ON THE RIGHTS OF BEASTS. I53 



of which they are fo highly capable. Hence 

 the fource of many of thofe accidents, which 

 daily occur. Does a ftage coachman commit 

 an error, with his eye or his finger, from which 

 a horfe's mouth receives a wrong direction, 

 and an accident occurs? thinking the horfe 

 ought to have underftood him, although it is 

 probable he did not underftand himfelf, or 

 afhamed that his (kill mould be queflioned, Mr. 

 Hell-driver proceeds to whipping, with all his 

 new and home cuts, perhaps for a whole flreet's 

 length, diitreiTmg all his other Horfes, and 

 running the utmoft rifk of a new accident. 

 In (hort the examples I could give, and the 

 proofs, of the inutility, as well as barbarity of 

 the far greater part of that correction, which 

 we daily fee given to Horfes, would be endlefs. 

 The (landing orders of mailers ought to be, 

 parce puer Jtimulis — " I will not fufTer my 

 Horfes to be whipped, for the more whip, the 

 greater neceflity ; and you may proceed from 

 a whip to a cat-o-nine tails." 



The brutal cruelty of the Smithfield drovers, 

 has been an immemorial di (grace upon the 

 characler of the people of this country ; and I 

 (hould not obtain credit, w T ere I to ftate the 

 number of lives, which appear from old maga* 

 zines and newfpapers, to have been loft, from 

 accidents by over-driven cattle, within the 

 laft fifty years. The late exertions of the City 



Magiftracy, 



