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London, England, 1809-06-01 00:00:00

MANOR OF LIYFLE COMPTON, GLOUCEbTERSHIRE.

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'lO BE SOLD BY PRIVATh CONTRACT,
A I.L those valuable and vury desirable Fee-simple
11 and Tythe-free ESTATES, in possession and reversion,
eligiLly situate iu the Parish of Little Compton, in the County of
Gloucester, containing together upwards of 1146 Acres of ex-
ceeding rich Aridde, Meadow, and Pasture Land, together with
' the Manor, with all the Rights, Privileges, and Advantages ap-
pertaining thereto, which extend over the whale of the said
Parish. The Farm Houses and Buildings are conveniently si-
tuated fur the occupation of the respective farms, and the Man-
sion House rutty ,at a small espence, be made a coinfortableresi-
deuce for a genteel Family. The Turnpike road from Worcester
to LondOn rum.* through the Parish, distant lour miles from
Chipping Norton, duce from Morton in the Marsh, six trona
Stow on the Wold, and six front Shipstou on Stower.
To treat for the Estate, apply to Wm. Nleytick, Esq. Red
Lion-square, London ; ur to 1-Litry Clark, Land Surveyor, Ship-
*ston-upou-Stower, of w4orn printed particulars, with Maps and
Tickets to view the Estate, may be Lad.

CAPITAL FAMILY MANSION,
With Immediate Possession.
To be LET, for a Tenn of Three, live, or Seven Years,
Furnished ur Unfurnished,
A N Excellent FAMILY RESIDENCE, contain-
ing an Entrance-hall, three Sitting-rooms, nine principal
Sleeping-rooms, with Attic, fur Servants ; good Ce:laring, with
every Domestic (Mice, Double Coach-house, with Stabling for
Waste, capital walled Gar.len and Pleasure Ground, Park
well stocked with Deer; the whole containing One Hundred
Acres. The Tenant may be accommodated with more Land if
agreeable to himself, and with the Farming Steck, Implement,
of Husbandry, Growing Crops, &c. at a valuation; or the House
will be let separate without the Pihk.—The Furniture may be
taken by appraisement, if agreeable to the Tenant; who will
also have the Right of Spurting over a very extensive Property.
The Situation of this House is extremely beautiful, seated on
an etuineme, live miles from two Market Towns, near to a high
road, and distant trout Loudon a day's journey, in one of the
finest Counties iu the Kingdom, with Game, and in
' the Neighbourhood of two Packs of I, ualutuach.
For Particulars apply to Mess:b. Shaper and Heath, Montague-
strvet, kassel-sc,:uare.

LINCOLNSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE.
FOR SALE BY AUCTION,
On the 30th !tine next. at the Golden Fleece Ina, In I.ou th,
the Cuunty olLinculn, subject to Conditions, whkh will be
there •and tbeu produced,
SEVERAL very valuable FREEHOLD MES-
SUAGF.S and FARMS, Cloaca and Parcels of rich arable,

meadow, and pasture Land, nearly the whole of which is tithe-
free, in the Parishes of Louth, Park, North and South Cocker.
boon, KiAidineton, Alvingh.un, and Theddlethorpe, in the coon.
ty of I...inculn,and at Brimmingtun,in the pariah of Chesterfield, in
the Cvuuty ut Derby, viz. Quantity.
Lot. Tenant: Names. Premises. A. R. P.
1 Mrs. Evin A Close of Meadow. 31 1 24
si John Paddison Ditto 27 • 1 ilt
3 Charles Pawson Ditto 11 i 4
"4 Wm. Pr.:Stall A Mesauage and Fans 270 .2' 19
.5 John Leach Ditto 140 3 32
6 John Parker Ditto 111 5 24
7 Thomas Simmons Ditto 170 0 11
li R,obert Greiensvaail Ditto 43 1 II
9 John Taylor . Ditto . 67 0 19
10 W. Stubbs " Ditto • 7 1 17
11 T. C.ockson A Cottage, Carden, ice. 0 1 3
12 John Fox Ditto 0 1 27
1.3 Charles Taylor Ditto and Gronnd 3 0 0
14 Robt. Cos A Close of Arable in lirinunington 4 2 0
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For particulars, apply to Messrs. Bullock and Arnold, N 0.16,
Bt dford-row, London ; to Mr. John Charleton, land agent and
st rveyor, Stourten, Wilts; Mr.Paddisua, attorney at law, Lentil
or to Thomas Birch, of South CockerinAton aforesaid, woe' will
at 4ve the Estates in Lincolnshire ; and Mr. Cos, of C010w..4
(11111411Indai will sb the Land at Brinsisiagton.

PARLIAMEATARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY sl.

