Debates: Bull-Baiting Bill 1800
Great Britain Parliament
Sir William Pultney, Sir Richard Hill
Parliamentary Debates: Bill to Prevent the Practice of Bull Baiting
Sir W. Pulteney said, that several gentlemen who had been witnesses to the inconveniences which the savage custom of Bull-baiting occasioned, had come up to town for the purpose of applying to parliament to put a stop to the evil. He was therefore now induced to move for leave to bring in a bill to prevent the practice.…Sir R. Hill said, that from a love of decency and decorum, and out of humanity to the common people, he should second the motion. Mr. Baker said, that the practice was certainly a very inhuman one, and occasioned many mischiefs; but bull-baiting was not the only practice to which these objections applied; cock-fighting was, in his opinion, equally objectionable. He hoped, therefore, that gentlemen would turn their thoughts to the suppression of this as well as the other practice. Leave was given, and the bill was brought in and read a first time. It was read a second time and committed on the following day. 1800-Apr-18, Windham opposed the bill in a lengthy speech, and Canning concurred. Sir W. Pulteney, R. Sheridan, and Sir. R Hill spoke for the bill. However, the House divided, 43-41 and the bill was lost.
[1800-Apr-02] "Debate in the Commons on the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting," The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 35 (1800-Mar-21 to 1801-Oct-01) 202-203.
[1800-Apr-02] "House of Commons, Bill to Prevent the Practice of Bull-Baiting," Woodfall's Parliamentary Register 2 (1800-Apr-02): 299-300.
[1800-Apr-03] "House of Commons, Bill to Prevent the Practice of Bull-Baiting," Woodfall's Parliamentary Register 2 (1800-Apr-03) 301.
[1800-Apr-18] "Debate in the Commons on the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting," The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 35 (1800-Mar-21 to 1801-Oct-01): 203-214.
[1800-Apri-18] "House of Commons, Bill to Prevent the Practice of Bull-Baiting," Woodfall's Parliamentary Register 2 (1800-Apr-18) 354-363.
[1800-Apr-21] House of Commons, Exchequer Bills, Secretary at War [William Windham], Woodfall's Parliamentary Register 2 (1800-Apr-21) 380-381.
[1800-Apr-25] "William Wilberforce to Mrs. Hannah More," extracted in vol. 2 of The Life of William Wilberforce by his sons, Robert and Samuel Wilberforce (London, 1838).
[1800-Apr] Sporting Magazine, "Bull-Baiting: Debate in the House of Commons, on Friday, April 18, 1800, on the Motion of Sir. Wm. Pulteney, for Reconsidering the Report of the Committee, on the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting," Sporting Magazine 16 (1800-Apr) 34-40.
[1800-May] Edinburgh Magazine, "Parliamentary Proceedings: The Bill for Prohibiting the Practice of Bull-Baiting, Edinburgh Magazine, or Literary Miscellany 15 (1800-May) 469.
[1800-May] Philological Society, "Wednesday, April 2 and Thursday, April 3: The Bill for Prohibiting the Practice of Bull-Baiting," European Magazine, and London Review 37 (1800-May) 397.
[1800] [Sir Richard Hill], A Letter to the Right Hon. William Windham, on his Late Opposition to the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting: By an Old Member of Parliament, To which are Annexed, some Letters and Extracts on the Same Subject; Also, some Verses on Hunting; with an Address from a Salapian Bull, and the Author's Apology, Attempted in Rhyme (London, 1800).
[1800-Jun] Anti-Jacobin Review, review of "A Letter to the Right Honourable William Windham, on his Late Opposition to the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting, By an Old Member of Parliament [Sir Richard Hill]," Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, 6 (1800-Jun): 216-217.
[1800-Jul] Monthly Review, review of "A Letter to the Right Hon. William Windham, on his Late Opposition to the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting: By an Old Member of Parliament [Sir Richard Hill]," Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, 32 (1800-Jul): 328-9.
[1800-Aug] Critical Review, review of "A Letter to the Right Hon. William Windham, on his Late Opposition to the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting: By an Old Member of Parliament [Sir Richard Hill]," Critical Review; or Annals of Literature, 39 (1800-Aug): 479.
[1800-Sep] British Critic, review of "A Letter to the Right Hon. William Windham, on his Late Opposition to the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting: By an Old Member of Parliament [Sir Richard Hill]," British Critic, 16 (1800-Sep):334.
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