124 POETRY. Loofen'd from the minor tether, Free to mortgage or to fell; Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Bid them come and take their fill. The begining of the prefent month of May, Mrs. WELLS made her first appearance on the Dublin ftage, and gave her imitations before a crowded audience, which were received with the most unbounded applaufe.-Previous to her performance, Mrs. WELLS fpoke the following addrefs : WRITTEN BY E. TOPHAM, ESQ. A S fome poor merchant on a stranger Not goods original, but imitations! live, THE SPORTING MAGAZINE: OR, MONTHLY CALENDAR Of the Transactions of the TURF, the CHASE, and every other Diverfion interefting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize and Spirit. Embellished with a beautiful Engraving of the External Appearance of the Horfe (to illuftrate a Syftem of Farriery, intended to be given in this Work). Alfo a Striking Reprefentation of the Accomplished Sportfwoman, leaping over a Five Barred Gate. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, And Sold by J. WHEBLE, No. 18, Warwick Square, near St. Paul's; at WILLIAM BURREL'S Circulating Library, Newmarket; and by every Bookfeller and Stationer in Great Britain and Ireland. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. F we are not mistaken, T. C.'s Allegory made its appearance in a refpectable Monthly Publication fome years back; but we think it too good to withold from our Readers, and have therefore inferted it. VERITAS will perceive his Favours have had due Attention paid to them, both in our last, as well as in our present Publication. Our Correspondent C. W. is entitled to our best Thanks for his indefatigable Exertions; and we have only to hope for a Continuance of them. It has been an invariable Rule with us, fince the Commencement of our Publication, to notice Inftances of Canine Madness whenever they occurred: The Method of Cure pointed out by BENEVOLUS to those who have unfortunately experienced the Confequences arifing from it, has an equal Claim to our Attention, and the Effay alluded to shall certainly appear in our next. We are thankful to A GENTLEMAN JOCKEY for his Favour, which makes its Appearance in our prefent Number. His Hints alfo will have that Respect paid to them which they merit. To the reft of our numerous Contributors we have only to fay, that their Productions fhall have as early Infertion as the Nature of our Plan will admit. THE Sporting Magazine For JUNE, 1794. To the EDITORS of the SPORTINGI ment is HORSE RIDING MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, We have a course within our lines, and often witnefs as much fport, though on a fmaller fcale, as at on a Read it with pleasure and fatis faction, ye true lovers of your in-country !-hide your diminished heads, ye promoters of fedition and learn to refpect the true land of liberty from the conduct of your generous and brave countrymen, who, furrounded by hordes of Na letter, from the British I camp, near Tournay, June 17, it is with peculiar fatisfaction I find, that neither the horrid din of war, nor the human and detestable enemy our brave Britons have to encounter with, can deter them from their native purfuits, while they are held in fufpenfe by the operations of the army under General Clair-banditti, preferve that compla fayt, in the neighbourhood of cency of temper which will enable Ypres. The paragraph in the them to furmount every difficulty, letter I allude to, and which I Forgive me, gentlemen, if I have think worthy the notice of the indulged myself too much in a readers of the SPORTING MAGA-theme which, of all others, is ZINE, runs thus : "We are moft congenial to my feelings as about a mile and a half from an Englishman, and believe me Tournay; our principal amufe-to be a well-wisher to your enter taining and ufeful publication. - * I am warranted in the use of these expreffions by the infamous decree of the National Convention, in giving no quarter to a British or Hanoverian foldier, J. H. 128 Rabbits, nurtured by a Cat. RABBITS nurtered by a CAT. To the EDITORS of the SPORTING MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, I HAVE obferved in your last, and one or two of your form er publications, inftances of incongruous adoption in animals recorded. Give me leave to pre Magazine, fent you with another (no lefs To the Editors of the Sporting remarkable than either) which I truft will afford fome entertainment to the curious. Some years fince, at the houfe of a gentleman in a diftant part of the kingdom, a fox had been dug out of its earth, and was brought one evening to the houfe to be kept till the next morning, when it was to be turned out be fore a pack of hounds; a female rabbit, with two fucking ones, was procured for its refreshment, and the fox accordingly ate up the old rabbit for his fupper; but in the night he found means of effecting his efcape: a cat, who had lately kittened in the houfe, found fuck for the young rabbits, and taking compaffion on the poor orphans, nourished them as The would have done her own offspring, and feemed even to pay them uncommon attention; for the frequently carried them in her mouth to different parts of the house, even into the garrets, for greater fecurity from any enemies whom the apprehended might injure them; and more particularly from a young terrier who was alfo kept in the houfe. One of the rabbits died in two or three days, but the other lived til it was able to run about after its nurfe, who continued to treat it with the utmost tenderness and affection, but whofe cares were unavailing to preferve her adopted from the enemy fhe moft fuf GENTLEMEN, IT is a matter of doubt with me, whether the following lines may be confidered as bearing any feature of your plan; but as it is of game, (though not abfolutely the methods taken by the fportf man to obtain poffeffion of it) I think it has fome claim to your attention. It is á circumftance not generally known, but if you afk a countryman in the fouthweft part of the kingdom to dine he objects to any kind of game which comes to your table, and fays in his provincial dialect, I never eats hollow fowl; under which term he includes hares and rabbits, as well as wild fowl, and every kind of poultry. It is in vain to ask him from whence this diflike proceeds, for he can tell you no more, than that he derives it from his father. Cafar, it is very remarkable, describes the inhabitants of this bountry, as having exactly the fame prejudice.. "They esteem it (fays he) a crime to eat hares, poultry, or geefe: they kept them nevertheless for amufement." There is, however, an abftinence from this kind of food ftill more inexplicable: it is well known to fportfmen, that fpaniels refufe to eat the bones of pheafants, partridges, and wild fowl, though they hunt them naturally, they reject alfo the |