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At the early age of 15, I commenced with tlie 

 profession of the law ; not liking that study, I 

 went into the Militia, and obtained my first com- 

 mission before I was seventeen years old — so that 

 tnore than one half of my life has been spent in 

 His Majesty's service : indeed, there is a whimsi- 

 cal Coincidence in^Captain Blagrave's pursuits and 

 mine in early life. The author of the Epistle is 

 equally unfortunate in applying the title of 

 " Loving Cousin'' (and arguing therefrom — a col- 

 lusion) between Mr. Coleman and me ; though 

 nearly allied to that Gentleman by marriage, we 

 have not for years past been even on speaking' 

 terms. Having, therefore, thus far proved that 

 this thinjT of an author has not written one word 

 of truth, I will proceed vrith the examination of the 

 Epistle — but I must take the author from oif the 

 stilts of metaphor, and examine the Remarks fas 

 they are called J on my Letter, by plain common 

 sense. The F.pistie contradicts itself palpably in 

 several instances — and the author, lilie many 

 before him, quotes from another language with- 

 out understanding our own poor mother-tongue ; 

 for instance, I am called in page 10 of the Epis- 

 tle, "a hacker of hoofs ;" and j-et, in page 13, 

 I am condemned for holding the horse's foot so 

 " sacred from the knife." Thus much for the 

 consistency of this literary advocate of apostacy 

 and quackery. 



The Epistle, it is declared, was wrote " not 

 '' with a view of supporting Captain Blagrave's 



