702 MR. L. REV IS IN DEFENCE OF MR. G. HALIDA Y. 
the nose and eyes healthy — nay, the eyes looked particularly 
healthy — and the extremities were warm.” Are these the symp- 
toms of exhaustion ? 
“O wise young judge, how do I honour thee !” 
Mr. Sparrow then proceeds to treat the animal. He visits it 
again at two o’clock p.m., at four p.m., at eight p.m., and at 
six a.m. of Wednesday the 2d of February. From this time to 
the 7th he never visited the horse again. 
On the 7th, he was requested to ascertain the cause of death. 
What was the result? why, on laying open the stomach and in- 
testines, he did not find a particle of food in the former, but a 
little fluid in the latter. 
He proceeds no farther in his researches. He never looked at 
the lungs to ascertain whether any disease was there; but pro- 
nounces that the horse had been starved to death, and calls the 
veterinary surgeon in attendance a miscreant, &c. What a won- 
derful post-mortem examination ! 
Will Mr. Sparrow have the goodness to inform me how it hap- 
pened that he was so very assiduous in his attendance on the 1st, 
and even so early as six o’clock in the morning of the 2d, yet he 
never took the trouble to see the horse after that time, but left it 
in the hands of the smith, as he calls the veterinary surgeon ? 
Surely, the leg that was so immensely swollen, and had suppu- 
rated to a most alarming degree, required some attention, some 
examining and dressing at least once a-day. But no : so long 
as the stomach would perform its functions, it mattered not to 
Mr. Sparrow what disease or injury was going on in the other 
parts of the body. The “ leg so immensely swollen” might mor- 
tify off; still, it was not worth noticing so long as there was a par- 
ticle of food in the stomach: — but enough ! 
The whole article is evidently a partial statement ; and if the 
“ blacksmith who does a little tarrying” would deign to notice it, 
I have no doubt we should have a very different version of the 
affair. He, perhaps, does right in treating the matter with so- 
vereign contempt. I, however, cannot refrain from telling the 
truth of the matter. 
Mr. Geo. Haliday was the veterinary surgeon in attendance on 
the horse. He is a respectable old gentleman. He was regu- 
larly educated at the Veterinary College, in London, and pos- 
sessed for many years the greatest share of practice in this neigh- 
bourhood. He certainly once kept a forge ; but what veterinary 
surgeon, at one time, did not? He has not kept one for many 
years ; but even if he had kept one, I have to learn what disgrace 
there would be in so doing. Mr. Sparrow, apparently, does not 
