever failed in a flock at that distance , , .

i 4 tl l — M ade a regular survey of the coast and places as

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per annexed memorandu m Th e i nfamously bad sport pre .

vailed everywhere this season .

H a s ty s bet /i of s lzooti ng p l a ces cPitt s D eep good creeks .

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for canoe Park not so many creeks but be t ter for t h

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fligh t s W arren F arm has excellent fli g h

. t i n g when the wind

is from S to W as the D uke of Buccleuch stop s the shore

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gunners ; i t is about a m ile from N ee d s o a r Poin t 2 from ’

B u c k l er s h a rd and seven fro m L ymington

, B u c k l ers ha rd .
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eight miles from L ymingto n R oad good , .

N B — A l l the m ud is good but everywhere equall y

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d i s u r b e d by shooting punts an d boats .

2 5 tl c — A ft er being out al l night

. in a bitter cold n orth ,

eas t wind with sleet and waiting for t h ree h o u r s without

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stirring for water sufficien t to approach the w igeon which ,

were unluckily disturbed I was obliged to content mysel f ,

with a random chan ce flyi n g and bagge d only t w o L as t , .

night our chance wa s again spoiled by fools t rying t o walk

to th e birds .

2 6 tl i a n a 2 7 tl c — I t blew and snowed so hard t hat going

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aft er wild fowl was i mpossible and t h e levy en m a s s e of ,

blackg u ards as u sual des t royed all chances for the shore
I t herefore walked out inland and killed 2 rabbits and I ,

snipe al l that could be found

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2 8 t/z — A brent goose t h

. e longest single shot I ever saw ,
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M ore w e t
wea t her I attempted the evening flight
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but could g e t no chance ; and the wind and t ide having

delayed the can oe coming for me I had to wan der over th , e

marshes in utter darkness with wind and rain and fell ,

about a do z en ti mes from the t ops of the banks down into

broad ditches full of water I was al most borne down every
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step by t h e weight of my gun an d am munition I then .

wandered al l over the inclosures for several miles and onc e ,

lay down where some S heep had been penned to pass th e ,

night but the violen ce of th e rain having somewhat aba t ed ,

I made a second attempt and after wandering in the field s

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for several miles more and tearing through every hedge t o

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k eep a straight lin e I found a road which I followed till I

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came to a light T his luckily proved to be the house of a

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farmer who gave m e some beer and put me in the road

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home H e said it was no wonder that I was lost as even

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those who knew all the country rarely ever ventured on thes e
marshes at night .

t/ — R owed our canoe into a hole in the mud where afte

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the water had run off we remain ed invisible and no sooner ,

were the geese beginning to fly in swarms than a host of

blackguards surrounded us on every S ide and kept up such a ,

fire with bullets that our prospect of sport was again a n n i h i

lated we had to remain in this hol e from t w o i n the m orning
till five in the evening ; we g o t hom e about nine a t nigh t
without having had a single chance .

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other seasons that even men who last year supported their
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families byfw i l d fowl have this winter on ly k illed t w o or three

couple and t h
, e weather having become quite mild and wet I ,

this day left B u c k l ers ha r d and returned home to L ongparish .

1 5 t/z — Being selected by M r j oseph M anton as one of the

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sportsmen to be examined on the advantages of his paten t s ,

I this day received a subpoena to attend his trial ( ver s u s his .

brother and others ) for in fringements on them .

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1 6 t/z. W ent to L ondon

By the unexpec t ed delay of
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other trials t h ,
e one of M r M anton could not be brought on
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and was therefore deferred till the ensuing term .

1 9t /i .
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Th e worst wild fowl y ear ever known

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Ap r i l 6 tb — H aving purchased M r L ee s cottage at Key

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haven I this day wen t to L ymington to arrange for the rebuild

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ing of the house .

j u ly i s t . W ent minnow fishing in the dusk

of the evening and lost all the best time by having to sen d
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home for some fresh tackle and on its arrival the first and
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only fish I caught with it was t h e very one which had j ust

broken my lin e before and from whose mouth I pulled out my

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former hooks gut swivels 81 C

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Th e angling this year has been so execrably bad that , ,

during the whole season I have killed but 6 2 brace of t rout

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I have in former years done nearl y that in one day .

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C H A P TE R VI I I
18 15

S ep tem ber 34 partridges

1s t . besides 2 brace lost 4 hares
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and 2 quails E very covey we found were as large as the old

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ones but so unaccountably wild that I was oblige d to take

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both single and double shots at all distances n o tw i th ,

standing which I may safely say that I only lost two head
of game by bad S hooting .

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. I 6 partridges and I hare I also lost 2 birds and .
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except wounding on e which I ought to have ki lled and firing ,

a random shot off my horse I never missed M y double S hots , .

were t hree and all kill ed

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— 8 par t ridges and I hare M y sport this day would

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have been as good as or better than yesterday but I had only ,

some young dogs one of which spoiled al l my best S hooting by

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running in and chasing This morning an hour or two b e

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fore I was prepared to start I was called t o go down to the ,

river for two curious birds I loaded my double gun and .

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crawled under cover of a heap of stones near enough to

bring down on e sitting and the other flying with t h e second

barrel They proved to be a godwit and a spotted redshank

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birds which I had often killed on the coast but never before ,

heard of in this part of the country .

I w a s of course obliged to fi re kneeling having crawled

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u p to th e birds which although one was a sit t ing shot made

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th e killing with the second barrel somewhat difficult par ,

t i c u l a l y as I had not an instant to spare

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G ame bagged the fi rst week 9 0 par t ridges 1 I hares , ,

2 quails 1 snipe all I saw

, ( ) 1 rabbit T otal 1 0 5,
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had previously been sent to annoy M r F ello w es through a .

whole da y s s p o r t were watching to warn me off L ord Ports

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mouth s land an d to follow me wherever they dared I got

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some men with guns and pistols to draw their attention to

different par t s while we attacked their grand preserve : every
thing was arranged agreeably to a m ilitary plan which I regu ,

l a r l y dr ew and colour ed beforehand and which answered so ,

well that we got two hours glut at thei r pheasants before th

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gang cam e up to warn us off ; to my own share I bagged 2 8

pheasants ( including 2 white ones ) 3 partridges and 1 hare , .

N otwithstanding we had rain for the first hour I killed ,

i n two hours 2 4 pheasants i n 2 4 shots bagging every bird I , .

was determined not to fire out of distance ; but among my

shots were many very difficult ones and four double ones W e .

were taken after my 2 4 thshot when we finished our day on ,

some neutral ground to which we took care to drive a fi n e

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sprinkling of game and where we defeated the gangs by being

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wel l moun t ed W e began at hal f past nine in the morning

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on the moderating of a heavy fall of rain and came home to ,

a com fortable dinner at four o clock W e each S hot with o n e ’

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old dog which is always best where game is very plentiful

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1 s t of S eptember as wel l as it was possible to shoot : to day

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I missed both barrels twice at partridges w h ich lay like ,

stones : afterwards however I finished without missing and

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bagged 5 partridges 3 pheasants and I hare

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— I this day drove to F reefolk where my tandem had ,

a most extraordinary and providential escape W hile I was .

in the house my servant not being so attentive as he ought to

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have been to t h e horses they suddenly galloped off knocked

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him down and drew the wheel over his arm body and shoul
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der they then charged a fastened u p ga t e w ith such violence -

that they broke i t and burst it open in doing which they com ,

p l e t el
y bent the top bar which was of wrought
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iron thick as ,

my wrist ; tearing the dog cart after them they flew all up ,
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the most dangerous cross road in the place and after reaching ,

th e summit of one hil l had to go down another which was , ,

frightfully steep full of loose stones and with a gate at the

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bottom where this road ended with others going short to the
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right an d left : strange to say they cleared the turn mos t ,

dexterously an d the wheeler and buggy were found overturned

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about a mile and a half f r o m Fr eef o l k House and the leader

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who had broken loose from his reins and traces was brought ,

back by a countryman .

I nstead of finding j ames hal f killed the road strewed ,

with the wreck an d the horses blemished we had the good

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fortune to find t ha t the extent of all the damage done was the
breaking off at the two extreme holes of the leader s traces ’

which we only had to buckle to the next two holes and the
leading reins at the buckle which couples them I n shor t .
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all was so well got over that I afterwards proceeded ten

miles and paid two other visits
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1 2t /z — H aving late last evening killed some game amidst

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the annoyance of L ord Portsmouth s banditti who could not ’

then ca t ch th e tenant to warn me off I ( knowing that a notice ,

Would be sent for my break fast ) attacked the place again thi s
morning at sunrise while my men diverted the gang with a ,

little random shooting in another direction I got 4 hares and 3 .

pheasants and made a long shot flying over my head at a teal

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1 4t /i —
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S hot w h
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ich was at a single partridge and that I lost in the ,

high wood .

2 0 t/t —
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shots killed including a pheasan t lost out of bounds 8

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head of game .

G ame & c bagged up to N ovember 1 : 1 4 9 partridges

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2 quails 2 3 hares
, 7 rabbi t s 8 0 pheasants 9 ducks and
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mallards 1 teal and 6 snipes Total 2 7 7 head

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N o v em be r 2 6 — Proceeded from L ondon to i nspect the

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F ens went in chaise as follows : W altham C ross 1 3 miles ,

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W ade s ’
M ill , 1 1 m iles ;
oyston 1 5 miles C ax t on 1 2 mi les R , ,

H un t ingdon 9 R amsay 1 2 miles

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m iles ; Total , 7 2 miles , . .

P ut up at M r s B e l s h a w C rown inn R amsay

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27 t l i — W alked nearly thirty miles in surveying the Fens

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an d could S oon perceive that they would not answer for wi ld

fowl shooting i f a frost the birds are gone i f a thaw t h
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greater part of them remain in the decoys ; so tha t th e

breeding season ( when the ague is predominant ) i s the only

t im e for t his infernal country .

2 8t / z — Took a hack buggy by way of W hittlesea to

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P eterborough 1 5 miles and then a c h , a i s e to O un dle 1 3 mil es

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A fter having spent the day with M r S herrard I re t urned .

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t o t own on the 2 9 t h per coach by Ki mbol ton S t N eots & C

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A S my presence in t o w n was not required again till th e

morn ing o f the 3 o thI enj oyed a pleasant and cheap tour ,

for t hese few spa re days instead of remaining idle in L ondon .

/ — H aving finished my business I left town this

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aft ernoon a n d reached L ongparish soon aft er m idnight per

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W eymouth coach T otal travelled from T hursday to Thurs

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d a y 3 0 9 miles
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Killed on the road 2 partridges
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D ecem ber 1 3 t/z L eft L ongparish for K ey h .

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a ve n where ,

we t ook A ubrey H ouse from the 1 1 th I had some days .

before sent off my baggag e & C but was detained by having , .

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been taken sudde n ly and severely ill .

z — W ent d own to Poole

1 5 t/ ( miles ) relative to build
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ing a n ew canoe and stan chion gun on a plan of my own

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i nvention .

1 6 t/i R eturn ed to K ey h
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l 9 i li — 1 wild duck and 1 mallard

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has the coast shooting yet been that the only two shots I ,

fired al l yesterday and t his evening were one at a single

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wigeon an d ano ther at 4 ducks of which I knocked down

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3 hough only bagged t h

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t e a b ove

2 8 t/z M y gun having been loaded ever S ince I killed t h

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2 du cks ( eight days ) I a t las t got a flying sho t and killed 1

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general scarcity prevailed here like everywhere else and ,

I consequently got home to L ongparish on the night of

the 1 9th .

I was amply repaid for my five weeks on the coast by the

benefit derived by the change but so mild was the weather ,

that to get any shooting was out of the question .

F ebr u a ry 8 t/i — F rost and snow ; out from seven in the

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morning till dinner and then out all night and so destitute
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was the country ( lik eall others this year) that I never saw but
two ducks and one wild wisp of snipes ; and in short got , ,

no shooting except a roast of fi el d f a re s redwings and larks , , .

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A wild duck wi t h green feet .

1 2 tl z
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— Proceeded to L ondon on business .

1 4 tlc —R eturned to L ongparish in my carriage with three

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people and luggage i n eight hours ; notwi t hstanding we

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stopped three quarters of an hour to breakfast at S taines and

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a quarter of an hour at Kensington where a posthorse threw ,

his S hoe W e had only pairs of horses all the way and the
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l ast 1 5 m iles my horses brought u s i n an hour and a hal f .

F rom being constantly in the habit of guessing and calcula

ting tim e o n a j ourney I foretold the hour of arrival within
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three quarters of a minute

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G ame & c bagged up to M arch I s t

. 1 64 partridges ,

1 0 6 pheasants 3 0 hares 1 5 rabbits 2 quails 3 6 S n ipes 1 9 wild

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ducks 4 wigeon 2 teal T otal 3 7 8 head

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Ap r i l I 7 t/z — Till this day it was so cold that we had ,

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constant frost and occasional snow storms the weather now

having become suddenly warm I tried fly fishing for the first ,

ti me this season an d killed 1 0 trout besides a great many

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smal l ones thrown i n .

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M a y 2 9 tn L ondon . W a s presented by the D uke o f
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C larence on my appointment as M aj or of the N orth Hants

R egiment .

j u n e 9 t/ z — P. ublished my second edition of I nstructions ‘

to Y oung S portsmen previously to leaving town .

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1 5 tb .rou t F ishing very in different owing to the

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trout being glutted wi t h the m a y fly and small gnats .

1 8 tl z — W ent over to fish at S t ockbri d ge ; b u t so innu

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m e ra b l e was the m a y fly tha t our sport was wretched I .

killed only one large trout ; we never could get a rise or a ,

run the whole day

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j u ly 4 t/z — L eft L ongparish

. on a visit to the marshes in ,

the east of N orfol k .

5 t/i
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. Proceeded from L ondon by the mail to N orwich ,

where we ar ived on the evening of the 6 thand proceeded in

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a chaise to M r R ising s at H orsey 1 3 0 miles from L ondon

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1 2 t/z — W ent to stay with M r H untingdon

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1 4 tl z — W ent to N orwich
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1 5 t/ z — C ame up from
. N orwich by way of N ewmarket ,

1 1 0 miles wi t hin t hirteen hours by the L ight Telegraph ,

morning coach , wh i ch beat the mail by nearly five hours .

1 7 t/ z — R eturned from L ondon to L ongparish

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x M y obj ect in going to N orfolk was t o shoot young wild

f owl and catch pike perch tench bream fire ; but as the
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custom of that country is t o S port in l arge battue par ties I at

last gave up attempting to reckon wha t I killed myself though ,

I had far more sport t han the others Th e fish were in si z e .

greatly beyond any I had before seen and the young wild fowl ,

shooting was most capital ; W e killed large numbers of almost

every kind of sea and marsh birds in t erspersed with occa ,

s i o n a l good S hooting at levere t s and rabbits young snipes , ,

plovers & C Th ,
e only birds however t hat I had not killed
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before were the crested grebes and th e shoveller ducks with ,

which I had one day in particular most excellent sport

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Th e circumstance that makes the birds so plenti ful here

cancels all the pleasure of the shooting which is tha t the fear ,

o f death deters strangers from ha z arding t heir constitutions i n

such a pes t ilen t ial climate I came home ill but was happy .
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to escape as wel l as I did .

2 5t /z — S ome wild ducks having flown I went up the

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river and had a most excellent shot at five all close toge t her
but unluckily my stool upse t whi le I was in the act of firing .

A ft erwards I got a wild duck and sho t another and a heron

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w hich fell in L ord Portsmouth s groun ds where I would n o t

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go after them .

3 1st
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. W ent over to Pon ton s at S tockbridge F ound t h
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fly fishing as it al most always is at this celebra t ed though i n

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famously bad place not wor t h a penny Th

, e cockney lik e
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amusement of bobbing with a live m a y fly i s all that t his

miserable river does for ; indeed scarcely a fish ever moves
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t il l about t h e last quarter of an hour that you can see to throw

a line.

A ug u s t 2 8 ta — D u ring the whole season I only killed 3 7

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brace of trout with a fly which num ber I have before n o w

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exceeded in one day .Th e worst fishing season ever

known .
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whole of the apparatus was built to my order an d admi rably ,

executed by the ingenious M r F ielder wheelwright of L ong

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parish .

This I considered as my first d ay s shooting

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w ent out at ten o clock an d returned by five to dinner having

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with me the sam e two dogs the whole morning N ero and ,

C omus A n d notwi t hstanding I have brought home more

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a t a ti me yet I never in my life had such a satisfactory

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d ay s shooting A l t hough the birds were rather wild than

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o t herwise for the ti me of the year and the n umber of coveys ,

the L ongparish fields contained were by no means con

s i d er a b l e
y e t I had the ,
good fortune to bag 3 6 partridges and
I hare wi t h literally never missing a single shot and without
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losing one bi rd I had 8 doublets and bagged both my birds

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every tim e and having once killed 2 at on e shot with my

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fi rst barrel I made 3 7 head of game in 3 6 shots H ad I at

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all picked my shots I should not have thought this any such ,

very extraordinary perform an ce but so far from this a

great number of my birds were killed at long distances and ,

with instantaneous rapidi t y of shooting I had my favourite .

I 4 gauge barrels of J oe M anton s and M r B u tt s s cylinder ’ ’

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gunpowder Th e same gun all day which was neither

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c leaned afresh nor even n ew flinted This with S aturday .

makes 5 4 partridges and I hare with only I mi ss T his with , .

a single gun woul d not be wor t hy of much com ment ; but

with a double gun where I honestly and fairly worked both ,

b arrels wherever it was possible and all at large strong birds I , ,

consider i t the best performance I ever accomplished I have .

n o w killed 6 0 shots in succession and 9 3 birds with only I ,

m i ss .

G ame bagged up to O ctober : 2 1 8 partridges 6 hares ,

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T otal 2 2 4 head, .

N B — M ade scarcely any beginning till the 1 6 th

. . : had
o nly a brace of dogs and only sho t between a half past nine ,
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o clock breakfast and a four o clock dinner

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g ether ( including three w e t days when I was driven home ) ,

but fifteen times .

S ince the 1 4 th in clusive I bagged 1 9 8 head of game with ,

m issing only 6 fair shots Though I never failed to use both .

barrels where fair O pportuni t y off ered and did n o t at all pick
m y shots as such double g u n , shooting is rare and I m ay -
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not perform it again I have noted a faithful statement of the ,

p articulars .

O z éei — S hot in th e unpreserved part of W herwel l

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W ood a place free for every vagabond and notwithstanding it

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blew a continued urricane with an al most incessant pour of ,

r ain I killed and bagged every bird I shot at vi z

, 1 2 phe a sants ,
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a l l full grown b irds and 9 of them cocks

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H ad much fun to day in manoeuvring against and beating -

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o ther shooting parties .

2 n d — A gal e of wind all day with a dri z zling rain an d ,

s ometimes a heavy pour U p at five and as I said would .

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be i he case , found no pheasants where I was th

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e day before ,

a s they seldom return the next day C ame home wet .

t o the skin at eleven O u t again at one : wen t fly fishing ; .

b agged at the same time I j ack snipe I hare I cock pheasant , , ,

a n d 2 par tridges and had capital sport pulling out the trout
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R eturned ( wet through again ) by fo u r o clock wi t h fish flesh ’

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and fowl in plenty .

Zfi — A fter killing 8 partridges 2 snipes and I pheasant

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w hich I wanted for L ondon and for which I had a hard fag ,

in a rainy morning I went fly fishing and caught 3 fine trout ,

j ust in time for a four o clock dinner ’

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fl e — R ode off to another neutral beat a rende z vous

x ,

for unqualified tradesmen and bagged 8 pheasants and 4 ,

p artridges .

8 tfi — W alked out with a young dog got three shots to

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him and bagged three partridges W eather fin e and bird s

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I a y d bl g
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s b m by t k i g
ou e l y b i d t ti m
un ,
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ec a u s e a a n a n on one r a a e, a n

l ti g hi ht m i g ht k i ll
s e ec n c ti m
o ce s i o s,i wi hl i ttl m i t 1 00 es n s u c c es s o n t e er .
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lay well Had I gone out in earnest with double gun and
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broken i n dogs I should have had a good day

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g m t — D rove to where I had such sport on t he 7 t h and ,

n ever saw a pheasant W eather rainy again but it cleare d .

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up so I shot on my way home and bagged I 2 partridges and

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I rabbit by mean s of firing at all distan ces an d such long ,

shots as I ( or rather my barrels as the credit is theirs ) made , ,

I never before saw .

Ig t /2 — W orked the river and common for miles in search

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of a snipe for M rs H awker and only found I snipe at which

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I had a bad chance though I contrived to kill it , T his i s the .

fifth snipe o n l y I have either killed seen or heard of this , ,

season which is very extraordinary and parti cularly after a

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wet summer .

N o vem é r 7 t
e h — W en t to W hitestaunton beyond C hard in ,

S omerset eighty fi ve m iles from here per A uxiliary mail

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8f /z — S hot with L ord H inton an d kil led only 3 wood

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cocks I hare and 2 rabbits

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g f k — 3
. hares I pheasant and,
2 partridges ; so bad wa s ,

the sport that L ord H inton s share was even less than mine
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though there was nothing missed that o ff ered a tolerable

chan ce .

I o z/z — H aving had enough of shooting in the wet weather

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and not being very w ell I returned again to L ongparish per ,

mail .

I 6 tk — A fter a deep fall of snow in harvest and in a hard

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frost I went out shooting again

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Bagged 6 snipes an d .

I teal .

2 6 t/ e — S hot a sparrow hawk when perched on the house -

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I n the evening killed a mal lard which I could not see b u t , ,

fi red by guess as he pitched This is the first shot I have .

had at flight this winter though I have wai ted out above a ,

do z en nights .

D e b r I 6 l /2
ec m e — W ent up to L ondon
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z o t/z —R eturned to L ongparish and drove my tandem

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writing thinking and taking snuff till a half st a rved cow

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deprived me of the form er amusement by thrus t ing her horns ,

through the window and consequently obliging me to close

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the board which I suppose is called a shutter

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I had then
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no other resource than to brave the elements which I did till ,

my gun was wet and I killed as they flew over I wigeon and
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2 brent geese also some more of each sort that fell out upon
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the ebbing tide where I dare not either send a dog or a boat
, .

A ttempted to get out in the even ing but was again driven i n ,

by rain when I had j ust killed a heron which I voted well worth
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my charge in order to make me a substitute for giblet soup

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1 7 m 10 1 9 e/z — W et weather and gales

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z o Z/z — A tremendous hurricane all day

. Th e communi .

cation with Poole entirely cut o f f it being i mpossible even to ,

cross the C hannel ( to get there by land ) all our boats filled ,

our oars washed away an d the house so full of water that I

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was obliged to stand in water boots and cook my dinner ,

where there was water enough to float a boat the house like , ,

N oah s ark being literally i n the flood A scarcity of pro

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vision except red herrings an d the few wi ld fowl we had shot

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Being on the weather shore no birds would fly over the haven , ,

so that we had nothing to compensate for the most unmerciful

misery of the weather M ore rain of course M y pilot poorly
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with the rheumatism and my servant put to bed wi t h a cold

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where he could only be approached by means of water boots

or a bridge of chairs .

2 15 Z .
— M ost miserable weather .

m ea l — W orse and worse C ontrived to w eather it across.

to Poole in a gale of wind and pour of rain .

2 3 r d — G o t on the L ord E xmouth coach and having

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l eft my man and shooting things at S outhhaven went home to ,

L ongparish ( of course in a pour of rain ) to wait till t his

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pretty lit t le shower was over .

2 6 Z/z — W e t
. M any people ill and dying and everything
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n early ruined by the unprecedented wetn ess of the season .

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F eém a ry back ag a in to Poole and at night

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VV en t ,

crossed over to S ou t hhaven H aving business t here I w a s .

obliged to go and t h e change of scene was of all others the , ,

thing to do me the most good O therwise even had the .

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weather been cold enough I w a s scarcely i n the humour even ,

for wild fowl shooting aft er t h

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e sudden death of my little child .

W eather very fine but as mild as A pril , .

t— R eal bad luck wi t h the wild fowl A t half pas t

g en .
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one this morning I got close up to about 4 0 wigeon and had ,

only to wait for abou t ten mi nutes more tide to bring th e

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swivel gun to bear when a rascal rowed by to windward and

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put them all up T his was nothing to what happened an

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hour afterwards vi z I got about 1 5 0 wigeon feeding under

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the moon all doubled toge t her in a space scarcely the size o f
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a canoe and literally not so much as thirty yard s from me

, .

S uch a chance had not been known or heard of in Pool e

harbour for m any years I ndeed had I chosen my groun d .
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t i f fi e and place and positioned the birds myself I could n o t

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have had a more glorious opportunity for aggregate slaughter ,

and my swivel gun was loaded with a pound of the choicest

si z ed shot I levelled at th
. e very bull s eye of the phalanx
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when to my dire annoyan ce and m o r ti fi c a t i o n instead of

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seeing so or 6 0 dead and wounded my pri ming in spi t e o f , ,

the greatest care had got d a mp and the gun flashed U p of

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course flew the birds like a roar of the sea and the cursed
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powder kept hissing away so that they had all flown far abov e ,

the utmost level of the stanchion before the gun went o f f .

H aving been out all night I then came in breakfasted and , , ,

w ent out all day but had no hope till t h

, e dusk of the evening ,

when occurred my chance for an enormous swarm of geese .

O l d To m left t h e canoe for a few minutes when she slipped ,

her painter and drifted off to sea H ere I had to pay dearly .

for a four oar boa t an d crew t o go out aft er her as i t cam e

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on to blow very hard and my guns and everything were i n ,

her and the whole concern was all but lost H aving luckily
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got her in I went out all night again but the wind having
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s hifted to the unfortunate south west I never saw or heard a -

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s ingle wild fowl though incessantly working till five i n the

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morning .

4 Z/z —
. O u t all day ; but could n ot as yet get a chance , ,

e ven at inferior birds except one shot with my smal lest gun , ,

w ith which at a very great distance I got 2 grey plover and

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I knot . C ould not go out to night as it came on wet weather -

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a gain,
with a strong gale of wind Thank G o d that such .

i nfamous luck has been only in trifling concerns and not in ,

m atters of consequence .

6 z/z —
. O u t all night and never heard or s a w but three ,

w igeon .

7 Z/z .
—2 brent geese .

8 f /z . O u t best part of the night and never saw or heard

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a single bird .

/ —C rossed over to Poole on my way home and t his

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n ight reached S ali sbury by the conveyance of my boat on

wheels in which I never travelled more pleasantly

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m i le —R ode on from S alisbury and arrived to dinner at ,

L ongparish .

.N B — Th .e shooting at Poole this year is even worse than

that of the l ast year or even the preceding one and indeed , , , ,

th e sport has been worse this season t han ever was remem
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bered by the oldest gunner I never before too owing to the .

, ,

g ales of wind lost so many wild fowl in proportion

, to t he few
I bagged and although I was day and night at work for three
weeks I got but one shot with my swivel gun and that was
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th e famous one at which it missed fire Previously to comi n g ,

.

home I had plenty of sport at birds not worth noting such as ,

coots divers goosanders grebes & c

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I 8 t/l S hrove T uesday

. B egan fly fishing and with a .
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yellow dun and red pal mer killed 1 6 brace of good trou t
i n two hours .

N o t only most of those killed to day but some which -

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6 Zl e — A. rrived at L ongparish 2 00 miles wi thout stopping , , ,

except to break fast in town .

N B
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— W hile in N orfolk I had some excellent sport with
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perch pike and bream fishing ; and I had the best o f

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shooting at rabbi t s fla p p er s shovellers ruffs and reeves a n d

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every kin d of marsh bird Th e order of the d ay was to sally

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forth with all sorts of n etting trolling angling and shooting , , ,

tackle so as to a t tack al l the marshes both by land a n d

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w ater— as an i nvading enemy would march over a country

and bring i n our punts laden with fish flesh and fowl , ,
.

A ug zes z 2 3 r d L ongparish Th e fishing has been s o

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i nferior this year that I have seldom gone out for a whol e
day ; and at last I gave up keeping an account of what I
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caught i t being not worth it I n the whole season I kil led

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about 5 0 brace of trout which I have in former years ofte n

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done in two days .

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C H A P TE R X

18 1 7
S p e zem ber
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I sa — L ongparish
B irds greatly destroyed by .

an incessant rain no barley cut and even the greater part of

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the wheat standing I tried to get the shooting deferred bu t

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could not prevail on others to agree .

Th e few birds which w ere to be caught out of the corn

were as wi ld as in N ovember I however di d vas t ly well .

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considering all disadvantages having bagged 2 0 partridges , ,

I hare I quail and I landrail

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4 Z/z — M r S ola came t o us

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9Z k — Kil led 2 brace of trout with a fly for the a m u s e m en

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of M r S ola . .

m i l e — W en t out with a double gun which I had made , ,

up myself ( barrels by M anton ) and in sixteen shots killed ,

I 5 partridges and one bird lost ; and M r S ola killed and .

bagged I partridge .

I 5 z/ e O u t all day and got but seven shots

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Killed 8 .

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partridges and another lost— and a rabbi t M r S ola left us . .

for S outhampton Bad luck on the 1 sthas wel l as poor

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sport H ad one of my only two dogs stuck wi th a scythe

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and severely wounded broke my ramrod and sprained my , ,

ankle .

2 0 1/z — M
y sprain
. being nearly well I went o u t o n horse

back and after slaving from mornin g till evening I only

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bagged 7 partridges N ever since the memory of the oldest .

person here has t here been such a deplorable scarci ty of

birds ; for 1 par t ridge now we had 2 0 last year .
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G ame bagged in S eptember 1 8 1 7 : 1 0 8 partridges 2 ,

hares 3 , rabbits 3 snipes 1 quail and 1 landrail Total

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1 1 8 head
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Oc tober — H ad again to contend with many strong

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parties in the lawless part of W herwell W ood and manoeuvred ,

so that I beat them all put together with only I brace of pointers .

C onsidering the very bad breed of pheasants this was one ,

o f the best d ays I ever enjoyed bagged I I pheasants 3 par ,

t r i d g es and I hare
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A dding what S ignor V e r c e l l i n i shot and
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two divided birds we killed 1 6 pheasants 6 partridges an d , , ,

2 hares nearly all we saw

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N B — I could have killed more but gave all the best

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shots up to the S ignor as he n ever shot before in E ngland , .

3 m — ’
.V e r c e l l i n i and I beat W herwel l W ood again and ,

never found a nything but I hare and I pheasant both of ,

which we put in the bag .

2 0 tb —
3 partri. dges 2 hares and I teal ; while a party , ,

from my house c onsisting of five crack double barrel shots

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touched on L ord Portsmouth and bagged I I brace of birds ,

3 brace of hares I pheasant and 1 rabbit

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2 6 t/z — R eceived . a detonating double gun ( No 8 1 1 .

value 1 0 0 guineas presented to me by M r J oseph M anton , . .

2 7 Z/ z —W ent . out with this elegant gun and n o tw i th , ,

standing a n i ncessant pour of rain I killed in fift een shots ,

9 snipes 3 partridges ,
I spotted gallinule and I water rail
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Th e one shot that I missed was far beyond a fair d istance .

No v em b 4t
er / z — D rove to A ndover walked from the town
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down the river and bagged I 9 snipes ; besides 2 shot and

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lost making o é couple w ithout having m issed a shot
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6 tb — . 2 partridges and 4 snipes T ried the eff ect of the .

detonating gun at birds which duck the flash and found it ,

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to answer admirably by k illing dabchicks swimming at a ,

considerable distance .

N B —A l th g h v y p
. . ou S pt mb h ti g y t I hv v y
a er oor e e
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er s s oo n , e a e e er r ea s o n

t b
o e sa ti fi d w h Is e id hw x t m l y w i l d d
en c on s th g m h b er o e re e a n s c a rc e e a e a s ee n ,

a n d w ht w t hd p t l l th p p l hv hd h th
a re c e s or i a o er eo e a e a er e s s e a so n .
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we began shooting and I had to drive M r Kalkbrenner down

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aft erwards to E verley the buggy was broken a second ti me ,

and in this state I had to proceed Th e variety o f our other .

dangers and mishaps would fill a ro mance .

18 18

snipes
1 2 Z/ j ack —
snipes and bittern I
ja n u a ry 9 2z . 1 , , .

have now killed 1 3 2 snipes and 7 4 j ack snipes Total 2 0 6 .

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1 4 z/z —
.I began fly fishing an d in about an hour caught ,

as many trout as I could wel l carry exceeding generally a ,

pound each and in such perfect season that most of them

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dressed as firm and as red as a sal mon and had on them a

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fine curd the same as in J uly This may be perhaps .

at t ributed to the mildness of the winter .

I 7t h —.P roceeded to N orwich .

1 8 l b — W ent over to M r R ising s at H orsey

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2 0 2b
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W ent to M r H u n ti n g d o n s at S omerton H all to
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stan d godfather to his son and heir ; and partook of his

grand fete at which I as well as many others played several
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characters in and out of the masquerade and which was kept

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up most brilliantly til l the

2 2 7m —R eturned to H orsey
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3 o z
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b —.W ent to Y armouth and i n t h
e evening left that ,

place for L ondon per mail .

N B —
. .A lthough I took my guns for wild fowl shooting yet -
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I w a s so unlucky that I never got a chance all the time I

was i n N orfolk though out every day and every evening
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while at H orsey I literal ly never saw but one snipe during

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the whole time though a week only previous to my arrival 2 5

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couple had been killed in a day and the quantity of wild fowl ,

was so i mmense that every common fello w on the mere

boundary of where I and only I had the full liberty o f s h
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oot ,

ing was earning his pound a week by shooting W hat occa

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s i o n ed my unprecedented essence of bad luck was the incessant

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hurri cane from the south wes t which blew every creature that-
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ha d wings across to th e D u t ch coast and where in such a , ,

c ase t hey usually stay till the pairing season

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I had some very fair game shoo t ing though wi t h parties ,

( as is the unpleasant custom of this coun t y and S u ff olk ) I ,

kept no a ccount of w hat I killed which I seldom do on such

Though I h
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d ays . ave never yet been bea t by anyone in any

country that I have ever yet seen still this style of shooting ,

leads to a j ealousy that I detest ; and as I consider more

t han two guns a party for fun and society and not a party ,

f o r sport I reckon all the game shot as much a general

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c on cern as a fox when killed by a pack of hounds though I ,

certainly killed far more than anyone else I one day in .

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particular got 4 brace of hares 3 of partridges wood pigeons

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rabbits & c in about two hours and among my hares was

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a white one the first of the kind ever killed there and which
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ha d been before eagerly fired at and missed .

A mong the trials of s k i l l I made some double shots at ,

halfpence t hrown up t ogether and finished by throwing away ,

t w o halfpence with my right hand and t hen shooting one ,

with each barrel before they fell to the ground Th e half .

p ence o f my diff eren t double shots were kept as a curiosity .

F ebr u a ry I s z R eturned home to L ongparish

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z/ — W orked the river all day and saw but 2 j ack snipes
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both of which I put in the bag .

I 2 f /z —W ent to K eyh
. a ven to see about my cottage drove
d own in my canoe on wheels wi th my large gun G o t no , .

chance there for wild fowl the weather being far too mild and , ,

the season too far gone ; indeed all I bagged was one brent ,

goose I had however capi t al sport with t h

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e coo t s having ,

got a great many almost every day O n e night I killed 1 6 .

at a shot at about 1 2 0 yards with my s tanchion gun

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I 9 z/ z — W hen firing at some geese my new stanchion gun

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of 96 l b weight was literally blown to atom s from the

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breeching to near the end of the stock and t hough the ,

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lock and other appendages were dealing destruction in every

quarter and I was for a considerable tim e on fire (
,
wi t h
a pound of gunpowder i n my pocket ) thank G o d I , ,

sustained not the slightest inj ury further than the en d

o f one of the oars being blown o f f N othing but the k ind .

i nterference of Providence and my inven tion for fixing this

gun could possibly have saved my life Th e barrel a .
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Birmingham one which was to all appearance clean proved

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to be scarcely better than u n b e a t ore or granite stone L et .

this be a caution to discard all barrels that are not twisted .

A fter my happy escape I return ed in a p ou r o f rain .

2 15 t — D rove home in a vile road wi t h one incessant

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torrent of rain t h e whole way and after the narrow escape ,

from being killed by the fore part of the carriage breaking

when going down a steep hill I thank G o d arrived safe and ,

sound at L ongparish H ouse .

2 3 r ez — H aving purchased the celebrated fishery o f M r

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W i d m o re I this day bought M r S utton s lease with which i t

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w a s en cumbered and became possessed in fee simp le of o n e

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o f th e firs t trou t rivers in the world S hot 1 hare and 3 j ack .

snipes ; a f terwards wen t fly fishing on my newly purchased

river and when the snow was a foot deep I caught a d ish of
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fish for dinner in about hal f an hour which proved i n capi t al ,

season A t night it thawed and we had anothe r attack from

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torrents of rain .

2 7 Z/z — 1 j ack snipe and anot h

. er shot and lost being the
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l ast two to the bes t of my knowledge left in th

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e country , .

A fterwards fly fi s h e d for hal f an

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hour and killed 1 0 very ,

large and very well seasoned trout -

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L ist of game & c bagged in the season to M arch 1 1 8 1 8

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1 7 8 partridges 2 0 pheasan t s 1 2 hares (

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nearly extirpated here ) , ,

8 rabbi t s 7 woodcocks ( ,
all I saw ) 2 3 0 snipes I quai l ( all , ,

seen ) I landrail 2 ducks 2 teal 1 goose (

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t his year even , ,

w orse than the last for fowl which I had though t i m p o s ,

sible ) I bittern Total 4 6 3 head exclusive of coots wa t er

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18 18

S f
p e
e m ber I s ongparish O u r country has been entirely
t — L .

clear of corn for nearly a fortnigh t and never do we r e ,

member having been so long without rain not a turnip to be

seen everything completely burnt up and the fields as bare ,

as in D ecember with the ground as hard as rocks

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S tarted about n ine o clock (a very stormy day and th

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birds as wild as hawks ) and bagged 3 0 partridges (,

besides a
leash sho t and lost ) 3 hares and I snipe all to poor old
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N ero who behaved most admirably

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Th e scent however .
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was so b ad that I owe a great deal to having markers I t

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was i mpossible to make any succession of shots for I had to ,

fire a t random three t i mes at least to every bird that I could

get within fair distan ce .

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I 7Z Z —.I wild duck by moonlight a little before midnight
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G ame 81 0 killed to S eptember 3 0 : I 1 2 partridges 7 hares , ,

I rabbit 2 landrails 1 0 snipes 1 4 ducks and mallards

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T otal .
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1 4 6 head .

B irds scarcer and w ilder than ever and my sport has ,

been more than that of all the people round th e country

u t together though I had no dog to shoot to tha t was of t h e

p ,

smalles t assistance to me but poor old invaluable N ero .

Oc tober I s t — Th
e pheasants here being nearly ex t inct I ,

started this morning before four o clock and threw off in the ’

great woods round C old H enley where t h e whole day I never,

saw but 4 pheasants I bagged 2 pheasants a t very long

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distances and both snap shots in the high covert 1 hare and
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I partridge S hot also 3 more partridges and mos t extra

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ordinary lost them all owing to their falling in high covert

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while it poured wi t h rain M r V erc el l i n i killed I pheasa n t . .

and the only one that escaped the bag was one that was
travelling by as we passed a road W e drove home ducked .

and dren ched t o the s k i n a n d had the satisfaction to learn n o ,

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one had bagged a head of game but ourselves .

2 nd — W ent fly fishi n g and in a little more than half an ,

hour killed 5 brace of the finest trout I had seen this year ,

—
highly in season averaging 5 l b each and the largest o f
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them weighed 2 l b ; besides this I threw in several more .

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that were small .

1 8 Z/z D rove M r S ola (

— . who came to us yesterday morn .

ing ) in th e tandem to W inchester .

N B — I left the parlour at twenty minutes before three

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and was in it again before the clock struck five having trotted ,

th e tandem to W inchester and back in two hours and twenty

minu t es including nearly a quar t er of an hour that I stopped
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there and I never had occasion to use my whip the whol e

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way except once to punish the leader for vice

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z o ch — W ent to L ondon to study music & c , .

N ovem ber 8 t 2 h — R eturned to L ongparish . .

D ecem ber 2 6 c/c To m F owler my sailor arrived from his

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mission to survey the wild fowl shooting at S t Valery on the -

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co a st of France of which place he gave an excelle nt accoun t

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and on the 2 8 thhe went off to survey K eyh a ve n .

3 15 t
— R eceived my n ew stanchion gun a fi r s t r ate high
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finished piece of as n ear as possible 1 cwt from M r D E g g

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made on my own pla n .

18 19

j c mz mry 6 c/c — . W ent down to my cottage at K ey hv a en ,

hvm g previously sent on my new stanchion gun

a &c . in order
t t ake t h opportun ity of trying it
o e .
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D I AR Y j AN .

I 5 Z/z .
—A t
last I discharged my gun a long shot at som e ,

coots two of which I got wi t h t h

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e dog but the crippl es I ,

d are not follow as i t blew too fresh on the tide

, N othing .

but a pour of ram hurri canes thu nder an d l ightning ever

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since our arrival at K ey h a v e n and although I weathered it ,

f o r the whol e of several n ights I have as yet scarcely heard , , ,

a wigeon and not one to be seen in L ymington market for

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s ome weeks .

