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most cruel and exhausting labours. Shaftoe's Squirrel, it is said, was rtm 

 to death in a fish-cart, on the Western road; and the writer of this saw 

 poor old blind Bos])horus knocked down at the hammer, for four guineas, 

 to work in a mill. Several late instances of this kind might be given. 



In justice, however, to the character of the present time, instances in 

 direct opposition to the above, may be produced, and they are brought 

 forward with the sincerest pleasure. The late philanthropic Mr. Howard 

 extended his humane attentions to the brute creation, and provided 

 comfortably for the latter days of those Horses, which had spent their 

 youth and strength in his service : such also is the generous and feeling 

 practice of an honorable member of the late Parliament, whose resi- 

 dence is in Shropshire, and Avhose park is ornamented with the pleasing 

 spectacle of a number of aged animals, enjoying the due reward of a 

 laborious life, in peace, plenty and comfort. In company with the above, 

 I cannnot deny myself the satisfaction of introducing the following 

 anecdote of General Phipps, brother of the Earl of Mulgrave, since I 

 have a knowledge of the fact on the best authority. The general had a 

 favorite mare, which had carried him safely, cheerfully, and to his 

 highest satisfaction, for some years. A year or two since, this old servant 

 began to faulter, to drop from the weakness of her joints, and to manifest 

 the gradual approach of age and decrepitude. The General mounted 

 her one day more, and in a short tour about town, took an affectionate 

 leave of his old favorite, sending a groom with her, the next day, to take 

 herbyeasyjournies to Mulgrave, in Yorkshire, a distance oftwo hundred 

 and fifty miles, where is provided a comfortable asylum for the remainder 

 of her life. General Phipps is one of the best Horse-masters in the 

 world, and has well earned that title which ranks so high in the wisdom 

 of the Hebrews—' a merciful man to his beast.' One more characteris- 

 tic trait of British humanity. On the late motion in Parliament, for 

 thanks to the conquerors of Monte Video, General Phipps was solicitous 

 to remind the House, that although the place was taken by storm in the 

 morning ; by twelve o'clock the same forenoon, the shops were opened, 

 and the inhabitants regularly going about their business, as though 

 nothing extraordinary had occurred. An illustrious instance of national 

 humanity, and of modern mitigation of the horrors of war, which deserves 



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