fSi ROWELLING. 



impartially influenced to declare myself a 

 very slender advocate for their continuance 

 in practice upon the basis of general uti- 

 lATY. There may be some few cases, and 

 those few very confined in number, where, 

 from a non-submission to the dictates of a 

 more rational application, experiments m,ay 

 be made by the credulous, of their so uni-- 

 versal reputation ; but I am induced most 

 heartily to believe, such alternative must be 

 adopted much more upon the construction 

 of HOPE, than the too flattering prospect of 



EXPECTATION. 



For my own part, voluntarily embarked 

 in a conditional trust of honour with the 

 public, for the promotion of equestrian im- 

 provements by every rational and scientific 

 means that can be advanced upon the face of 

 well-founded opinion or practical experience, 

 it is impossible for me to acquiesce in the 

 recommendation of their insertion, in the va- 

 riety of indiscriminate cases before recited ; 

 from which I have withheld my approba- 

 tion upon the firmest conviction, that no 

 systematic substantiated reasons have ever 

 been promulgated, demonstrating 4he ope- 