1 8 th — A wigeon at morning flight The first that has .

b een killed here for some weeks .

I 9 z/z
‘— T ried my stanchion gun at two flying shots in each
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o f which the birds were about 3 0 yards high and at least 2 00 ,

distant and knocked down 2 geese with the second sho t

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2 15 c — VV en t to morning flight the only chance got on e ,

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s hot knocked down 3 wigeon and lost them

, all in the sea , ,

w hich ran mountains high .

2 2fl d — Th e rainy weather still continuing I despaired o f ,

getting fowl so attacked the coots with my large gun they

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were however so wild that I could only get 2 very long

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r andom shots the firs t of which stopped 5 and the second I I

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3 o c/c
— S ent away my piano which I hired and began to
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prepare for leaving K e h a ve n as the scarcity and wi ldness o f

y ,

the birds together with t h ,

e wildness a n d almost incessan t

w etness of the weather made i t impossible for m e or anyone ,

e lse to get sport W i t h the coots however such things as

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t hey a r e I had most days excellent diversion by banging

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i nto them with the stanchion gun at about 1 00 yards and , ,

after setting ten or a do z en at a ti me sprawling on the mud I ,

a mused mysel f by chasing the cripples with two N ewfound

l an d dogs and a double gun S ave these and a few wigeon

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t hat I shot in t h e windy weather and dare not face the sea for , ,

I had no S port or pleasure here of any description whatever .

E ven my sport wi th the coots was at first annihilated by , ,

fellows called head gunners who come up from eight miles

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o ff
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and bully all the poor fellows here from getting a shot .
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d ow n in the young wood over which he had been hovering
for several evenings .

2 4 tl c —.L ord P o u l e t t ( who came to us yesterday ) and I

went fishing and in about three hours killed 1 2 brace of large
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trout between us besides catching a great many t hat we threw

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in again .

2 5 c/z —.1 2 trout .

2 6 c/ c —.1 2 trout .

27 l/ z —
.1 2 trout in about two hours averaging I é lb — each , . .

I this day ins t ead of fly fishing trolled wi t h a m inno w to t ry

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Parson H utchins s new poaching hook which beggars every

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other tackle in existence .

29 t l c —.L ord P o u l e t t left us Killed 1 2 trout . .

Ap r i l 2 6 c/z — L eft L ongparish to spend a week with M r

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and M r s C hambers i n S tratford Place L ondon on our way

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for F rance .

M a y 3r — L eft the W hite B ear Piccadilly a t half past ,

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seven this morning an d arrived at the L ond on H otel D over

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about hal f past six aft er getting an excellent dinner with a

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very moderate charge at the King s H ead C an t erbury and ’

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previously to going to bed exchanged som e bank notes for ,

napoleons wi t h M r M oses who although a J ew is a very fair

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honest dealing man

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— E mbarked i n t h L ark packet ; a n d aft er being

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tossed without victuals from morn ing till night among a , ,

mass of vomiting cockneys was forced to return to D over ,

and pass a second night among the myriad s of sharpers by

whom you are every instant i mposed on at that place .

5 c/c .
—R eached C alais til l my going to bed in which place ,

I never ceased having to distribute mon ey for one fellow or

other Put up at the H otel D essein (
. M Q u i l l a c ) which is .
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fi r s t rate clean and superbly furnished

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6 Z/z .
— L eft C alais per diligence at ten A M and reached , , . .
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Abbeville 7 0 m i les about a quarter before twelve at night

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W ent to the H otel de l E u ro p e a most capi t al hou se ’

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7 Z/c
— T ook G eneral
. H awker by surprise having en t ered ,

his room while he was drawing and t apped hi m on the ,

s houlder he was petri fie d with astonishment I nspec t ed t h e .

church t h ,
e outside of wh i ch is magnificent .

8 c/z —W ent wi t h t h
. e G eneral in a cabriolet (a machine only
fit for firewood ) t o Bouvancourt a littl e hamlet on t h e banks ,

of a stream under the great fores t about 2 0 miles from ,

A bbeville H ere I was led to expec t mos t ex t raordina ry fly

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fishing but a dead calm wi t h a burning sun from morning till

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n ight so ruined our chances of sport that I only killed 5 brace

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of small trout and the G eneral n ever hooked a single fish

, .

H ad the weather been even tolerable we migh t have done ,

very well ; but aft er all the fishing at this celebra t ed place
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a ppears far inferior to that of L ongparish .

9 c/z —W
. ent with the G eneral to i nspect S t Valery 4 .
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leagues from Abbeville at the mouth of the S om me ,

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I o c/c —H ired a coach and three horses for 5 napoleons

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t ot ak e us to Paris W ere driven 6 leagues to breakfas t at

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a smal l public house where we only s t opped half an hou r

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Proceeded 7 leagues farther t o G r a n vi l l i er s where we dined ,

and put the horses up to be fed & c for scarcely more t han an .

h our and a t night reached Beauvais thus making up 5 6 miles

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with only t aking the horses once from the coach A n d these .

horses which had performed what would have half killed

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many E nglish ones were three poor miserable looking an imals

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apparen t ly worth about 1 2 1 apiece Previously to going to . .

bed we visi ted the magn ificent church of Beauvais which we ,

were prevented from doing when last in F rance .

I I c / —L eft Beauvais at half past four this morning and

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with the same horses & c continued our j ourney and at .

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about si x in the evening arrived a t Paris to dinner .

N B — V Vh
. .en we were in this country some time ago
( while Boney was i n E lba ) everything was co nsiderably
cheaper than in E n gland even on th e grea t roads ,
where ,

i mposi t ion is always practised on strangers B u t now since .

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the E nglish have been in the habit of frequenting this part o f

th e world the charges are becom e so exorbitant that the
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travelling is scarcely to be endured your hand nowadays in

F rance is never out of your pocket and you are at al most , ,

every place obliged to have a complete battle with t h

, e

to resist being literal ly cheated W e several

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a a berg zs l e .

times had charges i n our bills so exorbitant as to provoke

ou r remonstrance on the making of which the people of th
, e

i nn pretended that such charges were mistakes and had even ,

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the duplicity to assume an air of anger that the person s who

were deputed to write the bill should have been so s t upid .
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Th e various attempts that were made to impose on us in the

mos t shameful manner are too numerous and too much ,

beneath my notice to be worth keeping a memorandum of

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suffice it to say that from the instant you enter D over

til l you have got safely clear of your hotel in Paris you ,

have to guard against one incessant attack of the grossest

i mposition A hotel in Paris (
. up G o d kno w s how m any
flights of stairs ) was always a misery but now it is become
so bad that N ewgate is a paradise when compared to i t
, .

Th e charge to us for being consigned to this misery for one

sh ort night is 1 5 francs exclusive of every thing except the

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beds on which we are to sleep as well as damp sheets filth

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noise and a con catenation of s t i n ks will admi t of

, .

O n our way to the precious town of Paris we were diverted

with the attem pts that are now made to drive four in hand in
the diligence A n idea of the F rench coachmanship may be
.

sufficiently formed when I observe that they have li t erally no

reins at al l for the wheel horses ; and that some of the
diligences in this state were driven curricle fashion by a
baboon looking fellow seated almost on the pole and w ith
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t w o wheels only ; twelve person s inside and four outsid e

were driven full gallop down the ste epest hills and among ,

crowds of carriages and waggons N othing but the extreme

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docility of the F ren ch horses could save t h e occurrence of

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c ould be near her father add to which the heat of t h e ,

weather made it prudent for us to withhold going to M ilan .

W e have n o w for the present got into a tolerably good inn

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w hich is cheap and a model of cleanliness after the inde

s cribable filth of Paris .

—H ired a rotten chariot and rotten harness and after

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breaking down twice with each arrived at N oyelle sur M e r ,

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8 leagues and inspected the right bank of the S omme from

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t ha t place to S t C ro t o i attended by the chief gunners of the

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place an d directed by th
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e mayor M onsieur M eurice de C ampy , .

A man n amed F r i z e z showed m e all the gunning huts and

straw decoy birds used on this coast but t heir wild f o w1 ,
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shooting is a perfect farce they know nothing about it , .

O n our way back we stopped at Port where one Picarde

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th innkeeper the landlord of a li t tle ca ba r ez knew more

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e , ,

than all the o thers put together W e crossed the S om me in his .

boat about two leagues from A bbeville and aft er gaining

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every information relative to the w inter s c/za s s e returned to ’

A bbeville j ust in time to save having the barriers shut agains t

us about hal f past nine o clock
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1 2 z/z —H ired the ber l me and three horses of D a l g ra n g e

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th e man who drove us so well to Paris an d started t his ,

morning for D ieppe I findi n g it necessary to go to E ngland , ,

an d preferring to be there now instead of at a time when I ,

could perhaps have the wild fowl S hooting on the S omm e -

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I accordingly left my servant an d what sporting things I had

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with G eneral H awker in the hope of being able to return i n ,

S eptember W e took an early dinner at L a Ville d E u a little

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beyond halfway to D ieppe where we inspected a fine church ,

that was built by the E nglish amused ourselves on the organ , ,

went all over the ch a teau of the D uchesse d O r l éa n s whi ch is ’

close to the church and then proceeded to D ieppe where we , ,

arrived by five o clock and had the whole evening to inspec t

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the town 81 C , .

Th e drivers cal l it fift een leagues from A bbeville to

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D ieppe , but the distance is as near as possible , , 39 E nglish

m iles .

T h road from A bbeville to

e is most capital and D ieppe ,

th e inns here not having been used by the E nglish are by

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no means expensive .

1 3 c/z — E mbarked on board the

. L ord W ellington packet ,

on e of the finest sailing schooners I ever set eyes on ( C aptain

C heesman master ) at two o clock , W e were becal med till ’
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n ear seven an d then i t came to blow pretty fresh all nigh t

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and all the next morning directly in our teeth but n o tw i th ,

standing this excellent vessel lay so close to th

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e wind
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that S h e fetched but very little to leeward of her course ;

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a n d at three o clock on the afternoon of the 1 4 th we landed

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in a gale of wind after being well drenched by the breakers , ,

a n d having li t erally fought with winds and tides all the

way from D ieppe Th e usual miseries and messes o f sick .

n ess among our younger travellers were ten fold i ncreased

h ere by our having to lie so close to the wind and by the ,

length and roughness of the passage ; but we were induced

to be content notwithstanding because on t his voyage and , ,

j our n ey there are not those attempts at constant imposition as

at D over a n d C alais and everything on both S ides of th e water ,

is more reasonable and with a few exceptions the civility , , ,

m uch grea t er A ft er getting cleared off at the custom house

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where the duty i s don e in the most gentlemanly m anner ,

a nd dining at the N ew S hip inn we took a chaise for ‘ ’

C hichester at seven and got there to sleep at eleven , , , .

1 5 c/z — L eft C hichester at half past eight

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arrived safely at L ongparish H ouse j ust in time to sit d own

to din ner and thank G o d found all well
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2 4 Z/z — 2 4 trout
. .

Th e fi shing is now become very dull owing to the trou t ,

being glu tt ed with the m a yfly .

At B ri g h
t on , to w i hp l
h c a ce t hp
e a ss a
g e l hm i l
d i r ec t i s 7 5 E n g i s es h
bu t t e

l og g en era lly r un s to a bo u t 8 0 .
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j ty
u H aving recei ved m y new stanchion gun (
1st .
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afte r
having it sent to M r E g g again to be highly finished after a
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winter s trial and approval of it in the rough state) I this day

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t ried it again at boards covered with paper in the river

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A fter thus trying it in the c a n o e I then took the artillery ,

carriage an d mounted it on land where I fired I s t shot at a ,

few straggling pigeons and killed 1 a t 1 2 0 yards 2 n d at 1 2

, ,

swallows on a tree and killed 8 of them 3 rd at S ingle s w a l

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lows flying and k illed 2 out of 3 so nicely have I brought thi s

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machin e to bear though l b i n weight

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l ot/z — Pa id the bil l for my stanchion gun as follows

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Gun
Ca s es

2 ra m r o ds
2 w a dd i n g p u n c h
es

S ht p o ht
o uc o fi t g un
Ca rr i a g e a k
n d pa c i n g

A ug us t I st — Mr with M r D onaldso n
. a nd M rs . L ogier .

and two of th e pupils came to us this day preparative to the ,

exhibition of M essrs L angstaff and D A u b e r t i n s academies

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on the L o g er i a n system of musical education at A ndover and ,

S outhampton O n the 3 r d we drove to A ndove r and on the

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4 t htook a chariot a nd four freighted with young ladies to

S outhampton at both of which places the public examination s
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went off admirably well .

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h constant succession of long shots that my favourite

T e

old J oe M anton barre ls continued brin ging down surpassed ‘

anything I had before done or seen i n my whole career o f , ,

shooting .

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— 6 par t ridges and 1 hare
3 r a .2 .

4 tl c .
— W ent out after dinner and in three hours bagged ,

1 4 partridges all I fired at ,

I made one extraordinary shot .
,

vi z . a very wild pack ( 2 coveys ) o f strong birds got up and

cam e towards me I killed 2 at a shot with the first barrel

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and 4 at a shot with the second and among them were t h e ,

4 ol d birds .

t/ — H aving bagged birds in my first four days ’

7 z. 1 0 1

S hooting to poor old N ero who had been incurably lame in

, ,

the S houlder for these t en months I would not take hi m out ,

to day ; and as I had no dog that would stir from my heel

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besides I took two men with a rope about thirty yards long
, ,

and dragged the ground being in w a nt of birds and I bagged , ,

1 3 partridges besides shooting 2 more which I lost

, .

2 8t ft — O n e shot that I made to day I cannot account for

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except by th e shot having adhered together I blew a bird s .

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head from his body ( so that I could never find the head ) at
seventy two paces distant
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— S tarted agreeably to a pressing i nvitation to my

3 0 t/z .
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friend J ack Ponton at U pton ( 2 2 m iles

),
preparative as I , ,

expected to taking the first day s pheasant shooting ; b u t he

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despairing of my coming and my letter having reached him ,

a few hours too l ate had gone o f f i n to Kent and not thinking
, ,

i t handsome to shoot in his absen ce I returned home again by ,

way of S outhampton ( 2 8 miles ) which I was obliged to do in ,

order to avoid going a vile bad road by night and I had thus ,

5 0 miles to drive bag and baggage for nothing which t o me , , ,

was a less disappoin t ment than i f I had missed two fair S hots .

G ame 8 m bagged by S eptember 2 8 th 2 0 4 partridges

. : ,

9 hares 1,
rabbit 4 landrails 1,
8 snipes 7 wild ducks T o t al , , .
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2 4 3 head .
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Though the country was barren and the weather almos t

always stormy yet ( with the exception of a young dog tha t
,

did more harm than good ) I literally k illed all to poor old
N ero who was lame from the very first day till now
,
Ih .

cluding some days in which I was driven home by rain I o n l y ,

took the field seventeen days during the month of S eptember .

Oc tober I s t — O n e of the finest mornings I ever saw f o r

covert shooting ; but my disappointment in having gone t o
U pton made it too late for me to accept many other invitations
for the first day and literally not having a S ingle pheasant on
, ,

my whole estate I was obliged of course to give up the ide a

, , ,

of getting one consequently did n o t go out shoo t ing

,
.

7 t/z —. H eard of a cock pheasant which nowadays is lik e ,

a wild beast on my property and in half an hour came hom e ,

with 2 fine old cock pheasants I having found another with ,

th e one reported and bagged them both,

.

I t1 /t — W a s called up this morning with information

.

th at my man who had gone off wi t h my du ck punt on

,

w heels containing all my baggage for Brighton I having

, , ,

engaged his passage for F rance to morrow night had m e t -

,

wi th a severe accident the other side of W inchester Th e .

horse took fright going down M o ves te a d H ill three miles fro m ,

th e town ran away broke the carriage and wheels to pieces

, , ,

and most severely wounded the man I had t her fore ill as . e
,

I was to drive o f f to put several c o a c h m a k er s workmen t o

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replace the wreck get a cart to convey the wounded man to

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the county hospital and make arrangements for hiring o ther

,

horses i n order t hat my sailor and my things might not lose

t heir passage to F rance .

1 2 t/z — L eft L ongparish for L ondon on our way to F rance

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1 4 t/z S ubmitted to and had accep t ed by M r C happell

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my new invented apparatus for running over the keys of a

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pianoforte in a mathematically true position .

I 5 t/c — G o t t o D over
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I 6 t/c — H ad so good a passage to C alais that we set foo t

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on both E nglish and F rench ground within three hours an d

five minutes A ft er being as usual fleec e d by innumerabl e
.
, ,

scoundrels w e proceeded post ( , the most expensive yet by ,

far the wors t mode of conveyance i n F ran ce ) and stopped for

the night at Boulogne H ere as a matter of cou rse we had .
, ,

to sit up till one i n the morning airing wet sheets by a fire

made of green wood .

I 7 t/z — I was t o be called at six this morning ; but at

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near seven no one was up and I had to alarm the whole ,

house before I could get a soul to move when at last hal f , ,

a dozen fellows ran out all i nquiring what w a s the matter , .

I n shor t aft er crawling like a road waggon the whole day in

,

a pour of rain and i n a machine that was worse than open

, ,

we reached A bbeville where to my great m y s t i fic a ti o n I , , ,

found that my man punt guns 81 C had been nei ther seen
, , .

nor heard of though I could see nothing to prevent their

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arriva l five days ago By way of comfor t too I learnt that

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the river was full of wild fowl .

1 8 t/z — T his day

. I in constant anxiety about my man
, , ,

property and the whol e of my S hooting apparatus on which

, ,

the winter s pleasure depended off ered a premium to the first

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beggar ( A bbeville swarms with these poor wretches ) who should

announce the arrival of my floti lla & c and at four this aft er .
,

noon to my great j oy an old woman in wooden shoes cam e in

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as much ecstasy at receiving the money as I w a s in at finding

my thin g s ( which it woul d take years to replace) had arrived ,

and very narrowly escaped shipwreck which two other vessels ,

had lately encountered of which I had heard and on on e o f , ,

which I had reason t o fear all my things were on board I .

t hen proceeded to my lit t le villa at Port on the banks of the

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S omme where I was received in procession by t h

,
e populace o f

th e village and presented wi t h bouquets as is the custom for

, ,

what they call th e grand seigneur in this country ’

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1 9 t/z
. A fter arranging al l my things & c I went to survey
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the water and al though it was so h

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o t that the air swarmed
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gallop . O nly at very few periods therefore dare we venture , ,

afloa t
2 6 t/
t .
— A fter walking
with a F ren ch chasseur and out ,

killing for hi m I snipe 3 j ack snipes some water rails & c , , .

I this night went off in a ship s boat belonging to a merchant

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.

W e were obliged to put into C r o to i very la t e at night and ,

then sleep in our clothes on some miserable straw and on a

miserable floor which would have been all delightful i f we
,

could have had sport but owing to this gentleman con t rary ‘

to my advice not tak ing my punt in tow we could get at

, ,

nothing to shoot and instead of having good S port the fol low
, ,

ing day we w ere i mprisoned till the evening tide for want o f
,

water while the weather and the birds were quite in favour
,

o f good sport with a proper outfit Th e excursion ended as .

,

I said it must in getting little or nothing ; and we were out

,

S i x and twenty hours all to no purpose

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W e got home t o .

Port on the night of the 2 7 th

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2 9 t/
z —Being very u neasy about L
. I was resolved t o
follow hi m to Paris and after going to A bbeville and there ,

w aiting till two this morning I entered a vehicle called t h e ,

S wallow a hideous machine that carries ton s of luggage and

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stows S ixteen people like a freight of hogs and goes on t w o ,

wheels i n which aft er being tortured worse than i f in the

, ,

stocks I was dragged into Paris at ten on the n ight of the

,

3 o t h,
when I thank G o d I found L ,
much recovered I , .

then the next day presented my pianoforte hand moulds to

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M essrs I gnace 8c C amille P leyel which they a pproved and

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accepted for their manu factory .

N ovem ber 2 u a — L was taken very ill again ’

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6 t/z —W e have once before taken paid for and forfeited

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, ,

the whole of the mail to Boulogne and we even now again ,

d esired to suffer the same loss to day but poor L il l as -

he lay was so crazy to escape the chance of dying in this

,

detestable country that he would insist on our al l leaving ,

Paris this evening and by the merc y of G o d we brought , , ,

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him to A bbeville where we arrived about midday on t h , e

7 t h
,
but such was his disgust at the smoky stye of s t arva t ion
into which we were ushered that he implored us t o l et him be
dragged on t il l he S hould either die or reach home in time to
recover ; and wha t distracted me he would not permit m e
, ,

to accompany him and I had even to use persuasion t o make

,
.

him t ake a servant M rs H awker and I then left A bbeville . .

and proceeded j us t before dusk in tears of anxie ty and in

, ,

tor t ure of conveyance to Port while the rain poured down , ,

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ready to break t h e vile t u m b e i l in which we were dragged ;

here we remained i n a state of agitation en ough to des t roy t h e

nerves of a H ercules or to melt the heart o f a savage whil e ,

praying t o G o d t ha t L m ay by the extraordinary in t er ,

ference of Providence be able to reach home in time to recover , .

9 tl c — W .ent over to A bbeville with my clo t hes an d som e ,

money determined to follow L

, if I heard nothing further
to my sa t isfaction O n reaching the town I m et my servant
.

Ch a rl es w h o m he had sent back L

, having got rather be t ter ,

and emba ked last evening on board the D over packet con
r

sequently I returned to Port trusting to G o d that he would ’

reach home in safe ty .

N B — Y esterday and to day there were such chances

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for spor t as I may not have again wi thout hard weather th e ,

ducks and teal were close to Port but I was so uneasy abou t ‘
,
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L t hat I could not have the heart to load my gun or launch

my pun t and felt indifferent to ever y thing but t idings from

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him .

1 5 t/ c — A fter wai t ing for six days in such a miserable sta t e

.

of suspense about L that I was al most dis t racted I this day ,

had t h e consolation t o receive a letter from him da ted t h e ,

1 0 t hi n s t
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saying t hat he was rather bet ter a n d purpose d

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star t ing from L ondon for home the next day M y mind being .

now a t ease in some degree t rus t ing t o G o d tha t L

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was a t
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home and in comfort I could have wished to take out my g u n ,

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and boat but as ill l uck would have it my sailor was taken ill
, , , ,

and consequently I was s t il l prevented from t rying my sport .

1 7 t/z —Being half dead from anxiety and want of amuse

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ment I this day crossed the S om me and rode down to S t

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Valery .

1 8t /c — I rode over to R u e where I inspected the beautiful

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ruins of a smal l church and aft erwards walked in the marshes , ,

and ki lled 6 snipes 6 j ack snipes and 1 teal al l I fired at

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W hat wi t h fam ily sufferings added t o innum erable l ittle ,

grievances of a minor consideration we never in our l ives ,

were so unlucky ; but G o d send u s a turn of fortune an d

a littl e com fort after al l we have endured in this a b o m i n
,

able country O n the evening of the 1 9 th we received a

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l e t ter from L announ cing his safe arrival at L ongparish ,

and his amendment of health as well as good accoun t s from ,

o u r dear children which gave us more ease of mind t han we

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h ave for a long ti me experienced .

M rs H awker taken very seriousl y ill and as the

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d i r ty s c o u n d r e l of whom I had hired a horse had j ust been

here and taken him a w ay because I had then settled with ,

him and some one else had off ered him a few pence more I
, ,

w a s obliged ( late enough for the various gates to be open ) to

tramp through si x miles of filthy mud on foot and then hunt ,

the town of A bbeville for the doctor L u c k i l y m y old frien d .

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D r R adford (
. on ce of my regiment ) was a practitioner there ,

o therwise G o d alone could have helped us N o t a horse to .

be g o t to d ay in all A bbeville and while M rs H awker was

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suff ering dread f ully for want of port wine and assistan ce the ,

d octor and I had to tramp through the mud on foot .

2 3ra —M rs
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. H awker being still extremely unwell I
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,

wished to get a litt l e bird of some kind for her dinner ; and
a fter going a league to N o i l e tte and there slaving i n the
, ,

marshes till my heels bled I got on e shot and killed 1 snipe , ,

a p retty speci men of the fine shooting in France '

2 5 t/z —W hile I was out to day M r s

. H awker became so -
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D ecem ber Having found myself ex t remely unwell all

I st —

yesterday with a kind of shivering sensation and burning

heats which the F rench i n A bbevi lle consider as their p re va
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l ent d isease all round there and call th e fever I thought it ‘ ’

, ,

m adness to remain any longer in their vi le department and ,

fi nding mysel f in finitely better last night I decided on quit t in g ,

t his place for Boulogne but hearing that P eronne was a place ,

better suited to m e than any I could find and being most ,

anxious at all events to avoid repeatedly travelling the same

road I changed my route and at S i x this morning drove off with
, ,

a o oztu r u for t h e latter place which is about S ixty E ngli sh

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m iles from A bbeville an d which lies on the road from Paris

,

t o Brussels W e break fasted at a village called F lixecourt

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an d were particularly well served for F rance This place is .

halfway to A miens I n order to arrive early a t P eronne we

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could on ly stop to bait at A miens and proceed four leagues ,

beyond there t o dine and S leep W e were told that at V i l a i r e .

we could be tolerably accom modated Th e road after leaving .

A miens became so vi lely bad and in so miserable a wilder

n ess that we could scarcely go a league an hour and we ,

reached V i l a i r e about S i x o clock I had then become so ill

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a n d exhausted I w a s determined to get to bed and on t h e ,

comforts I should receive d epended whether the change of air

S hould rid me of the illness or whether I should e t worse for
g ,

want of the necessaries of life ; but miserable most m iserable , ,

was the vile hornet s n est into which we were ushered and
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here I met the greatest scoundrel that I ever before e n c o u n

t er e d I was thrown trembling with cold on a miserable
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, ,

d irty bed while laughed at and insulted the whole night by a

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set of waggoners and assassin l ooking fellows who called -

themselves officers but who were dressed a [a bou rg eoi s ; one

,

in particular tried to pick a quarrel with me and while eyeing ,

me as I lay on the bed put his hand on his sword and looked a t
, ,

me with a most malicious grin while the others kept laughing ,

and qui z z ing I l eft the bed and lay for a ti me in the car
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ri a
g bu
e, t was there so cold that I was forced to return t o t his
damnable S ituation M rs H awker and her mai d s a t all th
. . e

time ( t o o frightened to sleep ) in this ber l u e W e would have

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given twenty guineas t o have gon e on bu t our horses were ,

dead ti red and the coachman w a s fearful of passing through

,

the forest at night as he could only go two miles an hour on

,

th e heavy road and he said that rare as it was in F rance yet

, , ,

he suspected there were some m a u va zs g em ( bad people ) in the

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forest This I did not mind so as soon as t h

. e horses coul d
,

slowly proceed we put t hem to and called for t h e bill which , ,

ought not to have exceeded ten sous because all that we ,

had or could have was literally one cup of bread and milk
, ,
.

Th e daughters of the house told m e that for the bread and

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milk and for lying down I mus t pay ten francs and at last ,

they said they would take eight I of course refused and this .
,

alarmed the house ; t h e father locked his doors on me and ,

swore I should not move till I had paid ten fran cs I had .
,

therefore to unpack my trunk among all these villains to

,

get more money and let him take his demand,

I then .
,

ready to die had to search for the mayor but at las t

, ,

found a gendarme and in S hort I could get no redress ,

because unless you make a b argain with a F renchman he may

charge you as he pleases This was about two o clock in the
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morning W e at S i x reached the village of F o u f o u c o u rt

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where a t the S ign of the Violin we met some very civil

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peasants who kept this cabaret and who gave us a very

, ,

nice breakfast for fi vep en c e each and t o whom I gave double ,

for their honesty ; at hal f past ten we reached P é o n n e and

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got such good beds at the S tag in n that on the morning ‘ ’

of the 3 r d I was tolerably well A bout twelve o clock I .

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wrapped myself up and wen t to inspect the lakes but more ,

like an old woman than a g u n n er as I was stuck up in a chair ,

instead of being seated down on straw and equipped wi t h an ,

umbrella instead of a gun Th e lakes of P eronne are cer t ainly

.

more calculated for a lover of comfort t o shoot at his ease

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t h an any place I ever saw the water is almost stagnant an d ,

in every par t about four or five feet deep surrounded and ,

intersected by innumerable islands and walls of rushes ; t h e

places to keep your boat are all at the back of little cottages ,

and therefore under private protection ; and as for safety I ,

never saw a place more secure from dangers even if it blew a ,

hurricane or came on the t hickest fog ; certainly therefore

, , ,

the place itsel f is well calculated for my shooting but u n ,

fortunately it happens to be rented i n lots by about fi fty

watermen who get their livelihood by the few wild fowl they
,

kill and who have innu merable shooting huts all over the lakes
, ,

so that i f I went afloat I S hould have to pass the mu z z les o f

perhaps a do z en gun s every quarter of a mile and i f I spoiled ,

the sport of these fellows which I should in all probability d o

,

most eff ectually I should stand a chance of getting a ccza eu t

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a l ly wounded by some j ealous fellow or other Th e man w h o .

escorted m e was one of the chief proprietors and his hu t s ,

were the very best I ever saw they were made as the F rench ,

huts usually are ten times warmer than their houses but much
, ,

better concealed and more com modious than any I had seen
,

before Th
. e hut
(l a b u tte) is precisely like a til t ed waggon
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i nside vi z hooped and covered ; at the back of it there is a

,
.

hole to creep in at and in front are from two to four loop

,

holes to fire through I n this country they use 1 2 tame

.

ducks for decoy birds 4 drakes in the centre and 4 ducks a t

,

each side tied in lines to pegs at about fi fteen yards distan ce

,

from their masked popgunnery ( I will not say battery) but

in other countries the F rench l zu ttzer s ( hut S hooters) gene
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rally use but 3 decoy ducks I male and 2 females and place
, ,

them not more than seven or eight yards from t h e mu z z les of

thei r miserable guns Th e quantity of fowl here is nothing

.

equal to that in the E nglish fens and by day you seldom ,

see a duck although the F rench coast is more plentifully

,

supplied with wild fowl t han the coast of E ngland .

By means of s w allowing plenty of M adeira and tincture

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t ook the villain before a j ustice of peace H ere he told a .

t housand lies as fast as he could chat t er ; b u t f o r t u n a t e l y I

m e t wi t h a respectable gen t leman who to the villain s dire

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m o r t i fi c a t i o n awarded that I should pay 5 fran cs and the

,

4 francs duty for the posting and be set at liberty ,

with my
baggage I remained the rest of the day a prisoner in this
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town with M rs H awker of course very unwell

,
. .

5 t l —
c W . e were obliged to get up an hour b e fore daybreak
in order to reach A rras ( on ly 3 0 mi les ) before six o clock i n the ’

evening when the barriers are S hut W e got under way about
,
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seven i n a thing called a voiture which was near tumbling to ,

pieces and full of cobwebs and driven by t h e master of it who

, ,

was the most la z y sulky s t upid hound I ever saw H e did, , .

nothing but smoke and stuff hi mself the whol e way and ,

w hen I begged of hi m to go in the light road ins t ead of the

heavy he literally said that he preferred walking his horses

,

through the mud because t h er e w a s

,
a track and he could ‘
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enj oy his pipe and his victuals withou t the trouble of holding
his reins an d the vi llain being the only coachmaster in the
pl ace except the scoundrel who tried to swindle us yesterday
, ,

I was forced to pay him 3 6 francs W e entered the barrier .

of A rras j ust i n ti me to escape being S hut out for the night ,

having gone 3 0 miles in eleven hours .

6 tl c A fter having been well and reasonably served at

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th e H otel de M essagerie in A rras we a t six o clock this ’

m orning proceeded by the diligence for S t O m er a nd .

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arrived there at seven i n the evening which al though but , ,

5 0 miles i n thirteen hours was compara t ive flying

,
af t er t he

t orments of crawling that we had to endure yesterday A ft er .

we got clear of P eronne and got in t o what is commonly ,

called the N etherlands we found ourselves less imposed ,

upon in the bills and more free from filth and humbug
,
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7 t l c Proceeded
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at eight this morning by the relay
diligence and at three reached C alais 3 0 miles W e here
, ,
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found out a place cal led the Brussels H o t el where at last we ,

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found some com fort as nought but an E nglish person or an ,

E nglish thing was in the house W e the refore decided on .

remaining a few days on a kind o f forlorn h 0 pe that a li t tle ,

_

spor t might be found before I decided on ordering my men

home again with the shooting appara t us and heavy baggage .

8 tl z W ent in every direction to survey the environs of

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C alais wi t h one of the hardest frosts that ever was remembered

,

here Th
. e shore being one flat sand ( as it is all t h e way to

the N etherlands on the one side and to Boulogne on the ,

other ) was qui t e out of the question for shooting otherwise

t han at flight time and particularly as the birds do not rest
,

t here at nigh t Their feeding places are in the marshes which

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at this momen t are in one region of ice Th e few birds that .

are n o w killed here are S hot by the hu t ters who break an ‘

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open pl ace i n the frozen ponds and there keep their de coy ,

birds to which the wild ones are called down from about three
,

t ill eigh t in the morning I remained a long ti me in a hut this .

night , but not a bird ever came a n d I never fired a sho t the ,

whole day excep t killing I j ack snipe while reconnoitring in

,

the morning when I cou n ted abou t 3 5 shooters out besides

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mysel f .

9 tl c
— H ired a cabriolet and went to G uines (
. 6 miles
inland from C alais) where i n like manner I found the whole,

country frozen and where in a S pace of a mile the boy who

,

con ducted m e said there were about 1 8 0 huts bel onging to

the night shooters who among them all had kil l ed but 2 ,

ducks the whole of last night Th e moment I got home .

and swallowed a hasty dinner I drove o f f for th e fligh t ,

3 miles from here and never saw or heard ,

but 3 birds .

1 0 t/ z — M rs . H awker and I were laid up wi th illness

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evidently owing to the everlasting t horough d raughts we s i t

in and the wan t of good nourishing food duri n g this u n p re
,

c e d e n te d l
y severe weather T he snow is n o w t w o feet deep in
.

th e stree t s an d w e are dying to get t o our o w n country but

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not a packet has been able to reach t h e harbour here for these
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t en days H ere we are again i n S ickness misery and

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expen se ; for all the com forts of E nglish things wi ll n o t sto p

the thorough draughts that for ever blow through every creek
and corner of a F rench house G o d send us and our property .

once more i n safety on the other side of the C hannel .

This aft ernoon I was so ill that I was every moment n ear
fain t ing from pain H ere am I laid on the bed with the very
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,

frost and snow t hat I had been longing and watching afte r
for t hese six years i n a place where not a warm corner is t o
,

be found without medical assistance and with a gale of win d

, ,

directly foul for my emancipation from France and to vex ,

m e still m o re I have an invitation from an E nglish gentleman

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M r Penton — to partake of his l t u tte and ren t ed decoy to morro w

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morning where th , e fl ight is expected to be some t hing very

ex traordinary M r s H awker too stil l very unwell agai n

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and again do w e pray that we coul d even be removed to th e

very worst house on the other side of the C hannel .

1 I t/z — M r s H awker was taken so i ll t hat we were forced

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t o refuse our passage in the packet with a very fine wind an d ,

poor I was i n such pain as scarcely to b e able to support m y

sel f Th
. e hopes o f a recovery to morrow and a second chance -
,

of a passage som ewhat cheered me up But alas what was

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my vexati o n t o receive a letter from G en eral H a w ker t o say

tha t if I did not instantly return through all the snow t o , ,

A bbeville t ha t all my property guns and boats was to be

, , ,

sold by auction to morrow by order of the police because M r

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T errier the villain the scoundrel had entered a process against

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me for leaving his house at Port wi thout paying the trifling
remainder of th e rent which I had by his own consent before
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a witness depu ted G eneral H awker to do , and whose re

sponsibili ty he accepted an d even shook hands with me on th e ,

occasion I had t herefore to crawl to t h

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, e office and book a , ,

place for A bbeville i n to night s mail M a y the L ord support -

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me and defend me through such cruel O ppression during my ,

bodily affl ictions an d the distress I am in about my poor wi fe .

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D IARY

on the morning of th e 1 3 th when after the usual anxieties

, ,

and t rouble that a t tend a trial I had the fortune to get a ver ,

dict i n my favour with double costs & c Th,

e whole of the .

1 4 th I was employed i n being obliged to face tha t contagious

place Port once more ; and what with taking inventories

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battling about broken things disposing separately of every ,

article I had in store & c without a soul to assist me I was

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driven abou t like a mad dog and in such pain that I could ,

hardly draw my breath .

1 5 t/z —
. G o t up two hours before daylight and left A bbe ,

ville i n a ber l u e followed by my punt servants and all my

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rescued proper t y and travelled over a S heet of ice with hail

, , ,

snow and rain for the whole day A fter having occasional
, .

stoppages as usual to mend patch up and rectify th e little

, ,

accidents that commonly at t end F rench t ravelling and repeated ,

falls of t h e horses on the ice & c we reached D ieppe at nigh t .

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where we supped and w ent to bed .

1 6 t/z —
. E mbarked my things on board the I ndependence
packet which was to sail to night but at present t h
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e terri fic
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sta t e of the lee shore here renders it very improbable we

shall start T his afternoon the wind changed direc t ly in ou r
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favour and a most delightful evening it was we accordingly

,

prepared to sail at night but as i f the devi l always g o t in the

, ,

way of all my movements on this most infe rnal trip to F rance ,

th e vessel in which m
y property and baggage had been em
barked was seized and detained in consequence of som e
smuggling transaction of the captain and in S pite of me and ,

others battling like barristers till our mouths w ere parched

with an xiety an d I was fit to burst with rage we were obliged
, ,

to re t urn to our hotels and h O p e that we might have liber t y

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to be w fted from t hese most diabolical detestable shores

a ,

to morrow
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I 7 t/z — A most tremendous hurrican e all day

. i n which , ,

although fair for us i t would be madness to venture out with

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a lee shore before us at n ight .

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I 8 tb .
—T hough the gale was still continuing and , t h sea
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running moun t ains high our captain was de t ermined to sail ,

to night and in a pour of rain with the ni g ht as dark as pi t ch

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we got under way about eleven o clock Th e case was tha t

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our captain had g o t into a serious scrape and while he spread ,

a report that he was in E ngland he was concealed in his S hip , ,

and quite mad to be off through fear o f b ei n g taken to prison , .

M y friend M Parrot too being so situated tha t he had d i f fi

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culty i n leaving the country I had him under the disguise o f ,

my servan t ; and therefore what with having to humbug the

police while they boarde d us & c I w a s in ra t h er a nervous .
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si tuation till clear of the bar Th e sea was so tremendous .

and the nigh t so awfully dark that we dare only move unde , r

close reefed sails Th

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e sailors were but a sorry crew
. and ,

everything contributed to a rough an d most violent passage .

Th e captain m iscalculated his dis t ance and the heavy and ,

thick rain had so obscured the atmosphere tha t when mornin g

ca me we were lost for several hours a t last we found our ,

selves off Brigh t on but not a vessel or boat dare venture from
,

land to us and t herefore we were forced to beat up for S hore

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ham where t h
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e captain had intended to go at first b u t lost ,

his course W e were now in a very serious difficul ty for i f too

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late to have water over the bar into S horeham harbour no thing ,

remained for us but to ride upon the billows for twenty three -

hours longer till the next day s tide S hould serve at the risk
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of being wrecked on a lee shore which we must have been ,

before morning had the gale come o as strong as i t regularly n

has done every nigh t A t last we fetched th e harbour w hen

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t o our disappointment the flags which are always flying while ,

there i s ten foot of water were no longer u p and besides a , ,

hot tide was running out against us we had t hen t o choos e

whether or not we would make all sail and li terally charge a t

, , ,

th e bar while the pilots who dare not come to our assistance
, , ,

were anxiously holloaing and making signals from th e pier a t

last came the awful moment when aft er being bumped severa l , ,
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ti mes with violence against the bar we forced our way against ,

the surge and sand and i n a few m inutes set foot on our own
,

dear E nglish ground again E veryon e said t ha t the chances

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were five to one against us and that we must have all perished
,

but for the mercy of G o d giving us t h e only spot where we

could have forced our vessel through A l l w a s for the best . .

Th e wind soon after became tremendous and t h e shore was ,

s t rewed with a wreck that had j us t taken place A fter most .

extraordinary trouble with our things owing to the custom ,

house being four miles o f f we could not get ou r clothes & c

, .

to change till seven at night we l anded about two and we ,

were racing up and down the shingles in a pour of rain about

our things and without a morsel to eat till j ust before bedtime
, ,

when we got to the S hip in n at Brighton .

1 9 t/z — H aving been so S hort of money that I was yesterday

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forced to take tea instead of din ner and also to book a place ,

outside the coach i n very w e t weather I this morning got up ,

to start and was in great alarm about my friend who had

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gone out and according to F ren ch custo m locked his door

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Th e waiters all declared the street door had not been opened ,

and as all the noise we raised would not m ake hi m answer the ,

people of the house swore he must have either d ied or c u t his

throat and when the blacksmith was j ust com ing up to pick
,

th e lock and enter the room my friend M r P arr o t came u p

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stairs having gone off and let himself out to see t h

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e pavilion

of Brighton before breakfast W e had j ust time left to .

swal low one cup of tea and went up to t own i n a pour o f

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rain.

