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TESTIMONIAL TO WILLIAM ROBINSON, ESQ. 
gratuity always go to the relief of the truly unfortunate ? 
Does it not too often find a false route ? is the chief ad- 
ministration always well informed? experience would seem 
to establish that it was not always so. It would be very 
desirable, I think, in order to escape much abuse in such 
cases, that all epizootic and enzootic diseases, ^whatever their 
nature, were pronounced upon, and treated by a diplomaed 
veterinarian, without any regard to the distance he might 
have to go from his house to the locality of disease. 
I can see in this measure the double advantage of furnish- 
ing Government with some valuable documents, and veteri- 
nary science with some excellent opportunities of studying 
the nature and causes of epizootic diseases of the ox species, 
on which it yet possesses but some very incomplete notions. 
On Wednesday evening last, a large party of gentlemen 
assembled at dinner in the Town-hall, Tamworth, upon the 
occasion of the presentation of a testimonial to William 
Robinson, Esq., of Bonehill Cottage, in that town. As many 
of our readers are aware, Mr. Robinson has, for the long term 
of fifty years, practised as a veterinary surgeon in the neigh- 
bourhood of Tamworth, and while his high professional 
attainments have secured the confidence of all w ho have had 
occasion to engage his skilful and enlightened treatment, his 
private worth and his invariable kindness have won for him 
the admiration and esteem of the numerous circle w T ith w r hom 
he has been brought into contact. While engaged in the 
active pursuits of his profession, he has not been unmindful 
of his duties as a citizen, and the interest he manifested in all 
affairs connected with the borough, caused his fellow-towns- 
men to elect him three times to the office of chief magistrate 
of Tanrworth. Upon the occasion of his last filling the office 
of Mayor, some of his agricultural friends thought it a fitting 
opportunity of marking in a substantial manner the respect 
they entertained towards him, and accordingly it w 7 as resolved 
to present him with a testimonial. Circumstances prevented 
TON OF A TESTIMONIAL TO WM. ROBINSON, ESQ., 
OF TAMWORTH. 
nme Department. 
Marret, V.S. Allanche, &c. 
