420 eae illegality of Pull-baiting. 
he frown at 'this Irberty, I will take! twice 
as much: fhould he retort, D-wilbtake my 
revenge by drawing a complete character; 
‘for he has amply furnified me with mate- 
yjals.”” viel 3. 
This worthy man afterwards charged me 
with too ftreng acolouring. I told him in 
reply, I was not ufed to heap praife upon 
any man wholefale, therefore took every 
expreflion to. pieces, and fhewed him the 
firm foundation on which I built... He 
feemed- {atisfied, and returned a’ fmile. 
Four or five months prior to his death, 
he paid mea vilit. Iwas {ctretly alarmed 
to obferve, his countenance'changed, his 
conftitution breaking, as if threatening a 
diffelution.. When we parted, I tcok 
what I thought an everlailing fareiel. 
As he went out of the houfe, he fhook 
hands with my nephew (a boy: of. thir- 
teen), and, with a fmile, ‘* Farewel, my 
dear lad, we fhali meet again in -heaven!”’ 
Though fpoken imthejocular ttile, it feemed 
to indicate a fenfibility of his approaching 
end. . 
Still declining, and attended with fe- 
verifh fymptoms, but fenfible to the laft, 
he left the world September 1,.1801, after 
a lite of feventy-three years, fx months, 
and one days ; 
His perfon was of a fmallith fize, about 
five feet°three inches, and of .a {pare ha- 
bit, not robuft, but his confitution good. 
He left an amiable widow to Jament his 
lofs, by whom he had three fons ; one of 
them died a young man, an affliftion he 
feverely felt, the others are in genteel fitua- 
tions, and inherit a large portion of their 
father’s talents. William HUTTON. 
Birmingham; Dec. 5, 1801. 
eB EF csn ene 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE noticed in your Chronicle 
what you have extraed from the 
Bury paper, of the fhameful treatment of 
a young tame RULL at BURY, on the 
5th of November lad. 
The term BULL-BAITING, difgufting 
as it is, does not fuihciently chaialerize 
this outrage on humanity, good order, 
and the fafety of a popul. us town. 
But you goon “Jt feems they are 
fanétioned by an aft of Pariiament.”” Had 
you attended to my letter, I think you 
would, at leat, have doubted of the truth 
- of this fuppofition, with refpect to fanc- 
ticn. An a& of Parliament could not 
have fanétioned cruelty and injuftice. It 
could, at moft, only proteét it from civil 
punihment, I know not of any fuch att 
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[ Jan. ly 
of Parliament as prote&s dx/l-baiting at 
a ftake. Until any one can fhew fuch an 
act, I fhall rely on the beft information 
my reading and refearches give me, that 
there is‘not fuch a difgrace to our Parlia - 
mentary Code. If fuch an aét could be 
fhewn, Iam fure it ought to be repealed ; 
and I truft that now it would be repealed. 
In the mean-time, I truft the idea. that 
there is fuch an att—is to be added to 
the lift of errors noticed by Barrinc~ 
TON. 1604) 
But if bull-baitimg at.a ftake were, un- 
happily and difgracetully to our law, pro- 
teéted by ftatute; driving a bull maddened 
by torture through the fireets of a popu- 
lous town would not come within ‘the 
protection, and muft be regarded asia 
- fhocking and moit dangerous nuifance, 
And I truft, were death tohappen from 
it to any human being, that it could not. 
on trial be ruled on other principles. than 
thofe laid down by Sir Micuag4t Fos- 
TER, in his Treatife on Homicide: That 
humane and very jearned judge ruled: it 
manflaughter, where death to a bye-ftander 
happened. at cock-throwing. And where 
the danger of human life is much more 
probable and immediate, and the att 
whence that danger refults yet more cruel 
and unlawful, it is difficult to imagine 
how it could be lefs than MURTHER.” 
It has been wifhed, and-was lately: at- 
tempted and ftrangely fruftrated, that 
- there were an a&t of Parliament to pre- 
vent this horrid and exceedingly dan- 
gerous barbarity:—fo injurious to the 
morals of youth; fo incompatible with 
the comfort and fafety of the peaceable — 
and good; the young, the innocent, the © 
infirm and helplefs. vile 
I own I am not for adding to the enor- 
mous and moftrapidly accumulating mafs 
of our ffatute-laws without neceffity. 
1 am for relying on the vigour of our 
COMMON-LAW carefully confidered and 
applied and duly enforced. Without any 
other aid, bull-baiting was fupprefied at 
Windfor, when my father was recorder 
there. Another magiftrate of that cor- 
poration, the late Mr. Hatcu, fuppreffed 
cock-throwing. Both ¥ believe effectually : 
for I have not heard that either has been 
revived. 
- And I have no doubt that, in Bury’ 
or elfewhere, if the magiftracy will exert 
themfelves by caufing the offenders to be 
apprehended for a breach of the public 
peace, buil-baiting, and this yet more in- 
human praétice, will completely be done 
away without requiring the ciel ; 
aid ° 
