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    a horse till the blood flows ! and by such acts , on 6 horse ; ptobabfyv iti Ip lfitiji ^ ed , is subject from time to time , to a momentary pfifo : % Me 111 meii remorselessly avail themselves of the convenience rif jfost-chalffei and Stage-coaches , the conduct of which sends ninety horses out of a hundred , through a lingering course of torturing disease , to a premature death . Is cruelty , as far as it is a matter interesting to horses , chargeable only to the first mentioned description of offenders ? A caiman , in a ragged coat and dirty shirt , strikes his fore-horse on the nose with the butt-end of his whip , and the animal feels the smart for a full hour and a half * while a sporting gentleman , of the first fashion from top to toe , mounts filar *[ favourite mare , " and goads it on to the performance of some

    desperate match against time—its agonizing exertions either killing it ori the spot , or inflicting upon it some dire disease in the lungs , or heart , or limbs , to last as long as its life . If either of these two delinquents is a fit mark for punishment , which should have the preference ? Speak out—don ' t be thinking about the coats of the parties—the carman strikes in mere passion ; the gentleman has five hundred pounds depending on his match . If cruelty can admit of an excuse , who , if he has any wanner feeling about him than a Jew-pedlar , will deny , that the carman has the

    fceJt ' td propose ? u It is this view of the case that gives me a peculiar distaste for the spirit & £ Mr Martin ' s Act It dispenses punishment with no equal justice . I would have no legislation at all in any such matters , and certainly not such legislation as this . We see its penalties visited only upon those who have rags and dirt against them , with want of education , and other circumstances of their condition , which should Mead in their

    favour ; while it spares others , who have no better claim to exemption tlian what they derive from better dress , together with more knowledge , and more refinement , which should be regarded only as an aggravation of their wrong-doing . It is really quite absurd to see a man hunting Qut for cruel people who abuse horses , yet fixing his sole attention upon § mjthfield drovers and hackney-coachmen ; as if there were no carriages likely to present game of this sort , except those with numbers upon them . " -r-pp . 48 , 5 W .

    Ffcwtt the foregoing specimen it is easy to conjecture what Richard Ay ton would have said to Andrew Agnew had the latter risen iip in his time to profane the poor by imprisoning iti ^ m in the Sabbath / ! The essa ^ ilvhich follows the foregoin g is " On tari ^ ei&t&tt $ nd matter-of-fact people / ' and a more amusing ttnxlallietti-^ Hi ^ ^ met has nevef btet& writt ^ i ; AiM ^ btki ^ 'W&l ^ trative ojftli ^ extremes , & M $ e cdii ftpd ipic $ 1 & giv& minwh

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/8/