2 15 t —
A fter another wet j ourney on the rostrum of the
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S alisbury coach I once m ore arrived safe and thank G o d , , ,

found all well at L ongparish H ouse after having passed ,

seven ty one of the most unlucky miserable and expensive

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days in F rance I ever passed in my life deprived of every ,

comfort and with the expenditure i n S heer was te of 3 3 5 1

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Th e L ord deliver me fro m such another excursion .

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pun t s D ead rooks small bi rds 8 m were lying about in

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e very direction starved to dea t h ,

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1 6 t/t —H aving left my things at my old quarters at

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S outhhaven near Poole ready to use w hen a thaw should

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come I this day went over to W areham with my double

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gun and one duck gun in order to shoot at Hyde where , ,

M r Knight has kindly given me leave to sport in his absence

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a n d where I can wal k out which better sui t s my very poor ,

s tate of health than venturing j ust yet afloat i n the night

, .

19 t /t — W hen I got up this morning the whole valley was

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i nundated al most every bridge and weir was washed away ,

and the valley was more like sea than land all shooting was
c onsequently put an end to I w e n t out with my favourite .

I 8 l b gun (
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. old J oe) k illed 1 hare and 2 rabbits al l I S hot at
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having no chan ce for fowl A bout eleven o clock the waters .

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l owered a li t tle and on s a l l y m g forth for a few ducks that

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a ppeared away went the great weir at the momen t that my

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boy J oe was carrying my gun J oe across it Th e boy w a s .

al l but drown ed but at last I saved him an d brought hi m to

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l ife Th
. e whole day to no eff ect was absorbed i n trying to
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recover my gun which was washed away in the flood t welve

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feet deep at least and wi t h more rapidity than any mill tail
, .

N ets weights grapples and t h

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e L ord knows what were lost , ,

i n the attempt to fi sh it up by their adhering to the par t of

the broken weir under water Towards evening however my .
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o ld friend Benjamin the c l a eva u t keeper arrived wi t h a ,

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dung prong tied to a very l ong pole and by the most , ,

extraordinary luck hooked the gun by the scroll guard and

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brough t it up to my greatest delight I gave him a guinea

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i n presence of the o ther la z y brute of a keeper who never ,

e xerted himself i n t h e least and as the tha w n o w will mak e ,

Poole harbour passable I had no time to lose in repairing to ,

S outhhaven .

2 0 t/z —L eft Hyde at daylight this morning and afte r ,

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s tocking mysel f with provisions I arrived at S outhhaven th e , ,

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t ide having served j ust in time for me to leave Poole when I

was pre p ared to start ; b u t on my arrival I found that the
l ate thaw h a d inundated the place and t hat the lower par t of
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th e house had been for two days S i x inches deep in water .

T his I could have easily encountered as I did there t h e last ,

flood when I cooked my dinner i n the parlour in water boots

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in a foot deep of water but unfortuna t ely half the chi mneys
,

were so damaged by the wind an d weather that t here was ,

n o t one room in t h e house but what smoked to that degree

t hat in five minutes after a fire was lighted you could neither
, ,

see nor breathe I tried with bricks baskets and everything

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o n a ladder to quack up one of them but all being of no avail

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I was forced to re turn t o Poole I n the meanti me there came

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o n a torrent of snow and sleet and a gale of w i nd a n d I had ,

a most deplorable passage across ; but after getting a good

d inner and a good fire at t h e A n t elope inn I g o t dry an d
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W arm . H ere i s the luxury of E ngland over F rance for

without such comfor t s I might have caugh t my death .

2 I s t — A fter searching t h
e town the whole day no one could

fi n d the landlord of S ou thhaven and I was t herefore obliged to

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send bricklayers over to attempt makin g his hole o f a house

h abi t able while I this day remained a prisoner at the inn in
,

Poole the boat and bricklayer being t his evening driven

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on the mud in a gale of wind and from o ther de t ention s

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and troubles I could not reach S outhhaven till the evening of

th e 2 2 n d where (
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in a quarter where no common sailor would
stay i f he possibly could avoid i t ) I began a l a b o ou a c t o
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m ake mysel f as comfortable as possible under an idea that i f ,

under a hedge in a campaign I might be worse off for board

a n d lodging H ere I had to weather the 2 3 r d being S unday
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when I walked over S tudland heath and went to an apology ,

for a church .

2 4 t/ c —I t poured with rain so that I could do nothing al l

.

day excep t killing a cormorant ; and I had no other amuse

men t left t han t o remain wi thin th e walls of my hovel which ,

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the w 1n d blew through so hard t hat the chair fel l in the fire and
burned my best shooting dress to piec es W ent out with wind .
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and occasional rain from seven this evening till t hree o clock th e
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next morning with J ames R eade whom I wi th great difficulty

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hired and who kills more than al l the gunners in the harbou r
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put together N 0 man could work more beautifully than he

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did but not a wigeon did we see the whole night though h
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tried ev ery inch of the harbour Towards morning I killed .

on the mud a sheldrake we saw a sm all lot of these under

the moon and fired by word of com mand (
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in a low voice th e ,

Poole custom ) each man at his bird R e a d e s bro ther and we ,

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Th
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e guns went all together and the 3 sheldrakes were killed

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2 5 tl c —A nother wet day ; made attempts to get a bout

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and only got w et for our pains .

2 6 tb — C ruel weather again

. I mprisoned by wind and .

rain and half starved owing to mishaps i n getting provision

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s

from Poole .

2 7 tl c —W ind and rain again no attempting anything

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2 8 tb —Better wea t her ; out from seven at night t ill seven

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the next morning ( with R eade who worked like a slave ) b u t

, ,

owing to the swarm of gunners it was i mpossible to g et ,

a sho t and not one of them k illed a bird the whole night
, .

N ever was I out in a more miserable trip a keen northerly ,

wind wi t h a n ipping white frost A few more such n ights .

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debarred as I was from the exercise of rowing or even moving

would knock me up .

F ebr u a ry I s t — H aving at last got a fine night I went o u t

at two this morning and after remaining afloat till dayligh t
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with a full moon I never saw nor even heard a single

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wigeon which i s easily accounted for as abou t fift een

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fellows who are j ust thrown out of employ i n the clay trade
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have all turned floating gunners so that n o t a bird can ente r ,

this part of the harb our without being frightened away .

R eade was obliged to leave me in consequence of having to

attend his brother who was this morning severely wounde d
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the to whom my h
Fren chman ouse was un for tunately l e t for
th e win t er had killed a grea t deal of w ild fo w l wi t h his popgun ,

and t ha t had I been there this season I might have done

wonders H ow ex t raordinary is invariably my escape from
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all goo d luck i n wild fowl shoo t ing ! W i lliams was this n igh t -

p ut t o bed very i ll Th e wigeon have t o t ally qui t ted Poole .

harbour b u t the geese still remain though very wild

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7 tl c — 1 brent goose .
; was t ripped up by t he dog and fel l
overboard 5 miles from home ducked to the skin — gun .
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and all .

8 tl c — W in d and rain again

. wen t o u t i n a yawl boat and
towed t h e punt astern G o t 2 brent geese and shot and los t .
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2 more as well as some wounded ones,

I t blows so fresh .

that you lose hal f your birds as t hey are now so wild tha t ,

nothing but pistol balls will reach them and t h e winged birds ,
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are off at sea before you can row out to catch t hem .

9 tb — T he S hooting
. having been so bad that I w a s lite
r a lly the only person who killed a fowl in the whole town o f
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Poole during the week I was there I gave it up for this season , ,

and returned this day to L ongparish after t h e worst winter s ,

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sport I ever had in my li fe .

I 1 tb — sn ipes and j ack snipe

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N B — A m an ge t ting watercresses told m e of t hese 4

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snipes and in hal f an hour I had them all in the bag I

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then beat the rest of the day but f ound nothing more what
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eve n
2 6 t/t —5 snipes This evening poor old N ero died having
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never recovered the F rench illness with which we were all ,

such sufferers H e was the best dog I ever had ever saw .
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or ever heard o f .
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I k i ll ed d u ri n g t i sh xt e ra o rd i n a ry d og
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s s er vi c e, a n d a lm os t e n ti r e l y t hi m
o ,

g m e &c
a . a s fo ll ows

Up 8 1 2 , 356 ;
to 1 1 8 1 3, 2 44 ; 1 8 14, 402 ; 181 5 , 3 20 ;8 1 6, 3 7 8 ;
1 18 17 ,

5 0 3 ; 1 8 1 8 4 6 3 ; 1 8 1 9, , 2 53 ; 1 8 2 0, 3 4 4 ; to t hd
e a y of h
i lls i n es s To ta l ,
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hd
ea .

I a lm ost a lw a ys u sed h
im si ng l hd
e- a n ed f or v
e e ry p u r p o s e, a s h w ld
e ou o f h
i s .
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d rove t o K ey h
2 8 tl c — I a v en t o arrange abou t my co t t age
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& c and having a strong easterly wind took my gun but i n

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six hours aft er I left home a westerly win d came and made
t his unnecessary M y presence as i f li ke a charm changed .
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from good to bad th e shooting .

M a r c/c I s t — H aving finished my business a t K ey h a ve n

and Lymington and as no t hing remained for me to shoot bu t ,

a quantity of geese which were too wild for the only gun I
had I got to S outhampton this evening and on the 2 n d drove
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home to L ongparish .

L ist of game & c killed i n t h e season to M arch 1 8 2 0 .

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2 1 6 partridges 1 0 hares 2 pheasa n ts 3 rabbits 4 landrails , , , , ,

8 8 snip es 1 5 wild ducks 7 geese 1 wigeon 3 teal 1 S hel

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drake T otal 3 5 0 head .

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N B — I lost one of the finest winters we have had fo r

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years by my unfor t unate excursion to and i llness in F ran ce

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Ap i l
r I s t — Killed 5 brace of trout This is the firs t .

tol erable day I have had t hough I have killed a few for ,

dinner most days for some time ; but now as the river is my ,

own I never care abou t t aking a n y but the best fish which I
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kill only when I w a 1 t them an d therefore do n o t take the .

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trouble to keep any acco u n t Of the great n u mber that I

catch .

f u rze 7 t/i — W ent up to L ondon and was presented

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to the
King at his L evee .

1 3 t/z — M r s H awker remained i n town and I wen t t o

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M anchester by the mail which left th e Post O ffi ce at eigh t ,

o w n a c c o rd
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dow n h t l d At hd g h
c hg a r e
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a nd b ri n g t hg e a me w en o . a e e e

w oul d t d ti ll I m s a n d th i f d d gca l l th w y
e, d a nd d i v th en , or e re ,
o a e a r o un a n r e e

ga m t e m y i d
o ; f i v fs b
e t f v y
or t hi g h a w r
p f t w ild
er , or a oa , or e er n , e a s a er ec

f wl d g
o l th g h hi g hb d p i t w i th
o , a ou a f f xh d Th g m
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re o n er , a c ro ss o o o un . e a e

tht Ia l l t h b k i ll d t thi d g i l d i g tht ht by m y f i d

ca cu a e a s een e o s o , nc u n a s o r en s a s

w ll e my lf I
a s ti m t se t b t,
h d b t t b w i d l y d th m k I
es a e a a ou ea ,
u o e e un er e a r ,

w i ll y sa p p i g t h w t k su h h d f g m
os n w i th t h ten e a e ea c ea o a e on e a no er a

tw hi ll i g
o s pi wh n i hw s a l d b l w p i m g th w h d l i
ec e , c h ou e a o r ce a on ose o ea n su c

thg u I m y
s, y t h t t h a
p l d
sa d g h d
a m 4 00 1 b id e t i fli g oor o o a s ea rn e e . es es r n

wa g ers &c .
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o clock and arrived in M anchester by half past seven (
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miles in 2 3 ; hours ) on t h e evening of the 1 4 th A trans .

o r ta t i o n to this place I can compare to nothing but a man

p
going to sleep never to wake again and finding himself in
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the very Billingsgate or S t G i l es s of the infernal regions I .

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went on a musical excursion which except a wild fowl ex , ,

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p e d i t i o n,
i s the only event that would have brought me here .

M y obj ec t in going to M anchester was to see M r C udmore .

( my first master in music ) and i f the place agreed with

, m e t o ,

avail myself of his off er to S pend the holidays with him at

his house and study the whole time and i f not to leave the , ,

place aft er seeing it and then make a little tour which I had
, ,

long wished through Birmingham and O xford I had very

, .

soon such a S ickening o f this most brutal town that my deci

sion for leaving it was almost immediate Th e very evening .

t hat I arrived I was made so ill by the su ffocating fumes of

stench and smok e which I inhaled that I was viol ently sick ,

th e whole night and it was with the greatest difficulty that I

,

c ould pass the day of the 1 sthhere to inspect the man u ,

factories and what few things were worth seeing in the town .

A t S i x o clock on the morning of the 1 6 thI left M anchester

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by the E clipse coach and within 1 2 hours arrived at Bir

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m in g h a m 8 6 miles including the stoppage of hal f an hour to

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d ine at W olverhampton .

1 7 t/ t
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— E ver since my arrival last evening and t h e whol e ,

o f this morning I was busily employed by inspec ting the

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beauti ful and var i ous manufactories of Birmingham and to ,

even the most superficial admirer of mechanic s nothing could

be a more delightful t reat Th e steam engines t h e gun .
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manufactories the making of all hardwares 8 0 would require

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a volume t o describe ; and the extensive assor t ments of al l

sporting apparatus at one fourth the price charged by the
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shops would really make it worth th

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e w hile of a S hooter or

fisherman to come here on speculation This afternoon I left .

B irmingham for O xford W hile the coach s tayed to change .

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memory which i n its style is lit t le inferior t o the C olonne
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de Vend ome at Paris Th e only disappointment I met with

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was not being able to see the valuable paintings i n c o n s e ,

e n c e of the present degenerated duke being a t home and

q u

at an early dinner with company I this evening after re t urn

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ing to O xford prepared for going home by the S outhampto n

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coach to morrow -
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N B — W ith the exceptions of H erefordshire and S h

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p
shire I have now been in every county in E ngland
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1 9 th— A rrived again at L ongparish H ouse

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A ug u s t — W a s detained i n L ondon this month on accoun t

of my new invention for playing the scales of a pianoforte by
m echanical means .
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D I A RY

C H A P TE R XII I

1820

Se tp emb er — I had agreed for the purpose of attending to

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my musical invention and other more rational pursuits to ,

give up my shooting this year ; but unfortunately from the , ,

unset t led state of the country owing to the Q ueen s trial & c
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I felt bound in honour to declin e my leave from t h e mili tia in

A ugust though I had even procured my passport for Brussels

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and finding it un likely t hat I could proceed just yet I there ,

fore to avoid t h
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e expense and misery of being now i n
L ondon returned t o L ongparish H ouse on S eptember 3 but
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wi t h little inclina t ion for shooting having prepared nothing

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and having n o dogs but two wild puppies M y I s t of .

S eptember was rather a novelty for me who for many seasons ,

had been the champion I broiling i n the streets of L ondon ,

and my poor old dog in his grave .

4 tl
. i — W ent out with
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two puppies and bagged 2 4 part,

ridges and 1 hare without ever missing a S hot and having

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made six double shots N otwithstanding I had resigned all

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pretensions to S hooting this year I have this day done the

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most t hat has been yet heard of in our line of country although ,

I was out only f rom ten till four and surrounded by other ,

shoo t ers .

G ame bagged i n S eptember 9 4 partridges 3 hares , ,

3 snipes T otal 1 00 head

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Business and my intended absence abroad prevented me

from being prepared for shooting this year E xcept a quail .
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h only one
t e saw I killed this 1 00 head of game without
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missing one fair shot .

O c to ber 2 4 t/i — W ent.to remain at W inchester to command ,

th e N orth H ants R egiment and previously to the 3 o t h ,

when ,

we were again disembodied the regi ment which on the day , ,

of assembling consisted almost wholly of lads from the plough ,

was able to man oeuvre as well as the line and march with its ,

band almost equal to the G uards S o admirabl e was the con .

d uct of officers and men that I made reports i n their favour

to the S ecretary of S tate L ord L ieutenant and C olon el and
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came home on the night of the 3 o th .

fi l oo em ber 8 tl z — R od e over to W in chester to finally settl e

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al l the pay lists of my regiment and with the chestnut ,

horse returned to L ongparish in forty minutes I galloped .

nine miles on the downs in twenty seven minutes -

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7 snipes an d 5 j ack s m p es (
1 1 t/z — . al l I S hot at ) making ,

in these last few days 2 0 snipes without missing a S hot .

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j a n u a ry 8 tb .
—R eached this S outhampton
evening and ,

arrived at K eyh a ve n on the afternoon of the 9 t h .

N B .
—Th
. e weather till the very day I had despatched my

punts for the coast was unprecedentedl y severe but it then

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became as mild as April ; my inj ured finger prevented me

from being here d u r 1 n g the most extraordinary week s ’

S hooting ever known But u i l a esper a u a u m L e t me hope

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some fowl may still be got O u t all the night of the 9 th .

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but owing to fog and rain could not see 2 0 yards fired the
swivel gun by guess and heard several birds beating on the
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sand but before we could find them the tide flowed and the
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fog defeated us .

I I t/
z C ontrived this afternoon to get out in the rain ;
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fired a shot with the stanchion g u n at between 2 0 0 and 3 00

yards ; bagged 3 brent geese ( flying ) an d knocked down 2
more which I dare not follow O u t till two the next
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T h 8 thbeing S unday we started at three on the morn

e 2 ,

ing of t h 9 thwhen extraordinary as it m ay appear the

e 2 , , ,

wigeon as i f by instinct had al most disappeared Th only

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little tri p we met we got at about daybreak an d fired a long

S hot at but in S O bad a light t hat we both missed
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3 0 t /t —T w.o ducks out of 4 knocked down

, A float a t .

daybreak no wigeon O u t all night again i n wet . .

t — W ent out in a fresh wind and rain to attack a flock

3 1 s . .

o f geese which in spite of the weather would not let us come

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n earer than 3 00 yards ; I got 1 brent goose by mean s of

blowing off a poun d of small b ullets i n the stan chion gun .

W e t day and night .

F ebr u a ry I s t — O u t all night but o w 1n g no doubt to the , , ,

mild Weather and strong westerly wind we literally never ,

f ound one trip of wigeon .

5 tl.i T here not

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having been one single wigeon heard
a long the coast for several nights we planned an attack on a ,

swarm of coots near t h e town of L ymington and had to row ,

six m iles round we started at seven this evening and about ,

two in the morning when we were j ust looking forward to

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bagging at l east fi fty a rascal shoved over the mud and put
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the birds so to the rout that we never could get two together
afterwards M y man lost hi msel f and we were forced to trust
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to the mercy of the waves by going all round the main ,

C hannel between the H ampshire coast and the I sle of W ight

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and got home about six in the morning j ust i n time to escape ,

a strong wind that might have been fatal to us

. I was thu s .

eleven hours in a nipping white frost with a kind of raw ,

ri me falling that kept gradually turning t o rain .

— L eft K e y h
a ven or rather W igeon C ottage which ‘
8 t/z
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I call my lit t le gunning place an d arrived at L ongparish ,

House .

N B
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— S ince my arrival on the coast which owing to my
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bad finger was after al l good S hooting was at an end I con

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t r i ve d to k ill about 4 0 couple of birds and to bring hom e ,

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more than al l the other gunners p u t t ogether lit t le as t h e ,

quanti ty I killed was in proportion to what anyone might

have done during the frost .

S o extremely wild w ere the b i rds even by night that , , ,

except one very long S hot I never killed a bird but wi t h my

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s wivel gun .

1 2 t/c L eft L ongparish for L ondon

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1 3t / —cProceeded to N orwich
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1 4 t/z — A rrived for a short visit with my old friend R ober t

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R ising E s q of Horsey
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1 5 t/z — O u t all day in pursuit of 3 eagles but never could

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g et them to pitc h or fly where I had a chance I n the .

evening killed at a shot 2 tuft ed ducks the only 2 birds I ,

h a d seen in the marsh since my arrival and which I got by ,

lying in ambush at dusk while R ogers drove them t o me ,

w ith hi s gunn ing punt .

I 6 t/ z — O u t before daylight for the eagles but only saw

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t hem pass over hal f a mile hig h .

1 7 tb — W ent to Y armouth
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1 8 t/ i — R eturned this evening and went to M r Hunting

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d on s at S omerton H all
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2 1 s t — D espatched R ogers to inspect the celebrated salt

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marshes at B lakeney and S althouse about 4 6 miles from ,

h ence .

R ogers was back this day by twelve o clock wi t h

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extraordinary expedition an d brought word that this place

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like all others on the public coas t was so infested wi t h ,

gunners t hat there was no inducement to try it and c o n s e

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q uently I had the grea t sa t isfaction to prove tha t in my own ,

place at K ey h a v en I was as well off as in any other gunning

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port I could yet discover .

2 3ra — ’
L eft M r H u n t i n g d o n s for Y armouth from whence
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I had hoped to take a trip through Holland to Brussels ; b u t

as no conveyance was likely to offer for some time I took my ,

place by the nex t morning s coach for L ondon ’

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W hile at we had various sport — cours

M r H u n ti n g d o n
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—
ing fishing & c but except killing one day I hare a n d
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1 rabbit I made no attempt at S hooting

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2 4 t/ — L eft the Bear ( an excellent cheap inn ) Y armouth ’

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at five this morning by the S tar an ad mirable coach an d ‘

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reached M rs N elson s Bull inn A ldgate at n ine 1 2 4 m ile s

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within sixteen hours including ample stoppages for break fas t

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dinner and tea , .

27 t /z — L eft L ondon after having exerted myself abou t ,

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my new inven t ion and ordered some repairs to my guns and

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arrived again at L ongparish H ouse .

2 8 t/
i —M y finger which had precluded my practisin g
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music for S i x months being now so far better that I can ,

leave off the dressing I this day was enabled to play a ,

l ittle .

G ame & c killed in the season up to M arch I s t 1 8 2 1 a s

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below given ( the two first days and many more lost by my , ,

absen ce in L ondon and al l O ctober cut up with my regi men t

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at W inchester and afterwards laid up with my han d in a

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S ling and during al l the hard weather )

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1 0 3 partridges ( only 9 since S eptember ) 7 hares 3 rabbits , , ,

2 pheasants and 6 9 snipes ,

W ild fowl shooting : 5 W ild .
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ducks : 6 curre 2 tufted 2 of a curious large morillon species

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1 teal 6 wigeon 2 6 brent geese

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T otal 2 3 2 head .
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H ad my finger been wel l in the frost I S hould have had

grand sport on t h e coast and my only satisfaction was that of ,

beating al l t h e other gunners put together .

p
A r i l 4 tl i — E mbarked on board the
. L ady C ockburn ‘
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C aptain Black more ( th e best packet and the most respectabl e ,

captain I ever met with ) and after being twelve hours on , ,

board we were l anded at ten o clock at night in a French

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S hore boat and al l but capsi z ed coming over the bar owing
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to the dreadful awkwardness and i ncessant chattering o f the

detestabl e F rench ( s oi a i s a u t
) sailors who through
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greediness
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had loaded their rotten boat like a coal barge with passengers ,
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our accommodations were cheap an d so they ought to be , ,

for they were very bad and t h e inn was very properly called
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the H o tel of Portugal as its filth was stri ctly in unison with
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the coun t ry of which i t bears the name .

7 tl t W
— a s.bundled out bag and baggage at four this , ,

morning and after tramping down L i lle like a gang of

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gipsies we wai t ed in the rain till va r1o u s conversations — o f

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course about nothing —were ended by the conductor an d the

postillion W e got this m achine l ik e a gran ary on o l d wheels
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t hough most excellent inside under way at a quarter past ,

f our and at seven reached the F lemish frontiers

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H ere my .

heart was in my m outh as I had three pair of my patent piano

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hand moulds to smuggle and t h

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e very look of the a ou a u i er s
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was enough to set an am ateur smuggler into an ague and I i ll , ,

to boot looked as if I had been buried for a week and dug up

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again however I di d them and all ended well W e break fasted

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at Tournay at eight o clock and at half past eleven we were

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halted for an hour to dine at the S wan inn at A th N ever .

was I more annoyed at having so ill timed a division of meals -

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I of course could not eat and of all the dinners I ever yet
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saw put on a ta ble here to my fan cy was the very best and
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the pri ce with a pint of excellen t wine and beer enough to

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swi m in was bu t hal f a crown a head Fo r want of appetite

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there I was obliged to beg a quarter of an hour 4 leagues

far ther at E nghien where we had some stinking water that
, , ,

onions had been boiled in by way of broth and a piece of cold , ,

veal which was nearer black than white these we bolted with
pepper to disguise the taste of them and washed them down ,

with beer lik e soap suds and by way of a wadding on the , ,

same had some barbarous bran dy O n leaving E nghien we

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passed a fine deer park belonging to the D u c d A r en bu rg ’

and had a very gentlemanly F rench companion to explain

the same who being like mysel f shooting mad and musi c
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mad suited me to a hai r I n short we as usual had a

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combination of pleasure and misery and reached Brussel s ,

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by a quarter past eight this evening where we entered the ,

celebra t ed H otel de Belle Vue and under apprehension that t h e ,

figures i n the bill migh t soon resemble a swarm of hornets

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decid ed that we would get into lodgings as soon as we could .

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8 tl i O n get t ing up to look out of our excellent suite of

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r ooms ,
I found myself t ransplan t ed from a p i g s ty e to a

p aradise I c o m p a re my situation t o the risin g of L a z arus

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O u r V iew of the beautiful square a t the back and t h e delightful ,

park palace & c t o our front make this place agreeable i n

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th e ex t reme and far superior to any town I have been

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in abroad an d I may al mos t say in E ngland for a cheerful

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a ppearance .

9 t/z — G o
. t a quarter in the most S plendid part of Brussel s
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not for gaiety but for the sake of the air within two doors of
, ,

th e R oyal Palace and looking directly into the best part of ,

th e park F o r this I pay 2 0 0 fran cs a month exc l usive

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o f crockery & C whi ch in t his place is usually hired I this

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d a y entered my n ew abode hired a piano 81 C , ,

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1 0 t/ i —G o t deligh t fully settled in our new abode an d had

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my first lesson i n music with M r Jerome Bertini after having .

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lost above six months practi ce owing to t h e accident to my

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finger .

1 1 tb — W ent S hopping saw the B russels lace made & c

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a n d was much delighted with the excellence and cheapness

of everything in this charming town Th e S hops are the best .

o n th e C ontinent and you may look into them while walking,

o n a kind of pavement without the risk of being run over as

in Paris .

1 5 t/c — W ent wi t h R adcliffe i n his barouche and four t o

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inspect t h e ever memorabl e field of W aterloo A ft er reachin g .

the village of this name which is about t e n miles from ,

Brussels we proceeded in the carriage towards the farm o f

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G omont falsely called H u g o m o n t in the despat hes which

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is about 4 miles beyond W aterloo ; and at a small hamle t , ,

halfway or t hereabouts between the two places we called on ,

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the celebrated peasant J ean Baptise d e C os t er who was so ,

n otorious for having been the personal guide of Buonaparte

during the whole of the bat t le A s I was coachman a t t h e.

ti me D e C oster was seated for some time with me on t h

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e box

of the barouche and here of course l entered as eagerly into , ,

conversation concerning the ex E mperor & c as the incessant -

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plague of having four blood horses to drive on a bad road ful l

of F lemish coal carts would admit o f A t G omont we left our .

carriage an d S pent the morning in seeing and collecting all

we could un der t h ,
e able expla n ation of this celebrated pilot .

O u r carriage came for us i n the aft ernoon at the farm of

La H aye S ainte where we were hospitably received by a
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worthy farmer d uring a heavy S hower after which we ,

returned t o Brussels i n time for a late dinner .

2 3 rd —
, Being E aster M onday we this evening drove in , ,

one of the hackney coaches which i n B russels are most

magnifi cent and 1 0 9 in nu mber to the A llée Verte which is
, , ,

a delightful drive between two double aven ues of trees and ,

by the side of a broad canal extend ing for above a mile and , ,

at about half a mile from the lower town This may be con .

s i d er e d th e Hyde Park of Brussels and E aster M onday being ,

a very grand day there we met the R oyal F amily in t hree

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carriages and S i x and it is really a pleasure t o see how happy

,

and aff able they appear to be Th e very countenances of .

th e King and Q ueen bespeak the excellent qualities for which

t hey deserve to be upheld as a pattern to o t her crowned

heads W eather S O sul t ry as to be quite O ppressive and so

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hot that the water in our room was as warm as w e usually

drink tea .

2 5 tl i — S tarted for a tour through H olland

. M r s H awker . .

and I left Brusse l s at about eight o clock this morning by the ’

malle pos t e a machine drawn by three horses abreast and

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on grasshopper springs but it having the roof covered with

boards instea d o f lea ther the noise of it is such as to distract
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the head most unmercifully particularly as every part of the ,

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l anded at a very outlandish looking place called G o r c u m -
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where i t being necessary to look very S harp after our baggage

,

we were owing to the wan t of better ligh t in some confusion

, , .

H aving no servant I had to scramble up the quay with ,

al l my things at my back and though laden like a j ackass , ,

not a soul off ered to assist me or any other passenger ; and ,

as not a w ord but of D utch was spoken I could not at the , ,

moment request any help A fter bein g detained about an

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hour in a large melan choly ro o m where pipes were offered us , ,

and where we got some excellent hollan d s we proceeded i n ,

a differen t kind of voiture like an E nglish J arvey on most , ,

cruel grasshopper springs and with our new conductor who , ,

had passed t h e river W aal with us but who spoke no t hing ,

but D utch I n S hort all was pantomime for me after landing

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i n this new world and the on ly interpretation I could get was

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from two of my fellow passengers who S poke F rench but so -

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very s o s o and who were by no means obliging wi t h wha t

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little they did know of th

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a t l a n g ua g e T hey both smoked of .

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course all the j ourney This m a i l I should observe shook

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so dreadfully that I was literally bruised all over and the ,

noise of it was in my ears for two days after leaving i t Th e .

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horses ho w ever were good fine spanking a n imals S ixteen

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hands high and although we had on ly a pair w e w e n t at the

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a

rate of seven miles an hour Th e roads i n H olland are mos t .

admirably good being paved with hard white brickwork and

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as level as a bi lliard table A t break of day we reached Vianen .

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where we were ferried over the R hine mai l coach horses an d , , ,

all on huge masses of floating ti mber very di fferent from wha t

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i s com monly known as a ferry boat A t dayligh t we got to .

2

U trecht and here the extraordinary change i n t h

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e style of

houses and country appeared as i f we had awoke from a

dream ; and al l the way from this place to within a short
By h hk i g g m m y f ll w w l d hv b l i d p f i w k
su c a s a n a u e o ou a e een a u or s x ee s

b t th f
u e ig i v i bly t k
o re w m b th f t
n e rs n it
a r a a e a a r a a er .

2
I th
n f th j y w p
e c ou r s e o d i lik m l l th l g
e ou rn ed yk e a ss e n e a n n er a e a r e es

w i h
hc w ere to o b ro a d f o r t hd
e ra w bri d g es .
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d istance of A msterdam was lined wi t h gentlemen s country ’

seats than which nothing could be more novel to an E nglish

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man or m ore beautiful to an admirer of nature and art H ere

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every ditch was li t erally boiling a n d b u bb l i n g with the motion

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of the finest fish and for twen ty miles the fields and marshes
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were swarming with green plover and other marsh birds .

—A bou t nine o clock in th e morn ing we arrived in

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the most extraordinary — looking town of A msterdam where ,

the mail took me and my baggage from the post office to t h e

D oelen I n n the best hotel in the place kept by a M r C o ttu

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a F renchman Th e moment you enter A msterdam your

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respiration is li t erally suppressed by the suffocating and putrid

smell arisin g fro m t h e large black stagnant di t ches which run , ,

through every street in the town with trees on their banks ,

.

Th e town of A msterdam is built on piles in the midst of a

contagious morass and is so unheal t hy that out of a p o p u

, ,

la t ion of th e deaths average a year N o t .

w ishing to have my carcase left here I lost n o t im e in seeing ,

th e curiosities of t h e place and instead of going to bed hired , , ,

a lacquey who spoke good F rench to whom I paid 2 flori ms

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a day and a curricle for which I paid 2 flo ri n s an hour as the

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hackney coaches are in the grea t er part built like S ledges , ,

and go withou t wheels F irst I saw the King s palace a .

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magnificent building t hough si tuated in the horrid t own Th , e .

mos t s t riking obj ect here was the large ball room which is ,

1 6 0 feet long 1 00 feet wide ,

and about 8 0 feet high and , ,

which they told me was the largest s a l l e in E urope This ‘

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may or m ay not be the case but certainly I never saw any

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t hing equal t o it .

N ext I saw t h e F elix M e r i t u s an insti t ution to promote ,

all the ar t s which here are very laudably encouraged and

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where t here i s a con cert room considered the best in the

world I suppose for sound as i t was no thing extraordinary
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in si z e or S plen dour .

I then inspected the N i e u w e Kerk where the cover or ,

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rather canopy over the pulpit is t h e most magnificent piece

of carving that can possibly be imagined and then the old

church where there is some very fin e glass painting done in
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the year 1 5 5 5 .

Th e E xchange was my next obj ect and a very curious ,

one i t i s spaciou s and good in the extrem e built on arches ,

o ver the bog and w ater and of course well thronged as there , ,

are no less than J ews in A msterdam W ould that I .

could have heard them in their syn agogue which a gentleman ,

told me w a s scarcely to be distinguished from cats ,

d ogs and ducks in full concert W e then drove t o the Pont .

A moureux the ramparts the Plantage and other places of

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pleasure in this extraordinary place and b y t h e way I omi tt ed

t o name t h e on ly spot i n which I could find any comfort or ,

even breathe and that was the top of the Palace fro m whence
, ,

I had wi t hout excep t ion the most novel and the most beau
, ,

tiful panoramic view that I ever beheld .

A fter having seen everything that was worth seeing and ,

taken my dinner as I would a pinch of snu ff to save time , ,

I got home quite exhausted about dusk and j ust as I had ,

got in t o a sweet sl eep I was obliged to g et up t o receive ,

M r F odor t h
. e C lementi of H olland about my hand moulds
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for t h e piano H e was so delighted wi th them t h a t his appro

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b a t i o n was worth t h e j ourney to me ; an d M r S t e u p the .

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celebrated music seller was to have seen them also but was , ,

prevented t hough he took a copy of my book on music wi t h

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a V iew no doubt of translating it into the D utch language

, , .

S o much for A msterdam which m iserable as existence in this , ,

t own is I would not have m issed seeing for 1 0 0 guineas

, .

2 7 t/i —U p at d aybreak and having taken plenty of

.
,

M adeira the previous night and for t ified myself wi th ,

H uxham s tin cture of bark this morning I took t h

’
e first ,

packe t for N or t h H olland W e had a S hort passage across .

an arm of the sea and w ere then t owed by a horse ,

and landed at t h e little village of Buiksloot Th e first .

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would take a quarto volume ; but among other remarkable ,

things I noticed the houses have one of their two doors which
,

is never O pened except for a marriage or a funeral I nstead o f .

sparrows the vi llage is swarming with starlings which as the

, , ,

houses are very low m ight be killed with a whip from every
,

tree every chimney and every kind of perch that they can
, ,

crowd upon Th e storks also are equally tame and build

.
,

withi n a few yards of you on the low trees and chi mneys .

T hese birds are the arm s of the H ague and this is the reason
t hat there is a heavy penalty for killing them or taking thei r

eggs A mong t he innumerable neat cuttings of box and

.

other evergreens here is a whole menagerie of birds and

,

beasts with S hips & c ; in short I m ay go on for ever about

.
,

Broek but have no ti me : suffice it to say that to see it i s

, ,

even worth a voyage of sea sickness for two days Th e .

place is not the least like a nything E uropean but more like ,

C hina we then drove back to Buiksloot for the other

.

—
drive to S a a r d a m H ere the wal l on which we drove was
.

m ade delightful by a refreshing bree z e from the Het ( or T y e) ’

on the left and on ou r right was an obj ect not a little inte
,

resting to Peter H awker the c/za s s eu r A ug /a i s — a marsh,

swarming with birds of every description du cks teal curre , , ,

shovellers S poonbills snipes storks great s n i p es p l o ve r s & c

, , , , ,
. .

within S hot of the road and bidding defian ce to me as I waved

my hat at them H ow my fingers i t ched for my J oe M anton
.
,

much m ore for my d uck gun A t S a a r d a m w e could drive .

about as the t own was al l bricked l ike the floor of an E nglish

,

kitchen H ere I entered the co tt age inhabited by the grea t

,

C z ar Peter of R ussia w hile he worked in disguise as a ship

carpenter and I also sat in his arm chair
,
-
.

A t a quarter past one we reached L huys and crossed the

’

n arrow part of the salt water in a boat Thus by bribing the .

,

d river to go fast and eating in the carriage I was enabled to

, ,

m ake this usual tour i n N orth H ol land and wi t h strict o bs er ,

vation i n an unusually short space of time H ere by the

, .
,
 C O L O N E L H A VV K E R S D I AR Y
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way as well as in the o t her parts of Holland the waggons are

, ,

curiously driven t here are so few hil ls and those so triflin g ,

t hat t hey have nei t her pole nor S hafts to t he carriages b u t t h e ,

driver if descending puts one foot to the horses hind quar t ers
, ,
’

in order to keep back the vehicle .

A t half past on e I got back to A msterdam and at two

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,

started in a curricle f o r H aarlem to hear and play on the

wonderful organ By bribing t h . e driver I went the three ,

and a half Belgic leagues in a lit t le more than an hour ; and

has t ened to t h e house of the organist M r S chumann who ,
.
,

l uckily was at home but who never plays under the regulated
,

price of twelve flo r i n s H e firs t played me the H alleluj ah

.

C horus which had a tremendous eff ect nex t an i mitation of

, ,

the human voice which was wonderful and last an ex t empore

, ,

storm in which I defy the strictest observer to distinguish the

,

thunder from that of nature and i n which the rain and the , ,

s torm birds S inging before the tempest with the solem n ech o ,

of the church had an effect on the feelings which surpassed

,

any sermon t ha t even M r P itman M r Penfold or D r A n .

,
.
, .

drews could have preached I then ascended th e loft and i n

.
,

s p e c ted th e gigan t ic instrument w hich t h

e sex t on told me has ,

pipes played on it in my miserable way for some time

, ,

took th e organist t o the church porch deligh t ed him much ,

with a sight of my hand moulds f o r the piano gave him a pro

-
,

s p e c t u s of t hem shook hands with him and galloped off to a

,

lit t le D utch house to save the H ague diligence H ere I was .

somewhat adrift as the dictionary which my friend the Baron

,

de Tu y l l C hamberlain to the King had lent me could not

, , ,

conveniently be got at in this hurried moment I said Tea .

,
’

put my finger in my mouth and S howed t h e old w oman of the

,

house some eggs she brought two raw I turned all into the .

bowl together bread & c swallowed my mess like a pig held

, , .
, ,

o u t a dollar for her to take paymen t and j umped into the ,

H ague diligence at half pas t five This machine (-

were it n o t .

that the D utchmen all smoke inside ) would have bea t any con
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ve y a n c e in E urope for the combination of safety comfor t and ,

expedition i t is like a parlour on wheels though not very heavy ,

considering and carries nine people the three centre seats are
,

fine leather arm chairs and there are t w o large windows on each
-
,

side four spanking G elderland horses c a p i t a l c o a c h

,
m a n E nglish , ,

harness pace eight miles and a h a l f an hour roads all smooth ,

brickwork fare five flo r i n s and fourteen francs C oachman

,
.

allowed no fee for himself but paid by his proprietor ( a good,

regula t ion ) R eached the H ague 3 0 miles by nine o clock

.
, ,
’

and quartered a t the M aréchal de Turenne kept by M r ,

’
.

H andel a very civil man whose waiters were mos t pleasant

, , ,

civil fellows and spoke F rench fluently as wel l as himsel f

, ,
.

H ere I was again c/zez m oi ; took a pill to s et me at ease and ,

went to bed .

2 8 t/z I ntense heat hard walking and pills being rather

.

d erogatory to t h e safe ty of my heal t h in a strange l and and ,

with not a soul who cared for anything belonging to Peter

H awker but his money I sported a phaeton and a va l et a e ,
’

pl a ce and having cleaned and sweetened mysel f a little I

, ,

drove off quite a dandy to see the lions in and round this
beautiful l ively and clean t own W e proceeded for tw o
,
.

miles ( on a fine brick road ) through a heavenly wood and

doubl e avenu e of t rees to S cheveni n gen w here the open sea ,

and sands burst up on your view aft er clearing t h e village , ,

where the fishing boats were inn umerable and the D utchmen ,

all in a bus t le landing t heir fish for the market t his ( S atur ,

day ) being th e grand day The fish is drawn to the H ague .

,

in small car t s by either two or t hree large dogs and in many

, ,

of these droll machines a boy sits up and d rives like a coach

man .

O n the S hore I met with a very in t elligent D u t ch fisherman

named M aarten V a n o n who had b een in our navy for many
z ,

years and who spoke E nglish perfectly wel l T his was the
, .

first time I had heard my own language since I left Brussels

and on n o occasion could I have better had recourse to i t ,
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than in th e L ouvre at Paris because al l the pictures are good
, .

