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^' a-ppoiiitmeiit of Veterinary Surgeons, liatl tlid 

 '' medical care of them ; and that this Establish- 

 *' nient has afforded essential improvement to that 

 " part of the military service, and thereby ulti- 

 *' mately must be, and has been, the means of 

 *' considerable saving- to the Public." 



This Report His Majesty has been graciously 

 pleased to approve. 



The writer of the Epistle talks about the far- 

 riers at his end of the toicn (which, from his abuse, 

 I consider to be St. Giles's) trying to shoe horses 

 like the Captain — as if tliere was any difficulty for 

 an able workman to make a shoe from anij pat- 

 tern, 



in respect lo the supporters of the Institution 

 in Oxford-street, I am, indeed, but too well aware 

 that some men, of the first influence in equestrian 

 matters, have been rendered hostile to the Vete- 

 rinary College — not from any fault in the Institu- 

 tion itf^elf, or in the great body of Veterinary 

 Practitioners in general, but from causes I hope 

 to be able clearly to point out, in a Work I in- 

 tend shortly to publish. Captain BJagrave knows 

 fiili w ell liow to convert this hostility to his per- 

 fiODui advantage, and to make these distiin>uished 

 oii'iracters act as decoij ducks toothers ; he will by 

 diish, I know, this spring endeavour to give the 

 Insiitution every ])ossible eclat; but though hft 

 may get barouche upon barouche, equipage ai'ter 

 eqiiipage, to give a stage effect to his Siioe Manu- 

 factorv ill Oxford-street, i foretel, that afler this 



