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London, England, 1818-05-07 00:00:00

PitESERVAiION OF GAME MIA,.

The Order of the Day having been lead for the
second reading of the Purchase of Gone Hill,
Mr. CUR*Eii hoped the Iron. Member (Air. G.
Henke') would postpone any proceedings on the Bolt
till a full House could be proeurett. It was too
important a question to ken througli so thin a
House as they had to-night.
Mr. Co. Il•Nitts expressed himself dosirons to
give every attention to the accortimool.otouti of the
Hon. Member. and he would totnply with lois
wish for postponement; but that if the Hilt wete
not read a second titt►e to-night, it t be lout o.fr
till after the recess, when there would lie too chance
of having an early night fixed fur it. Ile knew
some Gentlemen were hostile to his Bill. as tending
to strengthen the tysteni of the Game laws; hot
he was resolved to 'proceed nu this supple wound--
that it was expedient to resider every (rut of the
existing law as certain in hit operation as possible,
though that part of the law might be open to Id,-
jections, or even intended to be repealed. A change
sti the great principle of the Game Laws was toot
the work of a day. Ills object was to make that a
direct violation of the law, which was v ugly uu
iiidirect one—to take away the temptation for teens-
gtessiug the law, and put the purchaser and ►eller
uu the saute footing. He agreed in the recommenda-
tion of the Comm►ttee on the Game Laws—and it
they would make game private property, they would
render the law more sitople, and more certain in its
operation ; but at the same time lie concurred no the
opitiou expressed by the ►atte Committee. of floe
difficulty in effectiog that. tVlieu any Al.-usher
brought forward a ►measure founded on the Itepoort
oft lie Cou, ittee.euthraciogall the ioonots that they
had recommended, he VMS ready to legislate to the

full extent of their principles; lie was ready t.i
repeal every existing law on the subject. Ilut
the Committee had erred in supposing ilia Gilllle
Laws to have been constantly growing mote
severe from the time of Chattels II.; they had,
on the contrary. since that time, been declining
iii severity. Rich corporal 00000 P. PIIAI as that
of London, if they should be prevented from
purchasing, might feed game, sad receive them as
presents 110111 their friends. Ilia Bill was calcus
listed to lessen the penalties inflicted on the lower
orders, by taking away the temptation to transgress
the law. It would be salutary iii preventing of-
fences, at least in preventing the excuse for offences.
lie was prrstnitled it would overthrew hire, the
moat crying abuse, the sak of game in int:outsiders
able country loans.
Mr.CURWEN ruse to oppose the Bill. lie be-
lieved it would be perfectly nugatory. or very
nearly so. lie trusted the House would pause be-
fore they added any more to the statutes on the
Came Laws, already u great evil, and not ut all
adapted to answer the end proposed by them, the
preset ration of the gunir. The Bill under con-
sidesatims might enhance the price of game, lint
that was the utmost tt would du. In a wvulti y

commercial contilry like this, gime might to l►e al-
lowed 10 CUMe to mark. t. The pia sent law guarded
the rights of wry-tenth of the landed proprietriri
of the country, and left the remaining nice-tenths
unprotected. The House should call to mind the
tram when the (Luise Laws were first enacted.
The lauded ...terra was then the leading our of
the country, but at this day it did nut constitute
more than the one-seventh part of its property. It
was impossible fur country gentlemen to protect the
game, without incurring the g►rratrst 011111111.
To his knowledge, the unpopularity produced
by attempting it, frequently drove men of ex-
cellent character out of the country. The ge.
'mend feeliin; of all orders was a deteitatioo
of all the Game Laws. The true mode to pre•
aerve the game would 1w to make it private pro-
perty, to give all proprietors ail interest in presets,-
mg it—that would create nine preservers where
they now had but one. Ile would go further and
say, that it ought to he made the property of the
occupier of the soil, except in case of an opposite
contract between him and the landlord. This would
convert tli t which was owe viewed very lightly
into a moral crime. Gaine should be made pru-
perty, and exposed for wile in every town of the
kingdom: The Bill went to establish the principle
of ripienage. and 'to make the servant a spy ou his
minister. If game were made properly, it would be
looked upon us motions to kill a partridge on another
larair's ground, as a turkey. The Bill would, fur
every reason, receive his decided opposition.
Mr. IBRANtS opposed the Bill, as a measure
meant to support and uphold the (lau►e Laws—a
system of laws at variance with even• principle of
nature, justice, property, and social right. It was
absurd and unequal in its eiractruents, and tended
to demoralise liar labouring' classes in the agricul-
tural districts. He had himself postponed the
troduction of a general radical remedy, till he
'Mould see something of the tour and trouper of the
House on a subject of such magnitude. The went
object he would have in view would lie, to get rid
altogether of that remitatit of frontal tyraiiiiy.—
He hoped that a Bill for the reviniii of the GAM.:
LAWS would 1)1. introduced :Dimwit as possible, more
particularly when it was considered, that wlthill the
present year not Irss than 1.100 persons had been
imprisoned for offences which these very Acts had
Miluced the lower orders to commit, It would lie
most desirable to equalise iti this respect the rights
of proprietors of laud, whrther great or small.
Mr. U. BARREN and dlr. BRAND explained.