W hat a feas t for an artist A man must be a brute who

could not enj oy this exhibi t ion H ere is a ca t tl e painting by
.

Paul Potter that cost

,
flo r i n s and is the best of its kind ,

in the world and the inside of D elft C hurch in t wo views by

H o ec k g e es t t ha t have an effect w hich beggars al l t h
,
e archi

t e c tu ra l pictures I ever set eyes on .

N ext the Palace

, H ere is all the comfort of old E nglan d
.

i nstead of the splendid misery of F rance Th e D utch are .

proud to C opy us in comfort and therefore must become t h

, e

next greatest n ation to us Th e F rench are above it and will

.
,

therefore s tick in the m ud all their lives through their cursed

pride H ere we see E nglish grates carpe t s and everything
.
, ,

p roper for a cold winter s d a

’

y and the rooms

, may be entitled
t o a word of which there very properly is no F rench t ra n s l a

tion comfortable Th .
’
e bal lroom is chaste and grand the ,

family portraits good and al though a trifle yet every man of ,

f eeling m ust ad mire the nursery where the good Q ueen has ,

taken such pains to place little obj ects for the amusement
of the little P rincess M ary A nne who S leeps close to her ,

bed room .

N ext the bells at the Hague I mounted the tower of S t

,
. .

J ames and remained hal f stunned though m u c h delighted

while they played ; examined the barrel and ma chinery of
wires by which they moved gave the tiger a flo r i n and after ,

viewing from on high D el ft R otterdam and all the other , ,

places round t his fine green country descended and proceeded ,

to the fish market H ere four l ive s t orks are kept as the
.
,

a rms of the to w n and the stand of dog carts and the stable ,

or m ews of harnessed dogs are drolly i nteresting H astened

, .

home : exhibited by appointment my patent piano hand

, ,

moulds to M adame Van den Bergh the female C lementi of the ,

place L eft my sporting w ork for the benefit of the D utch

.
, ,

with M r V a n d ef ; swallowed my d inner and fle w to the theatre

.
, .

H ere they play French and D u tch alternately ; and luckily ,

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for me F rench t o night so that I could judge better of th

,
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e ,

a cting H ere was a comedy of which I forge t t h

. e name and ,

have not time to look for the bill but in a word their comic , ,

a cting i s better than ours t hough in ferior t o t hat of Paris ; ,

a n d on t h
,
e other hand i n serious strains they are superior t o ,

th e F rench and inferior to the E nglish T heatre small toler .

,

a bly neat two good pillars on each S ide of the stage house '

badly l i t up with eight pairs of poor oil l amps suspended in ,

a circle from a plain white ceiling T hree tiers of seats p i t .

very respectable and when the act scene dropped the whole , ,

o f the people from t hence adj ourned to wal k t h e s t reets and

g roves of trees having each received a,

card to return with ,

merely the word S ortie printed on i t O rchestra pretty ‘ ’

.

g ood and strong People very well behaved during

. the per -

f o r m a n c e no whistling or blackguard cries from the gallery

,

l ike E ngland but all quiet and attentive like Paris

,
People .

e x tremely civil i n directing one home at night and in short

’

, , ,

very well disposed towards an E nglishman without any

fl attery or humbug .

2 9 t/
i —S unday W ent to the D utch church Their cere
. . .

m ony Protestant is di fferent from ours as to the m ere form

, , , .

T hey have no bishops so much the better but are governed , ,

by a sort of com mission appointed by t h e King A fter the .

F irst L esson was read we had a most powerful crash of ,

i l l tuned voi ces with a very very fine organ ; i m mediately

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,

a ft er which abou t 3 00 people adj ourned and sat down to a

t abl e precisely like the one where the E ton boys sup at
,

S u r l ey H all on J une 4 H ere were all the way down the .

t able plates full of white bread and in t his form the D utch , ,

i t appears receive t heir sacrament while t h

, e clergyman , ,

wh o by t h
,
e wa
y has more energy t han most of our
,
sticks o f
parsons prays for them Th ,
e doors being closed for this .

ceremony I had a difficulty to make my escape and the situa

, ,

tion I was in would on any less solem n occasion have been

a good subj ect for mirth .
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’
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3 0 t/z — A ft er.discharging my bill which for H olland was ,

very reasonable at this comfortable inn the M aréchal d u , ,

‘

T urenne I entered the mail curricle car t a branch from the

’

, ,

A msterdam mail at eight o clock this even ing and after going
’

, ,

through D elft halting for some ti me at R otterdam and pass

, ,

i ng across the rivers Y ssel and L eek reached G o rc u m 1 4 , ,

leagues at five o clock on the morning of the 3 o thand here

,
’

i t is that the H ague mail and passengers are resigned to that

o f A msterdam .

N B.
— I n driving out of the H ague we went at the rate of
.

near 1 4 miles an hour with two fine span king G elderland ,

horses which never once broke out of a trot and although we

, ,

went to D el ft at the average rate of 1 0 miles an hour yet we ,

were three quarters of an hour before we reached this place

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,

which the courier of the mail in formed me was a league and

, ,

a hal f only not quite halfway to R otterdam whi ch t hey call

,
’

4 leagues consequently I am convinced that the leagues in

this country where they call them 3 miles E nglish must be
, ,
’

very much underrated particularly as I have been al l m y life , ,

in the habit of making pretty accurate j udgments with regard

to time in travelling .

W e again aft er waiting an hour to sort the letters & c

, .
,

passed the great river W aal in a k ind of smal l craft with

out a deck and had an extraordinarily rapid passage o f
,

ten min utes Th e W aal I S hould observe is passed with

.
, ,

the baggage mai l bags and passengers as follows i n a dead

, ,

calm by a large rowboat ; in wind by a kind o f vessel ;

, ,

when hal f fro z en by a boat and people to beat away the ice ,

and when thoroughly fro z en so as to bear well by a boat , ,

wi t h skates to the keel and in full sail on ice instead of water , ,

provided there is wind enough to drive it over the ice W e .

landed at the little public house on the O pposite ban k called -

H et V e erh uis where we e mbarked last W ednesday in

,
’

the night and here there was a great con fusion owing to the
,

bustle of landing an i mmense train of caravans carriages , ,

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ture & c and above all two remarkably fine R ubens pictures
,
.
, , ,
’

o f our S aviour on t h e cross on the left the el evation t o and ,

o n the right the descent from the cross ; and there is like ,

w ise a n excellent M ori llo of S t F rancis Th e statues o f . .

S t Paul and S t Pe t er give a fine effect to the sortie from

. .

th e aisle of this church .

J ust in time for t h e mail which I had all to mysel f to ,

B russels where we arrived at the general post office at hal f

,

p ast eight and by n ine I was i n my house where I found

, ,

M r s H awker pretty well and was not a little delighted at

.
,

w hat I had seen and at having got so safely and rapidly ,

o ver M y expenses in all were about 1 8 napoleons

1
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, , .

Di L g s ta n ce ea u es

F m Br l t A m t rd m
ro u sse s
44 o s e a

Am t d m b y H l m t th H g
s er a
9 ,
a a r e ,
o e a ue

F m th H g t G
ro m e 4 a ue o or c u 1
39
A d G m t B n l or cu
5 o ru s s e s 2

T i N th H ll d x l i v f w t p g
ou r n 8
or o a n ,
e c us e o a er a ssa es

1 00

In all at least nglish miles and saw all in six days

4 00 E , .

M a y 7 tb — H aving a leisure evening I went to inspect

.
,

th e an cient cathedral of S t G udule I t was not my intention . .

to waste my t ime in compiling memorandums of a city so

w ell known as Brussels which from its i nfinite superiority , ,

o ver every town on the C ontinen t and over some towns in ,

E ngland for cleanliness beauty and I may also add the word
, , ,

u nknown on the C ontinent comfort i s too well acquainted , ,

w ith by all British travellers to require description .

Th e cathedral of S t G udule however cannot be passed .

, ,

o ver with i mpunity Th e G othic architecture o f this superb .

b uilding is fine in the extreme Th e old carving of the pulpit .

by H enry V e r b r u g g en of A nt w erp is perhaps of the kind , , , , ,

th e finest in the world ; it represents A dam and E ve d riven

B i g th f l y l dg d i my w h
.

e n u s sa
g i e I i d o t t t e n o n ous e a a n, , n or er o c o u n e ra c

al l i k f di
r s o f v bi l tht m y b
s ea s e, b g ht
e by f t
er , i t k
orth e a a e rou on a
g ue, oo e

th w l m l d w t t b d by w hi h
’
d t i
oc o r s c u rs e , d d f
o r, n o er or s, a os e o ca o e , a n en o e c

v w b tt i m y l i f th th th
,

m I
ea n s ne er a si d d y ft e my ert n e a n e r a a er re u rn .
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o ut of Paradise and D eath appearing to them Th

, e globe of .

the earth forms the body of the pulpit and over the canopy ,

i s the Virgin and the in f ant J e s us bruising wi t h the cross t h e

head of a huge serpent which curls round the tree t hat sup ,

p orts the pulpi t and raises

,
its erected head to the canopy .

Th e carvings of C hrist the Virgin and the T welve A postles

, , ,

a r e fine specimens of statu ary and the old painted glass is ,

no less worthy of observation H ere are S ix t een chapels .

,

a ccessible from diff erent parts of t h e aisle I n S hort the .

,

a rchitecture sculpture
,
and carving both in wood and iron
, , ,

of this cathedral are Wel l worth a long j ourney to any lover

, ,

o f art or antiquity .

9 t/
.c — T his was the bir thday of the little princess and ,

we had a grand parade of t h e 6 thH ussars a very prettily ,

a ppointed D utch regiment and the first regiment of infantry ,

.

Th e trumpets of the former and the band of the latter were so

a d mirably fine t hat this parade was to me qui t e a musical as

,

well as a martial treat Th e cavalry were very steady while

.

t hey were inspected and their horses were well drilled i n

,

t rotting past ; but unfortunately the officer of the right

, ,

division being perhaps a better man for battle than for S how
, ,

d estroyed the whole order of the column by trotting too fast ,

an d putting the rear i n a gallop Th e appointments of this .

regiment were extremely good and so were the horses I , .

disliked the manner of carrying their swords which instead , ,

of S loping with the hand advanced they bore nearly erec t ,

with the elbow squared Th e infantry were not so steady

.

under arms as the cavalry one fellow scratching his ear , ,

a no t her putting his cap right & c T hey marched pas t much , .

quicker than we d o and their ordinary t ime was n early equal

,

t o our quick march ; and I was at a loss to guess how the

o fficers could salute in time with the foot N o one however .

, ,

bu t t h e commanding officer who was mounted saluted the

, ,

g eneral .T he pioneers had saws as well as axes and on t h e , ,

w hole had a look fierce enough to frighten away everyth i ng bu t

,

Q 2
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an E nglishman I could not resist t h e foregoing trivial .

remarks having been myself so long a dragoon and now a

, ,

jolly militiaman I n the evening I went t o the G ran d Theatre .

,

or O pera H ouse Th e s a ll e is on t h
e whole good but like all .
, , , ,

o thers abroad badly lit up and the audience dressed more fit , ,

for t he diligence t han the boxes A s however only fool s .

, ,

think about dress I merely remark this because it de t racts ,

from the good eff ect which is produced by the more graceful
appearance of a L ondon audience W e had first a vile opera .

called L e Tresor S upposé and then Vol t aire s tragedy o f ,

’ ’

M ahomet in whic hT alma whom I had before seen in Paris

‘ ’
, , ,

performed Th e plot of this tragedy is to my m ind so horrid

.
, , ,

and the ending so unsatisfactory that I could scarcely help ,

1

reflecting t hat i t was written by one who is probably gone t o

the devil himsel f ; and in T alma s acting however fascina ting ’

to F renchmen I could observe no thing particular except that , ,

at the end of al mos t every sentence he concluded with a sor t

of twang not m uch unlike the bellowing of an old ram and ,

shook both his hands in the air like a man struck with th e

palsy T here was however one scene really well acted and
.
2
, , ,

the first in my l ife played by F renchmen t hat ever made m e

S hed a tear but here i t so happened that Tal ma had nothin g
to do Th e Prince and Pri ncess of O range were near to t h
3
. e

g h
S ince m a
i m k I h v t ki p nl g i t t V l t is h rev i g a r , a e o a o o se o o a re, a n a s c er

t i a d tht hhd i th
ne i t g dy
a e
p t i l a v i ,w i m n k i g v i ts i mra
p h t e , a a r cu a r e n a n ce r u a n

na m l y th P p hd p h
e , i bi t d h
e i w k o d
e t f pi t
a hw t th t g dy
ro e s or s, a n ,
ou o S e, e ro e e ra e

o f M hm t a i di o t tt k p hi H l i
e ,
’
a s a n d th h l f t M hm t
n rec a a c u on s o n ess , a n us e e a o e

i f ll p
n u i f ll h i m pi
os s es s on o ft th m t t g a t f v i ll y
s e re , a er e os o u ra e ou s a c s o a n .

m k i g th m k I th F ht t th T l m ’
I 2
in a fl t m n s re a r re ec o re on e r en c a s e a n a a s

a cti g nI m i f m d tht hi
, a s abl ig d t ifi
n or h i w t l e t t am p l y w i th e s o e o sa c r ce s o n a en o co

t hi i de r f t g dy f
ea s o wh i hth g ra l i ty f th F hhv b t m h
e , or c e en era o e r en c a e a ou a s uc

na t l di p i ti
u ra thy hv s f osl ig i on t ll
a s H d T lm e a
p p e o r re on : n on e a a . a a a ro er

j dgu th m
es , f f li g t pl y t
or ra w
er m ig h t b l d t hp h w
en o ee ld n ,
o a o, e e e o o e e ou

p er f or m v ery di ff er en t y l .

3
T h e s c en e t o w i c hhI ll d a u e wa s h
t e o n e b e tw e e n l
S ei d e , p a yed by B o u c ez , h
a B ru s s e l s ma n tht I hda v a ne h d f
er b ef o r e ea r o ,
a n d P a l m i r e, b
y M a da m e
P e ti p a . T hf e o r m er wa s r ea ll y g d th g hth w hl p i
oo ro u e o e ec e , bu t h
i s a c ti n g in
h
t is s c en e, j ust b ef o r e hi e s co m p ll d t m d h
ei f th e o ur er s a er , rea ll y d o es c r ed i t to

h
i t l s a en t.
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been madness to proceed and lucki ly there w a s at the i n n

,

there a butter merchant for whom a very fair cabriolet was

waiting at the door H e readily agreed to give m e a seat
.

back but would accept of nothing till I insisted on his lettin g

,

m e trea t him to a bottle of hock ( which was here very goo d

for 3 francs ) and I of course had the con sideration to remain
,

patiently i n durance vile till he and his friend had finished it ,

while I sipped at a glass and pretended t o drink also H e .

drove me hom e to my own door and nothing coul d exceed ,

his good nature and civility I w a s however an hour and a .

, ,

half remai ning on the staircase of my hotel as M r s H awker , .

,

who ( from illness ) had gone o u t to take an airing had taken ,

w ith h er the keys of the rooms as is always customary o n ,

the C ontinent .

I 5 t/z — H aving last night taken a little m agnesia an d gon e

.

to bed quietly I was this day very well ; whereas if I had

,

proceeded I might have been dragged in this constant wet

weather j ust far enough to be accom modated with a sic k
bed where I had no servant a n d where being in Prussia I
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migh t scarcely have made mys elf understood .

1 8 t/i —Having now most satisfactori ly settled my busi

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ness abroad ( with a view to circulating my patent publ ica ,

tions & c at Brussels Paris Berlin Vienna M adrid

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have no longer any business on the C ontinen t and as M rs ,

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H awker has never been well while at Brussels I of course , , ,

could not think of staying here for pleasure I have there .

fore this day packed up everything preparative to quitting

to morrow
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1 9 t/z — H ired a pretty good chariot and at eight o clock ’

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this morning started post from Brussels for G hent which ,

is 7 postes ( about 3 9 long E nglish miles ) and where we

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arrived ( by mean s of paying the postillions well ) at two o clock ’

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W e p u t up at a magnificent house called H Otel de l a Poste

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We had three horses the posti llion rode on the near wheeler
and drove the others and we went very fast H ere we could
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get on by means of pa ying well b u t the few ti mes t hat I ,

posted in F ran c e I found t hat nothing could put the brutal

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baboons out of t heir j og trot I f you have four people in th

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carriage you pay for on e horse mo re than is actually taken ,

whether you have three or four W e paid 6 francs a post .

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and 3 francs ( doubl e the regulation ) to t h e d rivers and t h

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barriers or t oll gates averaged one fran c per post I n S hort

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to bring the ma t ter t o a calculation that may be easily

recollec t ed I S hould say t hat every ten miles (
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to do the
business handsomely and comfortably ) cost a trifle within a
napoleon .

H aving re freshed ourselves while in the carriage with cold

tongue chicken and M adeira we lost no time in seeing the chie f
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obj ects in this fine to wn w hich is the capital of F landers

, .

Th e first thing to which we directed our a tt en t ion was a col

lection of some of the fines t original pictures in E urope a ,

great part of whi ch has been considerably more than a cen

tury in the possession of the proprietor who as well as his , ,

forefathers has always been one of t h

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e greatest amateurs o f

the age Th . e enj oyment of the trea t which t his admirabl e

cabinet affords can only be obtained by favour as the collee ,

tion is all t h e private pr oper ty of this gen t leman whose nam e ,

i s S champ Th . e servant however on having it explained to

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h i m that I was a British officer made no hesitation in letting ,

me and M r s H awker in and as soon as he saw that I j ust

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knew enough of pictures to be fond of looking at them he ,

wi thdrew and was j oined by his master who was mos t

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kind in his at tention and w h o seemed delighted wi t h ou r

admiration I nstead of an hour we requ ired at least a day

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suffice i t t herefore to say that he has abou t eigh t een very

fine R ubens pictures one of them in i mi tation of Teniers
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w hich being qui t e different from his usual style is deemed a

valuable relic H e has also a landscape by R embrandt

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w hich is another novelty r a r e l y I believe to be met wi t h , ,

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H e has the bes t Teniers and one of the best R u ys d a el s I

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ever saw H ere is i n my humbl e O pinion t h

. e finest painting
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of fruit that can possibly be con ceived which he told me was ,

done by Heem ( Jean D avid ) To speak of the V a n dy c k s .

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the M urillos th e R embrandts & c

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would absorb my whole .

evening ; suffice i t therefore to say that M r S champ had in .

his collec t ion some o f the best pictures of al most every m aster
I have ever heard of and of many that were never before ,

named to me O f course we here saw the F lemish school to

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great advantage and th oug hI have no pretensions to j udg

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ment yet I was highly delighted

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W e nex t explored the celebra t ed cathedral of S t Bavon . .

Th e first grand obj ect i s the pulpit which I have observed ,

wi th scarcely any exception are in the churches throughout the , ,

N etherlands and H olland magnificent in the extreme both for , ,

excellence of design and superior carving This one done by .

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L aurens D elvaux in 1 7 4 5 is a combination of wood a n d t h

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fines t marble exquisitely carved and represents an aged man

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to who m an angel trampling on the globe of the earth open s

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the book of life A t the head of the church or chief altar we

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have a splendid c a rvm g of S t Bavon and the choir on each .

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S ide of the aisle is formed of pure marble with such ma t chless

carvi ngs on the tombs of seventeen bishops which have been ,

i n terred t hat I am only surprised at not having heard them

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more publicly spoken o f A mong t h e finest I was par t icularly

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struck with t hat of the t hird bishop of G hent in alabaster ; ,

and the seventh bishop with a mosaic portrait over t h e tomb .

Th e choir of this cathedral is surrounded wi th numerous

chapels which of course have each a fine altar and old
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paintings among which is one very fine by H o n th

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o r s t done ,

in 1 7 3 3 ; and another which t h e F lemish sexton told me

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was the very fi rst picture that ever was pain ted in oils and ,
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that it was above 4 00 years old Th e correc t ness of this as .

to dates and truth I leave to others to d iscover as I merely ,

wri te at the mom ent from what local information I can collect .

Th e huge massive brass doors of the chapels are quite a

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B ruges in one of the celebrated G hent barges which in the

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D utch and F lemish languages is called a tr ecbs c/z y t and u ,

which may be considered almost as a floating cook s S hop ’

..

D uring the whole passage nothing but eating and drinking was
th e order of the day W e paid 5 ; francs each for ourselves
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— francs each for our servan s and franc for our bag age
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and had a most sump t uous dinner into the bargain A t a .

li tt le before one o clock we sat down to some of the best

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d ressed dishes tha t I ever saw p u t on a table : two sorts o f

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fish m eat poul t ry made dishes &c We had t w o regular

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courses besides a third which included the dessert A fter

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wi t nessing th e superior performance of t h e cook in a G hent

barge I was not so much surprised to hear t hat gourmands

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oft en make this excursion expressly to satisfy their gl ut t onous .

appetites and t ha t one idle man whose chief resource was like
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many other foreigners t hat of chattering and stuffing hi mself

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actually lived in the G hent barge for six of the sum me r

months by way of a cheap residence where he could gratify
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the fancies o f his l ittle mind and great appetite .

A t a quarter before three o clock we stepped on shore a t

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th e quay in Bruges which from G hent is 8 leagues by water

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and 9 by t h e paved coach road A ft er walking through the .

s t reets which were very clean though very dull and taking a
, ,

hasty peep into a fine church we wen t on board a barge ,

which goes to O s t end and to which all our things were ,

wheeled in a barrow for th e regulated price of 1 5 pence Th e .

captain had collec t ed abou t a hundred passengers whose ,

chatter resembled a pack of hounds i n full cry and to this he ,

added an obbligato accompanimen t of a large hand bell with ,

which he sum moned them on board W e started at four and .

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by half past S i x got on S hore at O stend having been towed

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by four horses with the aid of a sail four leagues i n two hours
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and a hal f O stend from Bruges by the pave or coach road

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is 6 leagues O n stepping ashore at O stend nearly all t h

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commissioners who were sent to beat up recruits for the inn

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keepers were E nglishmen which made t h e place appear t o us,

li ke t h e landing on a British shore and when we g o t t o t h e

H Ot e l d A n g l e te rr e kept by a M r N icholson t here was n o t a

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foreign ar t icle or a foreign person to be seen abou t the

premises I t was literally an E ngland in Belgium I spent
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the evening in viewing t h e very fine fortifications the harbour , ,

and the beau t iful sands which dis t inguish the shore a t t his
place and t hen retired much i n wan t of rest to a good honest
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E nglish four post bed -

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2 1 s t — H aving now got safe t o O stend we had to make

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our choice of t w o inconveni ences either that of a long passage

to E ngland or to have another filthy F rench j ourney of
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about 6 0 miles to C alais in order to S horten and have less

ha z ard in our passage W ith a lady there would be no .

hesitation in favour of the latter particularly as we have no ,

reason to expect that any packet wi ll sail before the day

a fter to morrow -
( W ednesdays an d S aturdays being t h
e only

days ) were it not for th e following unpleasant circumstance

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vi z
. all those t ravellers who ent er F rance from Belgium are
so tormented at th e F rench frontier cus t om house by D u n ,

querque tha t t h ,
e conduct of t hese a ou a u i er s is t h
e talk of
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everyone They have literally taken the handkerchiefs from

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gentlemen s necks an d are so greedy t o get possession of

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everything which they can make an excuse to seize that ,

they may ra t her be considered as a banditti than officers of

a lawful king ; and according to report they are insolent in
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the extreme H aving at present excellent quarters with

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beautiful weather and a fa 1r w 1n d from O stend we t herefore ,

decided t ha t we would at al l even ts wait here a day or tw o , ,

longer A ft er taking a com fortable E nglish breakfas t M rs

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H awker and I went o u t for t h e whole morning wi than

E nglish commissioner who explained t o us every trifle i n the
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town Th. e fortifica t ions t h e barracks the S luices the new , , ,

works & c are wor th a morning s inspection and the breeze

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from the sea i s so delightful aft er the marshy air of Belgium

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that its salubrious effect on us was like m a g i c H aving i n .

case of accidents provided myself with a letter from M r .

M essel , the banker of Brussels to his corresponden t

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M r H e r re w y n of O stend I called on this gentleman who

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among other acts of the greatest politeness took me up t o ,

his observatory from whence I had a fine V iew of the sea and
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town O stend has so delightfu l a sea breeze and the stree t s

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are so free from t h e off ensive smells wi t h which you are a n

noyed in most foreign towns that were I to be exiled through ,

disgrace debt poverty or extravagance I should certainly

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choose this as my head quarters notwithstanding there is ,

here some trouble in getting supplied with good fresh water .

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H ad I not been detained this day I should have
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lost a sight of what I think the best worth looking a t of any

thing i n O stend and which never was named to me — i t is
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the Fort N a p o l eo n a wooden lighthouse at the mouth of the

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harbou r to which you have access by an immensely long

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range of planks and where the depth of water (

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which is from
1 4 to 2 0 fee t ) is ascertained in the night by a kind of sunk

pendulum that rings a little bell and from this an old man , ,

who is appointed to the station makes by diff erent lights his ,

various si g nals to the captains of vessel s who may wish to

enter .

W ith the hope of being able to start by the packet of to

morrow I this day discharged my bill at M r N icholson s
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hotel ; and it is but justice to observe that for comfor t ,

accommodation civility and cheapness I never i n my l ife was

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in such an admirable inn We had everything in abundance.

of the ver v best kind and our expenses were literally cheaper
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than if we had bought the articles in the marke t E very .

traveller is bound in j ustice to proclaim M r N i cholson and .

the R ose inn or H Otel d A n g l e te rr e of O s t end ’

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2 3 ra — E mbarked this morning at five o clock on board

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the Prince of W aterloo packet with C aptain Page a very

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honest obliging man W e got under way at a quarter pas t

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I have met at the C ourt o f S t J ames s I suspect this man .

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had seen better days .

2 6 tl i.
—O n this day (by t he way it snowed and was as cold ,

as in J anuary) I returned by the S alisbury coach t o L ong

parish where I than k G o d found all my family well D urin g
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all our travels we never lost or broke a single article because ,

we had every thing numbered and classed for i ts place which ,

plan I should always recom mend and particularly to young ,

travellers .

Th e foregoing memorandums were hastily scribbled at

such hurried moments and in such awkward places that to
, ,

put them into language sufficiently good for a common letter

would re q uire a revision of the whole but as I am n ow very
busy on concerns of more i mportance and as they were com ,

piled merely to amuse a few of my particular friends who ,

would rather seek for my information than my faults I shall ,

not waste my time on any corrections I f therefore this .

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e l egant piece of syntax shoul d fall into the hands of a word

catcher I can only say that I will correct l iterary errors as

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fast as he may find them condition ally that he gives m e a ,

bottle of wine for each a n d i f he meets with a n y such mis

take subsequent to my revision I will as a punishment for , ,

my ignorance give him a do z en of win e and i f a dandy a new

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pair of stays By saying this far be it from me to presu me

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where I have not the slightest pretensions but merely act on ,

the defensive against some of those half educated machines -

who are so fond of saying This fello w cannot write E nglish

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an d who seek for the leaves on the tree rather than the eff ect
of the landscape ; in short people w h o look at their words
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as a lady would examine a piece of B russels lace before they

either write or speak and who i f probed are generally found
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to possess about as much genius as a d onkey .

— A s of late years I have not fished regularly but

f uue I st ,

m erely taken my rod as a recreation when friends were at ,

L ongparish or when I wanted trout I have discontinued

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keeping any account of my own perfor m ances but the number

of fish brough t in to our house during t hi s month has been
e xactly 2 1 2 brace of which nine ten t hs of course were given
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o r sent to our friends

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i — VV e n t to L ondon relative t o m hand moulds

j u ly 4 t/ .
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t ransfer of some s t ock to t h e F rench funds to see about fresh

boring and breeching my swivel gun ; t o try about getting
a patent for t h e cure of smoky chi mneys ; and to h ear the
ce l ebrated pianoforte player M o s c h e l es 8t e ,
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8 tl i —H aving executed all business to my satisfaction

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a n d had t h e delightful t reat of hearing M o s c h e l e s I this day ,

r eturned to L ongparish House .

A ug s t 6 tl c
u — W ent to L ondon concerning a purchase in
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the F rench funds my patent & c and to inspect t h ,

e new .
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breeching and boring of my single stanchion gun of which I ,

saw the means of improving Th e plague that I had to super .

i ntend this latter work M r Joseph M anton being unfit for ,

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business from an accident w a s more troub l esome than a suit ,

i n C hancery A ft er journeys t o Fu l l er d s in C lerkenwell con

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s tant attendance at a forge during the hottest time I ever fel t

i n L ondon we got the gun so far for ward that I was promised
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it by S aturday morning and took my place per coach for home , .

D elays however occurred ; and I de t ermined to carry my

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p oint as, it is my rule waited at M anton s till, n ear twelve ’

at night on the F riday ; when the huge furnace that was

required to harden the stupendous breeching set Joe s chim ,
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n ey on fire a n d we had a grand uproar wi t h a row engines

, , ,

&c . nevertheless I carried my point ; for we got t h

: , e fire

out finished the gun and I brought it off in triumph per

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S alisbu ry coach on S aturday t h ,

e 1 l thins t when I arrived , ,

with it at L ongparish House .

W eight of gun S ince reboring : Barrel and breech 5 8 lb ,

stock lock & c 2 0 lb swivel 5 lb To tal 8 3 lb

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Se t em ber I s t — Th e corn being so much in the way thi s

season I had made every attempt to postpone the shooting

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but to n o effect ; and n o sooner was it daylight than ol d

Payne and his son t w o vagabonds under the toleration of M r
, .

W i d m o re were popping away before my house I therefore

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turned savage and sallied forth to follow the birds and I did ,

wonders considering the dreadfully bad behaviour of the young

dogs I had to S hoot with I bagged 3 8 partridges an d S hot .
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and lost in the barley while the dogs were running off wild
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8 partridges and also 2 snipes which these dogs mauled to

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pieces in the reeds but would not bring to me M aking in

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all knocked down 2 3 brace of birds and 2 snipes

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3 0 partridges and 1 wood pigeon with only missing
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one long S hot as I was this day not torm ented with wi ld
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young dogs .

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I went out at ten and was home by two I n consequence of .

domestic misfortune I was so unwell as to be forced to take

bitters for the n ervous state I was in I had young dogs t hat .

behaved most in famously and literally obliged me to race in , ,

order to save the few S hots they would let me get Th e d ay .

was windy and th e birds wild

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notwi ths t anding all I bagged ,

2 0 partridges besides 3 S hot dead and lost wi t hout missing a

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S ingle time with killing 4 double shots an d making good

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some very long snap shots I made one singular S hot with the .
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ing m anner in which my brother officers without one dissentin g ,

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voi ce expressed a wish (

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and even wanted to memorial ) for
my promotion was most grateful to my feelings
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2 7 tl i — R eturned to L ongparish after a farewell dinner th

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previous day
N ovem ber 2 u a — W ent to W inchester to wait in durance
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vile while the D uke of W ellington was passing the final sen
tence about my promo t ion whi ch lucki ly his G race decided , , ,

i n my favour and I then with my mind greatly relieved on ,

this subj ect proceeded to L ord R odney s at A lresford wher e

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I took my dinner and a bed .

7 t /z.
— W ent again to L ord R odney s for the express pur ’

p ose of showing his baili ff and keepers the proper plan s f o r

getting the wild fowl on his most admirably fine pond ( afte r
the plan of a decoy hut as I had seen in F rance ) ,
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W aited at the pond from five this even ing til l seven t h e

next morning ; but the baili ff having persisted contrary to ,

my advice in choosing a very i ll j udged position for the decoy

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hut we never got a shot all night whereas if he had complied

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with my suggestions we S hould have had most excellent

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S port .

8t /z .
— Killed 2 teal and I snipe and at night waited about ,

S i x hours more i n a new b u t O wing to the rough wea t her .

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perhaps the fowl would not leave the water meadows and
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only one duck came to the pond and this immedia t ely ,

pitched before the spot I had now chosen and was killed by ,

th e bailiff who relieved me in the duty of sentry there

, by ,

which he was convinced of the goodness of my plan as wel l ,

as my choice of the place .

9 t/i .
—W al ked in the water meadows from half past nine -

t ill five till my feet (

, wi t h the water boots ) were literally raw .

I killed 2 mallards 2 wild ducks 4 teal 2 jack snipes and I

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snipe with coots moorhens & c i n short re t urned with a bag

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o m n i u m g a t/zer u m besides having lost several excellen t chances

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hr o u g hd ownright b ad luck J us t before dusk I finished with .

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storming the armies of starlings that roost every night in th e

reeds on A lresford Pond Th e first shot I fired nearly half a .

pound of small S hot with a shoulder duck gun into about an

acre square of these birds and how m any I killed I know not ,

but I can swear to having S hot 1 0 5 at a S hot because we ,

picked up 9 6 and counted 9 lying on the pon d ; and these

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I expect were not near the hal f of what must have fallen
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to the gun W e kept up the attack till above a bushel and a

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hal f were bagged and how many more may be found by ,

daylight will remain to be proved .

I o tb — H aving put L ord R odney s people in the proper

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method for everything concerning the management of his

pond and decoy hut I this morning after having passed my , ,

ti me most agreeably returned to L ongparish House , .

1 4 tb — H aving previously sent forward all my canoes

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punts baggage & c I this day left L ongparish for K ey h

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C ottage where I was met by my gunner James R eade from

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the I sle of Purbeck .

1 5 tb — A very good
. show of wigeon considering the ,

mild wet weather Th e tremendous hurricane and rain

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would only admit of my going afloat for a few hours this

evening .

1 9 tb — I 6 wigeon
. I got a S hot at about 5 0 but the .
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night was so dark and the tide falling so fast that I got none
, ,

but what we killed quite dead This is the first time I have .

fired at birds with the stanchion since it was fresh bored and
breeched by Joe M anton .

2 1 t
s —W ent to Poole to superintend the building of my
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large boat and take out the licence for her under the name
,

of the W ellington .
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2 2 u a — A rrived back again at K ey ha ven this evening

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z 3r a— 1 brent goose and another tha t fell on the tide

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lost Th
. e first geese seen off K ey ha ve n this year I bore .

down on them in a gale of wind and fired the stanchion at ,

about 1 5 0 yards flying O wing to the bad weather this i s

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the first shot I have fired since killing the 16 wigeon on

the 1 9 th .

2 4 t/c a ua constant series of wet windy days an d

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every bird d riven away to the leeward part of the coast .

2 6 tl c —I this day received from the D uke of W ellington

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m y L ieutenant C olonel s com mission which was dated the

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1 5 th instant .

2 7 t/c to 3 0 t l c — I ncessant hurricanes from the westward

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a n d not a bird left on this part of the coast as nothing can ,

live to wi ndward .

D e em ber 5 t
c l c — A vailed myself of the still dreadful weather
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t o superi ntend the finishing of my boat the W ellington ,

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a nd receive my licence for her from the L ondon custom

house an d accordingly this day went to Poole .

6 tl i — .H ad great plague with my gun and boat in con ,

s equence o f the work men having deviated from my plans I .

was obliged to remain al l this d ay all the 7 thand al l the 8 th , ,

at the hotel in Poole to be at the elbows of the boat builders , .

I had everything pulled to pieces and changed to my own

p lan
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an d then as I expected it answered
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admirably T h e , .

uproar of about 1 0 0 men and boys dragging the boat to the

water and the christening of her was a laughable scen e I
, , .

returned to K ey h a ve n ( in my punt on wheels ) with post

horses by moonlight on the night of the 8 th
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8 t/i —.O n returning fro m Poole at night I heard of a f e w

f owl and instead of going to bed or sitting down to rest I
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d rove my canoe to the shore took her off t h e carriage launched , ,

her in the rain and got ( j ust before midnight ) 3 wigeon

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— This chance at a few birds is the first that Key
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haven has aff orded to anyone since my S hot on the 1 9 th

ulti mo .

1 1 t/c —A fter a succession of 2 2 days terrible weather

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we had this d ay the pleasure to have on e fine morning and ,

got 2 brent geese and 4 wigeon .

2 1st — A fter eight d ays more of the most dread ful weather
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humstrum and boggled through a given number of B ach s

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es .

2 9 th Before this evening the waters had entirely abated

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a n d we found that we had the good fortun e not to have

s ustained the slightest loss or damage in the deluge though ,

s ome of our neighbours have suff ered severely N o prospect .

y e t of w eather i n which we can even attempt to S hoot .

3 0 t/z a u l 3 1 s t — Mcost deplorable wind and rain

. from the
westward N ever never can we see a prospect of even
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tolerable w eather Th e oldest inhabitants and t h

. e greatest ,

j udges here consider this everlasting wet wind as a phe

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n o m e n o n that baffles al l their j udgment L e t us hope not .

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o nly for our sport but for the farmers an d the poor and
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reasons of more consequence that 1 8 2 2 will give us a more ,

c heerful prospect of weather .

1822

H aving —
taken calo mel and suffered severely
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a u u a ry 9 t/i .
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all yes t erday I was this day considerably better ; and we

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have now the pleasure to see fine weather .

I O t/i .
—G o t pretty well F ine w eather but more like .
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M a y than J anuary A t last had the pleasure of discharging

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a gun again and killed 1 brent goose

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1 I tl z a u a 1 t/z
2 — A s hot as M a y day and not a bird to be
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s een or heard either day or nigh t .

F ebr u a ry 8 tl c I t being now twenty eigh t days since I

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have heard seen or even heard of a wigeon I this day had

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my guns cleaned up and discharged my account with R eade ,

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G am e & c killed up to 1 1 th of F ebruary 1 8 2 2 : 1 64

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partridges ( shot but one day since S eptember ) 1 3 hares , ,

8 snipes I pheasant 4 wild ducks 6 teal 4 4 wigeon 9 brent

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geese Total 2 4 9 head

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Th e worst wild f owl year ever remembered by the oldest

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m an on our coast Th e most unpleasant season I ever S hot

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in and the most unhappy period of my life and affairs in

,

g eneral that ever I experienced .

M r ck 5 t
a /z — R eturned to L ongparish from K ey h
. a ven .

M a y 9 tb — U nwell as I was I mustered resolution to go

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t o L ondon to attend C ramer s concert where I heard such

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a n exquisite duet as may rarely be given during a man s life

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between J B C ramer and M o s c h

. e l e s on two pianofortes
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u n e 2 u a — R emoved to L ongparish of course with con

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s i d era b l e pain from my late illness M e t L ord and L ady .

P o u l ett and their little son Viscount H inton on my arrival I

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w a s all the 2 md 3 r d and 4 thin torture day and night with , ,

th e gout and on the latter day while I had C olonel H ay and

, ,

other friends besides L ord and L ady P o u l ett with me

, , .

A ug us t 1 9 t/c 2 teal and 1 wild duck also another wild

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duck that the dog let go from hi s mouth that I never r e ,

covered .

Teal here in sum mer are very rare ,

I marked them , .

d own while fishing ; there were 3 in number and I bagged ,

2 at a shot flying although a long way o ff and with a very

, , ,

small gun Th e ducks I killed in front of the house

. Four .

p itched down and by means of going ,

on my stomach all the ,

way to them I got so near t hat i f they had sat one instant
,

longer I must have stopped all four of them notwithstanding

, ,

I had no ambush whatever but the mere ground that I crawled

i
on .

2 6 tl c . S tarted
about five this morning with my own ,

horses and from A ndover took four post horses in order to

, ,

have the whole day s inspection of the hitherto inaccessible ’

mans i on of M r Beck ford at Fonthill which is n o w O pen to

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the public by guinea tickets under the plea of an intended ,

sal e by auction Th e uproar which the admission to this .

A bbey has made all over t h e country led me to expect more

t han perhaps any place in existence could have aff orded and
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c onsequently I was rather disappointed in finding t hat th e

tou t en s em bl e was by n o means superior to some other places

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that I had seen To enter into particulars would be needless

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when I have R utter s flowery description and also a specific

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catalogue of every article ; but I shall make a few remarks .

Th e wes t ern en t rance to the A bbey by the G othic doors , ,

th e baronial hall and the library with every costly cabinet

, ,

t hat un limited expense and incessant research could pro

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duce surpassed (
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as a coup a cei l ) for neatness elegance and , ,

classical arrangement all t hat I had ever seen N othing ,

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could be more tastefully displayed than the various cabinets .

of t h e mos t ancient china which were no less in variety than ,

the costly gems and exquisite workmanship with which th e

other innu merable ornaments were composed .

I found the view from the tower to be one of t h e finest

and most extensive panoramic views that I could conceive and ,

the G othic architecture of the building is exquisitely m a g n i fi

cent but here must end all that need be especially remarke d
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in approbation of F o n th i l l and on the whole I should say that,

its chief orname nts were more calculated to adorn the boudoir ,

or dressing room of a princess than to give imposing grandeu r

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to the mansion of a wealthy E n glishm an Th e paintings were .

very fine but the collection did not appear to me to be so f a r

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beyond comparison as was reported by the G ul livers and

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Baron M unchausens for which the town of A ndover is so cele

b r a te d Th . e most striking ones to me were the E n t ombmen t ,

of a C ardinal by Van E yck and C hris t in the G arden by

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A M antegna the latter particularly is very j ustly styled in

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the catalogue a very surprising and valuable early specimen .

