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inunity for an amusement, innocent in its nature, and 

 fraught with the blessings of health: particularly 

 when it is considered, that Great Britain, owing to 

 her commerce, not only reigns mistress of the seas, 

 but commands the greatest respect from all powers 

 in the known world : take away her commerce, her 

 meridian splendour would be eclipsed, and she would 

 sink into insignificance and contempt among those 

 very surrounding nations which are now compelled 

 to regard her as the most powerful sovereign on the 

 face of the earth. 



I will beg leave to state a case or two, which will 

 illustrate the nature of evidence, in convictions, and 

 actions at law, and afford perhaps a little useful in- 

 formation. 



H. 12 G. R. v. Hill. The defendant was con- 

 victed for unlawfully keeping a lurcher and a gun, 

 to kill and destroy the game, not being duly qualified 

 by the laws of this realm so to do. And the convic- 

 tion being removed into the king's bench by cer- 

 tiorari, was quashed ; because it was only averred 

 generally, that he was not qualified, and did not aver 

 that the defendant had not the particular qualifica- 

 tions mentioned in the statute, as to degree, estate, 

 and the rest. 2 L. Raym. 1415. 



In the case of R. v. Jarvis, H. 30 G. 2, the 

 conviction set forth, that the defendant did unlaw- 

 fully keep and use, and had in his custody and pos- 

 session, one setting dog and setting net, for the de- 

 struction of the game ; and that he, the said Jarvis, 



