20*2 GAME LAWS COACHES HORSE STEALING. 



pounds, for sporting- with a game certificate, but not qualified by estate. A dis- 

 tress warrant was directed to him ; but being- a minor, he has since been com- 

 mitted to the county goal at Ipswich, for three months ! E. Syer, Esq. of Clif- 

 ford's Inn, Middlesex, according to the public papers, was the informer, and the 

 Rev. J. Chevalier, of Aspal, M. D. a witness. Mr. Garneys, the father, it seems, is 

 qualified by estate, and to speak from memory, on this particular point, the land 

 on which the young man sported, was either in the occupation of the father, or an 

 approving friend. These notable British laws, if they can be said to merit that 

 sacred name, will be strained so hard, that anon they will experience a crash not 

 at all to the satisfaction of their supporters. Every example congenial with the 

 foregoing, should be put upon record, 



STAGE COACH DRIVERS. Some infamous delinquents of this description, have 

 arisen since our remarks. With respect to the punishment of a few months impri- 

 sonment, in a case of wilful and audacious hazarding the lives and limbs of others, 

 at best, it is but a sorry joke. To that rational part of the public, who enjoy and 

 patronize this fun, we have little farther to say; but to those who aim at preven- 

 tive punishment, we reiterate our former advice of suspension of the delinquent 

 from his occupation as a coachman, for a term of years, or for ever, according to 

 the nature of the case.. 



ANOTHER NATIONALLY CREDITABLE RECORD ! " Horse-steating,abont twenty 

 years ago, was so very common in the North of England, and throughout Scot- 

 land, as to be by many, regarded, rather as an illegitimate means of subsistence, 

 than a serious crime ; but until within the two or three last years, the number of 

 offences of this description had decreased. It is now however so common in the 

 above-mentioned districts, that upon an average (1818) about six horses are stolen 

 weekly, scarcely one in twenty of which, is recovered." Public Papers. 



On the same authority, we state, as a caution, that several horses were killed last 

 year, by eating HAWS, which obstruct the stomach and intestines, in the same 

 manner as wheat ; inflammation and mortification suddenly ensuing. 



From the same, of October, 1818. A Steam Boat race has lately taken place, 

 in the Chesapeake, Virginia, between two rival boats of Richmond and some other 

 port. The Richmond boat was victorious. The victor is stated to have run eigh- 

 teen miles in one hour and ten minutes, nearly equalling the speed of the fastest 

 sailing American frigates. 