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Th e grounds are most extensive insomuch that the guide ,

i nformed m e there was one walk of sixteen miles R utter how .

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ever calls it the nine mile walk and I should ra t her trust to
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his authority But nothing can be more monotonous than th

. e

obj ects which are here in view : one endless tract of neatly
mown grass walks or rides all thickly wooded and without
, ,

a S ingle cascade fountai n grotto figure or obelisk and wi th

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no other view of water than a long lake which is almost o b

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C H A P TE R XV

1822

S pe tember — H aving been for a long time so unwell with a

n ervous complaint that I have had neither strength nor spirits
,

to enj oy a n y th i n g I have made no provision for shooting

, ,

having only two moderate dogs N ever did I look forward to .

sport with so m uch indiff erence and were it not for the pleasure
,

of supplying my friends with a little game I would gladly ,

have laid aside my gun .

I s t — T his being S unday S hooting began next day ,

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2 ua —
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.N ever do I remember the first day of shooting so
very un favourable for filling the bag N o turnips no good .
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clover the stubbles as much beaten down and as thin as in

N ovember A strong wind all day with dri z z ling rain at inter
.

vals Th
. e ve ry worst scenting day I ever was out in and the ,

birds quite as wild as in D ecember A nnoyed by greedy .

shooters in every direction who made the birds even wilder

,

than they otherwise would have been by disturbing every ,

covey on the feed bla z ing after them at random and scouring
, ,

the whole country fro m daybreak so that I weak and unwel l , ,

as I was had enough to do to bag even 2 4 partridges which

, ,

is far more than were ki lled by the other parties .

3 r a —’
1 8
. partridges by incessant perseverance while so ,

unwell that I could scarcely hold my gun Had I been .

able to S hoot as usual I should have done about as well as

,

yesterday .

5 t h — T h
. e country had been so driven by S hooters and the ,
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wind was so high that scarcely a bird was to be got at after

,

f agging all d ay and till I almos t dropped down wi t h weakness ,

I at last got one shot and killed I partridge and then being too ,

u nwell to con t inue shooting I came home .

t b — H aving pretty well cleared the coun t ry of u n u a l i

7 .
q
fi ed pothunters I got this day a quiet bea t and bagged 1 6
, ,

partridges and 1 snipe without missing a single S hot and , ,

making several very long shots .

l 1 tb —I t being folly to attempt S hooting i n such a time

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o f hurricanes and the ground as dry as sand I t his day went

, ,

fishing and had some good sport in a very short time ; my

,

largest trout was a very little under 2 lb weight . .

1 7 tb — I seeing the impossibility of sport d id not go out

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but C aptain C ape ! and M r R ichards with good dogs and .

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both old sportsmen and steady shots started and after , , ,

beating our very best country never got but one random ,

S hot and they literally came home with an empty bag on a

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fine sunshiny day .

1 8 t/z — Th e difficulty of killing birds put me on my metal

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and my friends defying me to get even 3 or 4 brace made

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me desperate I therefore quacked mysel f up with tincture

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o f bark sal volatile and S pirits of lavender to give me artificial

, , ,

strength for a grand field day and aided by markers of , ,

c avalry and i n f a n t ry I attacked the birds in right earnest (

, and
when I d o this I have never yet failed ) and in spite of an ,

e xecrably bad scent and a gale of wind from the east I

, ,

bagged 1 5 partridges ( and another shot dead and lost ) an d

1 hare without missing a shot Though I S hook like an old .

m an of s even ty I never shot more brilliantly I of course

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s uff ered no other gun to interfere with me and t herefore went ,

alone so that I could follow up the game at speed when the

,

markers gave the S ignal and do as I please whereas i f I have

, ,

friends I always lose two thirds of my shooting by wishing

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t o accommodate them with t h e cream of the sport .

2 1 s t —Being sadly i n want of game and seeing everyone

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beat by t h e birds I quacked myse l f up again with sal volatil e

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bark and lavender and aided by the same good markers I

, , , ,

bagged 1 2 partridges 2 snipes and 1 j ack snipe wi t hout , , ,

missing a shot .

I n th e last two days I S hot with my beautiful new d eto

nating gun and I have killed with it 2 8 partridges 3 snipes

, , ,

and 1 hare without missing a shot ,

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2 6 tl c — W a s prevented going out or doing anything til l

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t his day through illness in the house and bein g also unwel l ,

mysel f I went out merely to try for a brace of birds for th

. e

doctor who had been a repeated attendant and in an hou r

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and three quarters brought home 6 partridges 3 snipes an d

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2 j ack snipes .

G ame & c k illed up to the end of S eptember 1 8 2 2 : 1 0 8

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partridges 3 hares 1 rabbit 1 1 snipes 2 wild d ucks 2 teal

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T otal 1 2 7 head
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Oct ber
o — Th e pheasants here are annihilated c o n s e
quently I made no attempt at O ctober shooting .

z 3 r a — H aving heard that 3 pheasants had by the high

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winds been blown on my estate I assembled a levy en ,

m a s s e headed by the ratcatcher and some fi e l d marshal

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poachers as if to attack a tiger and before night I had a l l

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three in t h e larder after t heir giving me an d my banditti a

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chase that was far superior to an average fox hunt .

2 8 tl i — A t n ight took some decoy birds and waited at the

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river for some hours and though a beauti ful moonlight and a ,

white frost I never saw or heard but one duck which the call
, ,

birds brought round several times but too high to shoot at ,

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O u r duck shooting ( like our pheasant S hooting ) is nearly anni

h i l a te d owing to the breaking up for water m eadows of L ord
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Portsmouth s bogs called the P a rk s es ’

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N o vem ber I 5 t/z — A grand bustle through the house i n .

consequence of a man having run in with in formation of a

woodcock I marched against hi m followed by a rabble a n d
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in a few minutes flushed him and bagged him .

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public house where he eagerly kept probing with a long eel

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S pear to no purpose for some t ime ; and as t h

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e tide fel l a ,

l ittle lower we shovelled under the water as wel l as we could

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till all hope of finding it was at an end M allard t hen still .

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inspired wi t h a kind o f presentiment by his dream went to ,

his old spot again although we felt confident t h e lock was f a r

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above that place and most extraordinary he suddenly struck

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something hard ; down he ducked and up he brought th e

lock to my great satisfaction and still greater astonishment

, .

I 8 t/t Th
— e weather has been variable till this day when
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i t is again north east but without cold or fros t we have sinc e

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the 2 n d got 5 wigeon 5 curlews 2 teal and 3 godwits , , , ,

w hich little as it is for our hard labour is the bes t by far

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t hat has been done here I n th e evening killed 2 godwits .

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and at night tried th e new sys t em of shoving the swivel gun

and punt over the mud and firing by guess W e had but a , .

poor chance the birds were so thin and scattered bu t we got

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1 wigeon and by the spattering o n the mud suppose I

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must have stopped some more .

— U p to this day we have got but 5 more wigeon

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2 2 ua . .

Th e weather is now frosty and plenty of birds are at las t to , , ,

be seen ; but as we expect about three gun ners for every

, ,

flock of birds Th e excellent S hots that we have had spoiled

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by vagabonds who kill nothing themselves i s really pro

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vo k i n g .

2 8 tl t this day 3 wigeon 2 bren t geese and 1

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mallard A fair S how of birds but at no one hour o f the day

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or night can w e have time to padd le to a flock befo re some

i nfernal C hristmas popgun is discharged and the wigeon are ,

S prung by the flash on the S hore Th is n i ght we w ere wi thin .

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hal f a minute of firing into about 2 0 0 wigeon close t o us , ,

when a rascal d ischarged some popgun on the shore and ,

sprang t hem .

Up to t/ze 3 1 s t — 9 w igeon and 1 brent goose . .

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a little punt — L aunched

on my own plan
j a n u a ry I st ,

to carry n othing but the swivel gun in order to S hove it along ,

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on the mud and fire with a string to the trigger W hile

, .

chiselling down the bow to fit the gun a golden plover ,

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pitched on the mud and after shoving a little towards him I , , ,

fired the gun and killed him at exactly 1 00 yards got with
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my hand gun also a mallard after a race as usual against a

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gang of shore shooters .

2 n a — 5 brent
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. geese at one shot ; at night fired with my
little canoe by guess on the mud heard several birds flutter , ,

but it being quite dark and I having no dog got none o f

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them at the time .

3 r d — Killed at about 2 00 yards 4 brent

, geese and 2 ,
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wigeon besides a towered bird that fell at sea

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N B Th e scoundrels on the S hore make a practice o f

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d ischarging some powder and then claiming the dead birds

that float in to them from my shots while I am getting the ,

outside ones .

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6 tb 4 brent geese
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7 t b — 1 brent
. goose .

8t b — brent geese
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N B .
— W a s coming home from L ymington in almos t
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a cal m with my children on board the large yawl the

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W ellington saw 1 6 geese and to my astonishment they
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let us get within about 1 8 0 yards of them while shoving with ,

the oars and a boatful of people A S soon as I saw them

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s t retch their necks to fly I drew the trigger of the swivel ,

gun and to my n o less astonishment down came 4 of them

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although they were so thin that I had scarcely the breadth o f

more than 4 t o shoot at .

9 t/z
— 6 geese and 3 wigeon aft er as usual a proper
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1
A s br en t g ees e a r e a m os t t l h e on ly o n es h er e, I s hll
a , i n f u ture, p u t d o w n
l h
m ere y t e w or d g eese
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scramble against other boats which we outmanoeuvred most ,

gloriously .

1 0 tlc — Killed .at a shot with the stan chion gun a t , , , .

about 1 5 0 yards 2 pintails and 3 wigeon all dead ; also a , ,

mallard of a S ingular plumage which I believe to be a D utch ,

fowl .

1 1 t/ i —H ad 3 beauti ful shots spoiled by the other gun

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ners and got only 1 wigeon

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1 3 t/z I I geese k illed 6 at the first S hot and 3 ducks

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and lost of course several more that were picked up by

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the S hore sharks who lounge about with guns for that ,

purpose .

1 4 t/ z —7 geese.and I wigeon .

1 5 t/ — wigeon mallards and 1 duck Killed one of

i 7 . 2 , .

the mal lards and the duck at the same S hot with the wigeon ‘

and while paddling up to the fowl two small birds pitched ,

on the barrel of my swivel gun S o severe was the frost and .

snow that they were I suppose benumbed in crossing the , ,

C hannel .

I 6 tk — 1 4 wigeon and 1 8 geese the latter in 3 shots

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the best S hot G unners out of number afloat and ashore and
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only one bird killed among them except mine .

1 7 t/ z — M y sport yesterday made the people S O S hooting

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mad that a flock of birds had hardly time to pitch before they
were popped at by some boat or other and among them all ,

but one goose was killed I therefore let them have thei r .

frolic out til l the afternoon and when the water n o longer
,

served I made R eade shove the canoe over the mud and by
, ,

o u r being dressed in white nightcaps and S hirts we suited the ,

snow so well that we in a short time came in with 1 0 more , ,

geese l .

I 8 t/ i —1 1 geese w h
. ich i n proportion to the very f e w I saw , , ,

N B . .
—K i ll ed h
t i s w ee 5 g
7 e es k
e ,
2 5 wi g eon , 4 du c s k a nd ma ll a rd s , a n d 2

c ur r e du c k s, ma ki ng a h
b o u t 8 8 ea d , a b ou t t en ti m es a s m u c h h a s a s b een k i ll ed

by a ll t h K yhv h b
e e a en a r our s ht
o o er s p ut t og h
et er .
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o f a habitable country U nder an dea that every vagabond

. I

would eagerly sei z e the first day s S hooting after the thaw I ’

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to be well to windward o f the butterfly S hooters weathered ,

the torren t of rain al l day and by capital lock s and good , ,

management contrived to keep my gun dry for the five shots

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which I got Th
. e geese were scattered in every direction so ,

that I could not bag more than 5 at a shot and so drenching ,

wet was the day that after the first hal f hour n ot a dry stitch -

could be found to wipe out th e pan of my gun except the ,

tail of my shirt and while paddling to birds I had three

,

i nches of water under my stomach I fairly brought home .

1 7 geese
. I took one very long S hot at 8 swans heard the ,

shot strike them an d afterwards saw on e l eave the company

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and drop on the sea where I dare not venture (

, about two
miles to leeward ) conseq u ently had not the good fortune to
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bring one hom e W et all the evening a west wind and as

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mild as M a y .

2 8 th M y swan that I shot yesterday having died and

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b een picked up there remained 7 of these m agnificent birds

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and they were seen o f f K ey h a ve n sit t ing among what littl e

i ce was left about n ine o cloc k i n the morning and every

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corner of the creeks or on shore contained a gunner anxiously

hoping that they might possibly swi m or fly near enough for
a random S hot H aving to contend with al l this impediment
.
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and the wildest birds in existence to cope wi th I had recourse ,

to a m anoeuvre which struck me as the on ly chance I .

dressed myself and R eade in a clean white shirt white neck ,

cloth and clean white nightcap and in my white punt went

, ,

al l the way round to w indward through a pretty heavy sea

and aft er getting to where the hill called M ount became a ’

background to the V iew in which we appeared we dressed

, , ,

thus in milk white with a very white punt dri fted among ,

the floating pieces of white i ce till we got within about 1 8 0

yards of these monstrous fowls when I let drive at their ,

necks and knocked down and brought home 2 wild swans or

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another m agnificent shot at th e remaining swan s one of ,

which i n S pi t e of all came over my head and my hand gun

, , , ,

that I was then obliged t o use missed fire I got but one , .

poor S hot and killed 2 geese and aft erwards a dun curre duck
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from a flock of these birds at which I before refused an ,

excellent shot supposing fro m their white noses that they

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were coots and having the sun on them I could not see
, , ,

clearly ti ll too late at night 4 wigeon .

3 0 t/c
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—I n L ym ington about my new punt ; out in the
evening ; got 3 geese the finest I e ver saw and almost white, ,

i n the breast the on ly sho t I got and that a rando m one

, ,

flyin g instead of a m agnificent one sitting owi ng to a stupid ,

ass trying to out row m e with a huge black boat A bout

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twelve at night got a beautiful shot at about 1 0 0 wigeon on

th e water but owing t o the experi ment of a night sigh t
, ,

that was rather too thick I sho t in famously bad an d my , ,

whole charge went among the first of the birds and i n ,

th e water below them ; so that instead of 2 0 or 3 0 I only , ,

stopped 8 .

3 I st.
— A wet day and as no j ackan apes could get his gun
,

off i n t h e rain i t was my only chan ce I t herefore sallied out for

one huge swan t hat had been the target o f the coast and had ,

become so wild that he could scarcely be looked at on my

w a y out I fired a long S hot and got 4 geese ; soon a ft er as ,

I expected w e saw this huge bird floating about in a rough

, ,

sea and i n a pour of rain I had two pun t s to man oeuvre on one
,

side of hi m while R eade and I drifted down on the other he

,

sprung at about four hundred yards came luckily across my ,

punt at about 7 5 yards and down I fetched him like a cock , ,

pheasant wi t h the swivel gun H is fall was more like the

,
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parachute of an air balloon than a bird ; he w a s shot quite

dead ; b e weighed 2 1 l b and measu red 7 feet 8 inches from .
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wing to wing being t h e largest by far o f any I had killed

, , ,

t herefore my misfortune o f last night was balanced by getti ng

another wild s w an .
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F ebr u a ry I stin cessant pour of rain from mornin g

— An

till night ; and I t herefore was at L ymington nearly al l

day superintending my n ew pun t A few geese pitched off
,
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near the quay in t h e eveni n g but rose an immense long S hot , .

I fired at r a ndom k illed 1 goose and came in again or I

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should have been drenched to the skin .

3 r a
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— I t scarcely ceased raining for one hal f hour ever -

since th e morning of the 3 I s t ulti mo I went out in a pour .

of rain fired one long shot got 3 geese and then went for
, , , ,

the day to L ymington about my punt and to get some little

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repairs to my gun .

5 tl c
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— T ook a sail but there were no geese near
, the C han
nel s edge W a s out at night but i t was so dark that I could
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not see my gun or the birds ; I fired to the sound of some

wigeon feeding but made a wro n g guess and missed
, .

6 t/t .
— A tremendous gale of wind wi t h snow sleet and , , ,

rain ; and not being able to exist afloat I chose this as a ,

f avourable opportunity to be again in L yming t on and direct ,

the work m en as to the comple t ing of my new punt .

t/ — W ind and rain nearly all day Killed geese

7 c
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O wing t o the wet m ild wea t her the geese were nearly as
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wild as hoopers .

1 0 t/z — I ncessant
. gales o f wind an d rain Though I .

weathered it all I got but one shot and bagged 4 geese

, .

I I t/c —
. A fter having been out all night and done nothing ,

with the wigeon owin g to the wet dark weather I was out
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again all to day but never could get a chance to fire a gun
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E xcept th e tremendous flood last year I never saw more sea

in the harbour insomuch that we were occasionally obliged

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to go ashore and empty out our pun t which was repeatedly ,

half filled it n ever ceased raining the whole day W e S hould .

have had a few tolerable S hots at geese had they not been
spoiled by t h e detestabl e S hore lubbers who were as usual , , ,

i n armi es an d who of course never killed or even wounded

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one bird among them all .

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1 2 tl l . geese by means of sailing in the W ellington

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and firing a pound of balls as they crossed .

I had this day a providential escape from being shot by

J oe W e a r n s the sailor H e had his gun on board not having
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time to take it home before h e came to help man my boat

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and in putting on an old stocking that he had for a lo ck cover ,

he let the gun go off Th e whole contents wen t within a few

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inches of my right S ide and as G od s mercy furt h er prevailed , ,

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instead of blowing a hole through the boat and sending us a l l

to the bottom the c h a r g e w a s half lodged in the stem post
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a n d the other hal f stopped by the anchor which happened to ,

be down in the bottom of the boat N o one has ever been .

more careful of what persons and what guns they suff er to

com e on board than myself and this shows what may happen
from t h e slightest n eglect of such a necessary caution ,

though as i t most mercifully happened not one farthing s

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worth of m ischief was done to either ourselves or the boat .

1 3 t/t — S ailed to L ymington to bring home my new punt

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called the F o x and on my way fired off the swivel gun at

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9 birds rapidly crossing at about 1 2 0 yards and knocked , ,

down I .

Th e punt built by a man of great celebrity M r Thomas

, , .

I n man appears to be the n eatest an d best I ever had

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I t is som ew h at singular that I was yesterday within two

inches of being shot by W ea r n s and this day within hal f an ,

inch of having my right eye knocked out by R ead e with an ,

oar ; but most fortunately the blow j ust passed the ball of
my eye an d took the upper lid which of course i s as black
, , , ,

as i f I had been fighting I t was a miracle for R eade as he i s .

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the most active the most careful and the handiest man I
, ,

ever saw in a boat without any single exception , .

I 5 t/z W ent out for the first ti me in my new planned

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punt the Fo x and nothing could answer better than she

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as yet proves to do in every respect I may say S h

, e is the .

first punt I ever yet saw that was really free from defect I .
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2 5tl c — Go t to Poole and then over to S outhhaven after a

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most abominable j ourney both by sea and land the rai n ,

falling in torrents and the wind blowing a perfec t hurricane

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O n arrival at the little hovel called S ou thhaven I n n the place ,

was destitute of everything owing to a dispute w i th the former ,

landlord w h ,
o would not give up the licence to the new one ,

who had j ust arrived but consequently would not unpack,

his things There were two rooms the one solid blue with
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smoke and t h ,
e other with t h
e masons put t ing up a chimney

T his might have don e quite well enough as w e meant ,

t o be twenty hours out of the twenty four afloat but as -

l uck would have it the w ind and rain m ade us prisoners

,

all the aft ernoon all n ight and part of the next day A t last
, , .

matters were settled an d the old landlord walked off and the
, ,

other with his family began to make things look less miserable
, , ,

and no people could be more civil more reasonable or more , ,

anxious to oblige A n i mmen se number of geese i n Poole

.

harbour as well as burrough ducks curre 81 C bu t the very

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wind which we had to weather had fairly cleared the harbour

of wigeon so that we were out all three nights without hearing
,

a bird C ould get nothing but a few day shots and c o n s e

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quently killed but 7 geese and 1 curre d uck added to some ,

coots 8 m t ha t I shot for mere pastime wi t h my S houlder gun

H aving done some business whic hI had at
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.

M a r c /c I s t —
Poole I then drove back again t o K ey h
, a ven .

Th e enormous mob of gunners t hat crowded round to ex

claim at my S hooting apparatus on the quay at Poole I could ,

compare t o nothing but a W estminster election ; and pre ,

v i o u s l y to leaving t h e town I rowed over to H am to see the

,

field marshal of the eastern gunners w h o had come t here to , ,

th e t error of al l th e Poole men H is name i s S a m S inger ; I.

w a s delighted with him and w e w ere two hours eagerly con

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versing with each other ; t h e pleasure of this in t erview w el l

repaid me for going to Poole and rem inded m e of W ellington ,

and B lucher meeting after t h e battle of W aterloo and what

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made t h e matter pleasanter still I have killed more geese ,

than he has .

4 t/ z —
Q uitted
. the coast for t h
e S eason and returned w i t h ,

my family to L ongparish H ouse .

G ame and wild fowl up t o M arch 1 8 2 3

Popgun w ork inland — 1 3 2 partridges I quail 6 hares 3 , , ,

rabbits 4 pheasants 4 3 snipes Total 1 8 9

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G rand gunning work — 1 8 ducks and mallards 5 curre ,

d ucks 5 teal 3 pintails 9 7 wigeon 1 8 0 brent geese 4 wild

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swans or hoopers Total 3 1 2 L and sport bagged 1 8 9 .

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sea sport 3 1 2 G rand total 5 0 1 regular wild fowl ex

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e lusive of coots curlews godwits plover o x birds and , , , ,

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various other shore birds .

N B — Th
. e winter was most beautifully severe
. but the ,

wind tides and moon particularly unfavourable in their times

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for servi n g us Th e m agnifice n t S hots that I had spoiled by the

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shore poppin g rabble I can scarcely reflect on with common

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p atience and t he wigeon

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S hooting at K ey ha ve n was more dis
t u r b ed and inj ured by t h e beggarly army of fligh t poppers t han

on any other part of our or I may safely say any other coas t , , , , .

6 tl i — L ongparish
. W alked quietly o u t for the chance of .

a few snipes and killed 8 snipes 1 0 j ack snipes and I teal

, , , ,

without m issing a single shot Killed 2 j acks a double S hot .

,

and at another tim e put up 3 snipes together ; bagged two

from the first barrel and the third from the second ; had I ,

been prepared with two guns and gone o u t in earnes t I , ,

should perhaps have rivalled all my o ther days sniping at

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L ongparish I S hot lik e a fiend but t h

. e dogs behaved cruelly ,

bad or I S hould have mad e up a dozen couple

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8 t/z S ome snow and a little frost consequently no snipe

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shooting I got however 2 snipes 2 j ack snipes and I

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woodcock ( that had d efied everyone here ) aft er a hard chase ,

of nearly two hours and I finished by making a double shot , ,

off my horse with snipe S hot at 2 magpies , ,

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1 1 t/z V e n t to spend a few days w i t h L ord R odney at

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his delightful place near Alresford and took over my punt ,

and swivel gun and other apparatus for shootin g .

1 2 t/z — Up several hours before daylight with the hope

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that some few birds might yet be left on his famous pond ;
g o t a shot at a small flock and picked up 3 tuft ed ducks 2 , ,

golden eyes and 2 d u n bi rd s at a shot Then walked in the

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meadows after breakfast and killed 1 0 snipes I duck 1 mal , , ,

lard and 1 teal besides several coots

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13 t/c — A gran d battue at the coots wi t h about twenty

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guns ; 1 2 5 were bagged my S hare of which was 4 3 ; by ,

means of having my punt I killed also 2 wi ld duck s and 1

mallard at daylight H ad also some fishing with a casting .

net and trimmers .

1 5 t/z — R eturned home to L ongparish

. .

N B — Th
. e sensation which my shooting punts and guns
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made in the town of A lresford was not a li t tle diverting ; and

the publican at w hose house it stood never sold more beer
, ,

than on this occasion and my man who acted as the show ,

man got more pots than his head could well stand for the
, ,

trouble of explaining to the multitude the manner of using

my l arge gun and o t her apparatus .

29 t/z —2 hares and 1 woodcock (

. that weighed , I
had given up shooting for the season bu t was told of this ,

cock and aft er a g r a u a e c/za s s e with all t h

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e rab ble I could
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collect I found and bagged him a very long S hot

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A ppe n dix since M arch 6 t h 2 hares 2 w oodcocks 4 7 : , ,

snipes 8 ducks and mallards 5 tufted ducks 2 golden eyes

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2 d u n b i rd s 2 teal making 7 0 head besides a quantity of

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coots 4 3 of which I k illed one morning to my own S hare at

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L ord R odney s where 1 2 5 were k illed making in all 5 7 1

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head this season or including coots & c about 7 0 0 head

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Ap r i l 1 9 t/z W ent to L ondon for the L evee and a

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multiplicity of other business .

2 1 s t — W a s presented by my C olonel and L ord R odney

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C H A P TE R XV I

1823

S p
e tem ber I s t — par t ridges and 1 quail which consider
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ing t h e nervous sta t e of mysel f from recent illness the want ,

of good dogs and the annoyance of standing corn is one of ,

the best days I ever made I made 8 double S hots and .

missed nothing .

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3 0 partridges and 6 more S hot and lost Th e only
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bea t I had was where there were four o ther parties and ,

although so weak I could hardly walk I am quite sure that ,

I bagged twice as much as all of them put together .

6 tl c — 2 0 partridges and 1 hare having made 8 double

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S hots 4 brace out o f which were at pairs of old birds such ,

has this year been t h

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e havoc among the nests on our best ,

side of the coun t ry owing to the early mowing o f the

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clover .

2 0 t/t —1 4 partridges and 1 snipe

. S cent bad and birds .

extremely wild everyone complaining t hat not even a

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brace could be got I killed al l my birds by means o f

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walking the ground w i t h both barrels cocked and bla z ing , ,

as quick as lightning j ust as the birds topped the ,

stubble .

2 3ra — W hile everyone was complaining that not a

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bird could be got I went out for scarcely more than t w o

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hours previously to going to A ndover and brough t home ,

10 partridges with missing only one long second barrel

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shot This shows what man oeuvring will do

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2 9 tl c — . beau t iful day and the birds lay very fairly for
A ,

the ti me o f year and for our ligh t coun t ry I bagged 1 6 .

partridges and 1 j ack snipe and missed nothing , .

G ame & c killed up to S eptember 3 o th 1 8 2 3 : 2 0 6 par

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t r i d g e s 2 hares 1 quail 2 snipes 4 wild ducks

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k illing 4 brace to try a duck gun I took b u t t welve days ,

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shoo t ing ; which as I was in indiff erent health badly off for
, ,

dogs and had such a multiplicity of business that interfered

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with my shooting I consider most admirable sport ; and I

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have no doubt more than was killed by all those put t ogether
who were here at it every day I sho t wi t h a detonating .

gun which n ever missed fire but once and made a great ,

many double sho t s al most every d a y I went out ; the most

in one day was eight .

O to e
c b r I s t — O u t the whole morning in on e incessant
pour of heavy rain with a continual hurricane and only ,

discharged my gun three t imes and all very long shots I , .

b agged 2 hares and shot and lost t h ,

e only pheasant I sprung

he was a fine old cock and fell in the most handsome manner , .

A pheasant in my beat is a very rare bird to meet with we ,

having had none for years M y detonator went as well in .

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spi t e of all th e rain as i f it had been used on a sunshiny day

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/ —S laved all day to no purpose trying to find a

4t z.

pheasant and came hom e with nothing but 1 partridge an d

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1 j ack snipe al l I S hot at,

.

1 5 tl t —G o t one long S hot and at last bagged an old cock

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pheasant which is now become quite a r a a a vi s i n t his

, r

place .

— L eft L ongparish at two t his morning ; got i n to t h

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e

I sle of Purbeck abou t two in t h e afternoon B rought R eade .

over t o Poole to have the bone of his bad finger ( poisoned by

a fish ) cut off by the surgeon and took away my new bitch ,
,

brought from N ewfoundland S lept at Poole . .

2 4 tl c —
. G o t to K ey h a v e n and proceeded to L ymington to ,

inspect two new pun t s building for me by I nman .

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7

t/1 .
—S en t m y
boa t car t to S ou thampton an d had over ,

th e famous eas t coun t ryman E l j ah B uckle wi t h his celebrated i ,

gun and pun t t o t ry experiments & c , , .

2 th H a d a grand t rial of s t an chion guns before a mob

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of S pecta t ors and found my gun as good as (, i f not superior

t o ) Buckle s
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A o z c m bc r 3 d — R e t urned t o K ey h to renew my
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experi men t s and preparations .

N B .
— S carcely any birds on the coas t
. I killed only .

a w igeon A mong t h . e few birds tha t I S ho t to try m y

gun I got 2 kno t s and 1 t urns t one Buckle got a little
, .

sho t one wet day and picked up 4 wigeon which w i t h ,

mine w ere t he on ly fowl killed on our coa s t whil e we w ere

there .

I 5i l —
zL ongparish
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Had a g a n de c/a s s e t o s cour t h

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w hole country w ood fields and river and so des t itute of spor t
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did w e find all our beat that I bagged only 3 rabbits 2 sni pes , , ,

and 1 j ack sn ipe w hich were al l I fired at ,

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—R eceived from F ran ce 1

1 6 tl l .
5 decoy ducks of a wild
species t rained for l a cl za s s c a l a l tze zu
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1 8 t/ —H aving t his day completed the hut & c after the

1 . .

s tyle I learn t in France we t ried our birds ; they behaved ,

magn ificently and brough t down t h e only two ducks that flew

close t o me b u t my young dog spoiled the shot before I could

catch the w ild birds clear of the others .

2 0 t/1 — 2 j ack snipes and 1 par t ridge all I S hot at

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, .

F irst tried all my beat for snipes t hen t h e uplands for ,

game : an d passed t h e nigh t in my new h u t for ducks ; b u t

.

no sport whatever t o be g o t This place seems at present to .

be completely barren of all game w ha t ever .

D ecem ber 4 t/ — I launched t h e new punt which I ordered

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t o be painted and got ready for sea and named her the
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O w l being a whi t e nigh t bird and t h e emblem of sagaci t y

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or w isdom on t h e helme t of M in e r va
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I 5 tl z — H aving sent on my new punt t h

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e O w l to be ,
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mysel f and never heard but 1 wigeon notwithstanding the

, ,

wind had changed to t h e east I i mpute the des t ruction o f .

K ey h a ve n to t hose rascally launchers shoving t heir punts

over the mud every night before the birds have had a ny
feeding .

8 tl i A t i t all day and n ight : not a bird to be seen

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W ind in its old filthy quarter again south wes t ,

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I I t/ z — A s t here is no S hooting whatever here I took a

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drive t o Poole in order to see S a m S inger s n e w 1 4 1 l b gun ’

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and punt ; and i n the afternoon d rove to Ud d en s H ouse to ,

see my old friend Jack Pon ton but he was i n town so I drove , ,

back and supped at Pool e .

1 2 t/z — D rove back to K ey h

. a ve n A little frost but as .
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yet white and therefore uncertain .

1 3 t/z to 1 6 t/t N o t a wigeon t o be seen in harbour

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either by day or night though both R eade and I never ,

ceased to persevere I n spite of fair frosty weather and a ful l

.

moon not one gunner have we even heard fire a shot S O

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completely is this pl ace clear of birds ; my whole week s ’

sport and at i t every day and all the nights was 2 grey
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plover .

1 7 t/ — R eade went home and on the 1 8 th returned bring

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ing me word t hat the unprecedented bad sport with wild fowl
was if possible worse at Poole than a t t his place
, , .

N o t a wigeon to be seen or heard

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1 8 t/t to 2 3 r a . .

2 4 t/i — G ave up and left K ey h

. a ve n
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N B
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— A l l the gunners are reduced to beggary by this
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phenomenon of a scarci t y .

2 6 tl c —L ongparish
. Th e whole country here I find has
.

been in arms after three E gyptian geese which I suppose must ,

have deserted from some gentleman s p o n d o r they never would ’

have stood the immense nu mber of shots t hat a rabble of

bunglers have been popping at t hem one by bet t er l u ck than ,

skill was s t opped by t h

,
e six t h round of W ill Blake my man , ,

and I have sent it to be stuff ed I rode out all the morni ng .

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but the other two geese no wonder have not been seen since , , .

T his evening my man C harles arrived with the two grand

potentates of all the gunners R eade and E lij ah Buckle wi t h , ,

who m I am trying various experiments and still further i m

ro v e m e n t s in my punts
p .

2 7 t/c — W a s instructed by Buckle in the knack of firing

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the large gun from the shoulder instead of from a swivel by , ,

w hich a punt of one third the usual weight is equally safe

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had of course but a small charge though I was astonished to

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fin d h o w much less was the recoil than I e x p ec t e d Powder i s .

tremendous for the first inch or two of recoil but afterwards

it i s much less powerful than I could have supposed if ,

received by anything the least elasti c .

3 0 t /c —
. R eade an d Buckle left me after we had worke d ,

hard every day at the punts and learned B uckle s system ’

.

F ebr u a ry 9 tl i —H aving received 1 0 more decoy duck s

.

and mallards from F rance I tried them this evening and th e , ,

o nly 2 birds that came near my hut they brought well in S hot
.

1 I t/i — .W ent to L ord R odney s to instruct his man in the ’

use of some F rench ducks that I t o o k him & c E ven her e , , .

the scarcity of wild fowl has been such that not a bird h a d

been brought to table I con t inued however to get a f e w

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by m eans of getting up som e hours before daylight lettin g ,

mysel f out of the house and getting over the park pales to t h e

pond where I had the luck to kill all I S hot at

, .

M a r c/c 1 s t — L eft L ongparish to look at a manor in

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N orfolk and inspect the lakes and coast .

3rd
— A rrived at Y armouth and received the greates t
civility and h ospitality from C G irdlestone E s q who being .
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an excellent sportsman proved to be a capi tal pilot and guid e

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for every informa t ion .

5 tl i.
—VVe n t to H orsey to s t ay a few days at m v old
quar t ers with M r R ising where I had a good day s fishing
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and in the course o f o n e of my walks killed 2 teal a n d I snipe .

9 tl c.
— L eft H orsey for Y armou t h early i n t h e morning ,

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and made a thorough inspection of the B reyd e n flats ,

which appeared i n every respect to be the finest gunn ing

ground I ever saw H aving taken Buckle the ad mi ral of the
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swivel gunners by way of a servant I had also an abl e

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engineer to j udge of the place I n short I found the i mpedi .

ment to shooting on the waters so little and al l the gunning ,

ground so good that I proved it quite unnecessary to be

,

t roubled with the care and expense of a manor and left Y ar ,

m outh fully satisfied with my pleasant excursion and the

many little things I had seen and discovered .

N B — Th
. . e gunners on this coast although equipped with ,

huge guns were about thirty years behindhand in their art

but so near is Y armout h
,

to H olland that the people here have ,

th e m aiden shots at the fowl before they become wild as ,

t hey always are before they reach our coast L eft by the .

D art coach at five in the evening an d slept at N orwich ,

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l o t/ c L eft N orwi ch at a quarter past six and at a quar t er

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past seven reached L ondon by the T i mes coach H ad ’

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a capital a j eu u er a l a f ou r c/zette at Bury S t E d munds for t w o

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shillings each passenger A n d the sam e coachman drives .

the whole 1 1 4 miles every d ay i n the week not even S unday ,

does he rest ; and one of the coachmen the famous M r ,

.

Thoroughgood has i n addition to this to wal k abou t thirty

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miles a week .

I I t/z —F rom morning till night with gunmakers book

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publishers and other people on various business and got ,

through about thirty long comm issions and a few calls .

1 2 t/z — R eturned to L ongparish and found al l well

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G ame & c killed i n the season.

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Popgun work 2 1 6 partridges 7 hares 1 quail 3 rabbits , , , ,

2 pheasants 4 6 snipes , .

D uck gun work — 2 geese 8 ducks and mallards I wigeon , ,

3 c u
r r e s 4 t eal I n all but 2 9 3 head
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N B . Th .e vilest wild fo w l season in the annals of history

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a su mmer i nstead of a winter and half the gunners starving , ,

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D I AR Y

A ug us t 3 r i — Brought out the third edition of my ‘

In
to Y oung S portsmen after two months incessant
s tru c t i o n s ,
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labour and an xiety with artists printers & c I of course sen t

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copies to his M aj esty and other great persons as well as to

, ,

some particular friends and the artists who were engaged for
,

the work .

3 1 s t A
. fter quite
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as much trouble with getting forward
my large double gun as I had in bringing ou t my book I left ,

town this day and arrived at L ongparish H ouse which I found

, ,

still in such a miserable mess with brick and mortar that I

, ,

direc t ly wished myself away again .

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C H A P TE R XVI I

1 824

S p tem ber
e I st —
Partridges all in the high standing corn
W eather so intensely hot and dry that scarcely a dog would
hunt not a b rea thof scent and the birds wild and running al l
, ,

day and as far as I could j udge a bad breed of birds I n short

, , , .
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the worst I s t of S eptember I ever was out in at L ongparish ,

for though I S hot as wel l as ever I have done yet I could

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only bag 2 0 partridges and 1 rabbit .

2 na — S o intensely hot that every person i s complaining

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W ent out between four and five t his evening and even then ,

was al most broiled .

7 tb — I got 1
. 1 partridges M issed a bird in shot which .
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is th e first time I have done so this season I however . , ,

killed hi m with the second barrel so I lost nothing by my ,

bu n g hg n .

1 4 ta — O utfor four hours and literally never discharged

.
,

my gun except at a quail whi ch I killed F inding shooting

, , .

out of the question to day I took hal f an hour s trolling and

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got 4 brace of very large trout .

1 6 t/z — 2 7 partridges and what is somewhat s i n g u l a r I

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lost 7 more than I S hot This is an extraordinary con .

t rast with the day before yes t erday when I beat the same ,

ground with very little in addition and never got a shot at a

, ,

partridge I t shows the extreme diff erence between a good

.

and a bad scenting day A lthough this is by far the greatest

.

d ay I have had this bad season yet it was by no means a ,

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D I AR Y S E PT .

satisfactory one F irst I lost 7 birds that I shot in covert

.
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& c ; second I had six fair shots S poiled by my horses and

.
,

men being in the way and third I missed three birds wi thin ,

S hot which has been always a rare thing for me to do and

, ,

was as sad a catastrophe as losing my purse or my watch ;

and fourthly I burnt my fingers by once firing in has t e with
,

my hand near the gas hole of the detonator -

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2 2 ua — 8 partridges and I hare and 4 more birds lost

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N ever did I lose so many birds as I have done since I used

detonating guns as they have al w ays with me proved to hit
th e birds so w eak at long distances that they get a field or ,

two o f f and tower before they fall instead of coming down ,

handsome as they usually did when I used a flint lock .

G am e killed in S eptember 1 8 2 4 1 4 6 partridges 4 hares , ,

1 rabbit 1 landrail I quail 2 snipes

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Total 1 5 5 head
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N B — A universal complaint everywhere that this has

. .

been the worst and scarcest season ever known insomuch ,

that I have beat everyone here and even done wonders by ,

gettin g the little game above entered .

Oc tober 4 tb — D ecidedly proved that the flint gun shot

.

superior both for strength and closeness to the d etonator But

, , .
,

on taking the flint into the field I killed only 1 partridge and ,

I landrail having from lately used a detonator fired behind

,

four other S hots at bi rds that I ought to have killed This is .

a caution to those who have S hot well with a flint to leave well ‘

enough alone .
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9 t/i
— 1 0 partridges 2 j ack snipes and 1 hare
. Wa s u m , , .

well and nervous as a cat or I S hould have killed a leash

, ,

more birds as it was I lost a brace more that towered Tw o , .

curious occurrences to day : killed 2 birds at a shot and -

,

stepped over a hare sitting when running to pick them up , ,

and then killed hare S prung an old cock bird out of H unter s
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i
p g ys t e in the village when riding home ; went i n search of
hi m again found him in the plantation before the windows ,

and bagged hi m a very long shot which happened to be the ,

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D I AR Y

t hrew the whole burthen of directions on my S houlders and ,

then wanted to take all the credit himself I was this day wel l ,

e nough to drive to below Vauxhall Bridge w here we tried the ,

gun ; and in S hort the two barrels together (

,
on my plan )
,

a nswered even better than I expected whereas if E g g had ,

d one it his way the whole concern would have been spoiled
, .

1 4 t/z R eturned to L ongparish H ouse under the idea

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that change of air would expedite my recovery .

1 6 t/ c — B uckle arrived an d we began building a punt

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, .

2 2 a o — W hat with the wet weather abominable damp

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,

m ortar and the sad state the house is now left i n from the
,

a lterations almost everyone i n the house has taken a cold

,
.

I had a severe relapse yesterday and to day and my eyes -

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w ere so bad also that I could hardly see across the room .

2 4 t/c to 2 8 th— A pretty C hristmas. M ysel f much worse .

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a close prisoner an d till now and now with great difficulty

, , ,

I could not see to write S carce touched a morsel for .

three whole days and as weak as a rat Th ,

e cook so bad .

with the rheumatism S h e could not spit the meat or do any

thing without help and in great pain Th e kitchen maid

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bled and laid up in the drawing room among the lumber of

,

the mutilated centre of the house which is deposited there ,

.

