1808.} 
Tt is to the law, then, in ,the first in- 
stance, andto an improved system of edu- 
cation, in which the principles of justice 
shall be more specifically and practically 
applied, and with an especial regard to 
the care of ‘brute animals; and to the 
establishment of general and fashionable , 
habitudes of compassion, that we are to 
look for the completion of that more hu- 
manized system of morals, to which we 
aspire. If the real friends of humanity 
in this country be sufficrently numerous, 
and would be sufficiently active, their 
gradual influence with the great body of 
the people cannot be doubted, on a ques- 
tion which must surely be held conge-< 
mial with the general English feeling: and 
more especially certain would the success 
be, should their endeavours be grounded 
on the dicta of rational nature and prac- 
tical use; neither vitiated by hypocriti- 
cal moderation, nor rendered futile by 
attempts ata millenarian perfectibility, 
which involves nothing but absurdity, im- 
possibility, and nonsense. 
Your Dover Correspondent, § A Con- 
stant Reader,’ (vol. xxi. p. 544,) proves 
himself a true friend to practical hu- 
manity, by the well-founded complaint he 
has instituted in your Court of Consci+ 
ence, against the useless cruelties inflict- 
ed upen impounded animals, which, by a 
stupid and usual mistake, are punished, 
often with a rigour unto death, for the 
misdemeanours of their owners. Thus a 
gentleman being offended by another on 
horseback, will, by way of revenging him- 
self, inflict a dreadful wound oun the of- 
fender’s horse—(actual fucts)—and a 
blackguard, having received au injury or 
affront from the proprietor of a horse, 
will take his revenge onthe proprietor by 
tearing from the roots the tongue of the 
horse, or leaving him in the field houghed 
and hamstrung, according to ancient ex- 
ample! ‘The instances of the sheep and 
horse, adduced by ¢ A Constant Reader,’ 
are too common; and amongst divers si- 
milar, recollect one, many years since, of 
a poor ass, which would literally have pe- 
rished by famine, but for the locks of hay 
earried daily tothe pound, for more than a 
week, by myself and another boy. Were 
a particular statute necessary in this case, 
Ican only say, that we have many sta- 
tutes the objects of which are of less 
worth; but nothing farther is needful 
than a moderate sense of humanity in the 
otticers of a parish about to erect or re- 
pair a pound, which will prompt their re- 
collection, that in every such receptacle 
@ shed to shelter the poor prisoners frona 
Menxtury Mac., Ne, 167. 
On Humianity to Aninials. 
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the rigours of thé weather, is absolutely 
necessary, together with regular food; 
The animal to be sold in time, to repay 
their expence. 
If I understand Mr. Goodman aright 
(vol. xxil.. p. 353,) the defect to which 
he alludes in cows and sheep, of ‘ certain 
fibres growing from the lungs to the sides 
of those animals,’ is the common case 
of the lungs being found in a state of ad- 
hesion to the pleura, or tegument of the 
chest. It is a symptom of various diss 
eases, generally of the consumptive class; 
and Mr. G.’s supposition, that it more 
frequently happens in young animals, is 
well founded, The animal in which this 
adhesion may be suspected to have taken 
place, had better be immediately slaugh- 
tered, since they seldom thrive after 
wards; or if they do amend, it is usually 
in adegree too slow to repay the expence 
of their maintenance. The Jews, I be- 
lieve, in ancient times, pronounced every 
beast unclean in which there appeared 
any signs ef disease :—not so the modern 
Jew butchers of Whitechapel, who, I have 
reason to think, never reject an animal 
which they have purchased, for such a 
trifle as the adhesion of the lights. I 
have attended to the opening some scores’ 
of carcases 1: which this defect has been 
found, but without discovering, from 
want of sufficient attention, probably, 
those fibres spoken of by Mr. Goodmans 
T return him thanks for the information. 
On the horse-chesnut tree, the infore 
mation given by Ellis, of Gaddesden, an 
original and generally excellent practical 
writer on husbandry, is totally defective. 
Many trials were made in consequence of 
his recommendation, of the horse-ches- 
nut with hogs; but without the smallest 
success. The nuts seem destitute of nu- 
triment, and, when swelled with water, 
inflate and disagree with all animals. 
Were they of any utility as cattle-food, 
probably the best mode of preparation 
would be fo kiln-dry, or bake them, after 
being sodden. Horses are said to be fed 
with them in Turkey; but they are said 
to gripe and disagree, with those few 
horses which have been brought to taste. 
them in this country. ‘Fhe whole use of 
this tree is for ornament, and for the 
beauty of its flowers; but wherever it is 
grown, this loss ensues, that a sweet-ches- 
nut, one of the most valuable of timber- 
trees, might have been produced in its roo n. 
I fear Mr. Lofft’s two method’s of kill- 
ing eels will fail in utility, the one being 
attended witn toomuch trouble, the other 
scarcely effectual. The certain way to’ 
BE ~ deprive 
