TO THE 



RIGHT HONOURABLE 



FRANCIS AUGUSTUS 



LORD HEATHFIELD, 



BARON HEATHFIELD OF GIBRALTAR, 



LIEUTENANT GENERAL IN HIS MAJESTy's SERVICE, 

 AND COLONEL OF HIS MAJESTY*S TWENTIETH 

 REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS. 



My Lord, 



1 HAT a large proportion of the horses in 

 this country are rendered useless by diseases 

 in their feet^ long before the strength of their 

 bodies becomes in any material degree im- 

 paired, is a fact of general notoriety. 



The feet are certainly more exposed to 

 wear than any other part of the body, and 

 thence^ are necessarily more subject to dis- 

 ease ; yet lamenesses in these parts do not 

 so much arise from the labour the horse un- 

 dergoes, as from circumstances connected 



