The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-23 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

GAME LAWS.
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The following paper is sanctioned by the signa-
tures of those whose well-merited influence must
dive
additional come ::.1 ..I—t MlFlNsLiuus of hu-
manity :---
" We, the undersigned proprietors of estates in the county
of York, have witnessed with deep regret the demorulimtion
of the lower orders, occasioned by the habits of poaching• and
the calamitous events which Iti frequeutly occur mthe eraser-•
ration of g..me under the existing laws.
" Wa are convinced that these evil consequences are de-
rived, in a great degree, (loin the operation of those statutes
by which the sale of game is coustituted an offence. I
That many very wCalilly toil Opnieht chuffs of society,'
who are not landed proprietors, are nature:ly, and perhaps
reasonably, desirous of enjoying this in coininott with the other
products of the *nil, and that no statuary provisions can effec-
tually prevent their obtaining it.
" Dirt the occupation of the poacher is taken up for the
purpose of supplying, clandestinely, those wants which cannot
at present be ?unified lawfully.
That this illegal occupation would speedily cease to exist
if a legal sale were permitted, and the markets allowed to he
honestly furnished with game, as they are with all other arti-
cles of geuerat.demand.
" It is our firm opinion, that unier a system of open sale,
the preservation of game, far from being rendered noire diffi-
cult, would he greatly facilitated—that the ordinary care which
is fouud aulfiJient for the protection of other deacriptioits of
saleable property would then he equally sufficient for this ; 1
that an armed force, and instruments of death, would no
longer he requisite to defend it i and sanguinary conflicts and
' mitlid4it murders would no longer ensue from the efforts made
to procure it.
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" That we therefore earnestly submit to the ilgislature the
importance of legalizing the sale of game, under proper re-
strictions, believing as we do the present prohibition to be con-
trary to good policy in its spirit, and to humanity in its effects,
seeing that it has filled our goolsmith criminals of its own cre-
ating, and established a nursery of offenders among the lower
classes of the community."
This paper has beta numerously signed by gentlemen of
large lauded property is Yorkshire, by
Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Grantham, Lord Riblilesdale, Lord
Stourcn, Viscount Milton, Viscount Althorp, Viscount Nor-
manhy, Sir F. L. Wood, Bart. ; Sir John Johnstone, Bart.;
Sir George Cooke, Bart. Sir W. A. ityleby, Bart ; Hon. T.
Lister, lion. and Rev. T. Monson, Walter Fawkes, Esq. Wm.
Wilberforce, Esq. ; J. B. S. Monilt, Esq.; G. W. Wentworth,
Esq.; Henry Gaily Knight, E.q.; Alarinaduke Wyvill, Esq.;
W. Wrightson, Esq.: John Fullerton, Esq.; Charles Brand-
ling, Esq.; Robert Chaloner, Esq.; Mark Milhanke, Esq.;
P. Beilbv Thompson, Esq. Samuel Crompton, Esq. ; W. 11.
Cooke, Esq.; Win. Busfield, Esq..; Richard Bethel!, Esq. ;
J. D. Bland, Esq. ; F. 0. Edmonds, Esq. Hugh Parker, Esq.;
John Cooke, Esq.; John Woodyeae, Esq.; Henry Walker,
Esq.; John Jurett, Esq. &o. &G.

DEATH OP BILLY WATERS.—The eccentric Billy
Waters, whose conspicuous character gained Min
so much notoriety, bid adieu to tins world on Friday
morning last, in the parish workhouse of St.
Giles, where he had been fur the last ten days, in a very.
weak stale of health. Poor Billy encleavouredoip so the
latest period of his illness, to obtain for a wile and two
children what he termed an honest living" by the
scraping of catgut, by which he used to collect many
p.nce, when he first practised at the West-end of ,the
town, where his eccentric dress, with his hat and
feathers, together with a 1, cuhiar stumping of his wooden
lea in an original kind of hornpipe, excited much
attention.

liAsTimos.—A voting man, named Joseph Stoneham,
cline on shoreon Thursday from one of our sloops, and
repaired to the Anchor inn in the evening, where tie
drank a pint of porter, after which, complaining of a
pain in the head, he retired to rest. The servant going
to his bed•room :0 the morning for the candle, and find-
ing that the young nian did nut nose, went to awake
him, when, to his great surprise, lie Mond him dead and
cold. The servant immediately fainted, and was found
lying on the floor.

