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We might fill a volume, were we to collect and enumerate the various acts of damnable infamy prac tised by this set of men and tolerated in this country of assumed tenderness and sensibility; but an instance or two must suffice.

It is customary with butchers, (horrid name! but justly significant) to tie two calves together by the legs and to throw them across a horse, in which manner they are suspended for two or three hours together, and still longer, if the inhuman wretch has business on his way home, or if invited to lounge at a favourite alehouse.

It is the constant practice of these wretches to bleed calves to death, for the purpose of whitening the flesh; and the process is worthy of professed and hired murderers. An incision is made in the throat, and the animal is then hung up by the heels, while yet alive and convulsed with pain. One end of a short iron hook is at the same time stuck into the body near the tail, and the other end in the mouth, for the purpose of bending the neck, and opening the wound. In this state the miserable animal is left to

linger several hours!

It is not uncommon with these professed murderers, in driving a number of sheep, when any one is untractable, to break it's leg.

A butcher driving a flock of sheep, one of them having broke away from the others, the monster drew his knife, and, with shocking barbarity, cut out the poor creature's eyes. In that condition he turned him to the rest of the flock. Such barbarous inhu manity raised the indignation of all who saw it, except the executioner, who being asked the motive which had induced him to such an act of cruelty, repli ed, with unconcern, that " he was accountable to no

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 Christiani. ty 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, M. A. author of a "Sermon on the Sinfulness of Cruelty to Animals," preached at Southampton, Aug. 16, 1807, says, page 18, "I have been credibly inform ed 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 quali ties 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,

much taller than the common ones, measuring nearly three feet four inches, to the top of the head, exclusively of the horns, covered with hair, every where strong and coarse, but long and shaggy at the mane. The lad in attendance rode upon his back, across the room, without any apparent inconvenience. At the sight of this I could not help reflecting that by domesticating the sheep, and applying it to our cruel purposes, we load it with fat till the slightest exertion puts it out of breath; so that we even render it liable to roll over and be cast, as the shepherds call it, there often to lie upon it's back till the crows pick it's eyes out, or until it perishes from inability to regain it's legs. It is indeed no just matter of surprise that the domesticated sheep can never recover it's wild state. After robbing the unfortunate creature of it's own warm clothing, it is kept ready for the knife in a state of incipient rot, and then we exclaim, what a dull, sluggish, stupid looking animal is this! I shudder at the thought which forces itself on my mind. Tell me, reader, is that originally noble creature man, more, or is he less deteriorated?"

Gibbon, speaking of the tartarean shepherds, says, "the ox or the sheep are slaughtered by the same hand from which they are accustomed to receive their daily food; and the bleeding limbs are served, with very little preparation, on the table of their un feeling murderer." This assersion is applicable to almost every servant in a large english farmhouse.

A tolerably correct conjecture may be formed of the enormous carnivorous propensity of the English, from the daily devastations which are uniformly committed on the various kinds of domestic animals in London., Lord Townsend in the year 1725, assured the King of Prussia, at Herenhausen, which is

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confirmed by exact registers, that one day with another, the number amounted to 1200 oxen; besides which, above 20,000 sheep, and 12,000 hogs and calves, are consumed there every week. According to Maitland's calculation for the same year, there were destroyed in London, 98,244 oxen, 711,123 sheep and lambs; 164,760 calves, and 186,932 hogs; and a proportionable quantity of fish and fowl." Keyster's Travels.

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The consumption of sheep and lambs, in London, during the last 12 months, amounted in number to 1,062,700. The number of horned cattle slaughtered, was 164,000. By the inspectors, return, it appears that the number of horsehides produced at Leadenhall-market, amounted to 12,900!" The News," Oct, 26, 1818.

The following new method of destroying field-mice is seriously given in a modern publication, as an ingenious invention. "Catch, by means of traps, or any other method, ten or a dozen field mice, alive, and confine them in a box without food. They will be driven by hunger to destroy and devour each other. The single conqueror and survivor of the rest, will, by this means, have acquired an unnatural and ravenous thirst after the blood of his own species, and when turned out into the fields, from which he was taken, he will go into their holes, and destroy both young and old, in order to satiate his newly acquired appetite." Could any wretch less infamous than a professed butcher, be the inventer of so diabolical a method?Cited by the Rev. L. Richmond, in his Appendix to his Sermon on Cruelty.

Instances are not wanting, in which men have first eaten human flesh from the pressure of extreme hunger, and afterwards indulged in it from wanton.

ness, and depravity. An eminent Portuguese naturalist is the author of the following extracts on this subject. A copy of the paper containing them was given by him from his own manuscript, never published, to Dr. G. H. Langsford, physician to Prince Christian of Waldeck at Lisbon, on the 5th of January 1798, who translated it into German, and sent it to Professor Voigt of Jena. [See his "Magazin. für den nuesten zustand der Naturkunde," vol. 1, p. 3.] "During a dreadful famine in India, which destroyed more than a hundred thousand persons, when the roads and streets were covered with dead bodies, because people had not sufficient strength to inter them, I saw several have the resolution to preserve their lives by this disgusting food; but some of them, tho' not many, found it so delicious that, when the famine was at an end, they retained such an irresistible propensity to eat human flesh that they lay in wait for the living in order to devour them. Besides others, there was a mountaineer who concealed himself in a forest near the highway, where he used to cast a rope, with a noose, over the heads of the passengers, whom he afterwards cut to pieces to gratify his unnatural appetite. He had killed many persons in this manner, but was at length caught and executed. At the same time, and owing to the same cause, a woman used to go out for the express purpose of carrying away children who had strayed from their homes. She stopped up their noses and mouths with clay, that they might not call for assistance, and by these means suffocated them. She confessed the fact on being taken, and some salted human flesh was found in her habitation. My servant having entered it, observed a girl of four or five years of age, who had been suffocated in this manner, and who

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