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done all that is necessary for your justification, 

 and having no reason to doubt your integrity, 

 shall continue our countenance and support as 

 heretofore. 



" We are, &c., 

 " Westminster. George Anson. 



Chesterfield. John Bowes. 



Wilton." 



Without reference to the immediate case in 

 point, we may safely pronounce on the authority 

 of the facts, admitted in the preceding correspon- 

 dence, that Mr. Coombe did not receive that defe- 

 rence and attention due to him as a gentleman and 

 as a patron of the turf. This requires notice, as it 

 has been, and is still, by no means an uncommon 

 practice among the principal trainers, to assume a 

 " freedom of speech and action" towards their 

 employers, more especially towards those who may 

 only place one or two horses occasionally under 

 their management, which is entirely out of cha- 

 racter between servant and master — the true posi- 

 tion in which they stand. In the present instance, we 

 find from Mr. Scott's own admission, that notwith- 

 standing Mr. Coombe had signified his intention to 

 bring down a veterinary surgeon to see his horse 

 on Friday, on the same morning, previous to his 

 arrival he sweats, bleeds and physics the horse ; 

 well knowing all the time, that the surgeon could 



