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*^ system oi managing horses — the almost invariable 

 *' success attending its practice — speaking loud 

 " enough*" — of course not? All that is as clear as 

 the sun at noon-day- — eve?i more so ; it is as clear 

 as what the Captain tells us in his Prospectus — 

 is true ; that he is not influenced by any sordid 

 ideas of filthy lucre ; his rank, his character, his 

 connections — -setting him far above such suspi- 

 cions!. 



The author of this Grub-street production tells 

 lis, that the Epistle was written to amuse himself, 

 and the Noblemen, Sfc. who are the supporters 

 of the Oxford-street Institution. What a satire 

 is this upon those distinguished characters ! Is 

 there a man in any rank of life but wlio would 

 feel ashamed to acknowledge, that he could be 

 amused by such a production ? Does this thino- 

 dare even to insinuate, that the Great Personage 

 alluded to, couid be pleased with such wretched 

 stuff? There is not even an attempt at ai-gument 

 throughout the whole. Had tlie author even been 

 correct in my biography, how viould that have 

 affected my present, or future knowledge of the 

 structure and diseases of the horse. John Hunler 

 was a carpenter, and Lord Erskine a sailer, jet 

 no one ever made an objection to their professional 

 acquirements on that account. 



* If this is literary language, the Lord defend me from ever having 

 such an ativocate. *=■ 



+ The common caut of every quack, from Katterfelto to Hie pre- 

 sent hour. The silhscripLion of two guiticas to the Instituiion, aud 

 oue guiuca to the For-e, iucoaleslihiy proves tJte truth of alUhii. 



