Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/Ana (December 31, 1859)

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Good Manners and Good Riding.—The late Lord Charles Manners was an excellent horseman. Whilst serving in a horse regiment in the Peninsula, he came unexpectedly on a French cavalry piquet, who forthwith gave him chase, until he reached a brook which he cleared in true Melton style, taking off his hat, and bidding the Frenchmen “Adieu, Messieurs!” The Frenchmen, none of whom could take the leap, were chivalrously forbidden by their commanding officer to fire upon an unarmed foe. A caricature descriptive of the event, now scarce, was published at the time; it is called “A Belvoir Leap, or teaching the French Good Manners.”