LETTER I. 



ALL SAINTS, ATTEND. 



An upright, intelligent, humane, and pious man. A fabulous 

 creature supposed to go blind at the sight of gold or promissory 

 paper. 



England is a country said to possess the best 

 riders in the world ; I believe it. England is a 

 country said to possess the best judges of horses in 

 the world ; that is men who know most of their proper 

 form and figure ; I do not believe it ; for if I did, I 

 could not help believing there must be a most extra- 

 ordinary number of arrant rogues in it. I prefer 

 believing, and taking it for granted, that all persons 

 who have anything to do with the breeding or buying 

 and selling of horses are the most honest and upright 

 of any class in the United Kingdom. After all 

 perhaps that does not say much for any body in this 

 most rehgiously commercial state, where every one 



