34° 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
MID the useful information and 
judicious remarks which your 
Magazine for the present month con- 
tains, I observe some animadversions 
on the cruel, and now illegal, practice 
of bull-baiting in general, with an 
allusion to its exhibition at Woking- 
ham; and, as an inhabitant of that 
town and a friend to humanity, I am 
happy in acquainting R. B. that this 
detestable custom is at length prohi- 
bited. This was determined on by 
our corporation towards the close of 
the last year,—when the time for its 
repetition, December 21, was near; 
in consequence of the Bill for pre- 
Venting cruelty to animals having 
passed. 
As precedent influences many to 
correct what might otherwise pass un- 
noticed, I request you will give publi- 
city to this notification, hoping it may 
induce other corporations or indivi- 
duals, within whose jurisdiction such 
barbarity exists, to adopt measures 
for the prevention of this wantonly 
cruel and inhuman amusement; which 
tends to harden the heart, and render 
it callous to those proper feelings 
which all ought to entertain towards 
the brute creation, — remembering 
they were given for our use, and not 
for our abuse. 
3 per 
cent, 
Consols. 
5 per 
cent. Re- 
duced. 
Not exceeding— 
101. per ann.} 28,811 | 12,011 
201. do. ++} 12,959 | 4,998 
1001. do. ++} 32,297 | 12,133 
2001. do. -+| 9,402 3,528 
4001. do. -+} 6,322] 2,215 
6001. do. **| 2,270 804. 
10001. do. ++} 1,459 512 
20001. do. + 855 300 
40001. do. =» 264 105 
109 
Total No. of 
Persons -- 1 
94,748 
The above stated number of persons 
are exclusive of those who have depo- 
sited in Sayings Banks; of the num- 
Bull-baiting.— Elucidation of the Funded System. 
n Account of the Total Number of Persons to whom half-a-year’s Dividend on 3 per cent. 
Consols, 3 per cent. Reduced, 3} per Cents., 4 per Cents., Long Annuitics, and New 4 per 
cents., were paid on the 10th of October and 5th of January last, specifying the Number 
respectively of those whose Dividends did not exceed the rute of 101., 201., 1001., 2001., 
4001., 600/., 10001., 20001., 40001, and of those whose Dividends exceeded 40001. per ann. 
[Aug. 1, 
By Heaven’s high will the lower world is 
thine! 
But art thou cruel, too, by right divine? 
Adwmit their lives devoted to thy need ; 
Take the appointed forfeit,—let them 
bleed: 
Yet add not to the hardships of their state, 
Nor join to servitude oppression’s weight! 
By no unmanly rigors swell distress, 
But, where thou can'st, exert thy powers 
to bless; 
Beyond thy wants ’tis barbarous to annoy, 
And but from need ’tis baseness to destroy. 
Wokingham ; July 16. SCA oie 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE observation, at page 358, in 
your Magazine for May last, 
“That the Reports and other publica- 
tions of the British Parliament vie in 
utility, importance, and interest, with 
those of any public society in exis- 
tence,” has induced me to send you 
the following statement of the number 
of persons amongst whom 25,772,296/. 
of the taxes collected annually are 
re-distributed, in the hope that you. 
will find it a place in the next Num- 
ber of your: invaluable Miscellany. 
The statement is compiled from a re- 
turn made by the Bank of England, 
dated April 12, 1823, and forms No. 
252 of the Parliamentary Papers of 
the present session, and is as follows, 
viz.— 
4 per Total 
eng ee Piaget 4 | No. of 
Ganabis nuities, |per cent. Bersond 
9,981 8,360 | 31,359 | 90,755 
5,174 3,369 }| 14,629 | 41,295 
12,502 7,731 | 34,472 | 99,582 
3,593 1,644 } _ 7,677 | 26,049 
2,021 825 3,903 | 15,459 
608 254 1,145 5,141 
400 157 644 3,243 
181 58 280 1,752 
35 12 48 487 
7 ve On 215 
34,512 | 22,417 | 94,181 283,958 
ber of whom, no return is made: but 
the amount of 3 per cent. consols, 3 
per cent, seduced, and 3% per cent. 
: stock, 
