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EXTE RNA L N E.C.J:SS,A, • 1 Li, TA
piYOR Ci-I.EST.EIFIELf) .piirtic,u4(tiV
. .
,
Cleanlincss,-not, only us necessary 'to but I
Sucqe.ss of oir fortunes in Life; and vi i
•so. siotlitill
complaint as any disease that has the lea, t to tile
.Scrofula, Indolence Will naturally .prevent eit4e,- of the sexes
from.protiti4 by this occollent observation.
„ERUPTIONS IN
The inconsistent doctrine. of tie,: -rho recommend
ternal AppliCatiphis for Internal gompl.iitnis., obviaed
the.thi towing .simplequestion : Will the filar which
to'the inside or a kettle, or bailer; be, removed.-by washing
xi:a:outside ? Tile'sione comparison flay be made respeelinj
the Truman frame : Can an complaint be rernovv4.7
.an external application.?-,• These q,iestturis‘are left to be an-
swercei by every Reader; which wili 4hew the ,ridiculotti
ness of inculcating this doarilie; while the
Dr. BRODU,M,,, -j3.0T41.14 evi.00,41
extraordiiia67 Carts that daily appar in tin:, l'ap-er.„T•tre:-
calarly ut cases of the above nature : Dr. Brodurn, as a regu-
. Jar. PhyZcian has been _known many years, and not as a
Nostrum Vender,' • His motive for publishing this invertie-
inent;—iertgretretivagoiewhisiMii4444.44a-tha.4l444Zr
that attends externals application, wiiich, to Ins knowledge;
. has:proved fatal to Many who have pla,'.:ed in it an .INkroltr
ccinfidwie. ••• .
A Naval 'Captain in the Inca Service., duriligAloirg-period
was afflicted with ir Lues Yen,:rea, which.he cOntra'Clectivhin
a ,Midshipman; the "coMptaint -is-consequence fell his
limbs, and the :ulcers it • o..,4asionett eNposed the bones,.to
-view ; by recommendation of a -Captain George, of
applied to Dr. Brodum; and in' thrive' was restorer,
but being apprener.siye of a return; as • he- was,iinmediatefy
obliged to sail for India,' he took with him a dozen bottle:
of his Botanical Syrup, from Which lie has experienced.rneic
sa i utary • etfeas. •
The -Botanical Syrup; 4110' Restorative Nervous Cordial,
to be had at the DoCtor's I-louse; Nd. §, Albion-strecti
bottles of il. afid js. 5(1. ; and by all i'l•i:ltersi
Booksellers, and Venders of Medicine; the United Knig=
dote, with prbper direetions. •
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tains equal to five small ones: •- • •
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as are at-Hided with Deafness or Loss of Sight; pr send their
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BATIps RESTORATIVE, oft STRENGTHENIN
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MAN! of the Friends of the 'att. SHURIIER
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,11Iedicine should be wade kno4Vn to the
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pecuniilry advantage to himself or. ; yet their inerifjs
so well known in the city and neighbourhood wherehe re,
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re aihicted with shortness of breath; and great reluctance to
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restore to the Blood its lost Crassamentnin; and taereby give
the bloom of Health to the palist 'Cheek.
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Stomach; the lost,tone of Which they speech lY restates; flioy
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promote Digestion : they have been found extreiriel'y effica-
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given tO Weakly Or kicke4)i C oldie a,. they rarely fail ef-
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Q PRiNG.-;.—Eveik Season influences
•
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system, Consumption, Astinna;Gout,. Rheumatism,
Apoplexy, Or those depioiable andoften incurable calamities,
Cancer al:41411e Evil, . take place, according to' the nature er
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Disorders, a scorhutic and. scrofulous habit,. the VEGE-
TA/ILE SYRUP of DE VELNOS has been long success..
tul beyond all • just competition and rivalship aad Mr.
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elK..ctual use a ttie-Vegerable Syrup in Alt he_cases for which
it is recoinmended. • • .
_ _ _

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MINERAL PASTE TEETH, WITH OR WITHOUT

GUMS.
DISS ER T A 'NON on ARTIFICIAL
TEETH in GENERAL ; pointing out the, Defo.ts
and injurious consequences of all Teeth made of Animal
Substances, the corruptibility-and danger of which are now
fully acknowledged by the Faculty ; and demonstrating the
superior advantages of Teeth made of an incorruptible Mine-
ral Com positio
By M. DUBOIS DECREMENT,
Late Surgeon at Paris, bat now naturalized, and residing at
No.:, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
Th4oliscovery has been sanctioned by the Faculty and
Royal Society of Medicine, by the Academies of Sciences
and Surgery, consigned in the 377th page of the Second Vo-
lume of the French Encyclopmdia.
The MINERAL TEETH are also recommended by some
of the most eminent of the Faculty in London, as superior,
in every point of view, to those of Ani!....11 Substances.
The success which has attended r:lis Disc,very, and the
confidence which the Author has obtained, w•Lre
his princ~-
pal motives for publishing this Treatise) and for detaihn
those facts, which have convinced him of the dznger arising
from file use of dead Human Teeth, or other Animal Sub-
stauces, and of the superiority of Teeth made of Mineral
Substance. _ _

In further testimoiii of the utility and importance of this
Discovery, His MAjesty his been pleased to grant his Letters
latent.

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1111PERIelL PARLL4MENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

MONDAY, MAY 24..

PREVIOUS to Prayers being read, their Lordships
went into a Committee of Privileges, on which
occasion the Strangers were ordered to withdraw ;
we are therefore precluded from stating what took
place.
After Prayers were read, Strangers were re-ad.
mitted: and soon after theßoyal Assent was given,
b.); Commission, to the Mutiny Bill, the Marine
Mutiny, the Irish Indemnity, the Post Horses
Farm Duty, and the Militia Pay Bill, together with
34. Bills of a private...or local description.
The Lords Commissioners on this occasion, were
the LORD CHANCELLOR' Lord WALSINGHAM' and
Lord ALVANLEY.

