6-15-1850: "By game laws, the tax on fire arms, the English people are ignorant of the use of the latter; such ignorance being as remarkable as the general knowledge of their use in America."

   “The chief military authority of England, just before Louis Phillippe decamped, wrote a famous letter to prove that England was utterly exposed to French Invasion. That authority was right. England was exposed to dynamic aggressions. By game laws, the tax on fire arms, the English people are ignorant of the use of the latter; such ignorance being as remarkable as the general knowledge of their use in America. When Napoleon conquered the armies of a country he did not care for the peasantry, who were not used to fire arms.”–Europe By An American, No. XI. Paris Correspondence of The Tribune. Paris, Thursday, May 30, 1850. [New-York Daily Tribune, New-York, Saturday, June 15, 1850. Vol. X. . . . . . . No. 2860. Pg. 6]