1821.] Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 



latives or neighbours, who would improve 

 them aud be grateful for them. And they 

 would experience more real satisfaction in 

 increasiug their fortunes than in accutnu- 

 lating their own. The exercise of such a 

 patronage would constitute the pride of 

 their lives and their consolation in death. 

 In the United States of America, where 

 there ai-e no poor, we find scarcely a hun- 

 dred persons whose fortunes reach 50001. 

 a year. I have the honor to be with un- 

 feigned respect, IMy Lord, 

 ^j^Xour lordship's very humble and 



-J , , most obedient servant. 



Josh. Collier. 

 ■answer of his lordship. 



Lord presents his compliments 



and acknowledgements to Mr. Collier, for 

 his letter and enclosure, which contains 

 matter, of too much importance to givean 

 opinion upon under present circumstances. 



ApriMth, 1821. 



■"•i^jHark Lane, Uh Ajiril, 1821. 



To M.P. 



Seeing the interest you take in parlia- 

 mentary proceedings, and the light which 

 you have thrown on subjects connected with 

 public distress aud the currency, I may be 

 excused possibly, without the honour of a 

 personal acquaintance, the liberty I take 

 in presenting the enclosures for your pe- 

 rusal ; with a view to your taking them 

 into consideration yourself, referring them 

 to some existing committee, or having the 

 generosity to point out to me the channel 

 through which you advise me to make ap- 

 plication. 



I should doubt, from his Lordship's let- 

 ter, having any chance with his Majesty's 

 government, unless it were backed by more 

 interest than I have it in my power to com- 

 mand. 1 have the honor to be, 



Sir, your most obedient and 

 very humble Servant, 

 Josh. Collier. 



" ANSWER of M.P. 



• Sir, 



T beg leave to acknowledge the receipt 

 of the letter you favoured me with, accom- 

 panying some very ingenious observations 

 upon a projected proper! y-tax. I am not 

 aware that they can be communicated with 

 advantage to any existing committee ; al- 

 thongh should there be hereafter any ques- 

 tion of the re-establishment of a tax on pro- 

 perty, these observations may prove highly 

 useful. I am with great truth. Sir, &c. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR. 



I HAVE read, and with pleasure, 

 several suggestions in your Maga- 

 zines for the foitnation of a Society for 

 the prevention of cruelty to j4niwnl.<t, 

 and g!ad shall T he to promote tlie oh- 

 yct of if when formett, I am aware 

 MoirrHOY Ma&. No. 354. 



429 



that numerous difficulties are to be 

 overcome, in order to obtain the wished 

 for result. One great obstacle in 

 the way, is the sanction and support 

 given to cruel diversions by persons, 

 who independently of this blot in their 

 charactei-s, certainly must be crmsidered 

 as respectable members of society. If 

 cruel amusements were followed only 

 by notoriously vicious characters, the 

 difficulty would not be so great in my 

 opinion as it at present is. 



I cannot but consider the public 

 newspapers as tending in a cousiderable 

 degree to harden the hearts of their 

 readers, by detailing the particulars of 

 pigeon-shooting, and other iulniioaa 

 sports. The heading to such articles, 

 instead of Sporting Intelligence, might 

 with great propriety be Immoral Prac- 

 tices. 



It appears to me, that it might be of 

 service if a list of Publications on 

 Cruelty to Animals were made out aud 

 published by the suggested society, 

 .should it be formed. 

 List of a few publications on this 

 subject. 



1. Primate on Cruelty to Animals. ; 



2. Young on Cruelty to Animals. .', 



3. Zoophilus, 1819. 



<. Sermon by Daubeny, preached at 

 Bath, 1799. 



5. Beresford, printed 1809. 



6. Hawtrey, South- 

 ampton, 1806. 



7. 



entitled the unjustifiable- 

 ness of cruelty to the Brute Creation, no 

 name, printed Sherborne, 1801. 



8. by Barry, published 1802, 



which I have not seen. 



9. Lord Erskine's Speech in the House 

 of Lords. 



I wish to see this list incieased. 

 April 28, 1821. A. Z. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 

 PICTURESQUE PROMENADES near 



DORKING. 

 (Continued from No. 3.51, p. 126.^ 



I WAS reluctantly about to leave a 

 spot communicating so many men- 

 tal interests, when a glance at the 

 retiring town of Dorking, acted as 

 an inducement for fiirther conside- 

 ration. Those who have viewed our 

 great metropolis from any of the neigh- 

 bouring eminences, can be no strangers 

 to the variety of interesting associa- 

 tions to which such a prospect gives 

 rise. I had but for a moment to ima- 

 gine myself confcmplaliug a kind 

 of miniature metropolis in this truly 

 pleasing feature of the landscape, just 

 4 H \ fil'liaK 



