A singular Chace

As the Liverpool mail coach was changing horses at the inn at Monk’s Heath, near Congleton, the horses which had performed the last stage having been just taken off and separated, hearing Sir Peter Warburton’s fox-hounds in full cry, and followed the chace. One of them, a blood mare, kept the track with the whipper-in, and gallantly followed him for about two hours over every leap he took, until the fox had led them round a ring fence, and ran to ground. These spirited horses were led back to the inn at Monk’s Heath, and performed their next stage as usual.