The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-21
From the .Neo York Sun.
SLAV VERY IN ENGLAND.

outrage daily committed upon the poor of England
Scotland aud Ireland by privileged arstocracy if
recorded would fill thousand daily papers like our
own. People IN England talk of American slavery as
II the mobiles and arisocrats Of their own country did
not encourage and sustain and more soul-de-
stroying slavery-a slavery which unmans degrades
and brutazes. Take the following instance from
the Banbury England Guardian:
BANBURy PETTY sEssIoNs-ocT 5.
lPresent-Rev. A. b. Matthews and MIR. H.
Style
''THE GAME LAWS
"John Coggns laborer, of Weston-on-the-G reen.
was charged by George Woods one of the Earl of
Jerseys gnmekeePers, with having, on the LIST of
September, at Weston on-the- Green used Gun for
the destruction of game, whereby he had incurred
penalty of GO.
"Mr. C. Tombs, collector, Oxford, Appeared as the
professional adviser of Coggins. The latter was do
Gently clad for a laborer.
william Couling, one Of the Earl's lookers-out
said he saw the defendant at about O'Clock in the
morning 10 question, walking about stubble-feld
with gun in his hand, in search of game Had not
a dog, no game got up, and defendant did not fire
Witness ,ook his gun away.
"hlr Z. Tombs, on the part Of the defendant sub
mtted that there evidence sufficient 10 justi
fy the bench IN conylctng his client Of having been in
search OF game. This was penal statute and the
evidence should be direct and conclusive He was
instructed that the defendant had plot of potatoes
near The place in question that himself and Others
had been robbed, and that he in consequence went
down to watch them, taking his gun with him He
had worked for Mr. House ten years and had never
been before magistrate before. This information
was laid under the go penalty which he felt sur
prised at The game laws cursed ones The
poor man had wife and two children, and he hoped
the bench would dismiss the case, and LET him 20
home 10 them.
"Tbe room was cleared for the magistrates TO de-
eide on the case. On our ruadmission-
Mr Matt a
address Coggins He had been well defended, but
his solicitor had been miscd. Ii was rue be be-
lieyed that he had never heen before a magistrate
before. He objected 10 nformations being aid IN
der the GO penalty, except in extreme eases He
considered the clause was meant for parties who had
the means OF obtaining certificate and did not do So
and that was not meant for persons in his circum
stances. But this was an extreme case ; il was on a
Sunday morning; and when a man was found out a,
that time IN the morning, what could they suppose
but that he was regular poacher' The decision Of
the bench was, that lie pay the mitigsted penalty
oil go and distress warrant would be issued for the
amount
"Coggins said his goods would not fetch that
amount
"Mr. Matthews. Then you stand committed for
three months hard labor"
Here is man decently clad evidently sober and
industrious, who had never been before magistrate
had a wife and two children, and owned a plot Of
potatoes near lne place Where The Earl Of Jerxeyis
gamekeeper charges him with having in bi. posses.
sion gun for the destruction Of game He had no
dog, no game rose, nor did he fire yet the reverend
judge, who is probably also minister Of the estab-
lished church. in that vicinity evidently more inter
ested in the care Of game than IN the cure Of souls
deyouty concluded that as the was found out on
Sunday morning. he could he after no good and there
efore fined him in sum which everything he owned
on earth would not pay! But did the reverend Judge
conclude with an sdmonition' Oh no! "a distress
warrant says he, evil be issued for the amount
And poor Coggns probably overwhelmed with grief
at the ruin and desolatiou before him-tbe mi.erv
and wretcbedness which must come upon an afec.
tomato and beloved wife and two dear children
meekly responds TO the infsmou. sentence "My goods
will not fetch that money" What, them He stands
committed for three months hard labor because the
Reverend Judge Matthews supposed he was reVn-
lar poacher.n Wha, II wife and two children were
thrown upon the charity of the world I What M
Congress be crippled for life by the cruel treatmert
and hard labor of an English prison. What # he
returns to society degraded man. with spirit brol
down and thinking himself an outcas, begins TO
prey upon society thief and robber, or ends his
days upon the gaows' All these things are nothing
TO the Rev. Judge Matthews. The poor man Is
supposed" to be poacher, is convicted without ev
idence, and British law condemns HIM This ,sasoI
itary instance of British slavery Hundreds of tbou
sands daily vritbe under system Of tyranny and cor
rupuon which grnds in the dust Of The bes, ana
sturdest Of Engspd and Ireland Need w.
wonder at The gross immortality said to prevail smos
the poorer classes in England, when such jpdrr. :.
the Rev A. b Matthew. daily fals,fy the how pr,-
cepts OF the RedeemeT Of mankind