The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

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[PROM VIE MORNING CIIRONCLIO

Sin—Wishing to corroborate the testimony of
tarley Esstsp's friend, the foreign " Walley." I
Ai you a translation of a pastage in a well knows
Verch wt.rk, the dime:each drs Gourmands, semi.,
gaide dons lee Mope's* de foire eseelleate
4riee. edit.' Paris, page 98
Hut what enables the goose to claim the grad tn.le of
real good livers—what insures to that bird a distis..l
'jailed rank amongst poultry is its liver, of which ad.
irable patties are made at Strasburgb. In order to ob.
sin these livers of a becensiag sise, it is necessary to as-
crifiee the beast itself. Forcibly crammed with solid
food, deprivel of all drink and placed close to a great
tire. before which It it nailed by the fret on a plank, this
goose piles. it must be allowed, • sufficiently unhappy
life. If a fore-knowledge of its future lot were not a
consolation, such an existence would be insupportably
tormenting; bet it is by looking forward to its future
fate that it is enabled to support its misfortunes with
courage; for when it reflects that its liver, larger than
'self, Laded with truffles and covered with an immitable
te, ill proceed through the American hotel and the
tads of M. Corcellet and M. Cheyel, to convey through-
' Europe the glory of its name, it resigns itself to its

tiny, Iliad exiirci without ',knitting a-aiogle tear.

To this extract from ■ popular work I beg to add a
of wins of the Aorripre which are practised for the
gratification of the rich and well educated classes, by
bom lie. Mactia was supported In his efforts to pre-
It the cruelty of drovers, carmen, donkey-boys, and
" low fancy."
. Scooping clean the eye-balls of Piping Bullfinches,
sielt are sold at Mr. Voo Batters, in St. Martin's-lane,

• five 'seined: each.—These birds, it is said, will not
ling exquisitely as long as an atom of eye remains in the
bead, and the people of Mr. Martin's rank =At have ex-
'site singing birds at any price. The cruelty goes
nothing.
Crimping of Cod and Salmon for the table of rich
.as Mr. Martin, M.P. for the county of tialway.
. 117 are Cod and Salmon crimped ? Because when the
flesh of a living fish is cat in slices from head to tail
down to the bone, the animal dies writhing in torment,
the flesh becnrneaffrasahrough the maden agonised
'traction of the muscles and and because pro-
of Mr. Martin's rank must have firm 6sb, at any

of money or cruelty.
. Whipping Sucking Pigs to death to raise delicious
asters, and to make the crackling luxnrionsly crisp: If
r. Martin had introduced into his Bill a provision
prevent' this refined practice, he would have been
scanted from the tables of all rest gourmands.
. SKIN :VINO Eras ALIVE.—This is generally done
some of the " lower orders," who, after suck opera-
ions on the unhappy fish to please the palates of their
-vri.ire, are by Mr. Martin's Bill to be fined or sent to
fur over-beating a donkey. If they are cruel whose
.isit ? Are they not encouraged In habits of out.
geiris cruelty, when such cruelty can minister to the
gratification of tbe " educated el ?" Cruelty be-
COMM a part of their stature, as ltsltit is a second nature.
‘t. ben the woman abused by Dr. Johnson for skinning
alive replied, that " 'key were used to it," hr called
remark " a cruel transposition of number and
len."
wish Mr. Martin would tell as whether be ever

'ed Stra.bourg pies, crimped cod and salient, stewed
er stockists pig, whilst be was meditating on the
'revisions of his bill ? Whether he ever heard front
kitc: en of his Carole (Oh, the great man l) in
limy, the plaintive cry of a fine fat lobster Gui,itig
leak? Whether his table, sod those of his friends
cot often supplied with rabbits driven from the
rim by ferrety, the mouth of which were sewed op
a needle and thread, to prevent them from spar
bet. .re•band the 'line ee at the hall, or the house, or
park, or the palace or the castle ? I would ask
, Did he or did he not—yes or no—ever ate part
Strasbourg patty ? Would he obtain a summons
the cook or lishinoeger of a friend at whose table
might see some excellent crimped salmon? If the
Real Douk," as Charley calls his Royal Highness,
• to invite Mr. Martin to dinner on his return
Suffolk, and to tell the lion. Gentleman that he
,with his own R—l hands killed a hundred bead
tame per day fur a fortnight, and maimed as mans
re, would that Hon. O•ntlemsn raise his voice
Irs• the cruel Gentlemsoliice amusement of shoot•
Wauld b► nor, on the contrary, bow down be•

the It“yal Personare, acdexclaim, withtespect-

alacrity, Orb, your It— 11-- is well known
be the very best shot that ewer esr•'eJ a gun '?•• But
e be onto a drover or a butcher oho should, in the
resenee of the Hon. Oentleman excel In his cruel vu-
In. Excellent, humane, Christi.en Gentleman !
as Lord Byron says, this is the age of cost. Mr.
lberforce sleeps over the s.ruitgle of Christian
.ce, • • • of • • L become • • • •
utnaai.y, benignity, and gentleness.
I am, Sir, your attached Ite.der, P. B.

C.IPE OF ROOD HOFF.

.ztrtet of a letter from Aitrary District, Cape of
id Hope. dated March 29:
We have had a genera: failure of Wheat the last
srasonr, and that in the corn districts was-all de-

.yed by what is called here the rest, which begins
:he surface of the ground and runs up to the stem
blades of the ear, wheu the whole dies. It is
the east in iron, and it even attacks the wood
n cut down. We hope however, that the next
,on still nut be like the two lasi, as the Dutch far-
rs say that the wheat has not heed attacked by the
for twenty-live years before we ai rived ; and tl..y

say that it now came in consequence of the Uo-
•nment allowing the Eoglish to settle among them.
know they do not like us, and look upon us in the
ht of Maiere.

•• Vegetables are very dear and scarce; all the En•
tb garden seeds which the settlers brought out bar-
failed ; sad the potatoes got rotten on ship-board ;
,stables are therefore full ■s dear as at Cossnt•

rdeo msrkrt, is the d time. lodeedto grow

,getables requires a person'■ whole time, for It is
tpossild. to get them to any perfection without con
ual watering, and a great quantity of manure.—
'thee here is very bad, and dear. although there is
duty on It, nor on any colonial prodoce. Shoes
t here 12s. per pair, wlibieh will neither keep out
dew nor rain ; they become like sponge ; therefore
. are obliged to go without iu wet weather or dew,
Itherwise they would sot last a week. Asa sub'''.

ate fur leather shoes, we make a sort from raw hides,
and sew them together with tanned sheep-skin.—
They are very uoplessant wearing. Row hides, when
came hero, were only Gs. each—indeed you might
tre picked them up in every direction ; they are now
!s. garb; is fact, they are not to be bought, as the