A Hundred Years Ago
THE "SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 4TIr, 1832.
• SINGULAR DEATH OF A FOR-HUNTING CLERGYMAN.
The Reverend Mr. Price, Rector of Lower Wee on, Northampton- shire, while hunting on Tuesday with Mr. Osbaldiston's hounds, fell, on leaping a brook, his horse falling with him. He was not hurt ; but, enraged with the horse, to which he attributed the accident, he gave it a severe lashing. Soon after, he had, on following the dogs, to clear a fence; when the horse, taking the hint from his former mistake and punishment., leaped so high, that on its coming to the ground, the reverend rider was thrown with violence against the pommel of the saddle, and hurt in a way which caused his death in six hours after.
A Max OF BUSINESS.
A friend of ours was in treaty with Cl—, the horse-dealer (who died the other day), for the purchase of a mare, but could not agree by 101. Next morning, however, making up his mind to offer to split the difference, he posted off to the yard, when the first person ho met was the groom. " Master up, Joe ? " said he. " No ; master ho dead," said Joe, "but he loft word you're to have the mare,"
THE DURE OF WELLINGTON'S PREMIERSHIP.
We have very recently been let into some of the secrets of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S overweening ambition. Our proofs we shall give as we may see occasion. At present we only tell an anecdote which ought to be known. When GEORGE the Fourth requested the Duke of WELLINGTON to form a Ministry, nothing was farther from his thoughts than making the Duke Premier : the Xing thought, as a matter of course, he would go to the Horse Guards. But the Duke considered Mr. CANNING'S rule too good to be departed from. When the King, then at Windsor, opened the despateh-box containing the Duke's list, hs burst into an exclama- tion of mingled mirth and amazement--' Damn his eyes ! I asked him to make out for me a list of a Cabinet, not to put his own name at the head of it." But GEORGE the Fourth hated " trouble : " the Duke's name stood at the head of the list, and the King let it remain.
Previous page