The Sugar Duty Drawback Bill, and the Irish
Coasting Trade Bill, were brought up from the
Commons by Mr. ALEXANDER ; as were also a
number of private Bills, by Mr. FANE, General
GASCOTNE, Mr. DICKENSON, and other Gentle-
men.

The Bills upon the Table were read in their re-
speCtive stages, and the Bills newly brought up from
the Commons, were respetively read a first time:
Lord HOBART moved, that the Militia Regula-
tion Bill, which was on a former day brought up
from the Commons, and printed for the use of their
Lordships, be read a second time on Wednesday
next, and that the Lords he summoned for that day.
The Duke of NORFOLK expressed his wish to
know if it were intended by Government to con-
tinue the Volunteer Corps.
Lard HOBART replied, that there was a Bill in
its progress through the other House of Parliament
relative to the subjett adverted to by the Noble
Duke ; but observed, that the Bill then before their
Lordships had no sort of reference to the Volunteer
Corps.
The Earl of CARNARVON contended, that it
was an important question to be resolved, and with
a reference to the subjec4• regularly before the
House ; as, by the Bill, it was proposed to aug-
ment the Militia force to double the number usually
kept, up in time of Peace, and all Members of
Volunteer Corps were exempted from serving in
the Militia.

Lord HOBART repeated, that all he could say
was, that the subje6l alluded to was by no means
before the House. There was, as he observed, a
Bill in its way through the other House, which
was introduced by a Member of His Majesty's
Government ; and if Noble Lords wished to learn
the intention; of Government upon the subjett, the
best thing he could advise them, was to endeavour
to see the Bill he had alluded to.

The question was then put, on which the Mili-
tia regulation Bill was ordered to be read a second
time on Wednesday, and the Lords to be summoned
accordingly.
Some private business was disposed of, (in the
course of which one of the Appeals was fixed for
hearing on the 21st of June), after which the House
adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, MAY 24..

The Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House to the
House of Peers to hear His Majesty's Commission read.
The SPEAKER, attended by several Members went to the
House of Peers ; and, on his return, informed the House that
the Royal Assent had been given by Commission to the
Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge Annuity Bill, the Mutiny
Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, and seve-
ral private Bills.
Mr. IRVINE, from the Customs presented Accounts of
the quantity of Oak Timber, &c. imported.—Ordered to
lie on the Table.

Mr. MONT A GU, from the 'Chamberlain's Office'of the
City of London, presented several Accounts, which were
also ordered to lie on the Table.

Mr. By RDON gave notice of his intention to move on Wed-
nesday to refer the Report of the Committee felative to Life
Boats to the Committee of Supply.
Mr. N. VANSITTART brought up a Bill for consolidating
the provisions of the Act respecting the sale of the Land
Tax, and making further provisions for the same ; which
was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on
Thursday, and to be printed.
Mr. N. VANisiTrART also brought up the Auction Duty
Bill ; which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a
second time on Wednesday, and to be printed.
Mr. TIERNEY moved for an Account of the net amount
of the permanent Taxes of Great Britain, for the year ending
the sth of January 18oz, distinguishing each quarter.
Ordered.

The Clergy Non Residence Bill was re-committed ; and
having passed through 'the Committee, the Report was re.
ceived, and ordered to be taken into further consMeration on
Monday next, and the Bill to be printed as a►nended.
The Alien Bill was read a second time, and committed for
to-morrow.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee relative to making Provision for Additional Salaries
to the Officers of the Police OtfiLes, which was read and
agreed to ; and an Instruction ordered to the Gentlemen ap-
pointed to bring in the Police Bill, to make provision fur the
same.

Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Irish Loan
Bill, which was read and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to
be read a third time to-morrow.

Mr. CORR Y brought up the Irish Militia Subaltern Bill,
which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time to-morrow.

Mr. N. V ANSITTAKT brought up a Bill fbr altering the
Period of making up the Public Accounts, which was read a
first time, and ordered to be read a second time to.morrow.

Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Refined
Sugar Bounty Bill, which was read and agreed to, and the
Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

The I rash National Debt Bill passed through a Committee.
Report to-morrow.

IRISH YEOMANRY CORPS.

Mr. WICKHAM said, that in moving for a Bill
to enable His Majesty to accept of the services of
certain Yeomanry Corps in Ireland, the objed of
it being so similar to one of the same nature in this
country, he thought it unnecessary to make many
remarks upon the subject. The exertions of the
Yeomanry Corps in Ireland were entitled to the
highest praise ; they had come forward with arms
in their I,ands, to repel Foreign Invaders, and to
crush domestic foes, and in both contests had equally
displayed their loyalty and their courage. The
Bill proposed was similar to one formerly passed in •
the Irish Parliament ; its object was to enable His
Majesty to continue the services of certain Corps,
according to the circumstances of the country, and
to establish regulations for colleding and securing
the arias of those Corps who were disembodied,
He concluded by moving for leave to bring in a
Bill to enable His Majesty to accept and continue
the services of cemin Troo;,s ur Companies of Yeu-
manry in Irdanci.—Leave given.

Mr. WI eKFIA.M shortly arterwards brought tip
the Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered
to be read a second time on Wednesday.

BULLDAITTY,C.

