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of superficial thinkers, the sum of 
whose calculations, and range of 
whose enquiries, never extend beyond 
the means of advancing their own self- 
interest; and who content themselves 
with concluding, in reverse of the 
truth, that individual interest is public 
interest ;—the good of the whole, of 
necessity promotes the good of indivi- 
duals ; but the good, in the self estima- 
tion of individuals, does not of necessity 
promote the good of the whole. But 
: notwithstanding the prevalence of the 
» two great obstacles of the time to the 
advancement of public good, viz. self- 
opinion cn one side, and apathy on the 
other, I cannot but indulge the hope 
that a few yet remain to whom the 
facts which I have here exhibited, and 
the illustrations which I have offered, 
will not be exhibited and offered in 
vain. I cannot yet forbear indulging 
in the hope, that, notwithstanding the 
tinsel and glare which 60,000,000/, of 
taxes, and the dependants on60,000,000/. 
of taxes, serve to throw over the scene, 
there are still some not iusensible 
to the anguish and misery. which per- 
vade a million of families, compelled 
to labor fifteen hours out of the twenty- 
four for a remuneration scarce syfti- 
cient to obtain subsistence necessary 
io sustain the animal functions. And I 
would hope, also, that there are yet 
some, even amongst that class of de- 
pendants, and participators of taxes, not 
so altogether bloated with complacency 
and self-sufficiency, and so blind to 
their own interest, as not to perceive 
that they themselyes are almost 
daily exposed to the same dread con- 
sequences of privation and distress 
which have been so poignantly felt by 
every other class of the community. 
Let them consider, that the ideal nomi- 
rialsum of 800,000,000/. and 60,000,0002. 
of taxes which sustain it, in reality is 
not of the substance of a farthing ; that 
it is held only in name and opinion, the 
most capricions and precarious of all 
tenures ; so much so, that the events of 
an hour may sever the specious and 
delusive chord which at present holds 
them together, This is not said either 
in the spirit of jealousy, or with a de- 
sire to excite alarm, but with the hope, 
that ere it be too late, and whilst sufli- 
cient meaus remain for the purpose, 
such an order of investigation may be 
instituted, as shall lead to the adoption 
of those measures which shall equally 
protectall existing interests, and equally 
tend to promote the solid and substan-~ 
On the Inhuman Practice of Stag-hunting. 
[Nov. P, 
tial advantage of all the varied inter 
ests and all the varied classes of the 
community. A.R 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
“Do justice, and love mercy :” 
** The merciful man is merciful to his beasts.” 
SIR, 
Y OUR sensible correspondent Hu- 
manitas, in page 201, has left 
untouched, in his remarks on cruelty 
to animals, one of the most repreghen- 
sible on the whole British list of such 
practices ; one which is not, like most 
other fashionable cruelties, practised 
at some, and often at considerable, 
pecuniary cost to the thoughtless in- 
dulgers therein, but a sport which, on 
the contrary, is, at great expense, sup- 
ported out of the taxes, wrung from the 
industrious, who now, in too many 
instances, struggle for the means of a 
bare subsistence: I allude, and with 
pain I do so, to the favourite diversion 
of the late king, so much cried-up for 
religious observances, who on hun- 
dreds of occasions, after attending 
early church-service in his chapel at 
Windsor, has set off to witness, amongst 
his assembled courtiers, the tetting 
loose of a poor unoffending stag out 
of a covered caravan,—such as those 
in which the showmen of wild beasts 
convey the same from market to fair, 
—in order to receive gratification from 
seeing a pack of stont and trained 
dogs pursue, overtake, worry, and la- 
cerate, the poor animal, until the herd 
of ‘ prickers” in attendance could se- 
cure and return him again to the fatak 
caravan, covered with gore. 
The victim on this oceasion, observe, 
is not a wild animal, who, having un- 
molestedly arrived at maturity of 
growth, and become fat and fitted for 
the food of man, as is partly the case 
with hares, partridges, &c. at the time 
of their being shot; but the stags 
famed and trumpeted forth im our 
newspapers, as having ailorded the 
finest sport to royalty, were those long 
kept, in a somewhat similar course of 
training, in a lean state, with the inhu- 
man_ bipeds professionally pracsising 
boxing ; and the hunting of the same 
stag was as often repeated as he be- 
came sufliciently recovered from his 
former wounds! 
Consistently enough with the above, 
a certain cock-pit royal, within the ju- 
risdiction of the dean and chapter of 
one of our cathedrals, was the place 
where the young courticr, “in the 
course of his education,” (page cu 
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