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customers, christened one of his favourite riding 

 horses "PHILLIPS/' in his honour; and it was from 

 his and Mr. Quartermaine's stables that the King of 

 Sardinia made his selection in his recent vist to 

 England. Along with Messrs. K. Dyson and East, 

 Mr. Phillips holds the contract for the cavalry 

 horses, nearly all of which pass through their hands, 

 and are gathered from every part of the country, by 

 the aid of upwards of twenty commissioners. Messrs. 

 Wimbush and Deacon, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Joshua 

 East (who has succeeded Mr. Dickinson, and is in 

 partnership with Mr. Phillips) , Mr. Withers, and Mr. 

 Hetherington, are the largest purchasers of carriage 

 horses, though some of them do so merely in their 

 own job-master capacity, and not to sell again. They 

 supply themselves not only from Mr. Collins and the 

 other London and country dealers, but attend the 

 great fairs in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Northum- 

 berland. It is a nice question, which probably the 

 surveyor of taxes alone can solve, whether Messrs. 

 Wimbush and Co. or Messrs. East and Co. keep the 

 largest number of horses to let out. We believe that 

 they run within three or four pairs of each other, and 

 that at times each firm has owned not fewer than 

 1,400 pairs. 



The Messrs. Mason, who succeeded Mr. Elmore, 

 buy their hunters and hacks from Mr. Collins and 

 the larger dealers, and not often out of the breeders^ 

 hands. Mr. Ibbs Brown or Harboro' Brown as he 

 is popularly termed is also in that line ; while Mr. 

 Saunders, Mr. Attwood, Mr. Greenway, Mr. Philippo, 

 and Mr. G. Waymark, &c., are what may be called 

 general-purpose men. Mr. Pearl and Mr. Sewell 

 draw, we believe, their supplies chiefly from Norfolk 

 and Suffolk. Mr. Blackburn principally looks after 

 black entire horses, for funerals, which he imports 

 from Dunkirk and elsewhere ; and Mr. Smith, of 

 Whatton, makes his voyages of discovery into Ger- 



