CORRESPONDENCE. 
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As to the remarks by the editor of this paper, which have led 
you into this error, you will probably see in its next number that 
they chiefly bore relation not to my letter, but to an article of a 
purely professional character, which at the time of writing had 
been already received from Mr. Bracy Clark, with his own 
name; but I rather think that it is not his intention to follow up 
these communications. 
I am, sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
Charles Clark. 
To W. Youatt, Esq. 
46, Grove Street, Camden Town, 
19tli December, 1836. 
Sir, — I have waited for the receipt of “ The Centaur” of the 
17th inst., to which you referred me. I find in it a third letter , 
signed by Mr. Bracy Clark, and without date ; but I do not find 
in it that explanation which you gave me reason to expect. 
The language of the editor of “ The Centaur” could not at 
first, and cannot now, be misunderstood. He believed, or in- 
tended that it should be believed by his readers, that the letter, 
respecting certain passages in which I wrote to Mr. Bracy Clark, 
was actually the production of that gentleman. 
You claim it as your’s, and I am bound so to consider it. You 
retract the application to me personally of certain language of 
which I complained ; and by this retraction you have deprived 
me of the power of calling upon you for any farther explanation 
of the matter. 
You, however, couple this with a doctrine to which I cannot 
for a moment agree ; namely, that Mr. Charles Clark, or any 
body, or every body, has a right to impute to the joint editors 
of a periodical motives and conduct of the basest kind, and yet 
not be personally responsible to either of them. I will not argue 
the matter, but I enter my protest against your doctrine. 
You, sir, know full well that The Veterinarian is mine: — 
it is my property — it is under my management. 
It is the proudest boast of that Journal, that the names of 
Dick, Karkeek, and Percivall, appear on its cover ; that men 
like these will publicly acknowledge themselves my occasional 
coadjutors, and zealous for the cause to which The Veterina- 
rian is devoted. For that to which the initial of their respec- 
tive names is appended they would demand to be accounted re- 
sponsible ; but, beyond this — we will share the praise between 
us — the censure must fall on the right shoulders — on mine. 
I speak not in bravado — I court no quarrel — I would live in 
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