There have always been two opinions held respecting the policy and prudence of the GAME LAWS, between two classes of people equally opposite to each other, the HIGHEST and the _lowest_; in support of which, it has been the persevering practice of the former, to enact laws for the protection of what they conceive their RIGHT; and the latter have been as invariably engaged (from one generation to another) in devising plans to counteract and undermine it: thus the _cunning_ of one is engaged in a perpetual war with the POWER of the other, and most probably centuries only can ascertain the victory. Here the eye of impartiality will naturally advert to a passage from a writer lately quoted who is of opinion, that "a person having _no land_, and who chooses to keep his property in _money_, has no more right to a HARE or PARTRIDGE, than he has to the _sheep_ or _goose_, from him who has chosen to vest his property in LAND." This writer, probably, in his hasty zeal to exalt the LANDED interest above its proper weight in the scale of WEALTH, had totally forgotten (or never knew) that great national depositary of immensity, called the BANK of ENGLAND, situate in the CITY of LONDON; the millions eternally in motion through the medium of COMMERCE, and moving in all directions, to every quarter of the globe; as well as the EAST and WEST INDIA possessions, to an extent of riches beyond conception. All these, to gratify the _self-importance_ of the holders of a _little land_, the learned writer had found it convenient to bury in oblivion. _Sir Roger de Coverley_ would most probably have said, (could he have been at this moment consulted upon the subject,) "MUCH may be said on BOTH sides." In saying which, he would have spoken wisely; for it cannot be conceived, that every individual of the infinity of STOCK-HOLDERS, who loyally place an implicit faith in the stability of Government, and embark all their property to support it, (in many instances from FIVE to FIFTY or a HUNDRED THOUSAND pounds each,) does not feel himself _equally_ affected with the appetites of a GENTLEMAN, as he who possesses 100_l._ a year in LAND; and not feeling more disposed to sacrifice at the _shrine_ of SELF-DENIAL than his neighbour, finds it necessary to avail himself of all the comforts and advantages to be derived from his MONEY, that the other does from his LAND; under which candid and impartial consideration it is fair to conclude, that so long as there shall be a natural propensity to good living, and the delicacies which Providence has so plentifully bestowed; so long as the monied THOUSANDS of the METROPOLIS shall incline to believe they are _entitled_ to a _participation_; and so long as GAME shall be _bred_, and human degeneracy in the lower classes of society continue; so long will POACHERS continue undiminished, in opposition to every means that the utmost limits of human wisdom can suggest for their extirpation.