434 HISTORY OF THE 



" On Saturday I was in London, and there I 

 was told that on Thursday morning, the day after 

 the race, the horse had been sweated at the very 

 time 1 beheved him to be labouring under illness 

 from the effect of the distemper, though it appears 

 now to have been from the effect of the poison. I 

 consider such treatment to be unexampled and 

 most unjustifiable. I can never apply other 

 epithets to such conduct. On Sunday, I heard 

 from the foreman of Mr. John Scott, that his 

 master was gone down to the north, and that my 

 horse was to be taken away in a van on Thursday. 

 I had previously determined to remove him from 

 the charge of Mr. John Scott as soon as I could do 

 it with safety to his health, and on Wednesday 

 morning I took him home ; being, as I maintain, 

 justified in so doing by the above facts, and the 

 want of confidence Mr. Scott expressed in the 

 people who had charge of him. 



" Mr. John Scott attempts to justify his con- 

 duct under an agreement which he states he has 

 from me. Now this agreement, as he calls it, is, 

 I believe, a letter I wrote him soon after he re- 

 ceived the horse, (about Christmas, 1836), and 

 which, if it be of the nature Mr. Scott pretends, 

 why does he not publish it ? I have no copy. 



" In placing my horse in Mr. Scott's stable, I 

 could never have intended to forego my right to 

 know what I required regarding the management. 



