WOODCOCKS.

kill them without a license, sub-

jects the person shooting to the

Scott, in his best manner.

THE natural history of this bird

is so well known, that it is

needless for us here to give a de-

scription of it.-All know that it

is a bird of passage, and that it

appears in this country about

Michaelmas, and leaves it in March.

Although not cognizable to the

Game Laws, they are birds which

afford the sportsmen as much, or

perhaps more pleasure, than any

that are objects of their imme-

diate protection. By a late Act,

notwithstanding woodcocks are

not game, yet, carrying a gun to

DISPUTES

BETWEEN GENTLEMEN,

On Points of Honour, &c. &c.

COLONEL BEAUFOY versus LIEUTENANT SCOTT.

IT will be perceived, by a reference to page 9 of this Magazine, that a general Court Martial hath been held at the instance of Colo

nel Beaufoy, commanding the first Royal Tower Hamlets Militia, against Lieutenant Scott, at present serving in that regiment, for alledged disobedience of orders.As the text and letter of the allegations and defence are contained in this number, we shall merely offer a few comments upon the nature and tendency of this proceeding.

Of all the charges that we have ever perused, as exhibited by one member of the British army against another, we have never seen any that struck us altogether as so light, contemptible, and frivolous in character, as these! We have read many charges that have involved a feature more deeply malicious, it is true, but none that have been so completely puerile, and utterly unworthy of the serious attention of any honourable body of men as these. The very circumstance of wishing to billet him on a wretched hovel at Hackney, kept by a poor widow with children, when such Taverns as the Mermaid, Dolphin, and Nag's Head, remained vacant, or unoccupied by any Officer, is, in itself, a pretty clear proof by what sort of spirit the military superiors of Lieutenant Scott were

actuated,