PeU4STRI•NISTC—The unequalled and most extra-
ordinary feat of walking 248 milts in 76 successive
hours, was accomplished by Wright, the veteran pedes-
trian, in the 55th year of his age, lie arrived at the
Lamb and Flag, Cleikenwell Gann, ten minutes helore
twelve, fresh and in good si , beat tig time by ten
minutes. This tisk exceeds by eight miles, (in the same
number of hours,) any pedestrian feat alt record. Time
pedestrian who walked 240 miles in the Nine number
of hours, and was staled to have left all other pedes.
mans" in the shales," must now be left "in the Shade"
himself.

- -George Campbell, weaver, Bridgeton, has been bug
in Glasgow gaol, charged with the murder of Frederick
O'Neill, also a weaver„under the hillowing circum-
stances :—Toe deceased, along with several others', and
.some women, had heck drinking in the house nf a Mrs.
Smith, its Main-street, (whose husband was engaged in
the affair at lionnyinuir during the radical rebellion, and
is at present its Botany Bay), and they being considerably
intoxicated, a quarrel ensued between them, and they
cause out to decide it. About half-past 14 o'clock,
Campbell and another lad were coming front the town,
and being attracted by the noise, Campbell was
when Patrick O'Neill challenged him, and they struck
at one another, and O'Neill suddenly staggered and was
supported by one of the ii.trty, w Ito thought he had
fainted. lie was tillable to speak, and was ilell)C1110 his
own doss, and had to be carried up stairs. lie lay*
nearly without life, and it was not imagined that lie had
been wounded, but had gone away in a swoon ; water
and spirits were poured down hit throat, and hisslothes
were opened to allow him In breathe freely, when it Wds
thSCovered that a wound !EA been in the breast,
which had pierced the heart, another stab had penetrated
the intestines, which were ',intruding, and three other
severe cuts were observed iii the abdomen. The suitor.
uniate man w:5 put into a bed, and surgical aid sent for,
but he explicit abotit Si:O minutes after the encounter.—
Caipplxll has been et/mm.lmA fur trial.

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MATCH TO LILL EIGHTEEN PIGEONS IN TWENTY.'
ONE SHOTS.—This oaten took place on Thursday
morning last. Mr. flouter, of Acton, considered one
of the Lest shots in England, Stall backed himself for
fifty r,vereigns to do his work at twenty-one yards from
the trap, unit unlimited charge, and betting to the tune
' s• ---- ......... trending at s.x to four against the gum—
*" • The lII3lCil took i•lace in a ten acre its•i,,, ..
ileum-
p tri,h, near litimislow„ and the gun was backed at four
and live to one eiellsiltil. Mr. limner killed nine birds-
_toff successively, and then cleaned his piece, and was
backed at tiro 10'lille to Will. Ile missed his tenth bird
and his 17th, when betting became even, and he also'
missed the iuth and the last bird, which lost hi.; I'. •
motets: •

A few days since, a gentleman in the neighbourhood
of Glasgow, for a considerable bet, rude his horse over
a fence, and cleared in length 22 feet 4 inches. The
gentleman rode :4 stone. IVe understand that this is
the horse which, a week or two ago, faded in the attetapt
to leap n feet of water.
There is now living in a village near Brighton, a man
who has been three times married ; each of his wives'
names was the sante ; he has had three children by
each, and each lived with him three years. • lle was a •
widow between each marriage three years, has three
children Ming, the third by each wife, and whose birth
days ale within three days of each other. His last wife
has been dead three years, and he expects to be married
again in three itiontlrs
MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—OnThursday morning
lasi, Mr. Thos. Nloitis, of Fludyer-street, IVestminster,
accompanied by Miss Aim Logan, his niece, and Miss
Patterson, his cousin, took a boat at Nirestminster-bridge
to go to Battersea on a visit to a friend : he rowed the
boat up, and they waited dinner at the 1-fiend's house, •
when Miss Logan took a fancy In a little dog, which
being observed, it was made a present of to her. They
departed with it on their return home at five o'clock
At Chelsea-reach the pug fell o..er•board ; MisS Logan
endeavoured to pull into the boat, when unfortunately
she overreached herself, and falling uver.board herself;
immediately sunk; Mr. Molus being au lLcellent swim-
mer, instantly pulled oft his coat and pillllgt.ll after her;
it was in tile middle of the cerrent, and she was in-
stantly swept away; he at length discovered her a con.
siderable distance off, but before he could reach her she
sunk again to be seen no more alive. A bargeman at •
5011le distance off was theonly person who had witnessed •
the accident, but lurcould render no assistance, and Mr. s'
Molus being very much exhausted, was obliged to return •
to the boat to Miss Patterson, who remained in the
most frantic and disconsolate state •
t.•
• An eccentric individual, at an advanced age, recently
died at Upstreet. He had not changed his abates, nor
lain in a bed, for above 15 year's ; he used to sit it a
large wicker arm chair before the fire, from which lie
very unwillingly moved, chopping even the wood he
used as fuel on one Or the
.arms of his chair. hi the ex-
tremity of death he fell (loin his seat on the floor, and
when taken up and undressed, he presented a shocking
spectacle as a corpse. He was not in a state of want,
having a competent annuity; bat his habits were• the -
!Wren of eccentricity.