Poor C harles my right hand m an and useful attendant i n all

,
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my illness was the worst of us all alarmingly ill with two

, ,

d oc t ors an d hourly apprehensions of typhus fever

,
H ornsby .

touched sharply with ophthalmia an d bad in his stomach , .

Kitt t h e carpenter so poorly he can hardly go on with his

w ork . Th e plasterer gone off and laid up with his eyes ,

i n a dangerous state owing to an accident with the lime , .

L ong the gun maker laid up in his bed at A ndover and

, ,

unable to come to me and the man he sent i n his stead ,

very poorly W ith the exception of L ong this is all a

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,

house i llness ; though such has been the wet wea t her that
i t must be admitted there never w a s so much general
i llness here before Th is is a glorious salvo for the architect
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,
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who will probably swear that his damp walls wet mortar and , ,

t horough d raughts have nothing to do with our invalided

f amily .

2 9 t/i —R eade came up to see and tri m the new punt & c
.
.

3 0 tb —.I was so far better as to be ju st able to crawl out

a n d see the punt afloat A l l our household a little mended .
,

a n d C harles this night pronoun ced by the doctors as likely

t o live .

1825

j
a n ua r
y 4
1Buckle
t/c who .came to me to-
assist i n pun t
,

building went out after a large flock of teal that dropped in

,

o u r moors 1 5 came by hi m al l in a cluster and he knocked ,

d own 6 at a shot which on my property here is the best S hot

, , ,

I ever remember being made I continued not well enough .

to go out .

2 5 t/z a u a 2 6 tl c — M yself still on the sick list though con

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s t a n t l y employed in building my punt in the new drawing

room .

F ebr u a ry 1 6 t/z — Had a grand trial of my new double

.

s tanchion gun assisted by Buckle , (

the king of the stanchion
gunners) and nothing could be mo r e satisfactory than all my
,

inventions proved insomuch that I may venture to pronoun ce

,

this gun the champion of E ngland W e were from morning .

till night firing and half the night writing down the cal eu
,

l a t i o n s and experi ments .

1 7 t/
.z — H ad n o t killed a bird since O ctober 1 6 th owing to ,

l ong illness This day discharged a duck gun at a j ack snipe

.

a n d bagged hi m .

2 8 tb — A lthough still an invalid I went to stay a few days

.
,

with L ord R odney to try my new gun and punt on his lake ,

at A lresford though what few fowl had been there this year
had nearly all disappeared .

M a r ci c 6 th —L ongparish L aid my boat up inshore c o

, .
,

vered her over with reeds got the snipes driven to where they ,
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always were seen to pitch raked the reeds with the big gun ,

at random and bagged 1 2 snipes at one shot all dead I

, , .

waited hal f an hou r for the flock to com e down again which ,

they were in the act of doing when my dog swam across to ,

me and drove them o ff .

G ame & c killed to M arch sth 1 8 2 5 : 1 60 partridges 6

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hares 1 pheasant 1 rabbit 2 landrails I quail 3 8 snipes 4

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wild ducks 1 tufted drake 9 teal Total 2 2 4 head exclusive

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of course of coots 8t e , , .

N B.
— L ost all the shooting in O ctober N ovember D e ,
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c e m b e r J anuary and F ebruary owing to illness brought on

, , ,

entirely by vexation and trouble L uckily for me however .

, ,

the season was the worst ever known both for game and fowl .

1 7 t/z —L ondon . S uffered much from illness and w a s .

,

dreadfully inconvenien ced by having got into a house in

L ondon without a warm corner in it H ad much vexatio n .

again with that old rascal E g g and aft er much trouble wi th ,

my solicitor and Joe M anton for a mediator got off for z ool
, ,
.

for my gun and it will take 2 0l more to replace the bad wor k
, .

therein O l d E g g made an indirect appeal for 3 0 0l for the

. .

gun and 2 5 l for his time ; and then m itigated this into a
, .

demand for immediate payment of 2 0 0l for the gun I ol for .

,
.

his time and 4 l 1 I s for a loading rod and a deal box A fter
, . . .

giving me i m mense trouble he proposed to toss up for th e ,

4 l 1 1 s and it was pretty evident he kne w how to throw tails

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so I cried Tails caught hi m i n his own trap got his receipt

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in full of all demands witnessed by Joe M anton and on a 1 os , ,

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stamp and at a great sacrifice washed my hands of one o f

,

the most aggravating and ungrateful fellows that ever dis

graced the nam e of a tradesman .

Ap r i l I I t/z — A fter being four weeks in the very essence

.

of misery with being stewed in hot water physicked leeched , , ,

and butchered I this day went with M a c i l w a i n to consult the

, , ,

most extr a ordinary old bear that ever appeared in a civilised

country the celebrated D r A bernethy
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my gun but nine times and on one occasion as Ponton was , ,

a long way behind me we all felt con fident that 2 birds fel l
,

to one barrel of my gun i f so I bagged 5 brace ; but at all ,

e vents which is i n this country a m iracle being far more

, , ,

than was ever done before insomuch that 2 brace of black game
,

in a day is here considered most brilliant sport I made two .

doublets and five single shots some very lon g ones Ponton ,
.

a lso shot as well as possible and as al most a matter of course

, ,

wi th him never missed H e killed 3 brace exclusiv e of t h

, . e ,

doubtful bird before named I n short our day was 8 brace .

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of strong full grown black game the greatest S port here on

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r ecord , the talk of all the country and an article for the ,

public papers This was my maiden day at E nglish black

.

game shooting and a most glorious one it was W e found

, .

but 1 1 brace the whole day and this was considered a won ,

d e r f u l S how of these birds except in winter when they all

, ,

flock together and can never be S hot by fair means I n a

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word this was taking it for all in all the most satisfactory
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d ay s sport I ever had in my li fe

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2 8 t/ i — S unday
. W ent to morning church at H am Preston
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a n d to afternoon service at S t a p e H il l C onvent where by a , ,

lucky accident I got a good view of all the nuns This i s a

, .

poor t hough wild and romantic little place established by ,

L ord A rundel on the heath j ust outside of Ponton s Park

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tl —L eft U d d en s Park and in the evening arrived

3 0 z.
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a gain at L ongparish H ouse .

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D I AR Y

C H A P TE R XVI I I

1825

S ep tem ber 1 s t I never knew the scent so bad or the .

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birds so wil d on the I s t as on this day ; notwithstanding

, ,

which I bagged with only my two old bi t ches neither o f , ,

which are e xtraordinary 4 2 partridges besides 6 more shot , ,

dead and lost 2 hares 2 quails al l I saw 1 landrail and , , , ,

1 wood p i geon .

2na — R ested as I always do after the first day for man y

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j ust reasons .

3 r a —
3 1 partridges
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. 1 hare and 1 snipe entirely through , , ,

having S hot most brilliantly as the birds were so ex ,

t r e m el y wild that many sportsmen could not even get a

brace .

t / — partridges
1
m aking exclusive of a wood pigeo
5 t 4 0 . n , ,

not game 1 2 0 head of game in three days or putting it on

, ,
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th e average 2 0 brace a day for three successi ve days

, T hough .

the ground is notwithstanding the heavy rain in A ugus t so

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dry an d the bi rds so wild that everyone complains of getting

, ,

but little S port yet by means of able manoeuvring rapi d , ,

attacks and rapid shooting I have been doing wonders con

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s i d e r i n g the country I shot in .

— artridges landrail and wood pigeon which

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considering how very windy it was and how very wild the ,

Th'
i i th fi t d y i
s smy l i fetht I ld i
rs wi ld l w l a t y n e a c ou n ou r a ess c o u n r
:

hv w ht I ll m y b t h hll f th fi t d y Th th th
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i m
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a e a ca u c er s a oo , a ter e rs a . s ea n s e re e

ch tht I a d m y m y g i v w h v th m b f tw ty b
ee rs a n a r i d y e en e er e nu er o en ra c e n on e a

i s m a de u
p .
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birds were is quite equal to the preceding day s S port I

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made seven doublets an d missed nothing in reach I ndeed , .

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I have not miss ed a fair shot this season .

l o t/z —. A n incessant hurri cane all day A fter my bagging .

8 partridges besides 2 more killed and lost and 2 snipes

, , ,

there came on such a thick dri z z ling rain that I gave up , ,

shooting galloped home and sal lied forth with my rod

, , ,

and had a most wonderful day s fishing C olonel H alton ’

.

and I including what we threw in caught 4 0 brace of trout

, , .

I remember at one time killing 5 good fish i n seven throws

of the rod .

1 2 tl i —
. A wet dri z z ling morning went with a casting net
,

to get bait ; then attended M r Painter to give hi m a few .

finishing lessons in fishing at w hich he had excellent S port , .

C aught two very large trout myself and several smaller ones ,

and in short was occupied till about twelve when the rain
, , ,

blew o f f I then went home took a s n ack and gave the

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birds another and a farewell attack for the present I bagged .

2 4 partridges 2 hares 1 landrail and 1 snipe by dint of good

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generalship with my army of markers and shooting with a

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rapidity and accuracy that after my long i llness I despaired

of ever recovering L ong the gunmaker was among the .
, ,

spectators and much pleased he was as he had bored one of ,

the gun s on which I played such a glorious concerto H ere .

ends my shooting for thi s trip to the country A most .

glorious beginning with a splendid fi nale , .

G rand sport I here give a list of game & c killed up to

. .

S eptember 1 2 th .

O u t altogether but five whole mornings an d two hal f morn

ings S ome unprecedented S port trout fishing an d 9 heath
.

poults ( all in one day and i n nine S hots) to which add 1 6 6 ,

partridges 7 hares 2 wood pigeons 3 landrail s 2 quails

, , , , ,

8 snipes ; besides 1 0 more partridges shot dead and lost ,

which would bring the list to 2 0 7 reckoning fairly however , ,

a s to what I bagged the total is 1 9 7 head , .

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from all parts and astonished my lookers o n by some ex ,

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c e l l en t shots at coots the only fowl then on the pond ,

.

Previously to this by the bye I turned out at five in th e , ,

—
morning after being up till near three i n order to storm
—

an enormous army of starlings into which I blew off th e ,

great double gun with 3 0 ounces of small S hot j ust before ,

sunrise W hat I killed it is impossible to say b u t from th

. e , ,

appearance of the huge hole blown through the phalan x o f

birds my S pectators guessed at least 5 0 0 though I could get
, ,

but a mere share of those which fell as nearly all of them ,

d ropped in the reeds and on quagmires W hat I bagged at .

the ti me however was 2 4 3 starlings at one shot

, The , .
1

feathers which the win d blew towards and over us after the ,

shot I could compare to nothing but a heavy fall of black

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snow .

2 8 t/ t Th e first quiet d ay I ha ve passed for some weeks

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Th e transition was like the stopping o f a noisy mill .

D ecember 1 3 t/z — R eturned to L ongparish . .

1 7 t/z A fter passing the morning at A ndover I this day

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though suff ering with a severe headache went out at a quarte r ,

past two and was home again before four o clock with 5
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sn ipes 5 j ack snipes and 1 teal which I killed without

, , ,

missing a bird .

1 9 t/z snipe and 2 j ack snipes and was then drive n

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home by r a in which was no loss as by what little I could

, , ,

see I had nearly cleared off all the snipes here on S aturday
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1826

and C harles to remove my

’ — S ent R eade
j a n u a ry 2 na .

n ew gunning flo t i lla for a trial on the sea to K ey ha ve n , , .

P S . .
—
D ecem ber 2 7 t/z . M y ma n C hl
a r es ca me hm o e f ro m a m i ss i on to
Al res f o rd , a n d b r o u g t ba c w o r d h k t ht
a ,
si n c e I wa s th th er e , e r eed s w er e c u t, a n d

h k
t e w o r m e n f o u n d b e t w een 2 0 0 a nd l
3 0 0 m o r e s ta r i n g s I f s o I w a s . ri
g h
t i n

g u es s i n g ht I k i ll
t a ed 5 0 0 a t a s ht o , a h h
n d t ey s a y t a t a l l t i s a r m
y of h s ta r li n
g s

e v a cua te d thi g e r a rri s on hd

t e a
y a f t er I bes i eg ed thm e .
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3 r a
’
. and I arrived safe a t K ey h
—They a ven .

4 t l i —.E mployed all day in getting our apparatus in order .

5 t / z —.T hough i t blew a tremendous gale from eas t by ,

s o u th my sailors and I w ere anxious to t ry our new pun t

, ,

the L ion to day i t being T hursday which we s u p er s t i

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t i o u s l y fancy a lucky day W e began working up to windwar d.

,

at daylight in order to drop do w n on what few geese were

,

arrived But i t so happened tha t the first birds we fel l in

.

with were abou t 6 0 wigeon M y pun t was so invisible .

,

t hat we got well i n shot of t hem but being loaded only with ,

mould shot and having to fire through a t remendous surf

, ,

which took the charge from the obj ect I got b u t one old ,

cock wigeon though we had the sa t isfaction to find that every

,

t hing answered remarkably well A l l sport at an end by t en .

o clock A M as the water had t hen left the mud and no thin g
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,

could live outside as i t pou red wi t h hail sleet snow and , , , ,

rain and blew ready to tear t h

, e very trees up .

6 tl i — A gale of wind all night and all day with a tr e m e n

.
,

dou s pour of rain ; fired one shot a long one and got b u t , ,

I wigeon ; and was then as yesterday imprisoned by th e , ,

weather from ten in the morning till night .

9 t/z
—.A frost and fine weather R eade went out to recon .

n o i t r e the creeks in my old Poole punt and merely took my ,

old fort y shilling S houlder gun a few hours before dayligh t

- .

H e happened to fal l in with a newly migrated bunch of fowl ,

all in a heap and got close to them and at one shot with thi s
, ,

gun killed and got 5 ducks and mal lards 1 2 wigeon 2 pintails , , ,

and I grey plover .

l o t/z — C alm weather

. scarcely a bird in harbour d i d ,

fairly for the lit t le chance there was G o t 1 pintail 1 scau p

, .
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drake 1 wigeon an d 3 grey plover

, ,
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1 2 t/z —A butterfly day ; every j ackass afloat with a

.

blunderbuss or a swivel gun ; all the fowl driven out to sea ,

and there enjoying a dead calm I killed 4 coots and then .

,

came in and went to bed after dinner T urned o u t ag a in a t

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V OL . I . U
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m idnight and on the morning of the ,

1 3 t habout hal f past
,
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two got I 3 wigeon by s t arligh t E very o n e quite dead

, ,
. .

I 4t /z — O u t from aft er midnight till seven this morning

. .

F oggy weather and wigeon as they always are then too , , ,

restless to be done anything with O u t from two till night .

not a bird in harbour an d I killed nothing all day except a , ,

j ack snipe that I discharged my musket at ,

I this day .

heard t ha t notwithstanding the very cold weather and hard

,

frost there was scarcely a bird to be seen i n L ymington

,

m arket or even to be got fro m any of the gunners so unac

, ,

c ountably scarce have they as yet been N o t a goose to be .

s een or heard of a bird that this coast has generally afforded

i n all weathers S ent R eade to crawl in the mud sledge about
.

eig h t I being afraid after my late illness to crawl on the

, , ,

m u d this season H e got 4 wigeon but fou n d th

. e birds very ,

ticklish .
’

1 6 t/z — O u t at four . few birds and no tide to get at them ,

got but 1 wi g eon and 2 coots I th e n went to L ongparish and .

,

providentially arrived j ust before a d readful fire took place in

the village by which means I had the pleasure of being some
w hat useful to the poor su ff erers by starting a subscription & c , .

on the morning of the 1 7 th j ust before the engines had sub ,

dued the flames Three houses M o rra n t s M er s h . a m s and ,

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S i n ey s were burnt to the ground and not a vestige of pro

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perty was saved .

1 8 tl z —A l r esford (L ord R odney s )

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9 d u n b i r d s 7 tuft ed
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duck s 1 golden eye 1 morillon 1 teal 4 snipes 8 j ack

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snipes and several coots that got S hot with the other birds
, , .

I missed only one shot and that at a snipe far out of reach , , .

M y best shot with t h e duck gun was 9 mixed fowl But

, , .

th e whole country was an d i s now for ever likely to be ruined , ,

by the preserve of M r A lexander Baring of the G range Park .

, ,

who feed s and monopol ises merely to ornament his water , ,

and tickle his fan cy hal f the fowl in Hampshire I drove , .

t here expressly to see his coll ection

,
and I am confident ,
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D IARY JAN .

1st our — Took

tide at half past two this morning ; o ut
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till daylight ; tremendous rough weather and not above 2 0 ,

wigeon in harbour a n d we came in with a wet gun withou t

,

having fired a shot Took the evening tide but never found
.
,

a bird W esterly gales and all appearance of what little spor t

.

there is being nearly at an end for t h e season .

F ebr u a i y I s t — O u t three hour s before daylight no wigeon

in harbour ; got a wild duck and a godwit while sailing in t o
breakfast I t then set in a warm wet day ; out from two in
.

the afternoon till seven ; no birds on the tide and a fog at ,

night .

2a o — O u t before five this morning being determined t o

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,

persevere no chance for a sho t and there was t o o much ,

wind and ha z y weather to at tempt anything in the evening

consequently the lot of every gunner was a blank day
, .

4 tl i —A rrived in L ondon
. .

N othing particular occurred in town except t h e bankruptcy ,

of Joe M anton and the sale of his eff ects .

I 3 tl i — K ey h a ve n
. W e were prepared to t urn out a t half
.

past one this morning bu t i t came on ha z y and wet with a , ,

w esterly wind so all chance was at an end t hough when I ,

left L ondon only the day before yesterday we had a fine

eas t wind with a pretty hard frost Thus we were as usual .
, ,

made gaol birds of again I n the afternoon we took a

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sail and landed on the shingles of the N eedles wher e ,

al l t h e dunlins and curlews go at high water and defy t h e ,

gunners I popped away at the dunlins and knocked down a

.
,

couple of do z en an d also sho t a cormoran t or to use th

, e slang , ,

term lowered a parson but we S hould have buried a cask

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and t ied a c a t to a peg to have done wel l Then we might , .

have had good sport W e went out four hands on board .

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or this expedition might have been dangerous as we had ,

qui t e as much sea as we knew what to do wi th O n o u r

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re turn about six in the evening Buckle had arrived to pass th

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evening here and try some experi ments with me to morrow

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1 5 t/c
— . W i nd and rain morning noon and night and not , , ,

a bird t o be seen or heard K eyh a v en more like a cell i n

.

N ewgate than a place for recreation during such cruel weather ,

as we h ave hitherto had to undergo .

1 6t /z — W ind and rain all night till dayli ght this morning
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when at last it was tolerably dry overhead t hough a strong ,

westerly wind W e were this day very anxious to try the

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n ew eleva t ion of t h e gun as we had evidently been shooting

,

u nder before Th e only shot I got was

. at d u n b i rd s into ,

which I fired both barrels and a most satisfactory little shot ,

I made I p i c k e d up 5 8 n early all dead which was t w o

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, ,

thirds of what I had to shoot through Thus far everything .

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a ppears to answer extremely well N o fowl about t o day ; .

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o u t again about sunset ; wind very fresh but no water over ,

the mud .

N B .
— Th
. e discovery of this improved elevation for the gun

has tenfold repaid me f o r running down here again H ad it .

not been for this I should have repented my j ourney as the

, ,

wild fowl have now al most all disappeared and I dare say ,

may have already migrated to their breeding country .

1 7 ta — W ind from the westward ready to blow the house

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about our ears and a deluge of rain ; not a bird to be seen

,

o r heard and the whole country apparently cleared off by

,

this unfavourable wind N o t the most distant prospect of

.

having anything more to shoot at .

R eade ran out in the rain and lowered a parson ( shot ‘ ’

a cormorant ) This bird made some fun for us H e had

. .

thirty shot through his skin ; three flat fish and an eel were
taken out of him and three shot through the flat fish also
, ,

through undigested stuff like meat S o that R eade had shot .

fish flesh and fowl flying and in spite of this blow the nine
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lived glutton led us a chase for twenty minutes before he got

sick enough to be caught although shot at within 4 0 yards
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by a s houlder duck gun H e was disposed o f as follows

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the ski n to make a dandy collar for a coat ; the feathers to

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make me drawing pens and his carcase begged by my boat

man W illiams who engaged two friends to partake of hi m
,

for a delicate S unday s dinner E mployed al l hands the ’

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whole of this aft ernoon i n packing up and putting away our

coasting paraphernalia preparative to leaving K ey h a ve n
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to morrow
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1 8 tl z —L eft K ey h
. a v en .

F owl killed to F ebruary 2 2 n d 1 8 2 6 : 4 6 snipes 2 geese , ,

only ( scarcity this year unprecedented ) 7 ducks 64 wigeon , , ,

2 teal 3
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pintails 1 9 d u n b i r d s 4 grey plover
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2 godwits , ,
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T otal 1 4 9 head of fowl

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M y new shooting outfit in every single item proved to

answer inimitably so that all we wanted was a more plentiful ,

season as this one at K ey h

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a ven proved to be the worst ever

known A l l I could boast of therefore was having killed

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more than all the other peopl e put together .

M r b
a e 1 8 tb — L ondon I was till now a n invalid b u t
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being this day a littl e better I went ( wrapped up ) in the even ,

ing to C ovent G arden T heatre in order to hear my favourite

overture of D er F r ei s c h iit conducted by the i mmortal com z

poser hi mself C arl M aria Von W eber N othing could be

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more sublimely beauti ful and the applause that was drawn ,

forth by the a p p e a ra n ee of this great composer was no less

flattering than j ust .

19 / t z — S unday . Th e best s ermon

(for explanation
. of the
S cripture analogy metaphor language logic and energetic
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delivery ) that I have ever yet heard was t his day preached a t ,

S t M a ry s B ry a n s t o n e S quare by the rector the R e v M r

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D i b d i n on the subj ect of S t Paul s shipwreck

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M y 2a u — L eft town meaning to pass the night at

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Virg inia W ater provided I could be adm itted to see the

King s Park the boundary of which is close to a l i ttle inn
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called the W heatshea f at that place O n my arrival I

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was i nformed that no one could be admitted after two

o clock an d t h
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at even before was a particular favour I went .
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m ost un fortun ately a large flint took his knee directly across
,

th e sinew and divided it like the pinion of a fowl I n spite .

o f al l the farrier s hopes and consolations I made up my mind

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to the loss of this valuable horse that I could have had 1 3 0 ,

g uineas for and proceeded

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as w el l as I could with the chest , ,

n u t horse to K ey h ,
a ve n .

1 8 t/i —A ft er having several annoyances with this chestnut

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horse rearing up like a goat and then lying down like a pig
, ,

& c I this evening drove as far as S outhampton on my way

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back to L ongparish .

1 9 t/c — R eturned to L ongparish and on my way through

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W in chester found my horse as I expected in a dreadful

, , ,

s ta t e but the farrier M r D ixon a clever m a n stil l wished m e

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, ,

to try hi m anothe r week But on the 2 1 s t a note was brought .

me over from W inchester saying it woul d be charity to kil l ,

th e poor beast T hus was there an end of the finest gig horse
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that I ever was master o f .

A ug u s t 1 s t — L ondon W ord brought to me that my

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o ther horse the chestnut had been thrown down and broke
, ,

h i s knees Th e accidents are now out of number everywhere

. , ,

o wing to the roads having been without rain for so many

weeks I had also a letter with the particulars o f the death

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o f one of the oldest and best friends I had in the world poor ,

J ack Ponton my old brother sportsman and one of the be st

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shots and what is far better one of the best m en that ever
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l ived Thus have been cut o f f in the pri me of life our two
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greatest shots in the district i f not in the kingdom ; poor ,

W ardell last summer an d poor Ponton this summer , .

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C H A P TE R XIX

1 826
S eptember I st — Friday
I n L ondon being as yet too .
,

u nwell to venture away for shooting .

2 u a — F inding myself however rather better I went quietly

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o u t of town by the ten o clock coach this day and got to L ong
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p arish for a six o clock dinner T

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he report as to birds was .

favourable except t hat they were so extremely wild that not

,

e ven the best shots had done anything worthy of mention As .

for me I never voted shooting so great a bore as j ust at this

,

moment and were it not for my wish to supply a few friends

,

a nd th e farmers which I could not trust to the bunglers

,

here to do I would gladly have left my guns in their cases

, ,

and gon e somewhere for a healthy excursion and change of

s cen e .

4 tl c
—
. M y first day The weather mended considerably ;
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but the country was so extremely barren as scarcely to afford

a vestige of covert for the birds Th e stubbles were all trod .

d own by S heep and leasers and owing to the previous dry

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weather there were no turnips large enough to shelter t h

, e

game Th . e birds were plentiful but much wilder than e ve r I ,

knew them in S eptember ; insomuch that scarcely on e covey

in ten would allow even the dogs to come within gunshot I .
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however by means of mustering a good army of markers and

, ,

harassing the birds by repeated charges o f cavalry so completely ,

tired them down at last that I performed this d ay the most

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that ever was done by me or anyone in the annals of L ong

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parish sporting I bagged 5 6 partridges and (

. for our country
in one day a miracle ) 7 hares in nine hours never lost a
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:

bird th e whole d ay O w ing to the extreme wildness of th

. e

birds I was of course obliged to fire many random shots ;

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but notwithstanding I was so weak from having been unwell ,

I may safely say I did no t lose a bird by bad shooting th e

whole day as the only t w o fair shots I missed were at single

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birds both of which I secured with my second barrel T aking

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everything into considera t ion this is the greates t day I eve r ,

had in my life .

/ — H ad a general day s rest for men horses and dogs ’

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and everything except the birds which were of course a , , ,

l ittle popped a t by other parties Th e bad w eather came on .

again this aft ernoon .

6 tl c
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— A hurricane of wind and a deluge of rain N i mpor te .
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I have had spor t enough to last m e a week .

1 4 tl z.
— A wild windy day and the s t ubbles as bare as the ,

meadow I could only get 1 5 partridges 1 hare and 1 snipe ;

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though in spite of being very unwell I shot famously S uch

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is the state of t h e country now t hat a good bag w ould require

more exertion t han I am equal to at this moment .

I 6 tl z.
—1 5 par t ridges .

A s the strong dry easterly wind appears to be now set

, ,

in an d good sport at an end for the p resent I worked

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hard ( though I shot well ) t o get the above 1 5 birds which ,

wil l j ust comp lete my prom ises to friends and make up an ,

even 5 0 brace in the one grand day and three quiet mornings ’

shooting O n completing the 1 0 0 par t ridges I left t h

. e field ,

t ruly happy to get rid of the t rouble of such unpleasan t

shooting .

G ame killed i n S eptember 1 8 2 6 1 2 2 partridges 8 hares : , ,

2 snipes . T o t al 1 3 2 head ,
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W hat with being unwell myself and absent in L ondon , ,

I was only o u t 5 days M y first day was on the 4 thwhen I

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bagged 6 3 head and I believe beat all E ngland This w a s

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seen the shot While last in S outhampton a rogue charged

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me 3 s 6a for a .
fly for about twenty minutes I swore I
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would never give 3 s 6 a for a fly again so I got the don key .

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o n e at 1 s 6 a the hour .But cl ze s a r a s a r ci th

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. e vehi cle was .
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s o smal l that I thrust my elbow through the glass for which ,

I had to pay 2 s so after all it was to be that I must pay

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3 s . 6d.

1827

j a n u a ry Being much 5t/be

c —t ter and we
. having now had
s everal days frost and snow I this day started for K ey h
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a ve n ,
.

J ust after I left the yard at L ongparish I was called off aft er a
particularly large woodcock Which after several hours search , ,
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a n d a hard fag I contrived t o pocket the first shot

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A great .

victory over the usual bad luck of F riday and a magnificent ,

b ird to begin the new year with .

6 tb — A rrived at K ey h
. a ve n this n ight and ( strange that ,

i t should almost always happen so ) brought a change of wind

to the filthy south west and a wet evening N o t a bird has -
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been killed yet and scarcely any birds have been seen here
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t hough the weather was till this day so favourable for sport
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8 t to 1 0 t/z
z — W ind rain and every other kind of miser
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a ble wea t her that as i f by magic I always contrive to conj ure

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U p on my arrival a t K ey h a ve n R eade aft er working four .

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whole nights g o t 2 wigeon whi ch are perhaps at this moment

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th e only 2 in our distric t T hank G o d however I am better .

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s o I pocket the affront o f having nothing to shoot at so long ,

as I d erive benefit from the sea air .

1 9 t/ z —This evening the weather set in fine with a beauti

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fu l eas t erly wind ; but til l now we have had nothing but , ,

wind and rain from the miserable west ; and except killing ,

a cormorant I have never pulled a trigger though I perse

, ,

vered regularly throughout every night and always came

home with an empty bag .

2 2 u a — A t last we have the b l e s s m g to enjoy severe

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weather : frost snow and a tremen dous gale from the east
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ward all day ; we could hardly live in it but of cours e ,

persevered I got two shots : first bagged 1 0 and second

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6 w 1 g eo n we came in as wet as shags with 1 6 wigeon .

— 2 9 wigeon 1 teal I dunbird 1 1 godwits I plover

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2 3ra .
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and 1 knot making 4 4 head besides 4 dozen of dunlins a n d

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many wigeon of mine that other people got M y best sho t .

was j ust before daylight I picked up 1 5 wigeon and 1 teal .

on the spot ; and had not the left barrel of my gun misse d
,

fi re I should have doubled this shot Th

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e only time bo t h .

barrels wen t was a t 1 2 wigeon on the edge of the creek by

daylight ; I killed them every one an d bagged 1 0 of them , .

N 0 one else in and around K ey h a ve n has yet done anything ,

so I have every reason to be content .

2 4 tl i
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— W ind dropped westerly aft er a beastly white frost
birds suddenly disappeared again .

I had been up since three this morning f o r a gran d

daybreak shot which I was within two minutes of firing
,

when all was ruined by a j ackass with a blunderbuss in a

washing tub .

2 5 tl c
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— 6 wigeon ; the right barrel missed fire or should , ,

of cou rse have doubled the number

, .

T his night the brutal west wind shifted and things look ,

better again .

2 8t /.z — S unday A n abomin able westerly wind again

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and cold miserably stormy weather as bad for birds as f o r ,

onesel f
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2 9 t/.c — O u t in the morning and had no chance for a S hot , .

O u t in the evening and it was too dark for flight , R eade .

out till ten a t night ; and i t was t o o dark and thick to do

anything with what few birds were in harbour .

3 o th.
—Beastly rotten cut throat weather enough to s u ff o -
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cate you all day and at night as t hick as mustard S everal

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wigeon still remain ; but we must have starlight or moon , ,

before we can attempt getting another shot W e could shoot .

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without seeing but then the wigeon wi l l never keep together

,

i n thick nights .

F ebr u ry I s t
a — F inding that th e vagabond mud launchers

made a point of working over the mud every night before t h e ,

tide flowed I this day purchased of L ieutenant H arnett R N

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th e prettiest mud punt and mud gun in all this country .

S o now R eade and I can cope wi t h the mud crawling reptiles -

at all tacks .
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W e t weather all this afternoon and then a wet night , .

R eade went out after midnight to try H arnett s n ew set

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out he got 2 wigeon towards the morning at which he made ,

such a shot as to be beyond anything pleased with the

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bargain I had made for the mud gun and punt .

2 ua — ’
.W a s not out to day and merely fired a shot with -
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the musket with which I killed an old cock wigeon from the
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quay Th . e wind changed this evening to north east and -

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things look better again .

3 r d — T h e wind got well away from the old miserabl e

quarter west and stood north east with clear frosty air
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R eade came in with 3 wigeon about three this morning A .

gale of wind all day and consequen tly no living outside ;

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and being the dead of the nip we had no water inside

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harbour ; we had therefore no chan ce even to see birds this

d ay A bout midnight R eade got 3 more wigeon with the
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new launching punt which at this ti me of tide is the only

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possible means of getting a bird .

5 t/ z.
— O u~

t the whole day sailing at sea (the only thing we

could do ) and brought home but 1 wigeon
, .

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7 t l c. R eade came in this morning with 1 2 wigeon (by
l aunching which is the only remedy for this detestable ever
, ,

dry harbour ) .

7 tl c.
— H arbour dry and a tremendous sea outside I got
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but one l ittle shot all day when I killed 2 coots N o , .

flight at night nothing but mu d work I launched about for

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two hours w ith the new m ud punt after a few straggling birds ,
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1 2 t/
c —R eade
. who had wallowed in t h ,
e mud since mid

night ( directly S unday was over ) came i n t his morn ing with ,

1 1 wigeon which he g o t a t on e S hot abou t two o clock from my

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new mud sledge N othing in harbour to day t hough a pre tt y

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fair tide I w a s out from nine at night till two ; got a shot
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at about 1 4 wigeon and bagged 9 R eade went on a t half past .

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two mud launching ; he brought in about dayligh t 2 wigeon ,

and would have had about 6 more had not his gun flashed i n
the pan .

I 3 t/t —N o birds about though cold fros ty weather so I

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took this day for doing som e j obs to my punts O ut .

all night ; a cold white frost ; slack t ide i n spite of the full
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moon and not a bird in harbou r or even outside S o n y

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K ey h a ven for a gunn ing place ! R eade relieved me soon

after t w o when the water fell ; and after crawling on th
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e ,

mud till half dead an d till daylight appeared he never saw

, , ,

nor even heard a single fowl ,

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1 4 t/t —
. T here being nothing else t o d o I turned my wits ,

t o a few miserable geese that had ever since O ctober been , , .

the publi c target of every shooter from the launcher to th e ,

armed cobbler and n ever had on e reduced from their com

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pany By w a y of a valentine I mixed them Up some boluse s

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,

( like blue grapes ) sealed in a sort of shel l cartridge W e had .

the excellent for t une to get within about 3 00 yard s of them ,

when I let fly and bagged one brent goose and another fell ,

dead on the breakers where I dare not follow This is poor ,

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sport that it should now be working a miracle to get one

,

goose when a few years a g o I have knocked down over

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1 00 i n a season Temp or a m u ta u tu r
. .

I 5 t/z . R eade came in a t daylight this morning after a

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whole night s crawl i n the m ud sledge with 1 9 wigeon which

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he k illed at one S hot about five o clock N othing does i n ’

.

this cou n try but mud cr a wling as when we have a wind for ,

birds we have no water an d w hen we have a wind for goo d ,

tides we have no birds .

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A fter going to L ymington on business I renewed my

game wi t h these gun defying geese they started up as usual -

at 3 00 yards where my boluses floored 5 of them with the

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two barrels each loaded with 2 0 ounces A Y armouth boat

,
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took off 2 before our faces before we could get th e punt

afloat after running aground to shoot ; all that I bagged of

,

them therefore was 3 brent geese H ad we not made haste

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to get within hai ls and damns of these chaps they would ,

have got all our birds ; but on our coming up they sheered
o f f and left us the three w hich I got
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T here being no tide .

for night shoo t ing I trudged off ( among divers journeymen

,

and rag tag fellows ) to the flight A ll I saw to fire at wa s

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1 mallard which I bagged and this was the only one killed
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among the whole army of shooters that lined the marsh and
the shore .

1 6 tb — R eade having had bad luck with his gun flashing

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in the pan during the night came i n this morning with ,

only 1 wigeon N o tide for me so I was again a gaol bird

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for the day in spite of a frost O K ey h

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a ve n K ey h a v en ! .
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not even a wherry could have lived outside so what was I ,

to do ?
1 7 tl z — R eade cam e in t his morning after mud creeping al l
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,

night with only 1 wigeon A cal m sea at last aft er a whi t e

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frost W en t o ff on tide i n th e gunning punt ; and after

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crossing t h e C hannel close into the I sle of W ight almost t o ,

N ewtown we fell in wi t h a trip of wigeon of which I got 6

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1 8 t/ i S unday
. W a s packed up last night in order t o
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start to morrow morning for A lresford when there s e t in

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suddenly the most t re mendous gale of wind from th e east ,

and the severest fros t s that we have had for th e las t three

seasons I of course counterm anded the march to see what

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would be t h e issue of such delightful gunning wea ther .

1 9 t/t —A gale of wind all day ; t h

. e harbour half fro z en ,

and al l the vagrant gunners racing up and down t h

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e shore

l ike Bedlam broke loose We with great difficul ty got .

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through the ice and weathered the wind in the creeks but out ,

side not even a vessel could have lived I got a beautiful shot .

at 8 ducks and the gun flashed ; and these birds sat till I
,

primed and flashed again ; but on retreating to rec t ify the ,

gun t hey fle w up I got ano ther (

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indiff eren t) shot after
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wards and bagged 2 d ucks and 1 mallard an d with the

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hand gun killed a fine old cock pintail and a golden eye -
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Plenty of wigeon but al l where we dare not go, .

20 t/ z — 2 mallard s and 1 d uck on the mud at 8 1 yards

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(measured ) with a shoulder gun (old F u l l e r d ) .

z 1 s t —4 wigeon and I brent goose

. a fin e S how of bird s ,

but the poppers so innumerable that they could have no rest

day or n ight and so bad were the chances that I believe
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I was the only gunner who got a bird to day -

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2 2 ua — W eather rather more calm ; wigeon all to the

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east w ard at sea ; worked wi th my shel l shot and got 3 bren t

geese and 1 burrough duck all at enormous distances ; not ,

another soul could get near enough even to ti ckle one so u n ,

usually wild were the birds .

— R eade after the sovereign remedy ( for this beastly

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country) o f mud creeping all n igh t came i n with 1 2 wigeon ,

this morning Th e only time that a punt could get water

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was from eight till twelve A fine day and every dandy .
,

turned gunner N o t a chance for a fowl and I believe I was

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the only one who fired a shot .

2 4 tl i R eade came in aft er a blank night at mud crawling

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and I was out all day and got but 1 wigeon A tide at last so .
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went out at night a fair S how of birds but as dark as the ,

grave F ired t wice by the sound : got 6 wigeon the first

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shot no thing the nex t

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2 5t /z — S unday . A thaw after a white frost and wigeon

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t riumphing i n the air all day as i f they knew it was a day ,

of res t .

2 6 t/ c — A gale of wind from the west with thick d ri z z ling

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weather and all the wigeon d is a ppeared everything indicating

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G ame and wild fowl &c . k illed in the season up to M arch

5 t h8 ,
1 27

G am e — 1 2 2 partridges ( all in f our days except 1 brace ) ,

8 hares I ph easant 1 woodcock (

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al l I saw) 3 rabbits 8 snipes
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(all I S hot a t ) G ame 1 4 3 head .

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F owl — 8 geese ( the most k illed by anyone on our coast )

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2 0 9 w igeon 12 ducks and mallards I burrough duck 1 1

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c u r re s 1 pintail 3 teal
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F owl 2 4 5 head ,
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S e a waders — curlews coots godwits

5 4 1 6 9 plover 1 4 6
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o x birds (
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in three sho ts ) 2 ol ives W aders 1 8 2 , .
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G rand total 1 4 3 game 2 4 5 wild fowl ; 1 8 2 waders

, 5 7 0 .

Best sho t 1 7 wigeon 2 teal and I duck , , .

Apr i l 1 2 t /z — L ondon Ha d a gran d day from si x i n t h

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morning till twelve with Joe M anton and his myrmidons ,

firing with and regulating the new elevated sights of my huge

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double swivel gun which we wheeled down t o Bayswater to , ,

the astonishmen t of t h e gaping multitude and idle followers .

1 7 tl i — W a s from nine this morning till five in the evening

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with John H ussey J oe M anton s celebra t ed borer putting a ,

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fresh inside to this gun d own at Fu l l e r d s den i n C l er k e n ,

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w ell I t was shameful to see what a m iserable inside the gun

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had before we rebored her an d then she looked and shot ,

beautifully M y men C harles an d John drew home the gun

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all along th e N e w R oad up to M an t on s lest i t m ight come to ’

harm by being left as the tiger who took it t here on S a t urday ,

evening was run foul of by a Paddington stage on the strength ,

of wh ic h he showed fight and the gun was left at the mercy of ,

a L ondon mob w hile S mut and J ehu ( who descended from his
rostrum for a round ) put themselves in battle array and w ould ,

have fought a ba t tle worthy of the M orning Post record and ’

M arylebone O ffi ce cognisan ce but for t h e interference of the ,

s tockbroking passengers who feared perhaps t ha t their blun t , , ,

might be in j eopardy d uring th e fracas .

M y 2 u a — G ave the grea t double gun a final t rial a t Bays

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w ater attended by some of J oe s best men Found her w o n

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d er f u l l y i mproved and t herefore satisfactorily ended all th

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trouble I have had wi t h this j ob .

u u e 1 6 t/z to 1 8 t/z —L ondon I continu e d very ill in bed

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and could t ake no sus tenance A s i f we had n o t t rouble .

enough the chimney very kindly to ok fire and w e barely

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es c aped the usual levy o f en g i n es by a chimney sweeper a

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hero in his way wet t ing hi mself to th e s kin

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and then going ,

up t hrough the fi re by which he succeeded i n putting it out , .

