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«msoH, the Thing will die a natural dtalh, and the 

 Cap/ain be obiiged to seek some other profession^. 



There is a kind of obscure threat held out tOr 

 wards me in the Epistle. I can only say, that I 

 am " equally armed for either field ." \ alour that 

 has taken so long to heat, has no terrors lor me ; 

 and if the Captain, or L\ir. Goodwin, feel inclined 

 to " Trts the cause,"' I flatter myself that they will 

 find me more " Learned in the Law^' than I am 

 in " shoe ties'' And now before I conclude, X 

 will adjlress a few words^ personally, to the Cap- 

 tain, and his friend Mr. Goodwin, that (medical 

 weathercock |). I solemnly declare, that in my 

 Letter to the Prince Regent, 1 was influenced by 

 no other motive, than what I conceived to be a 

 duty, to contradict the assertions made by Cap- 

 t>ain Blagrav.e in his Prospectus, which I felt, as 

 iar as my own observation went, to be utterly 

 ialse ; and 1 felt justifled in using the expressions 

 I did towards Mr, Goodwin, from his palpable 

 apostacy. Had Messrs. Biagrave and Goodwin 

 been content to have let the Oxford-street Institu-* 



* Just before the opening of the Institution, Captain B. met a Gen- 

 tleman, well known to the writer of this, and, with all the pomposity 

 cf a little great man, declared that " thai he was pestered to death hy 

 " ]m j'viends—for his advice in J'eterinary matters; and that he had 

 '^ adopted the plan of the Oxford-street Institution., on purpose to get 

 " rid of lite in.'' We perfectly agree with him that he could not have 

 hit upon a more happy expedient, for even the partiality of friends 

 ■will not long bear up against the effects of the Captain's quackery. 



* It is not long since this person brought forward a horse shoe, 

 which, though of n. new pattern, in its application fully admitted the 

 .propriety of the frog receiving that pressure, which the Collejije prac- 

 li<;e recommends, and which Mr.Goodwin now utterly denigs it should 

 ,i*c-eive. Thu£ lUKch fi»r his cocsisteuey in v 