Mr. DENT moved the second reading of the
Bullbaiting Bill.
Sir R. HILL seconded the Motion. He wished,
he said, to be the advocate of these poor friendless
beings who could not help themselves, and who, in
common justice and Humanity, were entitled to
protection. He then read two or three Extracts
from Newspapers, being relations- of Bullbaits that
had taken place in different parts of the Country ;
also an opinion .of Sir Matthew Hale, relative to
the treatment of the Brute Creation, which he found,
he said, in a Shrewsbury Paper, but who Sent it
there he could not tell. He proceeded to- read
some letters he had received upon the subjea—one
,from the Magistrates of Shropshire, condemning
the pradice of Bulibaiting. It was impossible, he
said, to conceive the mischief which, arose from
this practice in the county which he had the
honour to represent. This Bill was the begin-
ing of a system of Humanity and Peace, and
whatever Gentlemen might think of Peace, he
hoped they would not objed to a Definitive Treaty
between the Dog and the Bull ; he hoped the divi-
sion would be as strong in favour of it as it was in
favour of the Definitive Treaty between this
Country and France, which had been received in the
Country with the greatest applause and satisfadion.
He thought the pradice of Bullbaiting was dis-
graceful to Humanity : it had been said on a former
occasion, that it served to create a manly charaCter ;
but a great number of Bulls were killed in this way
in Spain, and were the Spaniards rendered more
manly ? And, it was to be observed, that in that
Country Bulls were baited in a manly way, not as
here, where they were tied in a cowardly manner to
a stake, and prevented from fighting properly for
themselves. He professed himself a warm advo.
cate for the Bill.

Mr. WIND HAM said, he thought better grounds
ought to have been established in support of such a
Bill as that now before the House. However
ludicrously it might be argued, it was a serious
thing that the House should be occupied with such
a subject r.t ,the present moment, when the
eyes of all Europe were upon them, when they
were settling the great work of Peace, and all the
important concerns attached to it—at this period,
under the pressure of all these immense concerns,
they were found occupied with the • subject of
Bullbaiting. Europe might naturally, ask, was the
subject of such great importance, of such vast mag-
nitude as to, require this immediate attention ?
the very reverse of this was the case. The practice
of Bullbaiting was nothing different to what it
had been for too() years past ; and so far from
growing with our growth, it was lessening with
our growth, and if they did not make haste to
abolish it, it would he at an .end before they
could interfere : so much was it disurd, that the
people of Norwich could not recoiled more
than two Bullbaits in the course of twenty years,
and he believed it was very much the case all over
the kingdom ; nay, if any one had asked him
,two
or tlaree years since, he should have said it was
totally gone. He was sorry to see a first ice grow-
ing up, of legislating upon every trifling occasion,
and it was a great objection to the present measure,
that it tended to increase the number of penal sta-
tutes. Every penai law necessarily implied a re-
straint ; it was not merely this, however, but it
could not be carried into execution without allow-
ing to those who executed it a great deal of dis-
ctttion, and wherever this was the ease there. would
be some abuse of that discretion. When this sub-
ject was brought forward before, it would niost
probably have passed sub silentio had not he stirred
a discussion upon it ; but he thought the House
should abstain from legislating where there was no
genial soil for them to work in. It was well
known, that a thing seen 'through a microscope and
by the naked eye did not appear to be the same thing.
The Hon. Baronet, in detailing some transactions
relative to Bullbaiting, had put the eye of the
House as it were into a microscope, through which
they viewed the bull and the dog, and were then
ready to cry out by acclamation. for the abolition
of Bullbaiting. It they were to do this, however,
in one instance, let them do it in others; the Same
arguments might be applied to hunting,- coursing,
and shooting ; and if they were to view the one
with the naked eye, do not let them view the other
with a magnifying glass. The House should see
things on a large scale, and use a glass that would
take in a good deal at once. If human beauty was
contemplated with the eye, it was calculated to in-
spire love and admiration, but if it was seen through
a magnifying glass, by which every unevenness of
surface was represented in the most coarse manner,
and every hair magnified into a hog's bristle, it
would excite nothing but disgust and horror. In
this way they seemed to look at this praCtice of
Bullbaiting, or else he really thought it was im-
possible they could go into the discussion of such
an outrage upon every principle of equity as the
present measure. He considered this as the first
step of a design to make what was called a reform
in the manners of the common people ; men who
early in life wished to reforth the Constitution, and
if they had succeeded, we should have had at the
present moment no Constitution left, now engaged
in a design to reform the manners of the people.
Some of the parties to thiS design he must consider
as equally descended from the Puritans of old, and
he must divide them into Methodists and Jacobins.
There were many marks that indicated their common
ancestry ; none were more inimical than the Puritans
to the sports of the common people, to what theycalled
lewd sports, aid Antichristian pastimes, and it was
well known they made this the badge of their order.
The MethodiSts wished to give co the people of this
Country -a more grave and sober character, and to
abolish all boisterous sports: against this design he
formally protested, They would destroy the social
character of the people, and transform them into
sour morose beings ; in short, I into those kinds of
characters, which might be described under the name
of Puritans. They trod in the same steps as the
Puritans of old, to whom nothing was so abomi-
nable as these sports, anti the reason of their hos-
tility was doubtless this, that these sports ien.

