MILITARY VETERINARY POLITICS. 
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in which you served previously to coming to the Carabineers had 
no discipline, nor have you any military discipline. Have you 
got the full-dress uniform of the regiment]” to which your Peti- 
tioner replied “No;” then, said Colonel Jackson, “You will 
appear in the full-dress uniform of the regiment, in this office, 
within four days from this date.” Petitioner answered, “He could 
not, as it would be impossible to have it made in that time,” (the full 
dress would have cost £200). Colonel Jackson then remarked, 
“You have my order;” and your Petitioner left the office, 
thoroughly annoyed with such oppressive conduct, and, finding, all 
chance of effecting an exchange unavailing, your Petitioner went 
to his quarters, and wrote a letter of resignation from the service, 
the acceptance of which was notified in the Gazette of the 5th of 
March last. 
Your Petitioner humbly begs leave to remark, that he is not 
the only officer who has left the regiment in consequence of per- 
secution, and would instance the case of his predecessor, of whom 
Colonel Jackson reported as being incapable of the proper dis- 
charge of his duties, which was proved unfounded, and for which 
Colonel Jackson was again reprimanded. Your Petitioner cannot 
conclude without expressing his deep sense of mortification at the 
manner in which his professional reputation has been abused ; 
having been a veterinary surgeon for nineteen years, during ten 
of which Petitioner has had the honour to serve Her Majesty in 
the four quarters of the globe. When the insurrection in Canada 
broke out, your Petitioner was selected to proceed to that country, 
where he mounted two regiments of Cavalry (the King’s Dragoon 
Guards and 7th Hussars), a simultaneous duty which no other 
professional man in the Army can boast of having performed. 
Your Petitioner further submits to your honourable House the 
extract of a letter from the Principal Veterinary Surgeon (Coleman) 
to the Adjutant General, dated “London, 10th January 1838,” 
wherein it is stated, “ The Veterinary Surgeons of regiments of 
Cavalry are wholly responsible for the soundness of horses when 
purchased ; but the officers who select such horses are responsible 
that the form and substance and action of such horses are proper 
for the service ; Mr. Johnston, however, is not only competent to 
his duty as a Veterinary Surgeon, but his knowledge of horses 
will be highly serviceable in pointing out to his superior officer 
such particular structures of parts as render horses more or less 
predisposed to disease of joints and feet, and lameness from other 
causes.” 
Whilst your Petitioner was in India, he lost his wife, father, 
and mother-in-law, and lost his own health, from the effect of 
coup-de-soleil, and is now obliged to return home a victim of out- 
