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abound; and if, inftead of employing in the 

 iliooting-feafon half-a-dozen keepers night and 

 dajr, at a great expence to themfelves, and to the 

 certain injury of the health of thofe whom they 

 employ in this hazardous and difgraceful bufi- 

 Jiefs, they would permit fuch of their tenants 

 as chofe to take out licences to fport upon their 

 rcfpedtive farms, and the unprotcdted farms in 

 their neighbourhoods ; I am clearly of opinion, 

 i am pofitive, they would have a fufficieitCy 

 of game, an increafe of diversion, an increafe 

 of income, and, what is of much more value 

 to a man whom fortune has placed above de- 

 pendency, an increafe of refpe<^ability and per- 

 fonal happinefs. 



To fay that the game-laws are difgraceful to 

 •the laws of this country, would only be repeating 

 what has been faid a hundred times, and by the 

 firfb characters in it ; neverthelefs they ftill re- 

 main an abfurdity in Engliih jurifprudence*. 



* At prefcnt a merchant cr monlecl man, let him be 

 worth an hundred thoufand pounds, and let him have an 

 hundred men of hmded property ready to give him permif- 

 fion to fport over their eltates and manors, he cannot do 

 it without being guilty of a breach of the laws of his coun- 

 try. Nay, this man, nor any man, though he be poffefTed of 

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