To His Royal Highness 



THE FHIMCE MEOENT 



OF 



GREAT BRITAIN 



Jl our Royal Highness's character, in public 

 affairs, has ever been of too decided a nature to 

 require much ceremony in soliciting your atten- 

 tion to any subject, where the interests of your 

 Country are concerned ; and your private charac- 

 ter is sufficiently known, among all ranks, for 

 manly integrity, not to need any apology for the 

 exposition of falsehood, particularly when such 

 falsehood has the temerity to pretend to the sanc- 

 tion of your authority. 



From the moment I first perused the bold and 

 Unqualified untruths asserted by Captain Bla- 

 grave (in his Address to the Public), relative to 

 the practice of Veterinary Surgeons in the Army, 

 I felt, in common with the rest of the Profession, 

 the immediate necessity of repelling so calum- 

 nious a charge ; and naturally expected that Mr. 

 Coleman (as Head of the Department) would at 



