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are not *tlie dupss of novelty, which appellation 

 jour advocate has unblushh.gly given them, their 

 kuown characters falsjfvL.g ihe idea, but merely 

 to amuse them and myself by making a few cur- 

 sory remarks, and anking a fe -.v questions. 



Your loving cousin's aspirations after notorie- 

 ty must have been very frevent indeed ! — fervent 

 beyond bearing. 'Poor man ! — and so this letter 

 of his was " a reply to a (kind of) Prospectus, 

 " said to be for the improved treatment of the 

 cc horses foot, the said p'au professing to *be un 

 " der the immediate patronage of the Prince 

 " Regent." I^ow, really, I wish, that previous to 

 pitching these blundering inuendos in the eves 

 of the Prince, he had condescended to seek for 

 better information. " He expected too, that 



your theory from almost its fiist introduction has been rapidly- 

 declining, and that a system resembling Captain Blagrave's 

 has in a like gradition bi en rising in the public esteem : this I 

 uVubt not is owing to the approbation and celebrity it obtain- 

 ed among military men during the time he was stationed in 

 the Sussex district, and from his communication of it to some 

 particular friends. 



* What elegance of style ! I observe also in his title-page 

 he says " shoeing the foot of the horse" : perhaps his next 

 publication may broach a very new system, and we may be 

 directed to shoe his tail, or some other absurdity, such as 



placing, the frog on the ground bar? and frog- not to be cut 



---w:de heels in the wrong place,— and the expansion of the 

 fo .t at e- ery step— as have been heretofore successfully taught 

 and practised by you ! 