2 9 t/ z — L ongparish
. W e dragged the river to get baskets .

of fish for the D uke of C laren ce and others bu t al though we ,

caugh t abou t 5 0 brace of trou t not one fish among them was ,

more than ; l b so very small do the fish run t his season

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u ly 1 1 tk — L eft L ongparish for C owes N o smoke ships

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aft er t hree so forced to boat it got becalmed broke an oar ;

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S hould have been starved but for some bread and cheese and

sour beer at C alshot po t house and never reached C o w es til l

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midnight .

1 2 t/z — W ent to S outhampton to superintend some boat

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j obs tha t were doing for me S lept at the S u n inn on th e .

quay where the noise was such t hat all I ever heard before
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w a s pianissimo compared to it t hir t y fellows screeching

drunk and singing till daybreak in one room an argu men t on

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politics in another and a gaggle of more than average cha tt er ,

ing women in another ; people to and fro al l nigh t and t h e ,

waiters running about like mad dogs but p er cou tr a I had a , ,

good bed and what was a miracle in S outhampton no fleas

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1 3t /z — W ent to K ey h
. a v en a transition to pure sea a i r and , ,

quietness to boot .

1 6 th — C owes A grand tour roun d the island by the

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M edina steam packet C aptain Knight the mas t er w a s to

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have gone first to the eastward and then after se eing all t hat , ,

I had not seen my boat would have met me in t h,

e evening

off K ey h a ven instead of which the captain wen t th e wrong

way first to oblige some company and consequently I had

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to go all round to C owes again and then work my way back ,

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to K ey h a ven in the evening The packet made the round in a
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li t tle bet t er than seven hours Th e day was de l ightfu l and

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the scenery most interesting though n on e so good as that ,

at the N eedles A t hal f past seven I star ted in a hack gig

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f o r Y armouth ( twelve m iles ) which I did by nine and then

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took a b oat and was ro wed the six miles across to K eyh a ve n ,

where I landed at a quarter past ten supped and w ent to , ,

roost .

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. W ent to see that beauti ful place N orris
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C astle and aft er passing a pleasant d ay with a party was highly

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amused a t the grand evening parade here by a very tasteful ,

singer and perform er on the guitar who a ppeared in every , ,

word and action to be a highly finished gentleman and who

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report says is an o ffi cer i n the G uards who is thus collecting

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money for a great bet H e seemed when aside to be hand

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i n glove with all t h e firs t circle and had been the previous , ,
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evening d ancing with the nobility and gentry at the yacht

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c lub house .

2 6 t/c — M ade a third attempt t o go to the N eedle rocks

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and f or the third ti m e was disappointed owing to the weather

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as i t blew so fresh we were obliged to put back and for the , ,

third time our pro visions were cooked i n vain E ver since I
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arrived here the rocks have been the obj ect of my first cruise .
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and not one day have we yet had that would d o Towards .

noon the weather became boisterous and threatened a regular ,

miserabl e wet blowing even ing ; so my m usical friend L ang

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staff and I resolved to be a match for S t S within ; and as .

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every horse an d wheel was in requisition for S outhampton

races and we could n ot find a boat we hired old S adler s
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lobster cart the value of which horse and all was about 4 l
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and toddled into Lymington to the high diversion of ourselves

and petrifaction of all the staring dandies a n d repaired to old ,

Klit z t h ,
e C lementi of the place T here L a n g s ta f f j o i n e d in a
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trio while I w ent foraging and it then came on a determined

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wet night for w hich w e were w ell armed a s we brought off a

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and I lowered a punt in which we kept surveying the harbour

till near ten at night Though shooting was not my obj ect.
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S inger would ship W ard s beautiful stanchion ; and had i t

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not missed fire owing to a little sea that we shipped I S hould

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have made a grand shot of curlew j acks .

N B — L angston harbour is without except i on the finest

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gunning place I ever saw but i f possible more infested with , , ,

gunners than K eyh a ve n .

2 u a — G o t under way long before we were up in order

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to be sure of getting to C owes before n in e when the third ,

day s regatta was to commence A s vessels were desired not

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to cross the course we waited i n the rear til l the eight yachts
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which started for the pri z e were u nder way and had got , ,

h alf a mile ahead W e then bo re away and fairly passed seven

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of them havin g the advantage also of even the J ulia which

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was far ahead i ns o much that I thin k the G uerilla i f wel l

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manned and in p roper order would have beat them all and , ,

got the pri z e .

T his regatta w a s be a u ti ful as there was a pretty bree z e , ,

w hich mad e the effe c t of it quite di fferent from the other .

W e arrived at K ey h a v e n about half p a st twelve -

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6 t/z — A ft e r tw e nty four days passing befo re there was

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one sufficiently cal m to ventu r e to the rocks we this d ay had ,

beautiful weat h er and m ade a very pleasa nt excu rsion there

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Though the sce n e was nothing n ew t o m e yet I could always ,

enj oy the beautiful scenery an d the terrifi c grandeur of the

cliffs I t was at least two months t o o late for th
. e rock birds

all that I S hot a t was a w il lock the only rock bird I saw and , ,

a green cormorant and these I ba gged besides landing and

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shooting at 3 rabbits all of which I killed at one shot an d,

sacked N o L eicestershire fox hunt on record could surpass

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the chase that we had wi t h the S hag a l i a s cormorant a l i a s , ,

parson A fter flooring his reverence from a little rock and

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l eaving hi m keel uppermost the i nvulnerable devil rallied ,

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and led us a chase of between three and four hours and

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among other places to which he led us was into a sub

terraneous cave among the rocks where th e boat bumped ,

about and the cavern echoed so as to put us in mind of the

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incantation scene in Fr ei s c h ut z and the old cormorant of the

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devil Z amiel ; but after unkennelling the gentleman and

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going twice to sea again after him we shut up his daylights , ,

and brought home our bird in t riumph as a present for my man

W illiams whose t eeth vowed vengeance against him for his
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ensuing S unday s blow out I this day tried my old plan of

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th e bell string and flag for moving the rock birds off t h
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e cliff s ,

which had there been a thousand would have star t ed them

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every one as not a gull or cormorant would sit a moment aft er

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this novel attack was made but came pouring down on the ,

sea and were even accompanied by young nest birds that were
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so badgered by the sight and sound of this as to take their

maiden flutter down on the occasion W e concluded our day s .
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pas t ime by col lecting specimens from the beautiful vari

coloured chalk rock i n A lum Bay .

8 ta a u a 9 t/i — \V a s employed tryin g my large gun regu

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lating the eleva t ions &c S ince being fresh bored I found
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th e gun wonderfully improved bo t h for strength and close ,

ness and as an example I must memorandum t h

, e best shot .

R eade fired both barrels together at half a sheet of brown ,

paper 1 foot 1 0 inches by I foot 1 inch and into this at 90 , ,

yards he put 5 2 N o 2 sho t Th

, e single shots were
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about i n proportion and all well driven for strength in the

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board I killed seabirds j ust for a little trial at livi ng

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obj ects and no birds could have died i n be tter s tyle

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I o ta — W a s a l l d a
y in expectation of C ap t ain W ard to
try our two unrivalled guns as great improvements had been ,

m ade to both of them S in ce the last trial that we made H e .

arrived in his yacht off the quay after a miserable passage

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a n d slept at my cottage here .

1 1 t/z —Th e trial being comple t ed to ou r infinite s a t i s f a c

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tion as posse s sing the u e pl us u l tr a of guns C aptain W ard

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di ned with m e early in order to sail for S outhampton to night -

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I accompan ied hi m on board the G uerilla and after taking

a bot t le of win e with hi m there an d seeing him under ,

way in a gale of w i n d I w ent home i n R ea d e s boat and ,

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owing to losing a hat overboard an d getting into a vile ,

mess to recover it we had a most cruel passage home , .

W e t to the sk in an d twice forced to get overboard up to our

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middle .

1 3 t/z — This aft ern oon about five o clock I was w itness to a
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melancholy accident on the very spot where we were in such ,

a bad predicament the n ight before last F our m en started .

i n the highest glee to sail out of K eyh a ve n harbour and

back each in a separate boat and without oars on board

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which was thei r foolish agreement an d one of them Thomas ,

S al t er a m an unused to boats capsi z ed in gibing and sud

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d e n l y disappeared boat and all to the horror of all th, e spec ,

t a to r s .I t was an hour before he was dragged up a corpse , ,

and above two hours before the boat was discovered and .

dragged ti p from above six fathoms of water M r D avison . .

got his horse while I wrote the note for the coroner and we
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sent my man B a g s h o r e o ff for hi m about eight o clock this .

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evening to R ingwood .

14 t/z — I f one could indulge i n d rollery on a melancholy

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occasion we had some reason to do so B a g s h o r e or rather M r .

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D avison 5 horse and great coat with which he was equipped -

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was taken for a gentleman on his arrival at the inn in

R ingwood and aft er being hailed with the usual salutation of
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bell ringing ostler calling & c was shown up in styl e to a

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room charged e i g h
, t een p en c e for his tea and billeted for the ,

night in the best manner the i nn could aff ord with scrapes ,

and bows on his departure A n d my gentleman having a .

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l ittle espr i t o e co rps about him lugged out his blunt for all
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hands under hope that M r D avison would indemni fy him

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which he kindly did .

M r Baldwin the coroner punctually and politely a t

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C H A P TE R XX

1827

S ep tember 1st — T
. h greatest day on record here
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partridges an d 1 hare besides 3 brace more birds shot a n d

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lost
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N B — A cold dry strong easterly wind with no scent ;

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but I took care to have a fin e army of cavalry and infantry ,

and made ample allowance for the wildness of t h e birds by

th e rapidity of our charges I had no dogs but poor ol d .

D uchess and S appho both like myself among the has , , ,

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I started at nine had the first butcher s halloo

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or three cheers for 2 0 brace at two A second butcher s , .

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halloo twenty m inutes before six and I then worked like a

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slave for the glory of making up 5 0 brace off my own gun ,

which I not only did but on turning out the game it proved
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that I had miscounted and had gone 1 brace over the desired
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number I believe under all circumstances and at all events

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i n ou r distri ct this nearly doubles any day on record in the

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annals of i ts sporting history .

2 u a — S unday N othing so fortunate as this because i t

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keeps all the raw fools o ff and allows the birds a little time ,

to forget what has passed .

5 0 partridges and 2 hares the greatest second day

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in my annals A still stronger easterly wind Th

. e ground .

like rocks of stone and the dust flying l ike I rish snuff Birds
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walking about like pou l t ry and so wild t hat even i n woods ,

and rushes they would not stay to be fired at b ut kept running ,

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off like hare s ; and in short nothing could be done with them
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till they were dispersed by caval ry and in fantry the labour ,

o f doing which made the day s work more like a hot and ’

severe action than a day s sport and pleasure E very man ’

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dog and horse was so exhausted as to be quite knocked up

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tl — Busy ticketing off a houseful of game D rove to

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A ndover and heard that no one round had done a four t h

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what I had M y whole army much exhausted and a general

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resting day A f e w shooters popping about but nothing

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done There rarely ever is after a gran d fiel d day as the

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birds have not recovered their nerves to settle quietly .

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— A nother general resting day ; men horses dogs
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an d birds still un fit for war A few poppers over al l th e .

ground as usual but n i mpor te ,

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6 tl i — A t them again
. A n other brilliant and u n p rec e .

dented day 5 6 partridges and 3 hares . .

N B —.A cold dry easterly wind wi t h a scorching sun

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again ; never found a bird for the fi rst h our but at last dis ,

covered that the main army of the partridges had entren ched
themselves i n a piece of thick clover on the estate of S i r ,

H enry W ilson of not more than three acres H is friend a n d

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steward C aptain C lark very kindly gave me leave to en ter

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this garrison of game and directed me to give them no ,

quarter so in this one little field I bagged 1 0 brace of birds

and 1 hare without missing a shot I ndeed this was the only .
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sport like easy S eptember shooting that I have seen this

season Th e birds then returned to and dispersed on my
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own shooting ground which was well planted wi t h markers , ,

and here we d id gloriously But had i t n o t been for this .

lucky circumstance I doubt whether we S hould have made a ,

good day s sport ; and I am qui t e sure w e S hould have been

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puzzled to make up 2 0 0 head of game in t hree days w hich ,

everyone was anxious I should do A s it w a s however I .

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made up 2 1 4 head of game i n three d ays shoo t ing vi z ’

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1 0 2 partridges and I hare ; 3 rd 5 0 partridges and 2 ,
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hares ; 6 th5 6 partridges and 3 hares Total 2 0 8 partridges

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and 6 hares making 2 1 4 head besides lost birds

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I every day returned home with my cavalry and in fantry in

proper form of procession instead of allowing them to straggle ,

in like a v anquished army or disorderly bandit t i w h ich ,

attracted no small admiration and laughter among the friend s

wh o were with me .

H aving now done what I believe never was done here

before and what possibly may never be don e here again and
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supplied all the farmers an d my friends with gam e I shall ,

here terminate the war against the partridges ; and at al l ,

events leave them to others till I want game again and can
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have proper scenting wea ther to kill a few birds i n a quiet way .

I 5 tl z — M r C hilde t h
. e artist arrived at L on gpa r ish
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M r J oseph M an t on preparative to a painting being made of

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our pa r ti e a e c/za s s e ’
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I7t z/ — A ssembled my myrm idons for one more grand field

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day in order to have some o f their likenesses M r C hild e

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attended as a strict observer and M r Joseph M anton shot , .

with m e O u r united bag was 4 8 partridges and 1 hare and

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we return ed some t im e before the day was over i n order that ,

M r C hilde might com plete by good daylight the necessary

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sketches of t h e group M y share of the bag was 2 8 partridges

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but had I shot entirely by myself and been able to waive the ,

usual ceremony of shooting in company and galloped up to ,

al l my birds as heretofore I am confiden t I should have

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killed 3 0 brace o f birds I therefore calculate that by taking .

out ano ther sportsman the larder fell 6 brace short ; because
to follow birds up as I ought i n t his wild country I must do
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t hat which i n company would be unsportsmanlike and u n

gentlemanlike to whoever was my co mpanion and Joe

M anton not be ing one of the quickest movers either on
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horseback or on foot doubly retarded several of the necessary

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attacks .

1 8 t/z S tayed at home with M r C hilde to arrange for th

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S h owers Th e birds. so wild that everyone laughed at m e

f o r going out ; an d I so ill that I could compare myself to
nothing better than the butterm ilk d o g that accom panied
Joseph M anton on the 1 8 th a memorable day H owever , .
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I worked 1 0 brace of birds ; I said I would have them ,

and I d id have them ; and all within less than four hours ;
having bagged besides 4 towered and lost birds 2 0 par
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t r i d g e s and 1 snipe A n d all done by dint of rapid snap

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s hooting .

27 t /z —VVh i l e my man C harles was gone to S outhampton

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with despatches for Buckle relative to building me another ,

new punt I pottered out on a pony in order to get a few

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more birds in a quiet way but I was forced to quack mysel f

u p for the sortie with H uxham s bark an d sal volatile I ’

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started at hal f past twelve and cam e in at hal f past four with
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2 4 partridges 3 snipes and the only land rail I have seen or

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heard of this year and all without on ce missing a S hot ; ,

though in spite of beautiful weather the birds were so wild

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that half those I fired at were snap shots I made five doubl e .

shots and three cannons in the course of the day and under ,

all circumstances I consider this t h e best day s sport I have

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had this season .

2 9 tl z — H aving enj oyed some o f the best S eptember

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shooting that I ever heard of and wanting n o more birds j ust ,

now I t his day left L ongparish for L ondon

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G am e k illed in S eptember 1 8 2 7 : I n seven ti mes going

out vi z four whol e days shooting 2 5 8 partridges and 1 0
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hares O n e scrambling ill m anaged day wi th J oe M anton

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2 8 partridges and two lit t le quie t sorties of four hours each

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and withou t markers 4 4 par t ridges 4 snipes and 1 landrail , , ,

making in all 3 3 0 partridges 1 0 hares 4 snipes 1 landrai l

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T otal 3 4 5 head besides about 1 2 brace shot dead and lost

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T his is the best sport I ever had or that ever was known ,

here in the memory of the oldest m an living Though far .

from being in good health I nev r shot better A good ,

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breed of birds but they were particularly wild every day this
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season .

October 1 o ta — A rrived at my healthiest of homes Key

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haven .

1 3 t/z — A few wigeon appeared ; w ent out to reconnoitre

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but got no chance .

1 7 t/i — G o t my m aiden shot of the season from which I

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picked U p 2 brent geese 2 pintails and I wigeon and these , ,

were all the birds I had to fire at except 1 other goose that , ,

w ent off severely hit and dropped off at sea These 3 are , .

the first geese that have been heard of this season an d very ,

early it is for them .

I then cam e home and went game shooting A t the close .

of the day however I made up a brace of partridges W e

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t hen had quite an event with an old hare an animal that is ,

t hought as much of at K ey h a ve n as an elephant I let fly at .

her a scrambling shot a long way o f f and t hroughthe pota , ,

t Oe s down she came and the dog had a hold of her O ff , .

she set again B a g s h o e M r D avison

: myself and a whole r , .
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banditti had a chase aft er her for nearly half an hour t ill at , ,

last we gave her U p S oon after she was chased by an old

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woman who caught her by the legs an d who let her go in a

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fright when she began to squeal for fear t hat she ( the said ,

o l d woman ) should be scratched Then we heard that this .

wonderful hare had run into some one s house and L ord knows ’

how many stories I n short she was cut al l to pieces and is

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no doubt d ead and she was th

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e first living creature that I

had pulled a trigger at wi thout bagging S ince my arrival in , ,

this place A fter this curious aff air I went home S hipped
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water boots shifted my shot and went o u t for snipes A l l I

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fired at was 1 snipe and 1 j ack snipe bo t h of which I bagged , ,

except discharging my gun at and killing a swallo w just to , , ,

say that I had shot wild geese an d a swallow in the same

day Here ended my three heterogeneous sallies in shoo t ing
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t his day ; and at night my waggon with my workman

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Buckle and all the t raps for finishing the new light punt
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arrived and this is now my chief business at K ey h

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a v e n as ,

the weather is still too mild for sport with wild fowl W ha t .

with the hard fag in the day the u p roar of unloading a ,

large freight of t raps and goods and quartering off t h e ,

myrmidons atte n dant on them I had this day qui t e as much ,

work as would have served any moderate man s exercise for ’

a fortnight .

2 0t / z — W hile my m en were j obbing I went o u t for four

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hours in order t o g e t a par t ridge i f possible Th e scarcity o f , .

game was quite ridiculous I saw but 6 birds and these a .

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snap shot M y first barrel missed fire but with my second

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barrel I got 1 partri dge and j ust saved my charter of never ,

having a bl ank day .

24t l i —Busy j obbing A bou t 2 0 wigeon dropped in o f f

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Pennington L ake R eade and I went off to them in the .

L ion I let fly both barrels of the swivel gun an d stopped

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1 2 of them at about 1 1 0 yards with which I h a d every reason ,

to be satisfied .

2 5 tl i — A gale of win d and rain all the morning

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evening i t abated a n d we tried the n ew pun t in an unfinished

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sta t e j ust to tri m her on all tacks and nothing could answer
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more beautifully than she did W hile busy at the punt a .

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very fine fat knot pitched on the mud and I r an in for my

musket and got him ,
T his was the only shot fired to day
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t —N w punt finished and painted to day I went t

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for about four hours and n ever saw but a leash of partridges ,

the whole t ime and when I put my leg on one hedge these .

birds were flying over the o t her at the opposi t e end of the ,

field I j u s t saved my char t er of never having a blan k day

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by accidentally springing one snipe and bagging him Th e .

only shot I fi red .

N o vem ber I s t — S ailed all th to Pitt s D eep in the ’

e wa
y ,

L ion punt and had such a fine side w ind that we made the
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passage there and back at the rate o f seven miles an hour

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with this wind ; but the only fowl I saw or shot at were 2
t eal and 1 tuft ed duck al l of which I killed with one of my ,

n ew cartridge s in the left barrel of the champion gun

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W hile stretch i ng my legs ashore I trod U p a snipe and , ,

floored him w i th the cripple stopper a nd duck shot .

2 z ua —S tarted for a regular day s cruise to survey the

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w hole coast at daylight in the L ion punt with a north ‘

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e ast wind W orked u p beyond L eap till we were about

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fifteen m iles from K eyh a ve n a n d except a few geese on their , .

t ravel s in the air we n ever saw one single head of wild fowl, ,

t hough the frost ( a rascally white one that a l ways brings rain )
was so sharp that we were half starved with cold We .

anticipated a delightful passage back but no sooner had we ,

c ompleted our trip to the east t han the vile white frost ,

c hanged the weathercock to the wes t and we had con ,

s equently the wind in our teeth both ways .

2 4 tb C old wind from the north with a littl e frost

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g o t 5 wigeon out of 1 0 which I shot at and of which I did ,

n o t expect to get one in the tremendous sea that they fell

in I fired the great gun into the only company we s a w

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( about and brought down 4 with the first barrel and 6 ,

with the second aft er they flew up from the breakers , .

3 0 tl z — H aving now completed all my little fin ishing jobs

t o my satisfaction and established ready for t h e winter the
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best turn out of gunning punts and guns i n the known

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world I this day left K e yh

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a ve n and arrived at L ongparish ,

I I ou se .

D ecem ber I st —Being

sadly in want of a little game I .
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w eathered a day s hurricane with pelting storms every hal f

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hour and got an old cock pheasant (

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the only one I have set
eyes on t his year) 3 partridges 1 j ack snipe and 1 rabbit , , , ,

which with 1 moorhen and 2 birds shot and lost was all I
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fired at .

3 r a — F agged all’
.day and brought home but 5 partridges , ,

1 rabbit and I pheasant ,

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4 tl t
— I t ried to catch a
. fish to S how M r D avison what f ew , .

our sport would be if it was the season and in little more , ,

than an hour I caught 6 brace of fair condi t ioned trou t

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5 tlc —1 I rabbits 5
. hares 2 snipes and 5 pheasan
, t s to , , ,

my S hare of a shoot at H urstbour n e Park in killing which I ,

never missed one shot except at a hare that popped behind a ,

stump which took off my whole charge I killed 4 of the rab .

bits without seeing t hem by firing at random j ust ahead o f , ,

them as they ran across in th

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e cover t .

6 t/z —Pottered over my old beat round hom e and bagged

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(
2 pheasants all I saw ) and 7 partridges besides 2 more par ,

t r i d g e s that towered and were los t T his I did by banging .

away at all distan ces as the birds were extremely wild , .

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8 t/i 7 partridges by means of blazing away a t all dis
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tances for the lottery of taking heads and wings as the birds
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were so wild that fair shooting even in turnips was totally , ,

out of the question .

2 7 tl z — 2 partridges 2 snipes and 1 j ack snipe Thus have

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I been slaving for two days to make up one small basket of

game for a friend I never in my li fe saw the birds so wild or
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th e country and weather in such a deplorably dul l state the very

look of the fields is enough to give a sportsman the horrors .

I ncessant wet weather up to and on the 3 l s t so that there ,

has not been the least chance for any m ore shooting in 1 8 2 7 .

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deluge of rain from the — A

north east which
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we hope and trust will clear the weather and bring us over a ,

few fowl
2n a — A fine black frost with a N E wind and before I
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had been two hours on the road for K eyh a ve n the fickle ,

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cock must need s bout ship and get S W with an eternal ,
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bellows of wind and spouting of rain the whole afternoon

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and nigh t S uch was the damage done on many parts of the
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road that it was quite a matter of doubt whether all com

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m u n i c a ti o n was cut off or not H owever after getting sick .

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w i t h some stu ff yclept mock turtle at an inn but more like ,

l eather and glue I reached K ey h ,

a ven late a t night and ,

l uckily found that the place had escaped very well from the
floods N o t a fowl had been seen for many weeks except
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a f e w very wild geese This I fully anticipated and there

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fore had I not had some arrangements to make should n ot

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have gone down till t h e weather was be t ter se t tled .

W e j ust loaded the great gun and put al l in trim in case ‘

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a nything shoul d appear .

—A few very wild geese were seen off below Penning

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t o n and n o sooner had we started in chase of them about three

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m iles to leeward than there cam e on the most tremendous

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weather I ever was out in a hurri cane that almost tore up the
very mud hailstones that peppered us like a volley of mus
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k e t ry and as heavy a fall of rain as I ever saw wi t h an a a

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l i bi tu m accompan imen t of thunder and lightning R eade was .

d renched to the skin i n spite of al l his dread nought gar

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ments and the punt had a complete freight of rain water

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o n board B ut notwithstanding all this and although the

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storm lasted more or less for four hours yet m y sou wester ,
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d ress so defied the elements that I came home as dry al l over

as if I had been sitting t h e who l e tim e with dandies in a draw

i ng room .

5 tb to 7 t/i I n cessant.bad-
weather .

8 t/c — Th .e weathercock flew backwards into the east with a ,

gale of w ind and rain al l the morning This being a better

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quar ter for birds we weathered i t to explore and as i t blew

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so hard t hat we could not row the punt on end we towed her ,

a long the banks all the way to off L ym ington W e then .

flew down the wind most beauti fully all the way home ,

though saw nothing but one flock of geese which a lubberly ,

fellow had S poiled our chan ce at Being anxious to try a new .

car t ridge of my own invention I took a shot with it at 2 grey ,

plover w hich were sitting with 3 dunlins on some piles and

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mark that this sudden and awful visitation should have occurred
on S unday the 1 3 th when the first two verses of the evening
, ,

Psalms for that day a re so appropriate to t h e occasion .

Before night the waters had aba t ed the wea ther became toler ,

ably calm and perfect safe ty was again restored

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1 4 t/z —
. A dead calm wi t h a fog and the water as smooth , ,

as a looking glass W ent with a large punt off under the

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I sle of W igh t got a shot at a few ducks and t o my surprise

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stopped 4 of them but n o t w ishing t o run the risk of losing

the t ide back I came away well pleased with I duck and 1
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mallard I n the evening the wind got to the eastward and

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blew a gentle bree z e with thick rain .

1 5 t/z — W ind
. more southerly the bellows and water .

engines on again — everlasting puff and slush lovely weather

for doctors and undertakers but the essence of nuisance to all ,

other people .

1 6 th Th
— e wind backed and blew s t rong from the eas t ,

which occasioned t h e arrival of several large flocks of wigeon

but t hey were very wild and too m uch scattered to aff ord a
good shot by day I banged off at long distances and got 4
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3,
and 2 making
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in all 9 wigeon bagged .

Th e wind then flew t o the southward with more rain ,

R eade got me 4 more wigeon and I went out at nigh t but ,

was driven home again by a pour of southerly rain Th e .

springs so high that we were forced to launch a punt in the

larder as a ferry boat for grub coals 81 C A lovely t ime !
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N othing but howling of wet gales of wind battering against

th e windows of eternal everlas t ing rain and t h
, e barking ,

coughs of men women and ch ildren E verything seems to

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promise a second edition of N oah and his cruise i n the ark .

1 7 t/z . A gale of wind and slush again

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I weathered i t .

out as there were several birds o f f I got only 2 wigeon

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though had a fine chan ce at about 3 0 0 geese but the big gun ,

was so full of water it would not go o f f .

1 8 t/z .
—L eft K ey h a ven merely to go to L ongparish for a
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day and t herefore had but one shirt and th

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e mere clothes on ,

my back O w ing to the floods and rain I was obliged t o

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sleep at W inchester and I went over to L ongparish on the ,

1 9 th . N o sooner had I arrived there than a most distressing

le tt er on a most nefarious business called m e on to L ondon
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where in a d ress scarcely fit t o be seen I arrived on th

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e 2 o th ,

and proceeded t hat night and all t h e 2 I s t to business and I

may say t ha t in those two days I saw more roguery t han I
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had before m e t with in all the rest of my life .

2 1 s t — R eturned to L ongparish wishing to be in the ,

country j ust now t hough I had left my man C harles and ,

all my gunning things at K eyh a ven Th e coun t ry was so .

inundated t hat get t ing sport of any kind was out of the
ques t ion N ever were the floods in the memory of man
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equal to those here now H aving H R H the D uke of . . . .

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C larence s commands to get some game for the D uchess ( a

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forlorn h O e I feared
p ) I slaved all one day and got 6 par,

tri d g e s and 2 pheasan t s .

G ame &c killed to F ebruary .1 8 2 8 Popgun work — 37 5 :

partridges I 5 hares 1 2 rabbits 1 2 pheasants 1 landrail 2 2

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snipes total 4 3 7 ; swivel gun work — 3 ducks and mallards

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4 4 wigeon 2 pintails 2 teal 2 geese 1 black duck 1 tufted

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duck total ,

N B — . O wing to the worst season ever known and being

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much interrup t ed with business my wild fowl shooting for ,

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this year has been almost annihilated .

F ebr u a ry I 9 t/z —L ondon I had received some days ago

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a very brilliant account from R eade of the birds at K ey h a ve n .

M atters being a little right now and having received yes t er ,

day a second despatch from R eade I resolved on making an ,

appendix to the camp a ign by going down s ol u s and roughin g ,

i t for a few days .

P S . .
—S i n c e c l g d
o si n g o w n th li
o Ke
t is y s t, I hd t
a ve n f o r a w ee , a n d
a o o h k
h h h
f rom t e 2 0 t t o t e 2 3 rd o f F eb rua ry I ba g g ed 3 6 w i g eo n a n d 2 b r en t g ees e .

h l h
T i s b r i n g s m y f ow t o 93 ea d a n d m y g r a n d to ta to 5 3 0 ea d o f g a m e l h .
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K ey hv was ready to go afloa t at t en this evening

a en . I ,

but it came on a rascally fresh wind from the westward which ,

embargoed the novelty of my breakfasting in L ondon and ,

ki lling wigeon above 1 0 0 miles off within fourteen hours ,

which I was almost sure of doing as there had been a prim e ,

chan ce every night .

2 0 t/ z — T ide served abou t two in t h

. e aft ernoon plenty of
birds but the harbour ruined by dandies chasing and firing
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at them wi t h ball A bout four a ga l e of wind and a pour of

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rain drove the dandies home and we then fel l in with a trip ,

o f wigeon ; but not till all was wet an d only one barrel to
fire and this unluckily l oaded with large mould shot I blew
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it off and picked U p 1 4 wigeon an d I bren t goose A gale

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of south w est win d and rain for t h

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e remainder o f t h e evening

and night .

2 1 s t — 7 wigeon and 1 brent goose bad weather again .

2zu — 8 wigeon an d the day fin ished wi t h win d and rain

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2 3 r d — F oggy weather whi ch never does to get at birds ,

afloat O u t from four till ten and at night when I got a

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l ittle straggling shot across the haze and picked up 5 wigeon ,

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2 5 ta — A n incessant gale with constan t thick rain from

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the west Th e very weather

. to extinguish the wild fowl -

season W e weathered it morning noon and night under

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our new water covers but neither saw nor heard a S ingle bird ,
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th e whole ti me .

2 7 tl c — A rrived i n Park S treet

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z — S a w in L ondon i n the R egen t s Park 1 5 wild

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2 8 t/ .

wigeon and 5 tufted ducks .

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u i ce 4 t/ — D rove down to see my son Peter at ton an d

j z . E ,

a pour of rain having embargoed me til l two clock and the r e ’

q u i s i t i o n of every animal and v ehicl e for A scot races having

monopolised all bet t er conveyance I had to work my way ,

down wi th an old horse and chaise in order to be in time for ,

l
T hF e ren c hd y ec o du c k ht s t a I p r es en ted hv
a e, n o d o ub t, ca ll ed hm
t e in
h
t er e , o n thi e r n ig h
tl y p a ss a
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the same homage that others did I ran all th e way to the .

country seat of the consul whom I caught j ust going to break ,

fast and he luckily having a blank form by him favoured m e

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w i t h a passport so I floored t h e omnipo t ent M ad ame M oncey ,

and g o t under w a y for R ouen T hough the road to R ouen i s . .

but fi f ty fi ve miles y e t th
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e passage is seventy fi ve miles owing
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t o the innumerabl e windings of t h e S eine This is perhaps .

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one of th e most lovely passages i n F ran ce .

I landed soon aft e r eigh t at R ouen where aft er securin g , ,

the only vacancy in t h e morning diligen ce I inspected th e ,

magnificen t ca t hedral of this place buil t by t h e E nglish in ,

the reign of Henry I V and then passed a S hort bad night .

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i n a sorry nes t seven storeys high at the H Ote l de L yon

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B u t as I am now an old foreign travell er it w ould be needless

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t o recapi t ula t e the mixtures of novel t ies and miseries w i th

which I have over and over again filled th

, e pages of m y ,

former j ournals I have therefore but l i t tle to remark on

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this excursion .

t — L eft R ouen by the diligence t six this morning

3 1 s . a ,

and arrived in P aris by nine a t n ight by way of L ouviers , ,

where we breakfasted at ten M an tes where we dined at hal f ,

past two and S t G ermain which is about 4 leagues from t h

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metropolis Th e short way is 3 2 leagues ; but I preferred

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this rou t e as being the most beautiful j ourney o n the bank s

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of the S eine and because I had been the other w a y before

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A F rench post league being 2 5 miles E nglish the j ourney ,

to day was j ust 9 0 miles I have nothing t o remark on t hi s

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road since I was i n Fran ce before except t hat t h

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e diligences ,
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are cleaner an d go better you have no conduc t ors or postil

lions to pay and the latter have doused their butter churn
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boots for life g u a r d s j a c k boots ; have left off powder a n d

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ampu t ated their colossal pigtails I this night took up m y .

old quarters at the H Ote l M ontmorency R u e S t M arc N o 1 2 , .

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A g u u s t 1st — C alled on my old friend M r Kalkbrenner

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N o 3 3 R u e C hantereine and t hen passed my time in th

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L ouvre till it was the hour f o r dinner aft e r which I went to ,

th e F rench opera
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2 n d — E ngaged in various little mat t ers and in the even , ,

ing called on another god of the piano my other friend M r

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Jerome Bertini ( who is now the C leme n ti of Paris ) at N o 8 , .

R u e M ontaigne d u R oule H e was out teaching though half .

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past eight at night ; but madame his wife the great harp , ,

p layer was cl zez el l e and n o t a little surprised to see m e

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m ust surely astonish both my old masters by this popping

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s uddenly U pon them who scarcely knew whet h er I was dead ,

o r al ive .

3 r d — Bertini came
, up to me this morning before break
f ast and I never saw a fellow more alive at seeing another
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t han he was at seeing me W e break fasted together an d he

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the n adj ourned to P l ey el s to play me some of his new music ’

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Th e remain der of the day we spent at Versailles but were ,

prevented from enj oying it owing to the wet and stormy ,

w eather
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— A bout various business till the middle of this day

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and then passed the remainder of it in the Jardin des Plantes ,

w here there were innumerable additions made since I was last

i n Paris the giraff e and many other curious animals as well

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a s a great increase in every other branch of natural history .

l — S pent a part of the m o r n i n g in the L uxembourg

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some of the pictures here were t h e best for eff ect I had seen , ,

for a long ti me ; and one in particular by the president or

chief of the A cademy at R ome W ent in the evening to the .

F a va r t o r I talian opera M eyerbeer s C rociato in E gi t to was

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the piece and as usual the orchestra at this house w a s most

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delightful but I hardly knew whether to condemn or approve

of the introduction of T urkish cymbals in this orchestra .

T hey seem to be the order of the nigh t now in the Paris , ,

La M u ette
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a e P or ti c i , i n f o u r hthd c i g i c l d
a c ts , wit e a n n n u ed . A v ery s pi ri ted

o p er a bu t t hm
e u s i c ra h
t er in th i y hl A t m d
e no s sc oo . re en o us o rc ht es ra , wit h
t h
e a dd i ti o n of d ou b l e d ru m s a n d T k i h ym b l
ur s c a s.
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bands Th
. e bes t singer to my taste was M adame P i s a r o n i
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A M onsieur D on z elli also showed great t alent and I preferred ,

him to our L ondon t enors .

1 0 tl z S ince th
— . e 6 th I have been t o t h
e L ouvre t h e L uxem ,

bourg the T uileries Versailles 8m but m a d e no memoran dums

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as nothing par t icular w a s t here beyond what I took down i n

my form er visit to Paris This evening I went to the T ivoli
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which is very diff erent from what i t was a few years ago .

Th e ground on which this once grand fet e was held is sold and
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the place now subs t ituted is farther off and not nearly so well ,

adapted t o the purpose Th e old T ivoli was as far superior

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as t h e new one i s inferior to our Vauxhall N o R u s s i a ri :

mountains no balloons of fire now and in short a poor

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miserable place but little be tter than a country fair except

, ,

having one fine temple for gormandising an d a capital band ,

for the quadrilles But this i s a matter of course leave a

. :

F renchman alon e for eating and dancing .

1 2 t/c — M r Kalkbrenner gave me a seat in his box thi s

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morning to hear the pianoforte pupils of the C onserva toire

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play for the pri z es before a full audience in the theatre of that
establishmen t which is called the E cole de M usique Th
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performance began a t nin e o clock and t h e great C herubini

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sat in state as the harmoni c j udge surrounded by a kin d of ,

ju ry of oth er migh ty don s Th e firs t batch of pupils were .

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seven girls who each played the same piece and then read
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an M S a t sight Th
. e piece was K a l k b ren n e r s
. and the ’

M S was C h M onsieur A dam the old man w h

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for many years has been pianofor t e master to the C onser

va to i re and who was K a l kb ren n e r s mas t er sat by the side o f
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the pupils I t b ec a m e tedious and monotonous to hear the

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same thing pl ayed over so many ti mes and as a matter of , ,

etiquette all applause was withheld A t last the fi rs t act of

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this exhibi t ion came to a close by a vase being handed round

among the j udges and their placi n g therein l i tt le things
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S imilar to our balls i n blackballing at clubhouses when

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mony performed in the cathedral was what they call vespers ;

an i mmoderate bellowing of the basest of base voices with ,

the blowing away of two serpents and all th e noise that hands ,

a n d feet could bring forth from a huge rough toned organ ; -

a n d by way of a fin ish the S ilver Vi rgin M ary was star t ed

, ,

from the altar and carried hal fway over the town with all
,

th e procession from C harles X down to hal f the rabble of .

Paris among such a noise and stink as a man may go his li fe

,

and never hear or smell again W e thought th e noise in the .

church pret t y well but it was a mere whisper to that out of

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i t particularly the bells which would have almost d rowned

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t ha t of a cannonade I n short this evangelical spree was

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kept up till about five when the King arrived at the T uileries
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in his state carriage ; and his other carriage ( with eight

horses ) was ready to take hi m back to S t C loud as soon as .
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he had rid himsel f of the trappings for the levee o f the

silver Virgin A lthough I am too great a heretic (
. as the ‘ ’

S paniards would call me ) to enter into the spiri t of the

C atholic religion yet no one could say but the S how was
,

e xtremely well worth seeing I n the evening I looked into .

the F rench Theatre but as it was t o o hot to sit out a play , ,

I merely went into the second gallery But there was no .

thing particular to observe since I was there before .

W i l t — H aving now done what business I had here and ,

prepared to s tart for E ngland a g a i n I shall j us t memorandum ,

d own a few short remarks as to the changes that have taken

place since I was las t in Paris .

T ravelling R oad and t ravelling much the same

: Th e .

m es s g er i e or diligences altered to huge treble bodied m a

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chines and painted yellow instead of green N o con

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d uctor or postillions to pay but a moderate charge made in ,

l ieu of it I nns as dirty and uncomfor t able as ever charges

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d earer and wines not so good

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Posting and the m a l l e .

p os te in every respec t the same .

Paris : E very article dearer than it was but now the ,

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F rench have a fixed price so t hat you have not t o bargain ,

like a J ew to avoid being chea t ed as you w ere once obliged ,

to do in even the bes t shops Th

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e cooking is much t h e same .

most exquisite for those who like made dishes and prefer ,

messes of but t er sugar and L ord knows what to plain , , ,

wholesome food O u r E —
nglish sauces cayenne & c may
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now be had i f called for at most o f the r es ta u r a teu s Th

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wines are decidedly not so good as i n former t imes and you ,

have still the sa m e difficulty in getting a good si z ed glass t o -

d rink out of at your dinner There are however some E nglish .

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people who have set up soda and ginger beer shops so tha t -
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by going to them you have now th e means of quenching that

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insufferable t hirst which i s produced by the greasy sugary ,

salt and acid mixtures that the F rench dishes abound with
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not to s a y a w o r d of the tri cks that are now played as to mea t ,

wines and spirits

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A musements F rench opera rather i mproved I talian .

O pera rather fallen off their band which I t hought the best I ,

ever heard is now no more than equal to that of our opera

, .

D ancing i f any t hing in rather less force

, T ivoli miserably
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bad Boulevards as gay as ever Tortoni s still the best ice

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shop and V ery s (

, in the Palais R oyal ) now become the best
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r es ta u r teu r s i n Paris Formerly I thought i t about the third

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best .

S tate of things : G reat improvement i n the pain t ings of

the rising French artists par t icularly in the school of D avid , .

M ilitary ne rly the same — d m e as usual a pat t ern to

a g en a s r , ,

the whole world for their orderly and respectable behaviour .

C uirassiers not so well moun t ed as formerly cavalry ra t her ,

fallen off than improved in appearance E ven t h e King s .

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stud are but modera t e looking ani mals People here all -
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appear to be i n the height of affluen ce you rarely see a ,

shabby looking person ; and in S hort the people of Paris

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appear to spend a great deal more money on their dressing ,

eating drinking and amusements than do t hose in L ondon

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F rom all appearances t herefore we may conclude that F rance

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is in a very flourishing s t ate .

