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tion rest upon its own merits, it could not fail 

 very soon to have found its proper level. But 

 when they commenced theiy career by a foul and 

 tmqualilied attack upon a whole body of nun, 

 like the Army Veterinary Surgeons, however much 

 they might build upon the constitutional apathy 

 of she Professor, tl:ey could not suppose thai the 

 whole profession would quietly sit down under their 

 abuse. God knows there are fools enouah in the 

 metropolis to afford an honest livdihood to quacks 

 of every description, without resorting to tlic abuse 

 of regular Practitioners. Bear me witness ye 

 Brodiim's aiid ye Brec's, je Sainton's and ye So- 

 lomon's, ye J3e VeJiio's and Van Butchei's, and a 

 thousand others, Capt. Blagrave and I may diiler 

 as to wlr.it is, or is not the proper language of a 

 Gentleman (a term, unfortunately very indefinite 

 in the present C^y) but I do assure him that he 

 shall never experience from me conduct that is 

 mmianlfj. I uill never, assassin-like, stab in the 

 dark. I will never write that, to which I would 

 h^i eAtlv^Y asha7}ied ov afraid to put my name; and 

 iii all cases I should consider it my duty to ascer- 

 tain the truth of a statement, before I gave it to 

 the Public, particularly in what regarded a man's 

 private history. \f qxhy I condescend to become 

 the Captain s biograp]ier, he shiill tind that I pos- 

 sess he. iter :50urces of iqtelligence, respecting his 

 career through life, than the author of the wretched 

 Epistle appears to have had of mine. 



1 have one particular request to make— I d© 