dered their minds wholly unfit for their'4 s.
He believed it would be found, that, arreelg'r he
the classes of Society, that where they Inade
ir,
. least progress was, where it might be supposed, t
17d
would makes the greatest, namely, the lower a
labouring .class. in this case the Nletlindists hat
la
the advantage, they worked with harder tools: :t
by that Means were the better enabled to break-4,
the hard soil which they had to encounter. -wea
Jacobins and the Methodists both Wished to
the people from those kinds of sports.; the vt
lists say, read ; agreed, say the facobins
they hive read, we can get them to read the Ki.,ti
of 'Man ; both wished to destroy the old Eogllsi,
eharader. These political fanatics were eclua.i
inimical. to the.sports of the people ; and he &tin%
believe that a single Bulibaiter or Boxer was r
he found in the whole Corresponding Soc ie
They did not look for those who partook in snt
cYI;
kind of sports to join in overturning monarchy
and aristocracy ; they liked an austere gi°°'ll
chaiencter, one who was continually brOc.)Lbog
venge in his own mind, because he was discontent'
ed with his situation. it might be suppnsf
that, the Methodists were hostile to the la;
cobins because they had religion, which t.lll
Jacobins had not, yet there were two ways
which apparently, opposite principles might meet'
either by remote approximation; or by some or"
cumstances which might cause them to assio'iiareihr;
thus, though hot and cold water appeared ,„
dissimilar to each other, yet the contaa of c°'.;*:
ai
would cause them to assimilate. The iVlethou'"
to
therefore, though not Jacobins, were most likely
become so ; to ,iiscover the difference between c- 3
lain cheeses, it had been sometimes observed: ler
mouse make his choice and he would chose tho
best—so let a Jacobin Missionary go into a I°` n 3
he would pass .by the Bullbait at the corner/ 3.-c
proceed to the house of some gloomy metodi.
It might be urged that those who attended Ballbalte
and became accustomed to tormenting animals weerr
prepared for other cruelties, the contrary hQwe,;,,ir
was the case. Let them on the other hand 11% rviee
eyes on the gloomy, conceited, self sufricient
thodist. It was stated in the life of Bloomfield) v‘og
had been a shoemaker, that whilst he worked Aoilc
with several others he was employed to real! t„
newspapers ; he then attended a debating se"lac:::
What then was to be the substitute for these an',°',4
;Lents which it was wished' to abolish, rea"/';P
Newspapers and attending Debating Socierlelo;
Those who:thought it would benefit the 013111,"ue
people to turn them into politicians,' would fv'be
the Bill. He could not favour the change ; lettrj
lower orders of the people keep their sports' "to
the higher classes conduCt the business of the Sra-of
He could not help adverting to the impossibilitYass
bringing these topics before the House ; to dise.o
such a subjeCi as the present took up as much 11,1 d
as the most important ; but this was the fau,',of
those who brought it forward ; for when :"1,05
became romantic ..they must bait it. There, ape
an argumeatum bm m ine, which he 113°5,"0
ply to the Mouse ; there was- an old saying: Iji" to
aught:
whose house was made of glass ought of to
begin to throw stones, and he thought they
to be as careful as if the House was tilled witi,;,Parl
lon glasses. A Sermon had got into his 113° -,./ear
the subjett of Bullbaiting, in which it was ob6ce`hruto
that those who contributed to the torture or, the •
animals, would be perfedly ready to sheati'eres.
sword in the warm vitals of their fellow create for
If this was the case, they were in a bad %113Y'theyr
they were all tormentors of animals. Were -and
prepared to declare hostility against Huntiog'oee
Shooting ? Surely no man would set up as at
rciSe
My to Hunting, which had been a favourite esed to
from the most remote ages, and which had
inspire the imagination of so many poets. "p
flet
they infer that cruel sports made a cruel peopt of
could not infer it : cruelty was not -the 0b.1e,L4.
Hunting or Shooting, neither was, it of Bullbaitoot.l
They found a pleasure in Hunting and Shooting',te
why; should they not allow the people to find a ple"esr,
in Bullbaiting ? The pleasure Was in the CO; to
and why might •not the Bullbaiter be aliWe ,to
exult in the skill of. his Dog, as'a
take a pride in the speed of his Greyhound/ °was
the qualities of any other animal ? Bullbaiting
• formerly the amusement of the higher orderl'tar
Queen Elizabeth and her Court had been preset or,
a Bullbait : it was now gone down to the lowe'cone
ders, but could that make any difference ? hitt],
side-ring such a subjed as the present, he held
self bound to look at all the points conne6teriiirlze
it ; but his lion. Friend, the Member for cop'
shire, overlooked all the Horse-races in that Ificao
ty. With respea to Horse-races, he had 9° Joe
an opinion of them, that he would not degrade., 045
ing by a comparison with it. Bullbaiting' ~05$
said, threw a place into confusion ; but here scOOA
Horse-race that threw a whole County' int°, the
fusion—no business could be done, nor eouli`stedt
weary traveller procure a bed whilst the Race '3oo°
whilst a shoal of every description of Pei Aoci
crowded the course, and a scene of ganlbrlirtot4-
dissipation took place, but not a single usertilieo3l'
was to he drawn from it. The Hon. Genres it'
had, however, leaped over nine Horse-rae fle
Yorkshire, to reach a Bullbait in Staffordshits.ss
could not consent to take from the lower claic
people every amusement they enjoyed ; let o's
seen what their amusements were : they tro tit
eve-
off from all intelleftual pleasure, and eves Ir°, 04:
gratification arising from change of place 7,.q,
'could not hunt or shoot, give balls or dinnec.floo
Pic Nics ; they could not
raising the whole country, for no P"irjorg'ar':
ever more alarmed- at the sound of an.' of
than some Magistrates were at the sown the/
fiddle, unless it was at an assembly' whe.ret t
't- re
were present ; surely then, the people °°l ist.r
tic
,to be grudged the only amusements "P,' t
ers let
left them. He objected changing the mann ent
even dance %yr', OS
A to t
people in this way, which could only ten—, to jacga
them stupid and sottish, and drive them 'l:,:ieltr
ch
bin Clubs. He thought there- was less c" for bore
Bullbaiting than in Any other amusement' re. in tor
the Bull and the Dog experienced a Ple3sue crone
contest. That Bullbaiting tended 10 r7O reoi
or ferocious mariners, he denied ; there weblr ,
t'''
, ,rs
• 3
tole more loyal or orderly than the inh ej
Stamford, where Earl WARREN was lgek
a sort of Patron. Saint, for i-iaving instiulte“°

