156 BULL BAITING THE GLORY OF ENGLAND ! 



tice, exemplified in fair play, and protection of the fallen man. The impressing 

 of the principles of justice and fairness, in this peculiar case only, must have a con- 

 siderable and beneficial general effect, even in the minds of the most illiterate and 

 unthinking blackguards. It is a step, from which they may ascend, in the scale of 

 moral duties. We conclude with making our apology to Jackson, for attempting 

 to accommodate him with a tougher job than ever he had to encounter in the Ring, 

 with his manly arm namely, the moral reformation of that numerous collection 

 of kiddies, rum and queer, and flash, whether of the St. Giles's, or the Patrician 

 breed, which he has so often the occasion and the honour to marshal. 



A repetition of the history of this infamy, must overwhelm every honest and 

 moral relater with shame for the disgrace of his Country, and charge his breast 

 with contempt and detestation at the madness, atrocity, and hypocritical for- 

 bearance of too many of his contemporaries. The noble privilege conferred on 

 Stamford, has already been related. A similar one was subsequently conferred on 

 Tutbury, in Staffordshire, where a Bull, for the purpose of baiting, was annually 

 given by the church ! by the Prior to his Minstrels. The wretched and inof- 

 fending victim, after having his horns cut off, his ears and tail docked to the very 

 stumps, his nostrils filled with pepper, and his body besmeared with soap, was 

 turned out in that most deplorable and piteable state, to be hunted through the 

 town by a rabble of two-legged hell-hounds, completely void> in consequence of 

 the lesson taught them, and the momentary exultation of the basest passion, of a single 

 atom of human intelligence, common sense, or feeling to be worried backward 

 and forward amid the astounding and infuriating yells of these savages, until 

 some hairs, such was the sage condition, were torn from him, and he was caught 

 and held. That was the signal for chaining him to the stake, to be baited to death 

 by the dogs. A late Duke of Devonshire, in his quality of Steward of Tutbury, to his 

 great honour, and highly to the honour of the inhabitants of Tutbury, who joined 

 his Grace, effected by petition the abolition of this senseless and atrocious custom, 

 and it was accordingly relinquished by the town, in the year 1778. Why have 

 not the inhabitants of Stamford and Workingham adopted the same rational and 

 truly religious method of purging the reputation of their Towns from one of the 

 foulest and most unnatural infamies ? WE HEREBY CITE THEM TO THE BAR OF 



RELIGION, HUMANITY, AND COMMON SENSE, TO COME FORWARD AND ANSWER 

 THAT QUESTION. 



One Stavcrton, whose name might also have been immortalized by setting fire 

 to a church, or ravishing his grandmother, in 1661, demised the rent of a house for 

 ever, to the pious and charitable purpose of the annual purchaser of a bull, to be 

 baited at Workingltam, in Berks. The dead bull and money collected to be distri- 

 buted among the poor. The day fixed upon for this holy ceremony is that of 

 Saint Thomas the Apostle ; and about twenty years ago, a sermon was preached 

 against it, by Dr. Barry, at the desire of the Rev. Mr. Bremner, resident clergy- 



