announced this Combination, there also appeared the following Advertisement:

"A Substitute for Game.-The NOBILITY and GENTRY in the Vicinity of BURY ST. EDMUND's, having entered into an Association, for preventing EVERY ONE but THEMSELVES, from tasting any kind of Game at their Tables, those Ladies and Gentlemen, who are not so fortunate to rent, or be in Possession of Manors or Estates, are come to a Determination, to introduce poached Eggs, as a Substitute, for PHEASANTS and PARTRIDGES; in Consequence of which, a numerous Confederacy, and most liberal Subscription, is already entered into, for obtaining at the proper Season, the most select Articles, of that delicious Food.

The Plan here pursued, is always productive: An elderly Citizen, whose Table abounded with Game of every Description, in the Season; being asked by a dashing Genius, who squandered Hundreds every Year, in Field Sports, how the D-1 He contrived to be so well supplied, who never fired a Shot, answered very drily, "I send my Guinea to Market, and that's, as sure, as a Gun."

GAME, as an Article of Freight, at CHRISTMAS, and also the Consumption of it, on LORD MAYOR'S Day, may be collected from what follows. The Norwich Coach 1807, carried Hares 97, Partridges 169, Pheasants 86, Turkeys 73, Capons 59, Wild Ducks 70, Widgeons 64, Dun Birds 48, Rabbits 100, Chines 29, and 128lbs. Sausages.

The Week preceding CHRISTMAS-DAY, 1810, not less than Thirty-tree Tons, of Turkeys and Game, were sent from NORWICH City and County, to the METROPOLIS;

which, including the Expences of Package and Carriage, averaged at one Shilling and sixpence per lb. amounts to above 5,500l.—Some Returns from the munificent Citizens, are usually expected to arrive, by NEW YEAR's Day, but three of the Coaches into NORFOLK, brought only two Barrels of Oysters, and two Quarters of Lamb!-One stage Waggon, carried from CAMBRIDGE Twelve Tons, weight of Geese, for CHRISTMAS-DAY Presents to LONDON; and one Higgler, sold as many Feathers to an Upholsterer, as came to Twenty-seven pounds.

The Lines beneath, were handed about in the City, previous to the Ninth of November, a few Years since.

Bustards, Pheasants, Woodcocks, Widgeons,
Wild-ducks, Plovers, Snipes, and Pigeons,
Every Fowl of every Sort,

To your secret Haunts resort.

Turbot, Salmon, Herring, Soles,

Plunge into your deepest Holes;

Bucks and Does, and Hares and Fawns,

Speed ye to your native Lawns,
Each to your closest Coverts haste,

Beware, Beware, the MAN of TASTE.

All that can escape-away;
Ye're surely slaughter'd if ye stay,

For Friday next, is LORD MAYOR'S Day*.

*An opposite Taste prevails, in some Districts. If a Countryman in the South-west Part of the Kingdom, is asked to dine, he objects to any kind of GAME, which comes to the Table, and says, in his provincial Dialect, I never eats hollow Fowl; under which Term, he includes Hares and Rabbits, as well as Wild-foul, and every Sort of Poultry. It is in vain to inquire whence this Dislike proceeds, for he can tell you no more, than

The extraordinary Shooting of INDIVIDUALS will be here exemplified.

In 1807, Mr. AUSTIN and Mr. FOSTER, went over the Manor of Fobsey Magnus, in Cornwall, and killed in the Course of the Day Forty-three brace of Birds. In Addition to his Partridges, Mr. AUSTIN killed five Hares and a Water-rail. Both the Gentlemen shoot in Spectacles.

In 1810, on the third of September, JOHN LACY, Esq. of Wimborne Minster, shot upon the Manor of Verwood, Dorsetshire, which does not extend beyond 2,500 Acres, Thirty brace of Partridges, Ten brace of Hares, and Twelve couple of Rabbits; he commenced his Day's Sport with the rising Sun, and closed it at four o'Clock. Six Servants, with four brace of Pointers, attended him.