The Loan Bill, the Irish Milita Completion Bill, the Irish
FritzOly Societies Bill, and the Vauxhall Bridge Bill, were read
a tkird time and passed.
The Martinique Trade Bill passed through a Committee and
was reportea.
The Irish Assessed Taxes Bill, the Coffee Roasting Bill, the
Local MiUtia Amendment Bill, the Lot tery Bill, and some other
Bills, were brought up from the Commons by Mr. Wharton,
Mr. Pym, and other Members, and read a first time.
The Irish Post Office Bill, the life Annuities Amendment Bill
and the Irish Beer Bill, were read a second time and committed
for to-morrow.
The Scots Commissioners Bill passed through a Committee
with Amendments. Report tc-morrow.
LORD ERSKINF.'S BILL.
The House went into a Committee on the Bill in-
troduced by Lord ERSKINE, for preventing cruelty to
animals, when his Lordship rose, and expressed the
deep satisfaction he felt at their Lordships' recogni-
tion of the principle of the Bill he had the honour of
submitting, by their agreeing to go into a Committee
upon it. He thought it unnecessary in the Commit-
tee to make use of any further general arguments in
its support, though, if it were necessary, he would,
from the variety of information he had received from
the most respectable and the best informed quarters,
give their Lordships fresh reasons, and abundance of
particular instances which sheaved (beyond contradic-
tion, as he thought) the propriety, necessity, and
justice of passing the Bill. Was particular informa-
tion wanted ? He had letters upon letters stating
facts, concerning such cruelties. Was evidence de-
sired ? He could bring the most unexceptionable
testimony to their Lordships' bar, to prove the exist-
ence of such practices as were a disgrace to humanity,
to a civilized nation, and to every moral and religious
profession. He had with him letters, stating the rea-
diness of the parties to appear, front the most respect-
able clergymen, as well as others, ant indeed saying
that such cruel practices were universal, but that they
were too general, and specifying many particular in-
stances. His Lordship then adverted to the inhuman
and wicked practice of houghing and hamstringing
cattle, of cutting the faces of sheep intended for future
slaughter for the use of man, and of still more barba-
rous practices, such as some he could substantiate ;
the cutting and tearing out the tongue of so noble an
animal as the horse. He stated an old act of Henry
the Eighth against this last crime, which inflicted a
fine for that offence of RIO, to show the sense our an-
castors had of such inhumanity. Hitherto, the matter
had been perhaps too much considered only as it rela-
' ted to animals as the private property of individuals ;
but he wished this bill to take a higher ground, so
that the Legislature should declare its opinion upon
the morality of the principle, and on the duties that
man owed not only to man hut to the lower world
—duties so mach connected with the general state
of the moral feelings. He stated a variety of cir-
cumstances in favour of the bill, and alluded to
many enormous cruelties practised on animals. He
meant, however, to propose some amendments, to
visors the more favourable reception cf the bill from
t'iose who might entertain sane objections as to its
practicability. He had left to the Commons the op-
portunity which he did not doubt 'would be taken, of
giving the alternative mode of punishment to the Ma-
gistrate by a pecuniary fine, or a limited confinement.
He intended to: propose, that the Magistrate should
be armed with the power of summary decision, as it
would be exceedingly inconvenient to oblige all pro-
secutions to go to Quarter Sessions. He begged,
however, that it might be-. remarked that there was
so boon, no reward whatever to be held rut to, or re-
ceived by, any informer. He also proposed an
Amendment, by which he wished to introduce the
words " to abuse," as applicable to the maltreatment
of animals. Here he referred to old statutes, and
seemed to think that this word, in addition to others
in use, would best convey the meaning of the legisla-
ture. His Lordship then adverted to some other
Amendments which he intended to submit, and.con-
tended against the supposed difficulty on the part of
the Magistrates, in deciding upon the guilt and pu-
nishment of such offences. It was ti:e intention
coupled with the Overt Act, which constituted the
criminality in a vast variety of other cases, and he
saw no difficulty that was insuperable in the applica-
tion of 'similar principles in this instance. He had ,
limited himself in the first instance to what he had '
termed "reclaimed animals;" he now wished to
amend that expression by using the word " tamed" in- I
stead of reclaimed. He did not, therefore, endeavour
by legislative measures to interfere with wild animals,
and kept out of the question field sports. He was
so convinced of the great importance of an unani-
mous vote of their Lordships on the subject, instead
of carrying the question by a mere majority, that he
was most desirous of hearing and of receiving any
information or amendment upon the Bill. With re-
spect to bull-baiting, which had been alluded to,
he could not see how those who were so desirous of I
continuing. that practice should agree to going into I
the C:)rnmittee, and thereby acknowledging the prin. I
ciple f the Bill. If bull-baiting was a fair sport—
if it was, as he had heard it stated, for the amuse-
mmt of that fine animal—and if no wanton and ma-
. licions cruelty occurred, then the Magistrate would
have no such crime to punish' the parties for corn-
mitttng. If, on the contrary, it was attended with
such odious circitrostances, the Bill would give the Ma-
gi 'trate that salut.o v poww which he ought to possess.
The LORD CHANCELLOR approved of the
motion of his Noble and Learned Friend, and of the
general principle of the Bill, but thought it would be
0, very difficult. application. H's Lordship observed
upon the various :las used by persons employed in
furnishing provisions, such as crinpi •ng salmon, Btca
in which case it would he extremely difficult to draw
a line as to what might or migia: not be forbidden by
a Legislative Act. He menti:med that in Scotland
there existed a law ailthori.,ing bull-baiting. He
thought it better to confine the provisions of the Bill
to beasts of draft and biirthen.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL complimented the
Noble and Learned Baron, but thought that the best
mode was to do the most practical good they
could ; and as there was so much difference in the
opinions and Icelin't's of persons who were generally
well disposed, in the degree of treatment exercised
towards animals, he fen it almost impossible to mark
the limit, and therefore supported the Lord Chancel-
lor's opinion, for confining the operation of the b%L to
beastS of draft and bunk=