• .
att in /hat town. strt belleVed.Bu'llbaitieg hia re_
otained, in a great measure, as a mark -of hostility
be
the Puritans ; if so, they evotild of course
,e eager rs, get rid of it. If they meant humanity,
let
them begin ss ith themselves,; he thought it
as impossible they could abolish Bullbaiting, and
eave hunting, shooting, and other amusements un-
teuched ; let him who was innocent throw the first;,
4l'ne• Suppose the praCtice of Bullbaiting had •
il
preva
.13 ed arming the higher classes ; suppose it
.had
een fashionable, and had been' frequented by fine ;
"'use
as well 'as any other amusement, ivould the . 1
"'use consent to abolish it ? He should be shocked
and scandalized if a •distieCtiOn was drawn in this
case between the amusements of the higher and the
owerchesses. TheY tnight imagine some Corpor-
a wife saying to her husband, "my dear,• just
after you went out with the hounds, I went to the
end Of the town apd there was a 13ullbaiting,
It frightened me terribly. I wish you would
'Peak to our Member. to -bring it forward 'in
the House ;" perhaps this might be the • origin
some measures that were proposed in that House.
e trusted the House, Would not consent to
Plunge the people in a wide waste of gloom, by
taking away their amusements.; to cut off their
'"asements was enough to Jecobinize a whole
neighbourhood. He repeated, that these sports did
`)t make cruel men ; it was not Country Gentle_
,I4en Partaking of the sports of the Field, who were
eagtr to embark in the cruelties of the French Re.
volution, but plauSible specious men, who had no
eneern in those 'sports ;. razors set in oil. He
il Yed if this measure was to pass, that they would"vcnsistently follow it up by a Bill for the abolition
(/' the amusements of the remaining classes of. the
PeaPle.
211 r. COURTEN iIY , in his usual manner, entered
tv4!° an ironical defence of Bullbaiting. He began
conjuring the House 'not to deprive the People
;an amusement which not only yielded them infi-
Ite pleasure,. but also contributed so essentially 'to
es
Ze welfare of the State. The Right Hon. Gentlema
b,° spoke before him, had proved that Bullbaiting
ad not only been the great means of keeping down
cubjnism,, Methodism, and dangerous plans of
,tbrmation but had even been the bulwark clout
"'eullstitution, and had enabled us to recruit those
"ti'rftlies which had preserved our liberties and ex-
tbstel'e)? as a Nation. Who then would dare to say,
bait. -ought to be abolished ? • But Bull.
ring was'not only produCtive cf infinite use and
f",usement to the SpeCtators ;--,his Right Hon.
end had proved, from Locke, .that the Bull,
toc'eugh• smarting under it at first, in time also came
ta.ue extremely delighted with the pradice. This
we ht be proved from the analogy of Bears, who
ere to be trained to dance. • At first they, no
he°llhts felt rather uncomfortable on the hot iron,
bY degrees, they came to relish the sound of the
'Lit:, and to find dancinga very agreeable amuse-
t tilts He said, that after these considerations, he
e,(ll,uld by no means consent to pass the present Bill,
ditch
hael been praVed to be little better than the
otath-Warrant of our Constitution, and the ruin bf
tuli and Dog amusement. But besides the plea.
ties of these classes of the brute creation, he
tjtlce,*.lit there was a elass of luaiis.an beings who
let also to be considered. It was to be fecal..
11,t-t
that the Ex. Ministers had now no battles,
tui no scope fur the activity of thei
I)4it't`.l.si • except the solitary armiseiteent of Bull. f
ngs Was it fair to deprive them of this Nee.
thou If the present Bill was to, be passed, lie
111 got it at•least fair that some particular Distria
ote
7isee`'. De exempted from .its. restrictions, that to
ttt e
Place the• Ex-Ministers and their friends might
ineites and stilt, by the noble practice of Bullbait-
'44 alive' the ancient spirit of our country:.
Bullbaiting was,a Royal sport ; our Kings
is( aP.Proved of it : Henry VII. alone had thought
bee!, Jiteobinicat diversion, and had aCtually corn-
btit eel a dog to be hanged for attacking a lion ;
seas Ch's sentence' plainly arose from prejudice. It
wrongOng to accuse the lovers of this sport of be.
11.,1 given to Creeity ; for his Honourable Friend
lilt Il.ewo the Bull was not always killed outright,
Pee °'ten ,reserved to future baitings ; and was not
tee:,l,l4lg his life for this purpose an act truly
tictlelitu,l Tiflis Country, he said, ought to be par.
de, ariY careful to prevent the extinction of Bull-
te'ti, as these animals bore a particular 'resemblance
if this surly Countenance of John Bull himself ; and
done- picture of the national charaCter were once
Of 0 away, he had-no doubt that a total dereliCtion
national chatatter would speedily
tnes
only e accounts lie' should therefore vote, not
Ive,:irr the preservation of Bullbaiting, hut he
the also beg leave to propose an amendment for
leeeudenefie of its noble defenders. As the Corsican
for ~!)f‘ Bulls was reckoned particularly adapted'
tho " d
be as sport, he, would propose that some of them
oellu got over ; and of these, the most fe-
'to ti [night be called Bonaparte, and appropriated
Ek distria he formerly, alluded to, where the
ti4;4"r'istees might have an opportunity of baiting
trustwith dogs of the true EngliSh breed. He
is,•ol,,,dis therefore, that as .Bullbaiting had been
4141' 60'conducive to the happiness of both the hue
Are and ' brute creation, and so essential to the
!e4ervation of our constitution, our national cha-
fe morality, the House would never consent
4,17101 so invaluable a practice.l,ets C#O,SPENOR thought that the lower or-
.ere as well entitled to amuse themselves at
teleealting, as the lei her ranks to amuse there.ll.4
e;:i(1:1-Lh. Horse.racing, and other fashionable
(•e's
4tkut.erai 9.ISCOYNE thought, that too much
ilaier I" -,had. been bestowed on a subjea of this
e' It had been found impossible
even for its
e citellders
treat it in such a manner as not to
,laughter.
'ad e" •I•1-ERFORCE allowed that the subject
thou teen treated- with too much levity ; but he
the tgont.it merifed more attentive consideration. if
1/%Ptie!'ea°re°3(liteire!ts .which had been attributed to it
eav produced by Bullbaiting, why not move
IVas et it rendered more general i But the truth
13t44. 'very .
1) ice 11.. argument employed to defend the
se b had neon merely palliative.. Mere opinions
f been 'to tatecl- to Jove that it was nowise hurt..
It fo 41°ralitY • b
stered _ et for his own part, he thought
Nate every bad and barbarous principle of our
„sand
.he . :meas.aorry that Any one so respeaabie'

