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MILITARY VETERINARY POLITICS. 
In October 1845 your Petitioner was gazetted from the half-pay 
as Veterinary Surgeon to this corps; and no sooner observed his 
appointment to the Carabineers, than Petitioner, unsuccessfully, 
endeavoured to effect an exchange, in consequence of the character 
which the regiment had and has borne for years, of being tyran- 
nically commanded. The very many annoyances which your 
Petitioner has since endured fully justify his preconceived opinion 
of ultimate unhappiness. It is not, however, the desire of your 
Petitioner to trouble your honourable House with the detail of 
minor grievance, but simply to draw the attention of your honour- 
able House to the graver fact of your Petitioner having been driven 
to the unpleasant alternative of relinquishing his commission pri- 
marily from the circumstance of most strict adherence to duty. 
In Her Majesty’s Regulations for the performance of veterinary 
duties, it is directed, at Clause 28, “The Veterinary Surgeon 
should carefully examine all remount horses, and report in writing 
to the Commanding Officer, previous to the final approval, any that 
may appear to him defective, either in point of constitutional 
ability, or as not likely to arrive at adequate strength for the 
service, and every blemish or defect that may have escaped the 
notice of the Officer who purchased the said horses.” On the 3d 
of October last nineteen young horses joined the regiment, which, 
agreeably to the Commanding Officer’s own order, and in accord- 
ance with the above regulation, your Petitioner examined, and 
found seven of them unsound. Notwithstanding Petitioner’s im- 
mediate and official report of the circumstance, an order was 
subsequently given to the Paymaster to defray their full cost, 
travelling expenses, &c. &c. to the dealer. These unserviceable 
horses having become the property of the public, your Petitioner 
addressed two letters to the Principal Veterinary Surgeon, re- 
questing him to lay the subject before the proper authorities, so 
that your Petitioner might be put in possession of the necessary 
instructions how to act, not only in the present case, but in the 
event of future remount horses joining the regiment found unsound, 
and, after being officially notified to that effect, retained by the 
Commanding Officer. 
Pending the consideration of this subject by the authorities at 
the Horse Guards, your Petitioner was ordered from Dublin to 
Newbridge, in consequence of a report made by Major (and Brevet 
Lieutenant Colonel) Hay to head quarters, that the troop horses 
under his command at that station were lamed by the careless 
shoeing of the farriers. Immediately on arrival, Petitioner pro- 
ceeded to make a careful examination of every horse, and with 
very few exceptions was much pleased with the shoeing generally; 
accordingly, your Petitioner reported his opinion to the Com- 
