ON THE RIGHTS OF BEASTS. 1 fo 



and from thence, were it upon the cards, to the 

 gates of hell. It is a fact, that needs no labour 

 of mine to prove, that nearly all thofe beafts, 

 ftyled mad, that is, vicious and untraceable, are 

 rendered fo by the flrange change of place, 

 and by harfh and cruel ufage; and that an 

 amendment is to be fought only in the im- 

 proved morals of the people. Refpecling ad- 

 ditional remedies to thofe already devifed, I am 

 for radical ones. I am wearied with perpetual 

 temporizing, tampering, and bungling. I de- 

 teft half meafures and palliatives, in all concerns 

 whatever, as much as I do the patching up of 

 difeafe ; for there is a flrict. analogy between 

 principles phyfical and moral, and mere pal- 

 liation, in either cafe, does but lead the more 

 furely, to the acme or thorough completion 

 of the evil. But to the queftion— I cannot 

 conceive any regulations, however prudently 

 devifed, and punctually obferved, likely to be 

 thoroughly efficacious, fo long as the cattle 

 market is held in its prefent fituation ; and 

 one would be tempted to fuppofe, that it 

 could be none other, than fuch wife-acres, 

 as framed the fapient laws a gain ft fofeftal- 

 ling, and regrating, to think of introducing 

 fuch a dangerous nuifance, as a market for 

 live cattle, into the heart of a populous city. 

 Common fenfe, and the general weal, have long 

 demanded the abolition of Smithfield Market, 



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