126 ACCIDENTS THE GAME LAWS. 



nessed in a Pointer, named Bravo, which stood his game through the loose stone 

 walls, that divide the enclosures on the Wolds of Gloucestershire. 



The following accident, which occurred lately, we tender to the notice of those 

 who are concerned in feeding sporting dogs. At a Shooting Party on the grounds 

 of jp. Dobson, Esq. near Beverly, Yorkshire, two Pointers belonging to the above 

 mentioned Gentleman, being suddenly taken ill, were immediately bled, but it was 

 of no avail, and they were oblig-ed to be carried home. The dogs expired next 

 day, notwithstanding the greatest exertions to preserve them. They were opened, 

 and on inspection, proved to have died from eating putrid horseflesh, which they 

 could not digest. This happened in October last, and ought to be a caution to 

 servants against feeding dogs with flesh arrived at the state of putrefaction. 



The GAME LAWS. No success has hitherto attended any attempt at the abate- 

 ment of the severity of these laws, which continues in full force, bringing disputes, 

 heart-burnings, and mischief, among the farmers and inhabitants of the Country. 

 A very serious misunderstanding of this kind, has lately arisen in the parishes of 

 Hartfield, and Withy ham, Sussex, between the farmers in that neighbourhood, and 

 the Gamekeepers of Her Grace the Duchess of Dorset : the two parties, it seems, 

 have been on very bad terms a long while, and the gamekeepers have proceeded 

 the length of shooting several lurchers and other dogs of that kind, the property 

 of the farmers, on the allegation of such do^s being kept for the purpose of poaching. 

 This violence has, as might be well expected, induced equally violent quarrels 

 between the parties, almost the entire neighbourhood espousing the side of the 

 fanners, who are regarded as greatly oppressed. The Gamekeepers, in the mean 

 time, have laid informations before the Magistrates, against several parties, on the 

 charge of keeping unlawful dogs. It is probable however, that the Magistrates 

 have, taken the prudent and most proper part of becoming pacificators in the affair, 

 since it is determined that the dispute shall remain in abeyance, until the return 

 of Lord Whitworth from Naples, when it will be submitted to his Lordship's 

 reference. 



