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their spirits. In this state they ride without regard
in their heast. not caring if they return at login, for
if they retorts at all ; and these poor creatures are
made the victims of their melancholy. 'Vherst are
other* who can barely calculate, alter a horse bait
arrived at those years, w ien age disqualifies him for
further and regular exertion, bow matty days the
aiin :d can exist without food, and by means of
torture, can be forced to work, and how this, with
the skin, will afihrd them adequate profit for the
money expended in their purchase. Neither ought
that mode lately resorted to by those who coMly
lay wagers on the subject, to be permitted with im-
punity, where by time or °Mil. 111.1111111• of exertion
a horse is destined to perform that which is beyond
the received opinion of any horse's strength, and
upon the uncertainty of which the wager .is
resorted to. I base this day received a letter from
au Gun. %leather, whit Miami me, that it has
come to his knowledge, there ere those, who buy
old worn font lihrwit, the skins of which they sell to
i.e tanned for hair trunks, the dealt is boiled mid
•toold for dog's meal ; but the purchasers then them
Woo yard, where no meat is given them, and they
sometime* remain there a reeek or a fortnight before
they ore killed. In this situation it has been known
that tlwy will eat their own dung, and sometimes eat
each others inane. from hunger. There is one mail
who generally has several of these horses at a time,
and he will hot kill any unless the inarket for the
tlesh it high enough to allow lain au exurbitaut
rofti." (Ifis Lordship, after reeding the letter,
vr•served, this Gentleman was ready, before the
t'otnniitto?, to prove these things at their Lord
*sip,' !ler.) " 1 myself, a Peer of your House, sat
also ready to Drove the same statement. Another
act of cruelty hisometiince practised by those who
impound the trespassing cattle of others, for the law
bus provided that notice oldie itepoundiug be sent to
the inviter, and
then the sitstenance of the animal
rests upon himself. But if this animal lie neglect-
ed, how cruel is its fate; the pauishinent bv•
poutoiltug was media agaiust the owner, and not
against the anneal confined and deprived of its li.
belly : the 14w dui not mean to inflict torture and
rh,atfr. There is a descrip:Ma of at l i 11l els, unjustly
sty led the emblem of stupidity, which I have even,
w?i!t great &woes*, toverbortheueol, nod to whom
the 4.1104 of. stupidity has'been given for the pur-
pose of loatliniit wit:lit:very oppression add cruelty.
tVitlioat taking up more of your Lordships' time
most patience, I sha'i not allude to any other in-
stances of cruelty which might he mentioned, they
have hero noticed by myself. with cousiderable
orisi..ty and reset. Even amongst the lowest of Ail
beasts, those wits are matched to bruise and wound

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onch other, to the highest order of the species,
which are involuntsrily made to suffer the severest
torture for the Sport of mail in this high How of
Parliament, as a Peer of the Realm, I formally
Clare my protest 'gains, the exercise of all such
barbarous amusements. This Bill only goes to a
certain extent in practically remedying the evil ;
beyond that, it may have an instructive influence ;
by teaching the lower orders humanity towards the
brute creation, they may learn benevolence to-
wards each other. As to wild animals, if we re-
claim them, let them he reclaimed for our food,
amusement. Of our curiosity ; but they ought
to be applied to all these purposes with mo-
deration, and without torture, or unnecessary
pain. With regard to the second consider-
ati of the Bili, it may be said in objection
it will be very difficult to distinguish between the
exercise of the utmost strength of an animal for
the vacate which we are sometiairs obliged to ap-
ply it, and that over-exertion, which cruelly de-
strays or tortures the animal. The treatment of
aniusals by beating may also be tinestionable.
But can a magistrate doubt of the case, when the
principle of the bill ought to be applied ? Let him
consult his own feelings; lie twist be aware
of the fact, and it most strike him as wilful,
wanton, and malieious. The principle is not
new, it is .now exercised in the law between an
apprentice and bis master. A wanton act of
cruelty is there punished, and there exists no.
difficulty in a Magistrate's drawing the disti ne
tion of what is cruelly. The seine principle
has long been known and acted upon in the
case of master and servant. I will appeal to my
Noble and Learned friend on the' Woolsack, and
to my Noble and Learned Friend near him (Lord
Ellentrareagh) if they colisider it in the least a new
prineiplr ; or, if in administering the provisions
of the Bill there would he any difficulty in making
the application? Oue evil of many penal statutes
is avoided—l have not resorted to informers ; I
have cons'gned the brute creation to the protection
of the generous and the compassioinite." His Lord-
aliip concluded, by assuring the Rouse no difficulty
would be found in executing the intention amid prin-
ciple of the Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR rose for the purpose of
signifying the Bill in its principle shoot.' have his
support. There were some of its provisions which
tailed for serious consideration, and would justly
occupl` the Rtteution of the Rouse, when they
should go into a Committee.
The Bill was then read a second time, and or-
dered to he minimally. the second day after die
recess. Adjourued. • •
HOUSE OF COMMONS

The Dublie Pipe Water Bill was read a third time and
passed.
Upon the motion alb, LORD ADVOCATE of Scort,aw n,
the Mame resolved itself into a Committee upon the Scots
Militia Families Bill ; the report of shich was received, and
ordered to be taken into further consideration us Thursday
IDEA
The Hone, in • Committee, went through the Customs
Juriedietton Bill, and the report was ordered to be received
to-morrow.
Mr Fnerro pve notice that be would to-morrow move
that the Honor do resolve itsel into a Committee to censi-
ger of making farther provision for erecting Churches and
Clonseis in Ireland.
Mr. PVTER Motto, moved, that the Report of the Com-
mittee on the Illghgate Archway Bill, be re-committed, on
the ground that it loot not been sufficiently discussed in the
Committee. On this motion, after worse uppositioo, the
House divided, when there appeared,
low the Cummins' ... 35
AZDOISt it
Majority
The IMF was theft ordered to be re-reason ted to lb. same
(cumin tee.
A message from the Lot& acquainted the Moose, they
14,1 agreed to the bill for ranting six millone by fineheipier
hire, and Waal prirstg bills.

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