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 that negative kiiuU that would have been conclu- 

 sive to a mind less sanguine than the Captain's. 

 I kno'vv not what particular cases he might select 

 for the entertainment of his private friends, but 

 this I know upon good autoritj, that the Public 

 suiferedbj his notorious quackery; and that more 

 aggravated cases of lameness, more bhamefr.lly 

 diseased horses were sent to head-quarters from 

 the Sussex District, than from all the otlter out- 

 ports in Kngland, put them altogether ! ! ! 



]\1y Letter to the Regent is termed, by the au- 

 thor of this chaste Epistle, arrogant, abusive and 

 absurd; though I undertook to ^jrorc what 1 ad- 

 vanced, and courted enquiry into the truth of 

 Ihe statement i made in contradiction to " Joseph 

 Biagrave, JisqJ' I am reprobated for mj vanity 

 in supposing that the Prince Regent would pay 

 any attention to my Letter. His Royal Highness 

 did pay every attention which I could either ex- 

 pect or desire. He referred the matter, to what 

 he considered the proper authority ; and the re- 

 sult of the enquiry has been such as clearly to 

 prove that the Captain of the Oxford-street Insti- 

 tution had not a shadow of authority for his infa- 

 mous aspersions on the character of the Army 

 Veterinary Surgeons. If the author of the Epistle 

 supposes that I should feel gratified hy shoeing 

 a horse — even in the Royal Presence — I fear he 

 entertains a wrong conception of my ideas of 

 loyalty ; at all events, he very much mistakes 

 the nature of ray ambition ; therefore fine as he 



