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*mil* that they thread untlissislititWUNt ilaem-
iselves. The butcher cedltrflnt provide meat w Ott-
ode kit fiiig animists (or the purpose; but it *Mild hrs a
strange ts quest for a lover of hummer), td make, that
Ow hotelier should grant loin the fovour to leave the
killing to himself. He (.%lr. W.) did not mean to
brand the Gentlemen situ loved the simr i of the
field, as wanting humanity; but be most say,
that if a Home like that,. a Goose of hunters
and shootera, were to enac*. such a law, punishing
acts in others, when they themselves Upon the iatne
pnticipleoleeerved equal pentehrocist, it would do
iti act most preguaot old,' deagrace ; it would draw
an invidious iliartioction diets., n the rich sod the
poor ; if the I louse adopted such en Act, it should
follow it tip ; it should net go through the ouncti-
inunimis hypoeriay uf punishing criielty in the lower
priers, while it overlooked all similat bets in the su-
perior ours. lie thought that the Bill wish' the first
place winecessary ; 'St went to correct nothing that
could net letecorrected by manners tad Millie opi-
nion : it was disgraceful to the Manse for the in-
vidious thstinetion it created ; ' mid, above all,
for the continual source of vexation it originated.
It *wild give aderalostoo to groat opportunities of
aporeesion. Any man wn,d4 be liable to be tried
at the manses for NO Undefined otrelice.,- and every ”
youtigCoentsel, might try his haw! et a epreeli na 'ma
hemeisity, the effect df whiet upon a jury no rgan
could prouomice. It would he a seburge let loose
iipoti time e 01111110: orders Or saciety. if they
took it np, thcy should go through it manfully
ad fairly ; mid if they did, he agreedivith The
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' . ce themselves, partly be the iiiisiguitieinice,
nfy by the partiality to wheel the hill wools ex-
lios
e them. henries, the words of the Hat were
nibiguous, they only professed to popish wont dais 1
pane maliciously and wantonly. Whatever a 1214 n.
!lid with a view to his own interest, 'could not he
pnsidered malicirms ; it therefore world be tole-
Wed. As to what was done wants) ly, the hunter,
he thought, would (*me under that charge ; for
he had nsed one animal tnimer,iftille fir the
larpose of being prese,:t sit the death of -Hilo-
her animal. Would they s..id persoos to the
no, of collection . for on,:h niniiiieinento ?--
le coliti,iiied with declariiig ins istee,tino id op-
posing the Sneaker's leaving the Chaii; fat the
purl*, e of tudeltig afterwai.ii . that th- Bill be
committed this day in ~•• itiol,tl,,, wiilliag to get
rid of it ill that tali ~.i.n-, iss. tint ',:n,i...; bootie to the
prisiciple of the all.
, itlr. STEPIIIIiS4 sliplurteti ihe ti.,•asiire, le,piihst
the verion• .r' ~iii ins tit et h ' -.! tic,',l urged by
the Iti4ht iionae.:,l),e 1.1...', 0k..1..- 1.1, e.es said, ,
this was a new 01,/. . : i.4',11: t1.;948,; this he denied ;
as hum suety was et. i ;tie priiiitpie upon winch
that House had penceritod, ate, as the• ens fhe
principle upon whien the pressfut Bill ,• r• Inthirled,
po arguments urged ag.,lti>t gic.4l‘...nivrits of it
shined operate against tin* ;come icao the Com-
mittee. Those enactments he considered as tip-
pheatilv to all the prole:He• cites that were likely
to occur, as well with relation to o.n6w and ern- ,
ployers, as all others. With tasoect to the argumneats
drawn by the Rt. lion. Gent. from the amusements
of huntuag, fishing. &e. it could not escape their
• obeernition. that cruelty did net eider into the
human heart, as the scope and object of them, and
is sod, they differed esireistiidly f oin the evils in-
tended to be remedied by this Bill. 'Pie ob;ec-
lions of the Right Hon. Gentfrumit went rather
to the provisions than to the principle of the Bill;
end as such did not apply to the ::pecker leaving
the Chair, as
.those could all be removed in the
Committee. As to the übjetim,, that the Bill did
not go the length of curing all the evils that might
occur, that was surely no reason against their re-
medying some of them, but the contrary. The
Other objection, of the late pelioil of the Session
when the measure was brought forward, was an-
swered by the comparative little that was attempted
to be dour Icy the Bill, leaving it to future times to
perfect and finish the work Owl happily bet:irii.—
For these reasons he hoped the House would con-
seat to go into the Committee.
Mr. Davies GIDDY declared himself adverse to
the Bill, lie admitted the existence of most un-
warrantable cruelties; but the question was not
whether evils were found to exist, but whether milt
greater might not follow the eliactment, than those
intended to be teineilied ? The datficailty, iii his
' d, was how to draw a alietiiirt and precise line
on the subject. It was the great principle of legis-
lation to thaw this hie, so as to nook the bounda-
ries; of right and wrong ; as for iiistance, in the case
of homicide, where :iodising but the actual perpe-
tration of the act could firing a mall within the pe-
nalties; whereas, the Man who failed in the at-
tempt was equally guilty in the eight of morality.
tlion,o only punishable for an assault ; and yet
these distinctions, if once confounded. there was
no knowing where the mischief %mild roil. Thus
'in the present WI he considered the words mall-
does,/ aksing as much too undefined .iii their na.
tore, and capable of much abuse in their implicit-
tioti and therefore objectionable. He therefore in-
sisted on the necessity of establishing definite lines
in the aprothOtelleot of punishment, as necessary
to guard agolollt greater evils thin those proposed
to be reale:lied ; arid, consequently, he opposed the
present motion.
Mr. WiLSERFORCE observed, that, if a stranger
were to hear the argoinents urged against the Bill,
he might suppose them to be the efforts of some
Tonne; Niember, wishin.'• to display his ingenuity, or
1' r11441111g for fame ; but the [louse wool() do well
to remetolser that this Hill had come down from
soothes` .aosenthly. an assembly equal) y venerable
for its (1464 and wisdom, nor! theref Ore Wil3 de-
serving, at least, einem attention. It appeared to
Le opposed upon the same iinneiple that all others.
Wiwi) proposed the ametioratieg the condition of
any Class of sutferme existence. usually were ;—ou
the one ham!, if the remedy proposed was general,
they went too lir ; rii the other, if the remedy
was individual, they did not go for enough. The
ask-Wer 10 all, slits was, they should take the
slows no they arose, and proceed gradually, flirt
;hey uvelit thereby be coals ed to work-eurele.-
0 mst ot).r, when they were culled on to do any Using
side d% had humanity for its object, it appeared as
blll 113 if they were called ma to effect a Parlist-
inentary Reform. The ;,nod to be. done by thit
Bill would be the tonehitte the lower orders; there
was a duti due by Bum to the animal world, uni