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charter. I am not so sanguine. Lord Eldon said “ You shall not 
have a charter, the time has not yet come.” The recreant whig. 
Sir James Graham, shewed the deputation a little more civility 
by listening for an hour to their statements in support of their 
claim ; but with that 1 am afraid it will end, so far as Sir James 
Graham is concerned. 
Mr. Turner has not told us what the Home Secretary did say; 
he did not, perhaps, say with Eldon, “ The time is not yet come 
but I have heard that he told the deputation, that the public would 
know how to value our talent and worth as a body, if we were 
deserving, without our endeavouring to seek for imaginary privi- 
leges in the grant of a charter. 
1 must confess it is annoying to see in town, as well as in the 
country, imbecile, ignorant, and uncertificated men assuming the 
distinction of veterinary surgeon, to which they have no claim or 
just right. The first advertisement that struck my eye in The 
Western Times of the 22d Nov., ran thus : — In the District Court 
of Bankruptcy: “ I William Henry Lathorpe Carpenter, at pre- 
sent, and for twelve months past, residing at Forder-street, in the 
parish of Moreton Hampstead, in the county of Devon, and being 
a veterinary surgeon, &c.” Now I see no such name in the list of 
members published by authority of the College functionaries ; 
what right, therefore, has Carpenter to call himself a veterinary 
surgeon ? 
A farrier in a neighbouring village, who some years ago was 
a postboy, and, subsequently, a stable-man, then took to a little 
doctoring; and now proudly sticks over his door “ Stear, vete- 
rinary surgeon.” 
Some years after this man commenced his new vocation of a 
doctor, he attended a horse belonging to a friend of an eminent 
surgeon of this town, the late Wm. Eliot, Esq. The horse died, 
and, on the surgeon questioning the horse doctor on the cause of 
death, he coolly replied that he died of inflammation of the gall- 
bladder. Two individuals now practising within about ten miles, 
— one named Stenteford, — was sent to the College by the subscrip- 
tion of some gentlemen in the neighbourhood of a pack of fox- 
hounds, but returned without a diploma. He, however, calls 
himself a veterinary surgeon, and, from having been at College, is 
believed to be so. The other instance is that of a Mr. Browse. 
He has paid a visit to the College, and represented himself as 
qualified by a diploma for practice. I am informed by Mr. Webb, 
a pupil now studying at the St. Pancras School, that this gentle- 
man, like the former, has not passed an examination. I might 
go on cum multis aliis. 
Mr. T. Turner speaks of a discerning public. Doubtless there 
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