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sideration. of the House.tre thought great rieliber-
ation ought tar be used in framing the laW upon
this rubject, and he was afraid, if the Bill were to
embrace every act which might be termed creel,
!some consideritble iiiffienlty would probably arise
upon the application. For instance, thong the
terin " reclaimed" . the Moment a sal-
mon was caught and laid in nic boat, it might he
called " reclaimed," and the treatment afterwards
practised upon that animal, might, in the mane way
as the treatment skean to sheep, for the purpose of
rendering their meat better,. be called cruelty.—
How far this ought to be brought under punish-
ment, which even might be extended to those who
ate the meat, and encouraged thereby the prac-
tice, was liable to considerable difficulty. Ile would
recommend great pregautiec its framing it law of
suds great importance, which ni4ht afterwards, if
found salutary in etiect, be further extended iii
principle.
The Earl of Ltrutooot. considered it his duty to
offer a few ultsetvations on the Bill under their con-
sideration. lie was friendly to the principle of the
measure, although he conceived great difficulties
lay in the wry of carrying oily kw upon this ques-
tion into elle. t. It admitted of nice distinction,
what a mats 'night do, and what he, aught to do,
and also what he imig:st not do, and what lie ought
not to do. On this account, he would advise the
Noble and Learned Lord to limit the extension,
and confine it to &mile. of draught and burden.
If the IN:, as it bow were to include other
, species.: for it... of food or of sport,
it frijol. i .:ur consider& i.• objection, ou the
ground of . requiring to distkiction, rind
might sit prac:.oa be lmosi. • i-eudeircl ridiculous.
'Nu case of bull-baitinag itsc!f. left te the feelings
ai twelve, emu in E-sex, iniglit be decided differ-
ently from the sane number of mien in Middlesex.
kle swell with the Noble and Learned Lord who
spoke last, that it war incumbent to leave it to the
60116.13.1 ry of magistrates. But rreat
cete oa...sit to be used its picierechii:e gradually,
and lii that case it would noret with his approba-
tiou,lnr no man could view, aithaut horror, the acts
of cruelty w inch were daily committed, particular-
ly Grim horror, in the streets of this town. There
was another animal of burden, the ass, equally
useful in its station, subject to more cruelty, if
posaible, joanicalarly clM.uctl the interposi-
tinii e.F iii. legislature.
Lord ELLs11110110001; :I,ortly observed, great
caution was to be used to legislating upon a sub-
ject, !Weil, its its consequences., nright be of the
greatest inapintioiec. For itpwartb of twenty. yrcrs
be had known it to have been under the coirerileru.
non of his Noble and Learned Vriend. pail would
recommend the words " maim, wonud, hurt, or do
any bodily sisjary," as perhaps expressing more de-
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banely the act of cruelty to be punished. The
13/11 generallt Met with his concurrence, an.l it was
a measure which would always reflect honour upon
Iris Noble and Leac.ed Friend who introduced it.

The Earl of DAKNI.V.T, wv Underatood, 1411.
proved of the principle, but triou4ht practically it
%salad Le attended with .ome i.ieouveniencier.
Lord Evsattte wan ile,irotiq the Bill should he
so ultererl, that h eniett meet with the concurrence
uF tlieir /....rdships, and he less likely to incur op-
position iii another place.
Upon the suggeo tun of Lore' RELEID LE, it was
agreed the Bill should pad., pro forma, RINI be again
reconsidered in toe Committee on Friday.
Adjourned'.

HOUSE Ol COMMO:CS.

,The Strand Bridge Bill was reAtl a third time, and ordered
to tb Lorill.

Up..n all order of the day, for the third reading of the
SUITCV Sen era' Btll, Sir T 1104 AS TU kTON inured "That
The bill should be read • third time ern this day three
months," when there appeared for the proposisiou of Sir
Thomas Tartu; to, agetnst it 49. The hill was then read •
thud time. l'poa the quest that the bill do pass, as
amendment was proposed, upon a supplerseatary clause,
when 'moths! division took place, and the nunsticis ware 57
Mid 23. The atilt was then passed, and oriknsl to the Lards.
On the minim+ -.f Lord 31t LTON , the account of the In.-
'ports sad Ex.ports, p 'recited yesterday, was ordered to be
printed.
On the mation of Mr. Hogs, the Woollen Marinfacturcrt'
Biii wits read suited hula null passed.
A Messio front the ICIIIIrt of Lords informed the House
It their Loidalsips had speed to the Loau !Silt, and 'eve-
PI Wilt.' !Who.
The Oro., of the day, fur the House going into a Com-
liiit tee on the Friendly Siseieties' Bill, was dcfci red till to-
rn:Win ow.

Mr. Pekes A L rose, fur the pin'pose of deferring the inu-
of which he bad given notice last night, relative to
small Living*, as recominieudecl by a Slcuage limn His
Majesty—the papers upon the subject win not yet print.
Alia lie thee, toe put it off till l'ridx seat.
Mr. PERCEV A L said, in pursuance of a notice which 1w
had given last night, relative to an Increase of SAury to the
Judges of England and Wales, he should inopore that the
Acts of the tath and 13th George 111. should be .cad, and
that the House should to-morrow resolve itself into a C 0..,
mince to consider the same. Agreed to.
Sir Jots, t EMVORT postponed further Windings in this
Embezzlement 11.11 until Tunis', next.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT presented a Petition from •
George Beaumont, now a prisoner in his Majesty's
Gent of Newgiite.
The Petition was received and vend. It stated,
that the Petitioner is Proprietor, Printer, and Pub-
lisher of the Weekly Paper, called The British
Guardian ;—that on the Okla day of Oetdber last,
he published a Letter in the sad Paper, signed
" 7iberiese Greg:duct ;" which, alluding to the
disputes between this Country said the United
States of America, attributed dwelt origin—echo-
ing the sentiments of the late Lisnl Chatliani---" to
an influence behind the Throne, greater than the
Throne itself thst upon this publication. an in-
fi,rination was :i!i-d in the (Atm of HiuK s Bench,
His Majesty's Attorney-General ; upon which
the Petitioner was tried and found
guilty ; and iiphi. that c,,:ivictinn lie vias sentenced
to he confined fur the space of tivo years in Ilia
Majesty's Ciao! of Newgatr, to pay a tine of 501:
and to Roil a clarity fur his gond behaviour, himself
in ~ sum of will. and two • nreties in 2001. each:
that the Pilitioner, soon after the publication of
the ssid biter, war arrested under i statute lately
passed, end iselil to bail ; a practice heretofore
un-
known widtr whirls arrest be *us kept in confine-
ment for two months, and wine,' two months were
not afterwards taken into consideration in the Pe-
titioner's sentence, as neither was the mouth iu
,vhich the Petitioner was kept in ch:se custody, im-
mediately before he received sentence; that nett the
Isom- day in which the Petitioner received his sen-
tence,a person who hid been csinvicted of gruisi wit-