hisllight liOn. Friend, had been found to defend
it. He was certain if that Hon. Gentleman or any
other Member of the House had inquired into the
subjeCt as minutely as himself,he Would no longer de-
fend a prat-lice which-Could be proved to degrade-hu-
man nature to a levelwith the most ferocioug brutes.
He said his evidence was derived from respeCtable
Magistrates, and other evidence, into the validity of
which he had minutely inquired, and found unex-
ceptionable. From such evidence he liadderived
variety of facts, which were too4ong and almost too
,horrid to detail to the House. A Bull, that honest,
.harmless, useful animal, was forcibly tied to a stake,
and a number of • Bull-dogs' set upon him. .11 his
natural 'want of ferocity prevented him from being
sufficiently' roused by the pain of their attacks, the
most barbarous expedients were fallen upon .to
"awake in him that fury which was necessary to the
amusement of the inhuman spe&atots. One instance
of the latter kind he could state from the best autho-
rity : a Bull had been bought for the sole purpose
of being baited ; but upon being fixed,:ro the stake,
he was found Of so mild a nature, that, all *the attacks
of the Dogs were insufficient to excite him to the re,
quisite degree of fury ; upon which those who had
bought him, reftised to pay the price to the original
owner, unless he could be made to serve this purpose.
The owner, after numberless expedients, at lastssawed
off his horns, and poured into them a poignant Fort •
of liquid, that quickly excited the animal to the
wished-for degree of•furl`r. This was not the most
savage expedient that had often been pratlised.—
When Bulls were bought merely for the
.purpose of
being baited, the people Who bought their, wished
ro have as much diversion (if diversionasuch cruelty
could be called) as possible, for their money. The
consequence was, that every art, even fire had been
employed to rouse the. exhausted animal to fresh
exertions, till there were instances where he
had expired in protraCied agonies amidst the
flames. It had been said,' that it would be wrong
to deprive the lower orders of their amusements,
of the illy cordial drop of-life which supports them
under their complicated burdens. " Wretched in.,
deed,',' said Mr. WILBE4IFORCE, " must be the
conciition of the common people )f England,- if we
suppose that their whole happiness consists in the
praffice of such barbarity. Such supposition is a
satire, not only on the name of Englishmen, but on
the Creator who formed reasobabie creatures with
such barbarous propeOsities. Of all the arguments
even invented by jacobinitln to prove the wretched
state of the lower orders, his surely is the strong-
est, if the only enjoyment of the cotnmon people of
England is derived from the praCtice of Bullbaiting.
It has been said that this praftice contributes to
keep alive the martial ardour of the nation. But
has it not been proved, by experience, that the
greatest, the noblest, the most renowned charac-
ters have always been the most humane ? When
we consider that the vielina of this inhuman amuse_
Rent is'not left to the free exertion of his natural
pOlvers, but bound to a stake; and baited with ani- •
mals instinctively his foes, and urged by acclama-
tion to attack him ; are we net forced to conclude
that the praaiee is inconsistent with every manly
principle, cruel in its designs, and cowardly in its
execution ? No man is more unwilling than lam
to encroach upon the amusements of the lower or-
ders.; on the contrary, I wish to rescue them from
the ignominious reproach cast upon them, that they
are so ignorant and so debased as to be fit only to
enjoy the base and cowardly amusement of torment-
ingan harmlessand fettered animal todeath. It would
rather be my objell to call my Countrymen to amuk-
ments more worthy of their nature, more worthy of
the generous charatier of Englishmen. But it has been
sated that the present Bill ought not to be passed
without also preventing Shooting, Hunting, -and
every other attack on the inferior animals. Sup-
pose these diversions to he equally inhuman, would
not the admission of this argument infer, that ritl
vice is to be abolished because all of the same

species cannot at once be'done away ? But it is by
no means proper to place the diversions of Shooting
and Horse-racing on a footing with Bullbaiting.-,
Shooting affords exercise to the body, and the birds
who fall by it are subjected to' no pain beyond
mediate deprivation of life., In Horse-racing, two
generous animals, without almost any compulsion,
exert their speed againt each other, and return froM
the course with small abatement of spirits or vigour.
But Builbaiting not only excites the natural passions
of the animal for the amusement of the spedators, but
also subjetts it to the most inhuman cruelties, till it
sinks under the pressure of its complicated-iniseries."
Mr. WILIttRFORCE then proceeded to consider
the arguments of Mr. WIN,DEAM. He said it was
easy to dress up a meoPhysical picture in one's.
closet, till the author Was led" to admire the image
of his own creation. But if instead of such re,
finementS, we attend to the voice of common sense,
we should be convinced that no happiness could re-
sult from a praCtice so cruel, base, and unjust ; that
no pleasure could be derived from wantonly tortur-
ing the
.brutes which were given us, not for such
baibarous purposes, but for our use and pleasure.
Without such an amusement, the common people of
England had surely a sufficient number of innocent

•
amusements, in their festivals, their gambols, their
athletic exercises. His Right Hon. Friend, while
picturing the happineiS derived from Bullbaiting, had
forgot that it was confined to an individual, while
his wretched family, excluded from any participa-
tion of the siedacle, were condemned to feel the
want of that money which he squandered away on
such occasions. After all these considerations, he
concluded that we must look upon. the praftice of
Bußbaiting as destructive to the true happiness and
morality of individuals, and consequently the ge...
neral good of society.

