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ness, that the most baneful clTects are certain to 

 result from the system of shoeing, and treatment 

 of the liorse's foot, as recommended by Captain 

 JBIagrave. 



It is my duty humbly to state to your Royal 

 Highness what are my pretensions to solicit your 

 attention, in opposition to those of Captain Bla- 

 grave. After regularly prosecuting my studies as 

 a Veterinary Surgeon, i obtained my Diploma, 

 signed by " Henry Cline, Dr. Babington, and 

 Professor Coleman," part of the Medical Com- 

 mittee for the examination of Students from the 

 Veterinary College. I was then appointed, at the 

 recommendation of Lord Ileathfiekl, Veterinary 

 Surgeon to tlie 20lh Dragoons, on their arrival 

 from Jamaica, and continued in that regiment 

 during the whole period of its being remounted, 

 till they were again ordered for service. I was then 

 (being thought a proper sul)ject, having a large 

 lamily) removed to the Ordnance service, as a more 

 stationary duty. In the Eastern District, I had 

 the constant charge of more than one thousand 

 horses, besides the recruiting of great nambers 

 for otiier parts. On the late expedition to the 

 St heldt, I had intrusted to my selection and care 

 nearly the same number of horses belonging to 

 ihe Ordnance. IMy present station is chiefly used 

 as a dcjjot for young horses, recruited and sent 

 from Woolwich ; and in the course of ten years of 

 t){is sort oi varied practice, I never knew or heard 

 of a weli-autheuficaiiid case, where the practice, 