1 8 tl z —L eft Paris at six this evening by the diligence to go

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the other the short road to R ouen There being an opposition

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on this road at night we travelled a very fair pace and were

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as quick in al l our changes as the S outhampton coaches W e .

rumbled along all night in this s t upendous machine like a ,

movable hayrick driving a herd of bullocks before it and two ,

other diligences at our heels and we never g o t more than a f ew,

seconds stoppage all t h

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e way from Paris to R ouen O u r .

conductor was an infernal hog and quite brutish to several ,

f emale passengers who wanted to alight a moment which he ,

would hardly allow R efreshment out o f the question except

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what I had the sense to pocket and grope o u t in the dark to eat , .

Between four and five in the morning we descended into the

valley where stands t h e town of F l u e r i s and the four dili
c es descending the mountain under the opening of day
g e n

light o u a fin e morning the 1 9 th had a novel and beautiful

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eff ect Th . e diligence weighed 1h the freight with ,

twenty inside passengers an d luggage 5 5 00 1b making i n , ,

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all,
lb W e had seldom less than seven horses three
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at wheel and four abreast leaders all driven by one postillion

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and in the mountainous par ts we had nine horses on which ,

occasion an extra boy i n a blue frock and whit e cotton night

cap drove the two leaders Th e first refreshment we got .

was i 3a o f milk on reascending after passing the town o f

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Fl u e ri s .A n old cribbage faced woman surrounded by beg-

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gars waylays the coach at this ascent with her cups an d

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pitcher N othing worthy of remark occurred till we a p

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ro a c h e d the town of R ouen from the tremendous hill o f S t

p .

C atherine the view from which is so charming t hat peopl e

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oft en make a point o f staying a day in R ouen on purpose to

go and look fro m then ce over the town and the S eine i f it so ,

happens that their j ourney does not bring them by way o f

this heavenly landscape Th e hill i s trem endous
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g entleman would get out of it i f any accident happened .

T hese hasty remarks are all I have time to make as I must ,

n ow proceed to see and do various j obs at D ieppe .

P S — I forgot to note that poor old D e l a r n e is dead and his

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widow keeps on the house where I am now put up D ined at .

the table d h Ot e and i n the evening went down to see the

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superb baths a n d public room s that have been erected since I

w a s here some years ago I never saw a place so i mproved . .

I always l ik ed D ieppe as well as any place i n F rance because ,

i t i s al most the only F ren ch town that does not stink a b o m i

n a bl y . F inished the d ay with a refreshing wal k on the S hore ,

and then a warm salt bath to rectify al l the shakes and dust
o f the twenty two hours rough j ourney
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2 0 tb — W ent a little way out of the town to investigate

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the particulars of the p eu s i ou A ug l a i s ( E nglish school ) kept ,

by M essrs W illiams an d S parke at a sort of country seat

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c al led G a u d ec o t e and was more pleased with this than an y

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other establishment that I had seen in F rance Th e remainder .

of the day was spent i n running about and seeing the f ew lions ‘

o f the place which I fou nd so very pleasant that my d e ten

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tion i n it became a d ay s pleasure instead of a day s quarantine ’

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H ad an excellent dinner at M adame D el a rn e s table d h Ot e

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and among m any other good things we had capital roast ,

beef an d good Bordeaux claret at fi f tee n p en c e E nglish the

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bottle Pri ce of the table d h

. Ote two francs and a half for
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dinner cider dessert an d in shor t everything but wine G o t

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my heavy things on board the packet preparative to starting

early to morrow morning for E ngland
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I never was asked for my passport through the whole

of my j ourneys .

— G o t under way by the E clipse steam packet ‘ ’

2 1st ,

C aptain C heesman at hal f past six this morning and landed ,

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on the chain pier or new quay at Brighton at hal f past five

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i n the evening making a tolerable passage of eleven hours

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F o r the first three hours all was as smooth as a duck pond ,

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and a capital break fast was set out on deck ; but t owards ,

the la t ter part of the passage t h e wind freshened in our ,

teeth and t h
, e berths and basins were more in requisition

than the eatables or drinkables Passage from step to s t ep .

on quays 8 0 miles fare 2 l Th

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e very devil s own work a t
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custom house N o fault of M r L ewis who is the chief and a

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very gentlemanly man but the neglect of there n o t being

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bui lt a custom house nearer to t h e quay Th e whole con t en t s .

of the packe t were transferred to three carts and drawn o f f

all through the town t o a distant and bad situation where ,

the crowd was i mmense M any people despaired of even

.

get t ing their night things ; but I brushed abou t instead of

going to eat and literally got the whole of my baggage
,

cleared off and in the barrow before any soul was clear though ,

forty names were down before I came There is a right and .

a wrong way of doing things .

I never saw any place so much i mproved as Brighton has

be en since I was here last .

3 0 t
./t —L eft L ondon by the Ti mes (S outhampton ) coach
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at a quarter before eleven for L ongparish and got home about

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six o clock
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S e tem ber 1 s t — L ongparish S trong wind all day from
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the east ; ground as dry as L u n dy f o o t s snuff but a moderate ’

breed o f birds and my two dogs on thei r last legs I there

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fore performed a m iracle by bagging : 60 partridges ( besides

6 more lost ) 4 hares and 1 quail , M y son P eter killed
, .

brace his first essay W never i n our l ives had such a

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fagging day and such hard slavery to keep U p our charter .

O u r army were literally worked off their feed , to the j oy of

my com missariat but they drank their extra hog tub full of -

sti ff swi z z le which cost m e more than the hal f of the sheep
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that they left .

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2ua — I gave a general day s rest as every sensible shooter
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o ught to do ; but as other J ohnny R aws were worrying the

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poor b i rd s I gave Peter leave to go with a borrowed dog

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an d he bagged 3 brace more besides 4 brace killed by his

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f ollower .

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— B slaving l ike a negro fro m ten till five I con
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t r i ve d to satchel 4 8 partridges ( besides 3 brace lost ) and 3 ,

brace more that Peter killed as I took hi m out and gave hi m ,

several shots W eather so d ry that the only plan was to

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wal k all day with both barrels cocked and snap down the ,

birds as they rose wild from the stubbl es C ruel hard labour .
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and no sport for the poor dogs .

t l tl — D ogs al l footsore so I rested these days

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but Peter who was red hot for sport went out with only the
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d ay w h en in F rance yet I was t his tim e troubled beyond

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anything by the police so people should never depend ,

on them They have it appears fresh officers on duty (

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in ,

order to relieve each o ther) every month ; and it entirely

depends on t h em whether you go free or are molested about ,

your passport every step you take C ustom house people as .

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u sual lenient and very civil ; and by a very little r u s e I

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escaped all duties for Peter s things A l l o f course in the ’

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usual confusion on landing at night and I w a s n o t i n bed t i l l :

twelve .

I ot/c — U p and dressed by S i x

. S ettled all Peter s aff airs .
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i n about two hours G o t all his baggage cleared R igged hi m

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w ith a few traps blew hi m out at D e l a rn e s got my passport

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with great difficulty and with the loss of half my breakfast

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and al l j ust i n ti me to a minute to board the steamer whil e

she was getting under way for E nglan d by eleven o clock ’

M y reason for hurrying back w a s to avoid the tremendou s

weather which I suspected was working ; and to prove my
j udgment I have sin ce my arrival at hom e seen th
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e accoun t

of the dreadful passage that was en countered by the n ex t

packet O u t all night i n great danger ; forced to put i n
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to N ewhaven and I don t know what all,

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Th e fairest possibl e wind and a pretty tim e at starting ,

but before we had been an hour at sea there came on a ,

complete deluge of rain and towards the afternoon a treme u , ,

dous squall with thunder and lightning F orced to douse al l .

sail and ease the engin e But after striking the ground three .

times we got alongside the chain pier off Brighton about hal f
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past eight an d were landed soon after nine I weathered it .

wel l ; ate boiled beef below while others were cascading ; ‘

wrote letters l ent a h and in the squall & c H aving but li ttl e
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baggage I was allowed to be cleared off on board so I r a n

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up t o t h e town secured a place then swallowed a cup of tea

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an d set off by the ten o clock night coach for town not havin g’

courage to face any more of the live stock in the Brighto n

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bl ankets Had the inside of the coach all to myself t h

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e best ,

possible company at night wrapped myself up in a cloak and , ,

though I am a vile sleeper and particularly in a coach I on , ,

this one occasion played such a good bassoon that I never heard
till on our arrival in t own about half pas t fou r that we were ,
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all but killed in the n ight C oachee fell asleep got partly foul .
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of a van horses ran up a bank a wheeler an d a leader floored

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and left sprawling and coach all but over an d we under t h , e ,

van and I perhaps t o have been cracked like a kernel

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( C olonel ) in a shell a bad pun but a true state of the case , .

But thank G o d al l ended wel l and I was over the stones an d

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i n bed in L ondon before six o clock in the morning on Thurs ’

day the I 1 th
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1 3 t/t — L eft L ondon by the

. N orth D evon coach and ar ,

rived abo ut half past ten at night again at L o ngparish H ouse

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I 5 tl i — L ongparish
. W ent out to try and get a few more .

birds for my friends ; but the game had been cruelly driven
a bout i n my absence and the easterly wind had this very ,

day returned and blew s t rong ; and to mend the matter I

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was il l but notwithstanding all I did wonders for the third

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week by getting 3 2 partridges

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N B — Heard of a j ack snipe having been seen to day

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I7 t / z — W ent out quietly w ithout markers and bagge d

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2 1 partridges and this snipe .

Killed altogether in only five mornings shooting : 2 0 1 ,

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partridges 4 hares 1 quail 1 snipe Total 2 0 7 head

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N B — A bad breeding season

. . more old birds than
young ones .

2 0 tl c 2 0 partridges
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as hawks no scent ; an d my two old bitches had scarcely a

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leg to stand on though I h a d given them two days res t

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2 2 u a — A s this day commences the four t h week in S e p

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tember the birds i n our very wild O pen country had o f

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course got quite wary Bagged 1 8 partridges and I hare

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M ade one rather extraordinary S hot 3 birds crossed

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each other at the regular interval of about 1 0 yards apart ;

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and when all three got i n a line I up gun and floored

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th e whol e trio with on e barrel T hey were all killed quite .

dead picked Up instantly and all three proved to be full

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g rown birds .

2 9 tli —H ad the variety of shooting hunting and fishing

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a l l within five hours I t blew a hurricane al l the morning

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I first bagged 1 0 partridges Then had a spree with the .

harriers which I fel l in with while shooting ; and by way of

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a wind up I got my rod and killed 6 brace of very fine trout

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f o r dinner 81 C ,
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G ame killed in S eptember 1 8 2 8 : 2 64 partridges 5 hares , ,

I quail 1 snipe
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T otal 2 7 1 head .
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N B — O u t b u t t e n times
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O o r 2 ua
c t e — A particularly fine day ; and as I might
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a s wel l try for an elephant as a pheasant I availed mysel f of ,

t his tim e to try our wil d partridges on the hills I was at .

fi rst out of luck : broke the cock of my gun broke my ,

horse s bridle tore my shooting j acket and what was more

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a n noying to me than all missed four shots however the luck , ,

soon turned and I ended the day wi t h shooting bril liantly

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and bagging 2 0 partridges .

— A strong southerly wind

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and it being a good
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fishing day I took my fly rod out for about an h

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our before
d inner and killed 3 brace of fine trout ; and among them
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one which weighed 1 3 lb He was as red as a sal mon .

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and as full of curd as a new l aid egg ; so I cri mped him an d -

made a most delicious dinner on him .

t / — A tolerably fine day and I had the extraordinary

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luck to bring home 2 0 partridges and a magnificent old cock
pheasan t for which there was a hue and cry in search o f
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me just as I was com i n g home to dinner They had marked

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hi m down i n our moors ; D uchess soon pinned him and I ,

had a most beautiful easy open shot at him I think under .

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a l l circumstan ces considering that I had only one pony and ,

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evening and proved to be 5 large ri cks belonging to poo r

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F armer R a y and as there had been no lightning and thi s

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was on a desolate hill away from the village i t was t o o ,

evident that this was the revengeful work of some damnable

i ncendiary Th e hill was i n an U proar all night and the effect
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was awfully grand .

l o t/c — A cold raw day W alked out and had t h

. e good

luck to get 1 snipe 2 j ack snipes 1 teal 1 mallard 2 rabbits

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and 1 woodcock ( the first one I have seen or heard of in this

country since goodness knows when ) I m ade a most brillian t .

snap shot at him the first moment I caught sight of hi m .

1 2 t/c —H aving had a fine easterly wind for nearly thre e

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w e ek s I put mysel f on the rostrum o f the old O xford coach

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and ran down to K eyh a v e n where I arrived about n ine this

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eveni n g F ound to my astonishment that there had been

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scarcely any wigeon and a few hours after midnight there

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came rain and a westerly wind I t seems like magic how .

this al most always occurs to m e the very day I arrive .

1 3 tb — O u t all day in very unpleasan t weather and n eve r

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saw the least chance for S port Th e wild fowl had all left . .

1 4 tk — A tremendous gale from the southward all nigh t

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and al l day with heavy rain A bout 2 0 fowl were seen off
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Th ‘
L ion punt weathered it most gloriously ; and I h a d
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the great luck in spite of the heavy sea to stop 5

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2 7 t/c W alked out for an hour and j ust saved my charte r

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of never having a blank day by bagging 1 m iserabl e j ack ,

snipe S uch is the shooting here j ust now

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D ec em ber 2 0 t/i —W ent out to try a new gun stock ; dis

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charged my gun ten rounds and brought home 5 snipes , ,

3 jack snipes and 2 partridges which were al l I saw

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N B — Th e 3 j acks were kil led with some ecl a t Th e first

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got up as I was carrying the bitch over some water I dropped

the bitch i nto a cold bath cocked U p gun and d own j ack , ,
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all as quick as a conj urer ; the other 2 j ack s were ki lled righ t
and left a double shot
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T otal killed up to C hristmas 1 8 2 8 3 8 8 partridges : ,

7 hares 1 quail
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2 rabbits 8 pheasants 1
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woodcock (the only , ,

o n e I have seen these t w o years ) 5 snipes T otal 4 6 3 head

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W ild fowl : 2 mallards 5 wigeon 3 teal Total 1 0 head , , .

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G rand total 4 7 3 head ,

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ja n u a ry 1st .
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Ke y h a ve n P ut off . W eather a l ittle finer .

( by way of a little s ar on N e w Y ear s D a y ) at three this

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afternoon got 4 curlews N ever saw or heard any other b irds .

I explored all d ay but fro m what I saw and from

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what I heard there does not appear to have been a single

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trip of fowl on the coast except a few very wild geese that , ,

o l d H arnett flashed i n the pan at and drove out of the country

j ust before I came to where they were .

5 tl. c — N e w moon and a northerly wind T hings looking .

much bet t er N o birds arrived yet but I walked out with

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th e musket to try a new dog which appears to do well and , ,

saw 1 teal and I wigeon both of which I bagged and which , ,

the dog brought to me in prime s tyle .

6 t/c — 1 0 brent geese

. N o wigeon come yet and this was
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th e only shot I had all day .

7 t l
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8 t/z — A fine north east wind though no frost and scarcely

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a n y wigeon to be seen and what few there were had mixed

wi th the geese an d were wilder than ever I knew them
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9 t/. z — O u t all day and never got a chance

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N o t a wigeon .

to be seen and the very few geese that were about were so
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wild that it was quite i mpossible to do anything wi t h t hem .

1 0 tl z — G o t a long shot at a smal l company and brought

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i n close to K ey h
, a ve n 3 brent geese aft er having been three
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m iles beyond L ymington wi thout a chance of a shot I took .

them in by sailing to them as the few tha t are here are now ,

so well up to a paddling punt as invariably to rise at 4 00

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1 2 tl t.
— A furious eas t erly wind ; no showing our noses
outside the harbour and being t h e dead o f the nip
,
no wate r
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i n it so we were prisoners for the day except R eade w h o , ,

crawled about on the mud ; b u t i t blew so s t rong he could

not even work his laun ching punt to wha t few birds he saw .

1 3 t/z — Th
. e gale con t inued R eade out mud crawling .

from morning till night and he g o t 8 wigeon I walked out ,

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with the musket and got a wild duck a very long shot (
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wi th ,

snipe shot) and then went half the day i n chase of a beautiful
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old gander barnacle a rare bird here and I had the luck t o , ,

bring hi m home at the expense of being in a miserable mess

, ,

by following him through thick a n d t hin ‘

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14t l z —O u t from five i n t h

. e morning til l five i n the
evening and ne ver got but one very long shot with which I
, ,

had the unexpected luck to bring i n 3 brent geese Th e .

rascally blackguard mud launchers have totally ruined thi s

country and they now rarely ever kill anything themselves
, .

17t lc .
— M a g n i fi c en t weather fowl pouring in by thou
sands ; cruel bad luck F lashed in t h e pan at about
.

wigeon again at as many geese and after drawing and , ,

squibbing flashed again at a splendid hooper close to me

, .

To complete my sorrows I foun d my lock broken and had t o ,

leave all my sport and go off with my gun to L ymington I .

got but two shots o f f ; with one I bagged 8 W geon in t h e i

breakers and with the other 2 geese at a very long distance

, .

R eade got also 7 wigeon R eade was out till S unday morn .

ing came and got but 3 more wigeon owing to as bad a run
, ,

of luck as I had .

1 9 t/z . R eade who had been wallowing about in his mud

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sledge from the break of the S abbath t ill daylight and got ,

t hree shots came in with 1 7 wigeon a n d we found 5 more dead

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wigeon aft er brea k fast .

O u t from n ine at night t ill one ; had a glorious chanc e

spoiled by a w re tc h e d t ailor o f a fellow spitting off his popgun ,

but the tide being slack I had no o ther chan ce for a shot
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flying S hot at a wild duck with the other and I knocked ,

down a t ippet grebe eighty yards off wi t h the m usket so I

began well emptied all my barrels well and i n S hort made
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a most satisfactory day in every respect .

I n the afternoon I had only j ust come i n to refresh m y

sel f and wipe the gun O ff again at ten out all night and
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the severest night I ever remembered M y c a p fro z e on my .

head and it blew a gale of wind but I had so much to d o

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that I perspired the whole ti me except at intervals when my ,

hands were so frost bitten that it was with the utmost d i f fi

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culty I could grope out the traps to load and particularly to ,

pri me the gun Th e man who followed me to retrieve my

.

d ead birds fell overboard and was obliged to go home in order ,

to avoid be i ng frozen to death ; and I thus lost at least a th i rd

o f my birds which fell into the hands of the leeward shore
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hunters who lurk about after gunners as vultures follow an

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a rmy at all hours of the day an d night when there is a hard

, ,

frost and a chance of good plunder Th e labour of working .

for the fowl was an odd m ixture of ecstasy an d slavery .

I brought home shot on the spot and caught on the i ce at

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d aybreak by self and helpers 6 9 wigeon an d 1 duck making , ,

in all 1 0 1 wigeon and 4 duck s and mallards besides the 6 ,

plover and the old coot in eighteen hours as I was out from
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p ast twelve in the day till six the n ext morning Th e gun .

m issed fire twice an d I missed one fine shot owing to t h

, e

S pray o f the sea free z ing on the punt and forming a mass of ,

ice that threw the barrel s above their bearings M y best .

shot in the night or rather at two in the morning was 3 0

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w igeon with on e barrel Th e left barrel snapped as the .

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lock had broken again but on getting hom e to the candle ,

I luckily found it was not so far gone but that I could make
shift with it o n bei ng a l ittle recti fied .

H a d not this misfortune occurred and my follower r e

mained with me I really believe I S hould at least have doubled
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what I did .
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2 2 na
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—A fter sleeping a few hours
was off again I t I .

ble w great guns and froze the oars as we rowed had cruel
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hard labour to row to W i ndward as the ice prevented ou r ,

towing th e boa t up along shore S a w seven S plendid .

—
hoopers gave up everything for them L a y alongside f o . r

the tide to flow for hours N o t water enough at last ! so .

R eade had to steal overboard and shove the punt wi t h his

chest whil e I crept abaft to give her life for w ard Th‘
e .
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sun came out an d my cap was too white and glared so while
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lying as close as I could I rubbed i t with water and gun ,

powder as I had seen the old captain of the hoopers look

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ti cklish which I suspect was at my cap Fo r want o f more

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tide we could only get within about 1 3 0 yards of these swans

,

but having shifted my common shot to some glorious pills for

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t hem I tried my luck

, F irst barrel missed fire by the lock
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cover catching the cock but as it blew a gale the birds never , ,

heard this so I cocked again and held Up t h

,
e cover with t h
e ,

l i tt le finger while I pushed off the trigger with my thumb and

, ,

i ns t antaneously banged in the detona t ing barrel as these huge

monsters began t o flap and spra w l and gave them such a ,

broadside as they little expected A s 2 of them were far .

detached I had only 5 to shoot at and I had the satisfaction ,

to bring home in triumph 3 of these wild swans and k ill a 4 th , ,

not got that I saw tower and fall where I should soon have
, ,

been as dead as he was had I been rash enough to f ollow hi m

off i n such a sea as that on which he dropped I never mad e .

so splendid a shot in my life and R ea d e s agili ty in shipping ,

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sail and cutting off one of my birds that w a s only w inged’

from going seawards was one of the most finished man oeuvres
,

I ever saw W e j ust g o t up in time to blow out his brain s

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with the cripple s topper before he reached some breakers tha t

w ould have swallowed us W e had a miserable time in gettin g .

these swans but were amply repaid for our wetting and labour
, .

O u r next game was a flock of mixed birds We dropped .

to leeward and loaded and bore down on them as qui ck as ,

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we could to save the t ide to a part where t here happened to

,

be water enough T erribly plagued with our huge sh i pmates

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on board and my fol lower as usual S kulking behind and

, , , ,

thinking more of his dinner than t h e spor t instead of being ,

up and ready to relieve us of this encumbrance These last .

birds were scattered and I had to fire across t heir line ; but
,

I g o t 5 duck s and mallards 5 wigeon 3 curlews and I brent

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goose at the shot .

N B
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— While in full chase under sail to force t h
. e punt

over the flooded mud th e gale carried away her m ast and w e ,

had both to get overboard and strain ourselves l ik e slaves by

w orking inch by inch for about 3 0 0 yards to shore her into

a creek or we should have had to leave her on t h

,
e mud and

hail our other boat to retreat in D uring our dilem ma the .

dirty pirates to leeward carried off I know n o t how many of

my other dead birds tha t had floated to the lee shore while
,

we were chasing the cripples t o prevent their going t o sea ;

and our follower who had orders to be near u s did not reach
, ,

his post i n ti me Th e r u f fi a n s here have literally lived well

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on my lost birds insomuch t hat before the frost set i n I

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coul d com mand any loafer for a shilling and now I can get ,

n o one to go with m e unless dearly paid as t hey can do so ,

much better by stealing my dead birds and selling them to ,

the neighbours round at a trifle below the market price ‘

They al l carry an old musket if they can and j ust pop off a ,

half charge ( perhaps wi t h only pow d er) to j us t i fy t he posses

sion of your bird by swearing that they fairly sh ot it This .

roguery I have watched no small nu mber of times by t h e

help of my spy glass which of course I always take afloat to

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save usel ess rowing after fowl .

z 3ra
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—I t bl ew such a tremendous gale of wi nd t hat i t
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was by sheer S lavery a man coul d row on end and the shore ,

was still so fro z en that we could not approach i t to tow t h e

punt to windward R eade however by working l ike a horse

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got us up to near Penning ton from when ce we dropped down ,

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all the house thrown in confusion by an alarm about 3 wild

swans having dropped off in view of our windows I shuffled .

on my clothes bolted my breakfast and did all else as quickly

, ,

as possible ; and after some li t tle m anoeuvring I got at the

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swans and made the most superlatively double shot that mortal
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m an could wish for Th e old cock sat up in maj estic state

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on the mud where by going up a creek I could j ust get the

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gun to bear on him Th e o t her two birds were in a hollow

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where the shot would hardly have touched them I fired the .

fi rst barrel at the old captain and ki lled hi m as dead as a stone

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and instantly k nocked down one of the others quite dead as he ,

flew up with the second barrel Th

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e first bird was I 1 5 yards
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th e second 1 2 0 ; I paced the distan ce on the mud Thus I .

had the glory to sack 2 more wild swans and killed 6 ( in ,

cluding the one I lost the other day ) out of the 7 that had
appeared at K eyh a ve n .

A ft erwards like a resurrection 7 more swans appeared and

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I had done their business within a few yards punting when a

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diabolical wretch spit off a popgun at some tomtit or lark

on the shore and drove them al l to sea Towards the after
, .

n oon I had all but got the seven t h swan of my old company
he rose out of S hot but crossed the punt and both barrels
, , ,

missed fire Th . e detonator had got damp from the rough

sea and the flint lock had caught i n the gun cover I then
, .

went after smaller fowl but the whole country w a s so full of

poppers ashore and afloa t that I had better been i n bed I .

got but one sho t with which I bagged 7 wigeon

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2 7 tl z —.1 I geese I 3 wigeon and 3 scaup ducks F irst

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shot 9 geese second shot 2 geese and 1 3 wigeon third shot

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was at 4 scaup ducks al l of which I stopped , .

Th e birds happened to be i n harbour and I had this day ,

two following boats so I never lost but one bird that I know
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o f ; a very pretty little day and excellent shooting , .

2 8 t/z — T ide for night shooting a t last for which we have

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to thank the very wind that drives the birds away — south
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west O u t from two till six in th

. e morning got a shot and ,

bagged 1 3 wigeon all dead and lost several of our cripples

, , ,

owing to our follower rowing off aft er some sea weeds which
he took for dead birds an d th e wigeon h e ought t o have had
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escaping in th e meantime I n bed from seven till nine o u t

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again from half past nine t ill eigh t in the evening C oun try
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ruined by floa t ing poppers so we gave U p and pottered about

the harbour S a w 2 scoter ducks birds I never met with before
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, ,

except stuffed in museums blew off a cartridge and floored

them both and had a chase of more t han an ho ur before we
could get near enough to fi nish w ith a detonating musket , ,

one of them which was winged though I had three boa t s with ,

m e I then shot and killed 3 scaup ducks out of 4 then got

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,

another little shot at 3 more scaup ducks and a golden

eye F loored t hem all ; lost 1 scaup duck that bea t us by
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diving and bagged 2 scaup ducks and 1 golden eye duck

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B lew the gun off at a few curlews coming home and killed 1 ,

curl ew at 2 0 0 yards N o t hing of a bag but exquisite shooting

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capital fun with t h e chases these diving ducks led us and a

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very pleasant day s diversion ’

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N B —. I was all but killing the last remaining swan of my

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original company but a raw amateur spoiled my shot when

I was wi t hin one minute of getting into him up an excellent ,

creek which I had reached unobserved by the bird and up

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which I was working with t h e almos t certainty of getting

close on board him .

2 9 tl c — U p at three and out till half past eight

. A fog -
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came on and t hen of course shoo t ing afloat was annihilated

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as bird s will at such a time never l et you come near them .

A cold rime fell that was more disagreeable t han anything

I ever felt before and this is th e first time I ever felt really

chilled in g u nning O n get t ing home I made a good break

.

fas t put my feet in hot wa t er and t urned into a warm bed

, , ,

by which I was quite comfortable in a few hours instead , ,

perhaps of taki n g a serious cold A l l people should do t his

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O utat two in the afternoon and it came on most tre ,

mendo n s rain from the south east all the evening I had j ust -
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time to pop at 3 wigeon and I killed them all dead and , ,

make a long shot at 1 brent goose which I knocked out o f ,

the company with small shot at about 1 5 0 yards There

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were plenty of birds but my man having neglected to bring ,

my south w ester defiance j acket and I thinking with F alstaff

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t hat
Th b tt p t f v l r i d i r t i e e er a r o a ou s sc e on ,

turned tail and came home for the evening about five o clock
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wet through .

t/ —N tide and a very slack time to day so I went

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into L ymington to get the hammer of my flin t lock hardened ,

as I had lost several shots through the steel missing fire O n .

my return home R eade who had been o u t all the morning

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congratulated me on escaping a blank day which he h ad ,

had owing to innumerable shooters driving the birds out

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to sea I went afloat in the evening and got 3 brent

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geese besides S hooting 2 more that fell on tide and which

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our fellows n ever got for want of proper exertion ; and this
shot a preposterously long one was the only chance I got
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There being no water I sent R eade mud launching at dusk , ,

and he came in at half past nine with 2 6 wigeon killed at -

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one shot .

t — R eade came in this morning after being out again

3 1 s .
,

S ince midnight with 2 5 more wigeon making in all killed by

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his mud launching in my littl e punt the M udlark 5 1 wigeon ,

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in a night and by finding 6 of his cripples this morning he

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made the first great shot up to 3 2 wigeon at one shot ,

launching which is t h ,
e greatest work he ever did or had ever

heard o f A north easter but very little frost T his j us t

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favoured the O peration of mud crawling .

F ebr u a ry 2 n a — R eade stuck to the mud every night and

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got in al l 4 0 more wigeon .

R eade came i n with 1 3 more wigeon after his usual

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beach an d the N eedles ; tri ed them but there was too much ,

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lop W orked the rest of the day in side at stragglin g trips
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an d brought hom e 8 brent geese and 4 wigeon .

R eade got but 2 wigeon al l n ight launching an d it cam e , ,

on too thick before the water served for m e This is the S i xth .

tim e I have had the kitchen fire kept in till mornin g and ,

been baulked by ha z y weather fro m getting out .

1 0 tlc —O u t the whole d ay an d got but 2 d un d ivers (

. out ,

of 3 that I shot at and stopped them al l ) an d 1 brent goose ,

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1 1t / z — R eade had been out the whol e n ight and could do

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n othing owing to the thick ha z y weather

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N othing i nsid e all d ay ; t ried the outside off M il ford , ,

having towed above a m il e fro m H urst C astle ; but the sea

w a s so rough that the bird s an d punt were j umpin g about ,

and nothing coul d be got together worth firing at an d we ,

were too happy to retreat fro m this u npleasan t berth and ,

determined not to ventu re again unless the sea shoul d be

like a m irror .

1 2 tl c —
A n asty rotten day with smal l rain an d a fog as
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thick as possibl e ; the vilest o f vile weather for night an d ,

but l ittl e better for d ay S hoo t ing N eith er R eade nor I coul d .

attempt anything but we rowed down to H urst an d back , ,

j ust at the close o f the even ing an d blew o ff the gun at the ,

d unl in s ( for a pudding ) we pick ed up only 2 8 but had the ,

company been clear of a ridge of m ud that took the shot I ,

am con fident we should have got 1 00 at least as I had tak en ,

the precaution to whip i n a dose of smal l shot for these

l ittle gentlem en .

I 3 t/ c —D ead tides thick n ights an d n o chan ce for gun ners

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morning noon or n ight O u t all day and n ever fired a shot

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I got two golden ey es -

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—Th
e g o l d en -
eye is h er e v
p ro i n c i a ll y ll ca ed
‘
g i n g l er o r g i n g i n g
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c u rre ,
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f ro m t h e n oi s e of i ts w i n g s . B ew i c k p k s ea s of t e h ‘
m o r i on a nd ll
L ea d bea ter , o ur
g r ea t L o n d o n o r n i t o o g i s t, hl l h th
a u im g d y tht w ht h
s a a n sa s a a e

ll thm i ll
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ca s e or on isl y th g l d
on e o en - eye , whi h v c i i h i g hf th ti ll t
ne er s n ea er a a
c er t a in a g e, a nd e v th t ti ll th
en en n o e s
pri n g f th y
o S e th th ea r . o on e or e o er

m u st b e w r o n g .
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C O LO N E L

I 4 t /z — eade had be en out all n igh t crawling on t h

R .
e mud , ,

and l t h e whole day an d never saw the chance t o get a fowl

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1 6 t/1 R ea d e w h
. o had been crawling on t h
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e mud ever since

the clock was past S unday got a li tt le sho t about five this ,

m orning aft er lying on the mud i n a heavy rai n for t w o hours

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i n hopes of being able to see his bi rds which he kep t lying in ,

shot of b u t hearing a rival scavenger on t h e move a t the same

game he let fly by guess and brough t i n 6 wigeon I went

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o u t from eight t ill t e n i n hopes o f w a t e r but there was no tide

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t o speak o f I g o t a scau p duck a t which I m ade a brillian t

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flying sho t wi t h t h e muske t and t his is t h e only living fowl w e ,

saw all the t i me we were afloa t M ild wet wea ther and bird s .
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beginn ing t o leave t h e coun t ry very fast Prepared t o go out .

a t hal f pas t eigh t in t h

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e evening when it was t ime for high ,

wa t er ; and a ft er beginning to undress for bed a t a quarter ,

past n ine I l ook ed o u t and saw t h

, e tide had made three,

q uar t ers o f an hou r af t er its t i me so I shu ffled on my t hings ,

again and g o t afloat I brough t in 5 wigeon out of a little .

scat t ered t rip which was al l I had to shoot at , .

1 7 t/z R eade crawled all n ight and till seven i n the morn
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i ng and brought i n but 2 wigeon A good tide to day but a

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dead cal m and as warm as in M a y I went o u t from nine ti ll

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two an d brought in 6 bren t geese I used as a last resource

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the L G boluses i n E l ey s cartridge and I am confident the

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fi rst 3 bird s were killed at near a quarter of a mile I blew .

o ff a t abou t and t ook abou t ten yards eleva t ion I t was ’

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complete ar t illery business .

A good n ight tid e at last out from n ine till half past -

twelve B rought i n 1 5 wigeon birds scattered lik e fi el df a r es

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,

so t hat I got but few at a tim e A change of weather a white .

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hoar and then an easterly gale all within a few hours to

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night .

1 8 tlc — R eade out after my cripples before d aylight but the

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shore lubbers ( who keep dogs on purpose and partly live by ,

other fol k s birds) had been before hi m A tremendous ga l e .

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from th e eastward al l day and a sky as thick as mustard We , .

were up about half past seven and with difficulty worked about
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four miles to windward to drop down on the geese but the ,

ha z y weather as i t always does made the birds extremely

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wild and we were all but coming home wi thout a shot A t

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last however I fired across a trip flying and I knocked down

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3 a t an incredible distance wi t h the left hand barrel and -

E l ey s cartridge
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T urned into bed al l hands at five hoping for a spree from ,

n ine till two as t here is n ow good water but i t blew great

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guns and after being Up fro m eight till eleven we were forced
,

to return to our berths Th e gale moderated and the wind .

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got south about four in the morning

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1 9 t/z — R eade aft er a long crawl came in with 5 wigeon

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I was out from nine t ill t w o i n the afternoon but got ,

only 1 bren t goose as t h e birds had been so tormented by

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o ther people that no boat could g et within 5 00 yards of them .

T urned in t o bed from six till nine t hen out till past two i n the ,

morning never heard a bird till on e when at the very critical ,

moment for a shot there came on suddenly a most abominable

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fog the vi lest of all the vile weathers to ui n a shot and

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particularly at night I popped a long way off at a few strag

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l e r s an d got 3 wigeon I t hen heard more and lay i n wait for

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them till t w o when the water went off not c h

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o o s m g to inj ure ,

th e harbour by advancing any more o n birds while a fog was

on N o man who values his own sport ever should when the
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season is so far gone .

2 0 t/z — E xtraordinary weather

. a thick fog with a sun
and a s t rong bree z e of wind Th e fog was our only enemy . .

Th e geese were heard off S tivers W e tried them though ’

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w ith despair aft er losing three quar t ers of the tide t hrough
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w ai ting for the fog to clear ; an d luckily for the geese to day -
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th e fog suddenly blew off as unluckily for the wigeon last nigh t ,

i t suddenly came on W e consequently g o t a very long shot

.

i nstead of no sho t a t all and brought i n 4 brent gee e after a ,

s
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would have long ago been starved but for fishi ng in summer ,

an d getting other people s cripples in the winter ’

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2 5t c — H aving packed up my alls to leave K ey h
. a ve n for
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the season I went off in the rain from three t ill seven this
,

evening in order to g i ve the birds (

,
i f any) a farewell salute .

I discharged one roun d and got 1 brent goose and wi t h the ,

other 1 curlew ; at such i mmense distances that I will now

give the other gunners leave to get a shot i f they can for I ,

have well scared the last remnant of the feathered tribes here .

I began with the curlews and finished with the curlews

this prosperous season .

2 6 t/c — L eft K ey h
. a ve n .

M ost brilliant and glorious season proof how my plans

repay me .

Gr ea tes t s bots .

I st : 16 g ees e .

zud 3 0 w i g e on w i t h on e ba rre l .

3 d
r
5 3 w i g eo n , 2 m a ll a r ds, a n d t h e c o o t, w it hth tw e o ba l
rr e s fi r ed
h
t o g et er .

4 th 4 h p t oo er s o u 5 ofh t h tw bw it l e o a rr e s .

5 th A d b l ht ou e S o t h per
a 2 d k i l l d b thd e d
oo th w i th
s, a n e o a e on e

the fli t bn el i t ti g
a rr ,
s n ,
d th thr w i thth d t
a n e o t th fi
flyi g ( e t e e on a or, n e rs

at 1 1 5 th
e
, o d t 12
s ec n a y rd )
0 a s .

B est s p ort : 101 w ig 4 d k 4 m ll d 6 p l v

eo n , ucd t in s, a a r s, o er a n 1 c oo ,

ei g h
te en h ou rs .

Wild f ow &c l . kill ed u p to F eb r u a ry 2

5 i (
n l
c u s i ve ) ,
1 8 29

S wa ns

Ba rn a c e l
B r en t g ee s e

Duc k s a nd m a la l rd s

Pi n ta il
W i g eo n
T ea l
C u r r es
S c o te r s
Dun di v r e s

Pl v o er

C l u r ew s

C o ot
O i ve l
T o ta l(
5 7 4 w ild f ow l a nd 28 w a d er s ) 60 2
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Al l killed j ust in eight weeks to a day A d d game killed .

at L ongparish before C hristmas ( 3 8 8 of which were partridges ,

and 5 6 of which were snipes) 4 6 3 head ; and grand total ,

makes head .

2 8 tl t — L ongparish
. Busy al l day putting my traps away
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for the season ; but hearing that a few snipes here had
tempted divers vagrants to salute the premises with popping ,

I went off a li tt le before three in the afternoon and by a six ,

o clock dinner contrived to pret ty well clear the country I

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found altoge t her I I snipes and I did for 9 of them the other , ,

2 got up too far ; but as 2 of my birds fell i n a withy bed

and were lost I have only to score 3 snipes and 4 j ack snipes
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added to 3 moorhens and 1 other which increases my grand ,

total to head .

M a r cb 2 u a — A very severe black fros t and a strong

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north easter the whole day ; and I had to weather it outside

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the coach to L ondon where I arrived this evening a t half

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a s t six and thank G o d found all well never was colder

p
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in my life ; and on seeing such glorious gunning weather I

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sorely regretted being fried out of K ey h a ve n by the warm

summer like wea ther which we had had la t terly at that

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place .

1 8 t/ z — L ongparish
. W alked out wi th my gun (
. for
the few hours I coul d leave my workmen ) and got 4
snipes and 2 j ack snipes ; all I saw and the only six shots ,

I fired .

1 9 tl z —I ncessant j o b b i n g every day at m y n e w invention for

.

the invisible approach to land birds till the 2 4 th I n one inter ,

.

val o f leisure I took the first chance of the season for fly fishing ,

and killed 2 0 brace of trout in about two hours or rather less , ,

and notwithstanding an easterly wind and occasional sun

, ,

the fish rose beauti fully and many of them proved in ex ,

c e l l e n t season though some mornings the water was hard

,

fro z en .

2 5 t/ c Tried my invention to see which the em peror

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Buckle grand ad miral of the gunners had come over from

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S outhampton and it answered most exquisitely .

2 6 tl c — H aving succeeded most beautifully in everythin g

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and left the work men to finish o ff I this day returned to ‘

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L ondon .

Ap r i l 2 1 s t — A ft er having been more or less unwel l ever

since I came to town and several days confined t o my bed ,

and the sofa I this d ay completed several repairs and i m

,

r o ve m en t s t o t h e locks and breechings of my large gun and

p ,

got all safe away from the hornet s n est which Joe M anton s ’ ’

manufactory was i n while he was in gaol and this billet beset ,

by Philistines H is men worked under and for me and had

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to keep an incessant eye lest anything should happen on the

premises N o other work men in L ondon could have done
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such a j ob well to my fan cy .

2 8t l z —. L ongparish I caught 2 4 brace of trout in a few

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hours though the cold wea t her s t ill continued

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j u n e 8 t/ c —L ondon
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and a duet between S ontag and M alibran considered the best

piece of singing ever heard in this country .

ul
j y 7 ta — L ongparish T ook two hours fishing thi s.
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evening and killed 2 5 large trout

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9 tl.i — M ade a drol l trial of a new stocked duck gun which -

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was well done by my carpenter Keil I knock ed down in .

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seven S hots 6 bats and 1 moth A duck at dusk flight may

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therefore know wha t t o expect .

1 0 tl z.
— F ished and killed 2 0 very large trout indeed and ,

I then left off not wanting any more fish to day

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