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 least see tlie necessity of making some reply. — 

 Whether that Gentleman considers Captain lj]a- 

 grave as professiojialhj too insignificant to merit any 

 answer from liis pen, 1 know not ; but I confess I 

 am at a loss to conjecture how your Royal High- 

 ness, or the Public, are to detect the fallacy of 

 any statement (made under such plausible cuQwrn- 

 stances, however gross the imposition), so long as 

 It is suffered to remain uncontradicted. 



As a humble individual of that body whom 

 Captain Blagrave has thought proper to vilify, 1 

 will no longer trust my professional character to 

 the keeping of any man, but most submissively 

 beseech of your Royal Highness to interfere in the 

 behalf of truth. The dissemination of false doc- 

 trine is generally injurious, in proportion to tlie 

 apparent respectability of the propagator ; and. 

 when tlie rank in life of Captain Blagrave is con- 

 sidered, the extent and nature of his connexions, 

 and, above ail, that high sense of honour, and 

 love of truth, which ought to distinguish the pro- 

 fession to which he belongs, it becomes dorbly 

 the duty of every one interested in the welfare of 

 that noble aiid valuable animal, the Horse, to pre- 

 vent tlie introduction of any plan (strengthened 

 hy sucii imposing authority) which might again 

 lead us into those errors, which it has been tlie 

 continued exertion of the Veterinary Practice t* 

 remove. 



! am willing to believe that Captain Blagrave 

 mr(fj be sii'ccre in his hopes of succlss from the 



