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Lord Erskine

Cruelty to Animals Bill, 1809

[1809-May-05] "House of Lords, Friday, May 5, Cruelty to Animals Bill," Parliamentary Debates, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 380.

[1809-May-15] "House of Lords, Wednesday, May 31, Lord Erskine's [Cruelty to Animals] Bill," Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 388-90.

[1809-May-15] "House of Lords, Monday, May 15, Cruelty to Animals Bill," Parliamentary Debates, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 553-72.

[1809] Lord Erskine, The Speech of Lord Erskine on the Second Reading of the Bill for Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals, Reprinted in the appendix of The Wrongs of the Animal World, by David Mushet (London, 1839; Online at Animal Rights History, 2003).

The Speech by Lord Erskine…on the Bill for Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals

The next generation will feel, in the first dawn of their ideas, the august relation they stand in to the lower world, and the trust which their station in the universe imposes on them; and it will not be left to a future Sterne to remind us, when we put aside even a harmless insect, that the world is large enough for both. This extension of benevolence to objects beneath us, become habitual by a sense of duty inculcated by law, will reflect back upon our sympathies for one another ; so that I may venture to say firmly to your Lordships, that the Bill I propose to you, if it shall receive the sanction of Parliament, will not only be an honour to the country, but an era in the history of the world.

A Bill was brought into the House of Commons, whilst I had the honour of a seat there, to repress this practice [of bull-baiting], but not upon the true principle. The framers of it were, I am persuaded, actuated by motives of humanity, but they mixed with it very laudable objects of human policy, which rather obscured the principle of protection to the animals.

[1809-May-31] "House of Lords, Wednesday, May 31, Cruelty to Animals Bill," Parliamentary Debates, 14 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 804-8.

[1809-May-31] "House of Lords, Wednesday, May 31, Cruelty to Animals Bill," Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 499-503.

[1809-June-02] "House of Lords, Friday, June 02, Cruelty to Animals Bill," Parliamentary Debates from the year 1803 to the Present Time, 14 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 851-3.

1809-Jun-02] "House of Lords, Friday, June 2, Lord Erskine's [Cruelty to Animals] Bill," Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 534-5.

[1809-Jun] "Monthly Retrospect of Politics, Bill Introduced by Lord Erskine to Prevent Cruelty to Animals, Belfast Monthly Magazine, 2 (1809-Jun): 471; Online at Google Books..

1809-Jun] review of "The Speech in the House of Peers on the Second Reading of the Bill for Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals [1809-May-15], Gentleman's Magazine 79-1 (1809-Jul): 545-549.

[1809-Jul] review of "An Essay on Humanity to Animals, by Thomas Young," Evangelical Magazine 17 (1819-Jul): 292.

[1809-Jul] Lord Erskine, Speech in the House of Peers on the Second Reading of the Bill for Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals [1809-May-15], Monthly Magazine 27 (1809-Jul) 556-65.

[1809-May] "Lord Erskine's Bill, to Prevent Cruelty Towards Brute Animals," Sporting Magazine 34 (1809-May) 72-6.

[1809-Oct] P. [New Kent Road], letter to the editor, "Animals' Friend" Literary Panorama (1809-Oct):83-7.