30 OCTOBER 1999, Page 36

Hanging offence

From Mr Basil H. Pinsent

Sir: I always enjoy 'Country Life'; I was sur- prised, however, to see that Leanda de Lisle (16 October) may have allowed her young son to eat the partridge on the day he shot it. It would have been very bland.

Basil H. Pinsent

Ridgeway Manor, Oxted, Surrey