Mr. LOCKHART reit there were strong objections
to the system of the Caine Laos. The law as It slow
blood shifted the punishment attendiog Sell poricliiirg
front the heads of the tempter to those or the
tempted. The discoverers of these sales of gallie
would, no doubt, he found to be the very parties who
had been engaged themselves in the side—some-
what like those persons employed its corrupting and
bribing the voters at use election, who were often
the first to give evidence before a Committee on the
scrutiny of an election, of the very offence of
bribery or perjury, which they had hero the
means of effecting by corrupt ulr,uts. He thought
the provisions ul this Bill altogether ineffectual,
and felt it his duty to state that at present lie
thought there was no decrease in game generally
throughout the country, and this lie could speak
to from ocular observation, havinir been for these
thirty years a sportsman himself. Ile hence
thought there was tin reason to prone. the gain*
Clinker than it was by the existing
Sir CHARLEI BUUREt.t. objected to the manner
which the returns of persons cosifined fur poach-
ing lord been made out, since they had included
ninny in confinement for other offences. But, ad-
mitting the represetitation to he true, he still cones.
unreel the number did not bear more thou a fair
proportion to the increasing number of person*
confined at this slay for other offences. It was not,
as had hero said, the law which induced verso's* to
poach, and thus uffriai against the law of the laird,
but the rich, who, for the.r own gratification,
irr-
dUced the poacher to violate the Game Laws. Ile
could have 11101.11ire11011 alinleVer to a law resukrisi
the owner and occupier of the land afro the pro-
pietor of the game thereon. lie thought this
would be a happy medium, and the fairer principle
to act upon. Ile very much reared the late tof the
Hill ill the present thin attendance of the lionse ;
lie therefore 1111 l serf the debate should be utljout tied
nob! Months). se' gist
WOOO objected to the Bill, which I.e
remarked was so arty different fruit; that wlitch lie
had last year introduced to the ilim.. Ile tratad
the poacher %Wild may lie encouraged by the
denial of this BM, to commit depreelailoris from the
eifellat.tuticr of the roust. of his plunder hereby tio;
r3illg a greaser price. lie would wish to see every
person enjoying their property ill this respect, as
each person thought hest. Some enclosure?,
then be carefully ineserveri fur purposes of spent,
a lidat others preserved game for pailtilbei.
The game would thus lose its fictitious ardor, roof
thurign a parttidge tuight thus he Fruitered aartls
no inure Ilion a pigeon', or a pheasant than a lon ti-
door fowl, there would not Ire one sportmittrii the
nor the pleasure of the spout be one oho ill-
ossoislied. No atilllist was lees salituble than tl.e
fox, )rt HO spurt Was more congenial to
Luolish-
men than rue-hunting.
111 r. CURWEN Rod Sir C. BURRELT. explained.

Mr. G. B•litiL3 neeetled to the stliouriffilelit of
the deliote until Monday bemoght. %hid' %%ay-
agreed to.

The House went into a Committee on the Coro-
nets' Election Bill, the Report was lotought
anal ordered to be recei.ed to-tuorroo.

The other Orders of the Day were then disputed
uf, and the Douse udjourtied.

Letter f Vienna, dried April II:—" Dr.
A SSMEY kI2, Professor of Chemistry in this city.,
lids amok the discrnery of ri inedos to Wilier froor
colds twit hitherto uakuuwttlichlp. • mom, 8 Ft.'
11110611gUill, sad other elements, which lie lois tut•
.
plot rd with surprising. Weevil; 20 i lapuse 01
11)ellg wool, I.llk, half, owl limo, 111141 22210 pro—
duced Irmo diem red, blavkr yellow, and various
sli.oles of llrowii still grt'l. (*mint VO9l CHO.
utnsKY. VI v 1.146411 of thr A (die Chsiolier, sod ruauv
other ri.lillitt.siv4l judge us tit, re mutters, Will
i.r.r.rtit at tlir.e e r 'wrist*, sod test:Aril theft
~l.l,rcltatLvtt of iiila useful cLocest.:4."

