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GROUSE. In 1819, Mr. Thomas Craig, game-keeper to the Governors and 

 Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, in Alston Moor, killed forty-one birds in 

 seventeen shots, viz. thirteen shots brought down twenty -six birds, three shots nine 

 more, and the seventeenth shot laid down no fewer than six, making in all forty- 

 one. He also killed twelve plover in four shots twice two and twice four. 



The BLACK GAME were abundant on Ashdown Forest, Berks, in 1819, no dis- 

 temper appearing among them as in the North. These birds have spread much of 

 late years over Poole Heath, and with care and preservation, would soon become 

 abundant in that part of Dorsetshire. 



EUSTON HALL, SUFFOLK. His Royal Highness the Duke of York, with a 

 large shooting party, on a visit to His Grace the Duke of Graf ton, each day bagged 

 nearly two hundred head of Game. 



Died on January 7, 1820, at West End, in the Parish of Feicstone, Yorkshire, in 

 his one hundred and tenth year, Mr. John Domaine. The chief amusement of his 

 life was hunting, which he always pursued on foot, and which he continued until 

 within the last five years of his life. He was never known to exchange his 

 clothes, however wet, and never experienced a day's confinement from illness in 

 his life. After he had attained his hundredth year, he complained that he was 

 grown old, and could not leap over a stile or a ditch with his accustomed agility. 

 . NEWLY-INVENTED GUN. A gun of an entire novel construction, was exhi- 

 bited in December 1819, in the garden of York- Ho use, before the Duke of 

 York, the Adjutant-General to the Forces, the Quarter Master General, Earl 

 Cambden, and General Sir H. Taylor. It weighs less than the ordinary musket, 

 though composed of seven barrels one of the common length, and in the same 

 position ; around it, at the breech, are the six others, of about three inches in length 

 only. The whole being charged, and the priming for the whole placed in the 

 magazine-chamber, which preserves it quite dry, and yields just sufficient, and no 

 more, to each charge. The simple art of cocking places each of the short barrels 

 successively, in complete connection with the long one, and that of shutting the 

 pan, primes it ; so that seven discharges may be effected in thirty seconds : and if 

 the long barrel be rifled, it produces the effect of a rifle gun, without the labour or 

 deformity of the ball, produced by the ordinary mode of loading. It is perfectly 

 safe and accurate, with great simplicity, every part being so guarded, as to pre- 

 vent the possibility of danger, error or impediment. The invention, it appears, is 

 equally applicable to great guns, pistols, or the arms used for the horse or coach- 

 guards. In the hands of game-keepers also, it must be a terrific weapon. His 

 Royal Highness minutely examined every part of it, and desired the ingenious in- 

 ventor to make four or five discharges, by which he put the balls, each time, in a 

 cluster round the mark. 



GAME LAWS. On September the 21st, 1819, Mr. William Garneys, son of 

 Thomas Garneys, Gent, of Kenton, Suffolk, was convicted in the penalty of five 



