SPOHTSMEN, FARMERS, &C. 179 



Then sportsmen will be able to punish 

 such oftenders, by indicting them, NOT at 



THE aUARTER SESSIONS OF THE COUNTY, 

 but, by giving them notice to appear 

 BEFORE OUR SOVEREIGN LORD, THE KING, 



AT WESTMINSTER: there you will have 

 ample justice done you. I am of opinion 

 these poisoning gentlemen will be soon tired 

 of this practice : they will not only suffer 

 in their purses, but will be held up, by the 

 publishing of such trials in the newspapers, 

 to the contempt and abhorrence of all 

 mankind. 



A few words more before I quit this 

 subject. I address myself to that respect- 

 able body of farmers, whose liberality, hos- 

 pitality, and kindness, I have so frequently 

 experienced. I have frequently been in- 

 vited by them (by the bye, who have had 

 long leases of their farms,) to come and 

 sport on their grounds, saying : *' Go you 

 and shoot on my farm, and on my neigh- 

 bour's farm, who dines with us to-day; 

 and if any one asks you what right you 

 have to shoot there, tell them you have 