C903/4- LONDON,

THURSDAY. NAT 7, 1818.

We received last night Hamburgh Papers to the
Ist instant. The following extract bilvini that a
certain bottle conjuror is sonte how or other con-
necting himself with 'the expedition to the North
rule :--

ALTORA. APRIL 20.
A Indict has beta issued by oar High President, that the
Commanders of two British ships that are going oat fur the
purpose of discovering a passage frum► the Atlantic into
the Pacific Ocean, were ordered (that news might be
received hum them as often as possible) to throw out
bottles from time to time, tostsinisqg an *mount of the
state of the ships, and at the tame time a request drawn up
la several European languages, that the tinder would send
Ilse control■ immediately either to his owe Government, or
the Secretary of the Admiralty at Loadon. .1. W. Croker,
sad to add a remark of the time whim, Sad the plate where,
the bottles were pitted up.

Philadelphia Papers to the 4th last have been
received, and Charleston to the 47th of March.—
The following are eztracts:—

MARCII t 6.

The Aurora states, that Loral Cochrane a appended by
the Independent States of South America, Commodes. of
their anaadrou in the Pacific Oceau; that he has written
letters accepting the appointment, and is expected shortly
to assume the command.

THILADIMPRIA, APRI/I. 2.
The two Houses of Congress have determined to adjourn
on the ?Mb of April.
The Vire-President has retired from ibis Chair of the
S, new, and will, alter a day or two, take hip deportiire fur his
residence. A President, pro leinprre, will, of course, be
alected in the meeting of the Senate Ibis day.

We hove received Paris Papers of Sunday last.
The low of Finance, and that relating to the
1.66.111 for defraying the foreign debts, as adopted
by the Chamber of Deputies, were presented to
the Chamber of Peers in the sitting of the preced-
tag clay. They were ordered to be printed, with
the explanatory speeches of the Ministers who intro-
duced them. The Loan project was transmitted
t. 6 the bureau:. but that relating to the Finances
..a.1.-Ivrred immediately to a Spt..ial Committee of
►ctrq Peer..

•Fne Tribunal of Correctional Police has at length
di judgment ou M. FiEvvE, the isistlior of
14 %oat. esaitled. " Correspondence Pole-
tie's/ Atlministrotiee." The wink was declared
and he has beet) lemur(' to three
tivtistlv. ititiationirnent, a tine of SO franca, and, on
Ilse explrutiois of Ins imprisonment, to our )ear's
bur veilLitice ul the high police.
The Five per (.7ttits. are 68 f. 50 c. Batik Ac-
t 4,, I ,520 following are further extract.:

!AIM, MAY 3.
Yesterday, ha fore \lass, the Committee uf the Chamber
of Iteputies, cuuducted by his Excellency the Miuisirr uf
the luieriur, prevented bi the hum the projict of the law
adopted up the gireeediug day by the t bomb.,, relative te
tataUt.o 16,019,00 re uf redra for &filming the

foreign dells, and to opeitierein evn,lual er,dit of 24
wil-
Iwtu of reit/error the recite liberation of the ravnela territory.
The lefeet Den Frinseis de l'aulu arrived mt the 27th of
April at Reurdehutt, whetter hie Ruyal Highness departed on
the &Rowing day fur Madrid.

Leiters from Naples stair, his Majesty King CharleslV.
of Spain will fix his residence et Palermo.

General Buyer, Commandant of Guadeloupe, under Gene.
ral Limit, condemned to death in 1816, mid whose punish-
ment had been subsequently coionisted lu4wenly )ears. ins •
prnionnieul, has obtained from his :Majesty *total remission
of his sentence, by the generous intercession of his Royal
Higlinees the Doke of Aagouleme. fl General has been
set at liberty.

The popelation of Prussia marmata Now to 10,126,000,
over a surface of 4,869 squire auks. The county of Ran ems-
berg, in Westphalia, is the lame populous district. There
are competed to be $,64S souls to every square mile.

The Dispatches teceived by Government from
India were published yesterday in a Supplemental
Gazette, of which we g•ve a copy.

Yesterday the Duke of Volts( traussicted military
business with ilia. Panics IteuEsT at Carltou-
house.