Mr. WILLIAM SMITH said,. he never heard
arguments of a wilder or inure eccentric nature than

those which had been urged iii,favour of the prac-
tice of Bullbaiting. Would thoF who defended the
Slave Trade venture to assert tliesame principles
with regard to the Planters that were now asserted
with regard to the Governatent ? Would they say,
that the Masters had no right to re,irain their
Slaves from spending the night in any debaucheries
that might unfit them for the labour of the next

day.-? lie therefore thought it absurd to 3ay that
Government were not entitled to interfere with any
amusement of the people, provided it wasit,ot found
to he of pernitiouseauseluences. 11 the common yeti.

pie or this Country were capable. of relishing no
amusement but Bullbaiting, they were arrived at, a
state of debasement beyond what'he could have con-
ceived. But he was convinced_ this svi9 not thecase,
ea' se, but that it:e'abolition of so imilirmaian a prac-
tice'would be every Where approved all ranks
of people.
Mr. NEWBOLTspolceishOrtly in ravour of the
Bill : he denied that any of those instances deed by
the Hon. Member who opposed the Bill, bore any
comparison with the pradice in question. He did
not consider the prohibition as drawing in Principle,'
any. line of distindion between the rich acid the
poor; and he would support the Bill, principally
because the pradice it went to suppress, tended to
disgrace the national charades.
Mr. F R ANKL AND spoke at considerable length
against the Bill, He expressed his opinion that
all thOse Gentlemen who had argued in support of
,the measure, had entirely mistaken the principle
upon which the amusement in question proceeded,
as. well as the motives and objets of those who en-
gaged in it, and he deprecated what be seemed to
consider the too frequent and- unjustifiable appeals
which were made to the passions of the House on
the occasion. He 'contended, that if the amusement
involved, in anydegree, the praCtiCe'Of cruelty, it
was not induced, by those who participated in the
sport, for the sake of cruelty. In some points of
view,' the amusement of Horse racing may alSo be
termed cruel ; there was not a year in which num-
hers and•nuMbers were not killed in that sport; but
as Horses were a lively and spirited animal, he was
inclined to think the amusement in no sense a cruel
ope.—So might it be said of that most magnificent
of all the Sports of the Field, Stag-hunting—the
animal, in that case, was fed and pampered previoos
to the chaceo not with a reference to its future
torture, but that it might yield the greater sport--
the animal oftls.n, necessarily, loSt h:s life in the
chace—its heart was what was called broken: did
this Gentleman think much a process could take place
without producing great agony ?—the Hounds often
fastened on his' chest, and tore him to pieces :—and
yet such a pradice entirely escaped the humanity of
the Legislature. This was not all, the practice
was even regulattd by -Legistlative orovisions, by
ie operations of someparts,of the .Game Laws.—
The principle on which this Bill seemed to proceed
would go to libel, and.iirthe most, calumnious man-
ner, t!se most exalted eharat ters in the Country :
would 113 t even stop at Royalty itself, as the
manly sport of hunting was-indulged in by the
Sovereign, and for which a regular establishment
was laudably kept. With a degree of warmth and
occasionally exhibiting a vein of sportive hpmour
which excited much risibility,. the Honourable
Gentleman delivered his sentiments againt the Bill ;
and speaking of the praftice of Bollbaiting, on
which he necessarily dwelt at most length, he' stated
that he'over and over and over and over again had
opportunities of witnessing that none of the cruel-
ties imputed to the pradiee, at least in that degree
alledged, and certainly not from the motives im-
puted, had taken place. With resped to the
various Petitions which had been presented, many of
those he had 'seen were verbatim the same, and there
appeared to him a great similarity. With respect to
the signatures, there were however a profusion of
Mollys amid Jennies among them. How these,
whom an Hon. Baronet calledthe,an„ael part of the
species, but which he called the most delicate, came
so to interest themselves, and come forward oh such
an occasion, he could not tell, but he hoped no per-
son had so unmannedosor so unsexed themselves as
to assume those chratters. It was impossible the
Bill could pass' in its present shape : the assumption
that the pradice of Bullbaiting had: increased,
was false. He seemed to think with the Right
Honourable Gentleman who Opposed the measure,
that the National Charades was implicated in it.
It was the encouragement ,given to such manly
sports, and invigorating exercises, that made us
what we were. He expatiated on the virtues of the
4nglish Bull-d0g...741)e People, and the Animals of
this Country, were -of a peculiar cast, and cha-
rades, both original and excellent in their kind ;
and animals,. as we learn from antient writers, as
well as we possibly might observe from personal
experience, were often the best and surest precep-
tors of men. On the same principle, proceeded the
maxim, "that Wise .Men learned more from Fools,
than Fools from Wise Men.'.' With respectto the
penalties held forth by the Bill, he seemed to think
them rather rigorous. All that could favourably be
said of them was,that the punishment was not capital;
indefinite fine and imprisonment, however,were pro-
vided; the other clauses of the Bill he equally disap-
proved of. The first tithe the Legislature ever inter.
fered with the sports of the Conn r ry "was' in time time of
Henry VIII. in consequence of which the people ad'_
diced themselves to sedentary and unmanly pursuits,
which in after-tinies the Legislature thought it pro
per to decry. So would it be in the present in-
stance, the liberal and national spurts chuckfarthing
and turnpenny would be .adopted, and to these
the people would be advised to give their days and
nights. Pursuing this line of argument and opposi-
tion to the Bill, he concluded with expressing his
hostility to its' further progress.

Mr. SHERIDAN observed, that he should most
probably have given a silent Voce, were it not in;
some points in the speech of the Hon. Gentleman
who had just sat down. He had previously attend-
ed to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman who
was so decided an opponent of the measure, and he
could not help admiring the ingenuity, talents, and
address which he had displayed in a speech which he
thought well calculated to produce an effed on the
imagination ; but perhaps of-all the speeches he ever
heard, it was the least: calculated to produce solid
conviction. With. resped to the support he receiv-
ed from the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, he
was at first rather dubiouS'of ir, and were it not fur
the animation of his manlier, he really should have
thought that he intended to liVlow the ironical
line adopted by an Hon. Friend of his (Mr. C.)
untie! the Gallery—a great deal of what had been
said, might be reduced to a short question, which,
for the sake of illustration, be would put in the•tne_.
taphorical language of an Hon. Gentleman untitr
the Gallery, who said, as the higher orders of the
people had their Ili z.r.t NGTO N, the lower orders
should have their Bulibaiting. Another Member
dsclared as an arguineht agaihst the Bill, that