Lord KINGSTON made a considerable Bet, that he would shoot forty brace of Partridges, on the 1st of September, on his Manor at HEYDON. His Lordship shot forty-one brace and an half, before Sun-set.

A Gentleman of BATH, returned from a sporting Excursion in WILTS and DORSET, affirmed, that in the Course of four Days, He and a Companion, shot forty-seven brace of Pheasants, twenty-one and a half brace of Partridges, seven brace of Hares, one Rabbit, and a Landrail. "If

that he derives it from his Father. CESAR, it is very remark. able, describes the Inhabitants of THIS COUNTRY, as having exactly the same Prejudice. "They esteemed it (says he) a CRIME TO FAT Hares, Poultry, or Geese, they kept them, nevertheless, for AMUSEMENI." De Bell. Gall, Lib. 5. C. 12.

this be not absolutely destroying-it must be making Game!" And so numerous were the Partridges this Year, that a Gentleman had such Success in one Field, in a mountainous Part of NORTHUMBERLAND, that he was necessitated to leave a Brace, which he was unable to carry away.

In 1811, Mr. S. CLARK, of Worlingham, SUFFOLK, engaged, for a bet of Fifty pounds, to kill and bag, Fortyseven Shots out of Fifty. He killed the first Forty-eight, missed the Forty-ninth, killed the Fiftieth, and continued Shooting, until he killed the Ten following, making Sixty Shots, with the loss of only one Bird.

The same Year, a Gentleman, who some time since resided in the Eastern part of SUSSEX, on the Second of September, went on a shooting Excursion into NORFOLK, and after pursuing his Diversion, for eleven successive Days, made this Return to his Friends:

Making in the whole, if Rabbits may be so called, 312 Head of Game, with which he daily retired from the Field, unattended, and loaded like a Porter!

A Gentleman, within a short distance of WORCESTER, killed a Hare and a brace of Partridges, at one shot! The Hare was his Object, and the Birds happening to be at a short distance on the Ground, in a strait Direction, will account for the Occurrence; but this was nothing, to the Performance of Mr. LEVI LARKHAM, who holds the Deputation of Radipole Farm, under J. H. BROWNE, Esq. who killed a Hare running, and a brace of Partridges flying, at one Shot!

In October, 1811, as Mr. W. a Gentleman in the Neighbourhood of Lewes, SUSSEX, was shooting Partridges with a double-barrelled Gun, and attended by a brace of excellent Pointers, his Dogs stood, the Covey rose, and he discharged both barrels, bringing down his Bird to the right and left; finding his Dogs still stationary in the high stuff, from which the Birds had risen, he re-loaded, but found, that by his first Fire, he had not only shot the Partridges quite dead, but his two Pointers also! This sporting Casualty, was occasioned by the Dogs standing on a small Eminence, and the Birds going off nearly close to the lower Ground, immediately in a Line with them.

Some Years since, three Gentlemen, from Whitehaven, shot nearly Sixty brace of Grouse in One Week, upon Stanmore, all of which, except six or seven, were old Birds. A certain Mode of providing for future Amusement.

In August, 1808, William Jamieson, in Craghead, of Auchinleck, in his Eighty-sixth Year, went to the head of Aird's Moss, SCOTLAND, to take a Day's sport at the Pouting; and, although the Day was unfavourable, and the Game shy, he returned, in high Spirits, with two brace and half of Birds. The same Man, in 1812, when Ninety Years old, set out to hunt wild Ducks, and was lucky enough to hit five Shots running, and to kill three brace of full-grown Ducks, with which the cheerful old Man came home in Triumph. He was married about seven Years ago, to his fourth Wife, and has upwards of One hundred Children, and Grand-children.

In October, 1812, James Westwick, the Keeper of Sir HENRY VANE TEMPEST, Bart. being in the Gun-room, at Vynyard, DURHAM, a Hare was observed from the Window, at a considerable Distance, which, by the parti