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Debates: Cruelty to Animals 1809

Great Britain Parliament: Lord Erskine

Parliamentary Debates: Cruelty to Animals Bill 1809

Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Cruelty Towards Animals

[1809-May-05] "House of Lords, Friday, May 5, Cruelty to Animals Bill," Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 268;.

[1809-May-05 | "House of Lords, Friday, May 5, Lord Erskine, Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Cruelty towards Animals," Parliamentary Debates from the year 1803 to the Present Time, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 380.

Lord Erskine brought in a Bill for the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty towards Animals. The Bill was read a first time, and ordered printed; and his lordship gave notice that on Monday, if it were then printed, he would fix a day for the second reading.

[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.

On the order of the day for the second reading of this bill, Lord Erskine rose and said:—My Lords; I am now to propose to the humane consideration of the house, a subject which has long occupied my attention, and which I won to you lordships is very near my heart.—

"…Their freedom and enjoyments, when they cease to be consistent with our just dominion and enjoyments, can be no part of their natures; but whilst they are consistent, their rights, subservient as they are, ought to be as sacred as our own…Every other branch of our duties, when subject to frequent violation, has been recognised and inculcated by our laws, and the breaches of them repressed by punishments; and why not in this, where our duties are so important, so universally extended, and the breaches of them so frequent and so abominable?…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."

1809-May-31] "House of Lords, Wednesday, May 31, Cruelty to Animals' Bill," Parliamentary Debates from the year 1803 to the Present Time, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 804-8.

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

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

1809-Jun-02] "House of Lords, Friday, June 02, Cruelty to Animals' Bill," Parliamentary Debates from the year 1803 to the Present Time, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 851-858.

[1809-Jun-07] "House of Lords, Wednesday, June 7, Lord Erskine's [Cruelty to Animals] Bill" Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 565.

[1809-Jun-09] A Bill to Prevent Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals.

[1809-Jun-09] "House of Lords, Friday, June 9, Cruelty to Animals Bill" Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 611-2.

[1809-Jun-12] House of Commons, Monday, June 12, Cruelty to Animals' Bill," Parliamentary Debates from the year 1803 to the Present Time, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 989-90.

[1809-Jun-12] "House of Commons, Monday, June 12, Cruelty to Animals Bill" Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 638.

[1809-Jun-13 ] "House of Commons, Tuesday, June 13, Cruelty to Animals Bill" Parliamentary Register 3 (1809): 659-673.

[1809-Jun-13] House of Commons, Tuesday, June 13, Cruelty to Animals' Bill," Parliamentary Debates from the year 1803 to the Present Time, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 1029-1040.

[1809-Jun-1 ] "House of Commons, Thursday, June 15, Cruelty to Animals Bill, Parliamentary Debates from the year 1803 to the Present Time, 16 (1809-Apr-11 to 1809-Jun-21): 1071.

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

[1809-Jul] Evangelical Magazine, 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-Jun] Gentleman's Magazine, 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 27 (1809-Jul): 545-549.

1809-May] Sporting Magazine, "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.