T%j ►y,

through iTie means of Bullbaiting, he raised more
men fair tilis MaiTsty •.letocashire, and also more
iObjens the weyo os increasing the populetion;
than by any other means he knew. This might be
an adinitable arguinent to influence a Recruiting-
Serjeane, but that any one should think', that it
could have an elle& Ofl a grave and deliberating As.
iembly of Legislators, more especially, when it
produced effects which involved considerations of
vice and profligacy on the part of women, was to
him a little extraordinary. In some Counties the dis-
graceful praaice in question did not prevail, but
that the measure could operate with feSpea to the
County to which that Hon. Gentletrian referred,
either in relation to the excellent breed of nulls, or
the lattices of itiereased population alluded to, was
a little questionable. A few of the topics in the
Right Hon. Gentleman's speech, however, he should
'have occasion to allude to ; and first, with resped
to, the idea, that such subjeas Were unworthy the
attention of the Legislature. After warmly ani-
madverting on what be had said respeding the esti-
mation and progress of Private Bills in that House,
Mr. SHP:alb/UV' proceeded to express his -surprise,
that if the Right Hon. Gentleman thought the subject
so low, so trifling, as to he utterly unworthy of
the interference of the Legislature, he should. have
deemed it necessary to oppose the Bill in a very long
and elaborate speech, a speech which, in his mind,
had rather been prepared tor the occasion ; in more
points !hen one of it, the lamp wacto be Smelt'; it
possessed a -climax of rotation, from modern as well
as ancient Authors. Xenophon, Virgil, Milton,
and other writers were copiously referred to. All
this matter too, •was well arranged._ if the Right
Hon. Gentleman• deemed the subjea trifling, and
unworthy of attention, why take all that trouble
about it ? Or if the Right Ron. Gentleman heed
displayed so much ability and address, or made so
great it figure in eloquence, whiledeceying the Defi-
nitive Treaty,, he should not, most probably, have
been in so small a minority. What, it was exclaim-
ed, would Europe say, if at such a jundnre; we oc-
cupied ourselves in such discussions ? With respea
to the Right Hon. Gentleman's mode of considering
as svell as treating this question, he felt for him—
he felt for the state of his mind, and for that irrita-
tion of which it must be susceptible in contempla.
ting the return of Peace, and he must allo‘V for his
feeling on the cessation pf hostilities. in, every part
of .Etirope ; in which
some
it would appear,
.as if
he wished to make some compensation to himself,
in fomenting a War between the Bulls and the Dogs.
It was rather extraordinary that though the Right
Hon. Gentleman denied the subjed to be of imput_
ranee, yet he considered the measure to proco
from the combined effects of JacobiniSin and Method,
ism, to overturn the Constitution of the Country;
and another Gentleman seemed to be of opinion,
that if the lower orders of the People were not in-
dulged in the joyous and jovial praaiee of Bull_
baiting, the Constitution must eventually be over-
turned. Another point respeled the amusements
of the loWer orders of the People.—With respea to
these nothing could give him greater pleasure, than
that they could be efFeaually revised and reduced
to a salutary system, founded on just and rational
principles. He would bring to the Right Hoti.
Gentleman's recolleaion a circumstance relative to
this point, namely, .a Society which was some time
ago established, in • which- •an - Hon. General
since dead (Bueooy NE) was a leading member;
and in' which they both were concerned ; tie objea ci
which was to revive the praaice of the genuine
old English sports and amusements : in this plan,
however, it was expressly set forth, that the
barbaroUs pranice of Bullbaithig was not to be
included. In regard to the argument held out
that if this custom was suppressed, we should know
not Where to stop, and that the amusements of
hunting, shooting, and fishing, would become the
next objeas of suppression. To this idea he could
shortly answer, that these amusements have no
more analogy to the barbarous pradice in question
than any things the most _opposite in their natures
could have : and he must observe, with regard to the
Hon. Gentleman who had beheld those 'scenes, over
and- over and over again, that no man could ad-.
vance such arguments or defend the praftice, who
itad not been inured to it ; but that Gentle-
man said, the .objeet was, not to torture the ani-
mal, that cruelty was not inflicted for the sake of
cruelty : where was the difference in the effea, or
in the tortures of the wretched animal, when
the cruelty proceeded only from sport ? He
could conceive different sources of passion from
which cruelty could arise, as wrath, malice,
fear, cowardice, and worse than these was it
when proceeding from beastly appetite, from the
effea of gluttony, but certainly worse than any, or
than all pet' together, was the oature of infliaing
cruelty merely for sport. If the House suffered the
Bill to go to a Committee, they could produce
fans which must excite feeling of horror and indig-
cation. What the Hon. Gentleman said of our ate.

riving useful instrudions from animals, was_ in a
great degree well founded ; but then it must be
from animals in a fre state of nature ; in circum.
Aances wherein, as the Poet happily expresses it,
you may

" Learn froth the little Nautilus to sail ;"

but not front animals in a state of coercion or
torture.—He expatiated with great feeling, anima.
tion, 'and eff:eet, on the barbarous custom of Bull.
bait:ing, as not only produding the most inconceive..
;Ole tortures to the wretched animal, and often to
the instruments of his torment, but tending to
deaden the feelings of humanity in, and to brutalize
the minds of the beholder, and at such sights, women
and children were often present : of this he stated
some facts in illustration, among these, that of a
brutal Bullbaiter, who, possessing on old Bull.
bitch, that lately had a large litter of puppies, was
willing to chew the staunchness of her biooti
the extent of her prowess : he set the bitch at a
bull, she pinned, and fastened on him, and in that
situation he literally cut her to piece, the
animal still keeping her ho'd. lie then sold
puppies for five guinea:, a-piece ; after this he
out his knife, and in a climax of brutality,
bitch's throat. These facts shewe,t
cai knd malignant spirit with which s7;,:s. s•
were condUtted, and encouraging those,
'making a people manly 'anti ge'ne;nt:s,
inuring them to aas of cruelty, l'!7)t.',Cl' VIC;11