BULL BAITING APPEAL TO PROFESSOR JACKSON. 15,5 



and seize him by the hinder leg or tail, or any part that offers, coming last of all, 

 to his head, which he will work at, until he get a toss, or a sickening body blow, 

 when having got his gruel, hanging his tail, he is off in a canter about his busi- 

 ness, either with discreet silence, or a few piercing cries, and it is seldom found 

 upon the cards, to coax him into such another premuni re. BULL TERRIERS, how- 

 ever, with pure blood on both sides, will stoutly do their best, in this engagement. 

 It has been customary of late years, to cross the Terrier with the Bull Dog, chiefly 

 or solely, we believe, for the purpose of Badger Baiting. 



The infamous, base and cowardly perversion, BULL BAITING, mistaken for di- 

 version, by idiots, and two-legged beasts without hearts, has to the honour of Eng- 

 lishmen, who possess both heart and mind, been for many years on the decline ; 

 thence Bull Dogs, the true blackguards of their race, have in comparison with 

 former days, become scarce, and from their utter uselessness, in any view of com- 

 mon sense, which as ladies of a certain class, used to say formerly, has little to do 

 with Dog-fighting, it is fervently to be wished that a tomb of the Capulets, proba- 

 bly their cater-cousins, may be found, to enshrine to eternity, the WHOLE RACE. 

 They do not pay for breeding now, as they once did ; when a true bred bull-puppy 

 would command ten shiners, for exportation. The sport too, has certainly de- 

 creased in London, since our vicious societies, have had an eye upon the Sunday 

 and Saint Monday baiting in Islington fields, as well as the Sunday pinching of 

 the empty, rumbling, and croaking guts of the half-starved labourer. The chief 

 of this cruel insanity remaining, is to be found in certain provincial corporations, 

 where the jolter-heads or moon-stricken humbugs of the olden time, left part of 

 their property to the injury of their families, or the neglect of holy charity, for the 

 base purpose of perpetuating abomination and nuisance. The prevailing fashion 

 of the day, however, is ever most difficult to conquer, and as it is too generally the 

 custom, to wind up the tragi-comedy of a boxing match with the entertainment of 

 a bull-bait, there perhaps lies the chief difficulty of reformation in this case. We 

 must not yet despair of the Commonwealth of Humanity, and we a second time, 

 (See Sporting Magazine] make our appeal to the respectable Pugilistic Professor, 

 Jackson, trusting that his native bravery, love of fair play, good sense, and discre- 

 tion, will be seriously exerted to the utmost of his great influence in the affair, to 

 rub out this foul, cowardly, and ignominious stain from the BRITISH PUGILISTIC 

 RING. Let him reflect, and it ought to be his pride and consolation, that the 

 science and practice which he professes, are not necessarily connected with any thino* 

 either immoral or improper ; on the contrary, national, highly useful, and havino- 

 a most important moral tendency, in the respect that, it teaches men to vent their 

 passions arid vengeance in blows which impart only a temporary injury, instead of 

 the course so common and fatal in other countries, of the knife and dagger in 

 fact, it is one great cause why England has produced so few assassins. In another 

 regard, it teaches a branch of the superior morality, namely the great duty of jus- 



