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tions, in almost every inn from Yarmouth 

 in Norfolk, to the Land's End in Cornwall. 



Under this established truths it is also aa 

 additional fact, that while the very respect- 

 able class, whose integrity I applaud, and 

 whose assiduity the public perceive and oro- 

 tect, are obtaining the very best com and 

 hay that can be consumed upon the premises 

 w^ithout respect to the price of purchase ; not 

 more from a desire to promote their hourly 

 increasing reputation, than to gratify the 

 happy sensation of inherent probity ; the lat- 

 ter are constantly procuring the hay and corn 

 only, that can be purchased at the very 

 Low^EST PRICE, w^ithout a relative Considera- 

 tion to quality, conscience, or reputation, 



Happy for the owners, much more happy 

 for the fatigued and dejected horses, if either 

 possess the good fortune or sagacity to dis- 

 cover the internal comforts by external ap- 

 pearance ; nor can I conceive it w^ould be 

 bad policy in the very great numbers who 

 constantly travel, if they w^ere to obtain by 

 petition to parliament a legal injunction, ihdit 

 the SIGN without should be strictly emble- 



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