Mr. Harvey, of Fish-strezt, Dactors' Commons, on •
Wednesday evening last, between bevel' and eight
o'clock, was proceeding on foot loon the Grange-road.
Beri tttttt dsey, into the Albatiy-road. Ile WaS stopped by
two footpads who hid followed him for some distance. •
and vi hen he canoe to an unfrequented place in she
Grauge•ruad, one of Went rushed upon him and pinion-
ed his anus, whilst the other presented a pistol at hint
and demanded Ins money. Mr. Harvey distioctly saw
the faces of both the robbers, who got off with all the
ttttttt he happened to have about him, consisting of
two sovereigns mold about Itir. Mr. Harvey gave Mita.
'nation of tue rubbery at Union Hall.
ANOTHER BRUTAL NIATCH Alrel Andrews, •
a dealer, on Moodily IllhIleft(lok to ride one horse IVls'
miles in 24 hours. Toe horse, or rather a MOM galloway. •
tinder &teen hands, and a e.l, looked a very unlikely
one to win, and time was backed at Gio 4. l'he start
took place boat Pepper-row, li,sex, over a five mile
piece of ground, at one o'clock un Alonday monolog.
Mr. Amitews riding somet'inig more than II stone.--
1:11C ilturte(ll,i lilt first lire miles in 35 minutes. and I 3
in out: hour and 43 minutes, and was baited. Mr. A.

started again at a gunner past three o'clock, and did
another II miles at hall past five, when he balled art
hour. At hall past six he travelled at the rate of about
six tulle, an hour, and did VO other miles before 'dine
o'clock, making, 60 miles in a few minutes less than little
hours. He baited again, and did the next twelve miles
and a halt (half the distance) by a garter paid eleven,
hating an hour and On ee qUarters time oil hand. He
bailed the horse, refreshed lionsell, and started again at' '
twelve o'clock, having the other half to perform at the
rate of • than four utiles and three quarters aii hour.
He did the first of the tell miles Vti all hour and >t half,.
washed the mouth of the horse, and performed the next
ten miles in rather less time. The equestrian became
.I*.nwied, and he went to bed fur all hour and a half, and
started aging, at five o'clock to du the reineming 42 miles
and a imi(. lie did the go utiles In three hours, halte.t
an I r, started at nine o'clock much fatigued, but
the horse was fresh, and performed the remaining 22
miles and a half at 40 past It o'clock, winning
by go minutes.
Hoe mot leB.—Oti Monday, 'Tuesday, and Widnes..
day nights last, no less than five houses were broken
open and robbed of various property, in M Alston-house-
street, Newington, Surrey. 011 one of these occasions •
the lady of the tionse ruhl her maid-servalt 0/39 • g
above stairs, in the drawing-room, Wahine for her hus-
band's cumin; home ; tile), heard the thieves break in
And ransack the lower part of the house, which they
robbed, but terror presented their thelting. any- alarm,
well knowinf that lime is 110 WatC0411:111 stationed in
that street. The house of 1). Sanger, Esq. of Kenning-
ton-lane, was also barglariously entered and robbed of
4401. worth of properly, ccnisistinit chiefly of jewellery,
vitiktits, and other valuable articles.

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