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 person for what he did, and that he would use his own property according to his own mind."—Gentleman's Mag. vol. xxiv, p. 241, 255.

A number of wretched calves, with almost useless limbs, from an inactive position and the jolting of a waggon, are continually thrown down upon the stones of Smithfield, while unconscious, and worse than brutal spectators, are amused, even to expressions of rapture, in proportion to the severity of the falls and injuries of these distressed animals. Were a few of these feeling advocates for the practice of Christianity precipitated in like manner, such an amusement would suggest the convenience of a slide and a truss of straw, or some other gentle means of effecting the same end.

Cooks are a species of butchers. R. Mant, author of a "Sermon on the Sinfulness of Cruelty to Animals," preached at Southampton, Aug. 16, 1807, says, page 18, "I have been credibly informed that the following anecdote of a nobleman of high rank, lately deceased, is true. His attention being one day forcibly arrested by cries of distress, proceeding from the kitchen, he enquired the cause; and was told that they were uttered by a pig, which the cook was then whipping to death, that it might furnish a more exquisite delicacy for his grace's table. It would be injustice to omit, that his grace expressed much horror at the enormity, forbade it's repetition, and dismissed the servant who had been guilty of it."

"It is a miserable thing," says Mr. Newton, "to observe the low estimate which is made of the qualities of the ill-fated sheep. In his wild state, he is as respectable for strength and courage, as his size entitles him to be. I lately saw a ram in Piccadilly,