Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: dered as their property;?next, of those who are indignant at being precluded from amusements and enjoyments to which they think that their station in life entitles them;?and, lastly, of such as look with horror at the long train of vice and immorality which can clearly be traced to its origin in the prohibitions of the Game Laws; ?all these feelings, and their combinations, introduce a degree of blind zeal and ill-humour into any discussion of the subject, which is sin-, gularly inimical to a beneficial practical result. Notwithstanding these difficulties, recent circumstances induce me to make the attempt, in the humble hope of lending some assistance to the cause of good order and morality. A distressing event, which has lately taken place in my own neighbourhood, has revived in my mind reflections which have frequently passed through it, on the tendencies of the Game Laws; and I am more than ever convinced that an impartial review of their principle, objects, andeffects, should scarcely fail to gain the assent of all parties to considerable alterations. More especially may this result be expected, if, as I think, it can be shown that the alterations proposed would tend to conciliate and to promote the interests of all parties concerned: ?that they would, at one and the same time, increase the quantity of Game for the sportsman; extend the enjoyments connected with the possession of game to those whom the progress of society has raised into a station to be entitled to them; and also immediately check, and ultimately annihilate, the moral and political evils resulting from the present prohibitions. I do not, however, wish to disguise my opinion, that it is the extent of these last which imperatively calls for the interference of the Legislature, and of all persons who have ...