The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-15 00:00:00

ENLIVIVENT IN ViIREION SERVICE BILL.

Sit ROBERT WILSON thew r.•e and said, that
he iris glad to see the Attorney• General is his place,
as be had a question to pot to him regarding the BPI
skids he had asked !meta being in last night, torn.
Idhit Enlistments in Foreign Service. The waling'
was, or chat day woeld he ►ri.g it in ? ll* thought
it right to giro the Learned Gewlewan notice, that
be it when it might, he should oppose it with all ku
ability in .eery nay of its stage..

Th.* ATTORNEY.GENP.RAL said a fee words
germs the table, bet so imdiminctly that not sets the
tome of his voice loss heard in the vinery.
GAME' LAWS GULL.
Mr. BRAND having moved that the Deport of
the Game I..ws 6111 be recommitted,
Sir JOHN SHELLEY warmly opposed the HI;
and contended that duck s theoretical a were
adopted, the sports of t►e field, by which the hold
sad manly qualities of the higl er orders of the Poo.
pie were cherished and invigorated, would be assail&
lated, and the country would indeed dwindle into
that which it had been contemptuously assorted by
Bonaparte to be—a nation of shopkeepers. Ile is onld
therefore awe as an amendment, that the Report
be tekao into hither consideration on that day sit
months.

Sir J SEBRIG HT supported the Bill, sad mein.
tsined that the sahibs' Game Laws were loadeqeste
to their object, the preserentiors of game ; for it was
impossible for any Gentleman to preserve Lis game,
bet by recourse to Isles which, in themselves, had
nothing to de with the Game Laws; namely, the
lass for punishment of trespass. By the present eye•
tow, and the custom of preserving game, which had
of late increased to a great degree, poaching had
also 'named to a degree alarming. Weed, what
pee at presest could be protected but by force of
arms ? He should be ashamed to stood up in his
place, were he, for say smuseutoot of his own, to
uphold a system which demoralised the costal ry, and
led the people from crime to crime, till they ended
with robbery end marder.—Ulear, hear, hear!]—
!f, in the present circemst of the country, this
system were to be persisted in, it would convert a
grist part of the People into Janes of banditti.

Mr: LONG WECLEiLEY denied that the Game
Laws were an inclecemeot to the residence of Gen.
tlemen in the country. This Bill did not entirely
repeal the Game Laws, bet it repealed the odious
parts of Ilse Game Laws; it mode that Italic legal
which mast be carried 00, and would towline* to be
carried on, lo the present state of the country. One
third •f the property of this country was in the
hands of persons who bad no Means of obtaining
Game, bet by perchase ; and while this was the
case, all laws prohibiting the sale were vain. and
meld only lead to the prictice of poaching. Poach.
log, as was well boor 13, was the parent of all crimes.
World they then, by the continuance of a system,
place the per of Ibis coestry in a state of degsada.
lion still lower than they were now in ?
Mr. F. DOHGLASi contewded, that the question
ass not whether there were evils ender the present
4y-tem, bat whether these evils would not be increased
by the present Bill. It was well known w►at • own.
her of disputes efol4l at present, from attempts to
decoy game from one property to •wother. Bat the
present Bill would produce twenty persons desirous
preserving game in place of one; and a person
would be more analogs to preserve his game in pro.
portion as his property was small. He thought game
°resist to be left in those hands in which it could be
with most safety placed. This was the only way of
preventing t►ose irregular habits w►ich attended a
people of sportsmen. The presets. Bill would give
to the yeomanry of this country the habits and cba.
neer of sportsmen ; and would take from them that
respectful submission and manly dependence on the
laws, which at present characterised them. With re-
spect to poaching, he could not see how this Bill
would pet a stop to it. It was said that it would
diminish the profits of the poacher, and reduce him
to abandon that pursuit; bet profit had compsra.
lively little to do with the motives which determined
a poacher to prefer that pursuit to all ethers; It was
the indolence of his life, and the daring and 'dun-
Woos character of the perseit which were its greet
attractions to him. Bet the dindeetion of profit
wnelJ be coesiteshaienced by the greater (*citify of
concealment which he would obtain. It was thought
mom would be better preserved when many ogre ie.
terested in it ; bet there was an old proverb, that
what was every body's dory was nobody's ilety ; sad
game would be more effecleally preserved by one
active game-keeper than by • nember of paw per.
Goes who had • •ariety of occepations to attend to
The Marquis of TA VISTOCK gate his hearty as-
sent to the principle of the Bill. The pretreat Game
Laws stem intolerable grievances from the incr.'s*
of poschieg to which they led, •wing partly to.the
Jewess of game. The increase of poaching was of
late enormous. Ile held le his heads a list of the