Viscount CArnsiZAGli had • long audience of
the PRINCE REGENT yesterday.
Yesterday morning, soon after eleven o'clock,
the Prince of Hasse Hoosouto. in his General's
uniform. attended by Baron IYISTAGHTEN and
Count BELGIADE, left the Queen's Palace in •
Royal carriage and four, with out-riders, and
proceeded to ‘Vuolwich, where they arrived about
half-past twelve o'clock. His Serene Highness
was received on the Military Parade by General
MACLEOD, with a guard of honour, the band play-
ing God save the Kiag. His Serene Highness,
after iuspeciing the troops, which were drawn
out upon the occasion, was conducted through
the barracks, the stabling, and the riding-school ;
from thence he proceeded to the Barrack-yard,
where the troops were drawn out, mounted, in open
order, for the inspection of leis Serene Highness,
and went through the Horse Artillery manoeuvres.
Ills Serene Highness afterwards inspected the
Rocket Artillery, and the whole of the Royal
Arsenal. He left a little before five o'clock, and
arrived at the Queen's Palace at six o'clock, to
dine with her MAJISTY end the Perscuses.

Our letter from Dover, dated May S (Tues.
day), says—" The Lord Dawes packet, Captain
!lAN I mu, arrived yesterday from Calais, at t p. m.
with Ins Grace the Duke of IVELLINGTON and
smite, who proceeded for London an hour after ar-
rival.—The Kieg George packet, Captain KING,
also arrived at the same time, together with L'lris
French packet, and Lord Subtotals extra packet,
bringing dispatches, mails, &c. and a considerable
number of passengers, amongst whom were Ad-
miral FOLLY and family, Commissioner HAN.
lIOND and family, Lady LANNERT, Mr. MACE and
family, &c. &c.—The Princess Charlotte extra
packet, Captain HoLLowos, arrived last night
(ruin Ostend, in seven hours, with a mail, dis-
patches, and passengers.
" Sa►led this mor►►ing the Lord Aeneas extra
packet, Capt. PAscoE, with mail and passengers,
for Ostend ; lam, French packet, Iloru passage
vessel, and Susannah passage vessel, with the Hon.
Mrs. &mann and family, &c."
Foote Laws.—ln the proposed Bill intended to
be brought in by Mr. STuaGxa &MILNE, one al-
teration may be essentially useful in regard to perish
settlements--that none shall be established, as to

servitude, but from a continuance of three years in
the same place. This may induce the servant to
act with greater industry and fidelity to his master,
and may stop a number of those inconsiderate mar-
riages which servants enter into, without any means
of supporting a family, under an idea that the
parish must find them a residence.

Mr. THOMAS FLIGUIIOII is not the only person
who in Scotland hoe most improperly interfered in
Election*. A most flagrant instance iv recorded by
The Seoismdas. A Banker, of the name of Sir
JOHN thy. has written letters to several of the
Town Counsellors of the Borough of Peebles, two
of which have been published, addressed to Mr.
‘VILLI4II MUIRHEAD and Mr. JAPES BitowN.
MANUFACTORICS.—Macy children, who, from
bring defamed, or having weak constitutions, could
nut earn any thing fur their support by manual la-
bour out of doors, are yet able to obtain a sub-
sistence in a manufactory. but yet cannot rea-
sonably be expected to have healthy looks and rosy
complexions when there, from the very simple res•
sou of their not having had such looks before they
they went thither.

The Magistrates in the country have not thought
it good policy to refuse their certificates to persons
applying for passports to go to America, except in
the cases of artiviiiis or mechanics, as they found
the persons. generally speaking, were of a very worth-
less and desperate character who applied for the
license, and whom their owu country might easily
spare.

AORICOLTUag.—The appearances in many or
the Northern Counties is now truly curious. The
hinds sown with oats, from the late rams, have
sprung up most favourably, and wear it green and
healthy appearance ; while the wheats have been so
completely kept back by the late ungenial weather,
tbut the Flants ere yet scarcely visible.

BEVERLEY, l'ounnias.—The great Ilorse Fair
held there on Holy Thursday was not attended as
generally has been the case. The *hew of horses,
chiefly of the nag kiwi, was not good, and the at-
tendance of the London dealers out numerous ; iu
consequence there was a falling off in the price of
horses. Some part of this may be attributed to the
fair at Lincoln being held but a few days before,
where the buyers had obtained what they wanted
for the London market., and wine of the foreign
dealers had been round the country to obtaiu horses
some days prior to the fair at Beverley.

There win but a thin Corn Market at Norwich,
on Saturday, and very little alteration took place in
priers.—A la►ge ►hew of Scots and Hisniebrrols wav
exhibited oti the Hill, and tunny fat beasts, which
turnips ted their late price; vs did likewise the sheep,
01 which there was a large supply.
At North ll'alshain Fair, on Thornily, lean
stock fetched high prices, and fat brass shout
(iJ. per stone. Akw good horses mild dear.

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