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personally, and led off the most fierce, but intelligent animals, which, before the 

 above-mentioned ceremony, I should not have dared to approach. The fact has 

 been confirmed to me by all the Turkish and Arab prisoners, and by several rich 

 Arminian merchants, who deal in horses, and go generally to the desert to buy 

 them. The Kohlans also evince great warlike qualities ." 



In cases of cruel aggression upon brute animals, the duty of instructing igno- 

 rance, punishing delinquency, and above all, of setting just and good examples, 

 naturally devolves upon the enlightened and opulent classes, upon the Magistracy 

 and the Clergy ; as the shame of a general dissolution of morals, in such respect, 

 must fall also upon them. Yet we have had newspaper, we hope, false intelligence, 

 of a Member of Parliament having lately made a present to his constituents, of a 

 BULL TO BE BAITED ! A pretty training this, to the young and unreflecting sons 

 of labour, for atrocities like the following : 



In the last autumn, a man, named Edward Knight, a carter in the employ of 

 Mr. T Rowe, brewer of Padstow, Cornwall, was driving a cart belonging to his 

 master, when finding that the shaft-horse did not draw as he wished, he fastened 

 the tongue of the animal with a strong cord, to that which is called the spreader, 

 which keeps the traces behind the fore-horse, at a proper distance from each other. 

 The leader was then whipped, and the strain bore on the tongue of its companion j 

 the miserable sufferer drew back, whilst the miscreant continued to urge the other 

 horse forward, until several inches of the tongue of the wretched beast, were 

 actually torn off! The law will not reach this barbarous ruffian, but through the 

 owner of the horse, on the ground of injury to property, as if a property or being 

 which lives and feels, could possibly be assured of justice and mercy, without the 

 pale of the law's protection. They who formerly either with gravity or facetious - 

 ness, interdicted such legal protection, have since had plenty of opportunities to 

 congratulate themselves on the indirect encouragement, thereby afforded to bru- 

 tality and cruelty. 



Extract from a York Newspaper, November 27, 1819. " A short time ago, a 

 Stag was turned out on Bootham Stray, near this city, for public diversion ; and 

 under the pretence of hunting, all sorts of dogs were collected, and the poor animal 

 severely whipped, to cause it to run ; but neither whipping nor baiting had much 

 effect : it was soon caught, and kept until Monday last, when it was again turned 

 ou t aguin baited, rather than hunted : a collection of money was then made from 

 the spectators of this gratifying sight, and then the tortured animal was kindly 

 freed from further anguish by death. We have already expressed our abhorrence 

 of bull-bailing ; and very sorry should we be, should it fall to our lot, to record any 

 further attempts to approximate., acts of brutal severity and unfeeling barbarity 

 with the healthful and noble sports of the field. An uncivilized Indian may de- 

 light in torture a barbarian may boast of cruelty but a true Briton, though he 



