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A CHARGE OF FALSEHOOD REFUTED. 
a belief that certain assertions by Mr. Youatt, late Veterinary Surgeon to the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, regarding the condition to which some 
of the most remarkable race -horses have been reduced, are unfounded. In 
one particular, at least, I am enabled to corroborate the truth of Mr. Youatt’ s 
statement. 
“ The horse Guildford, after having passed through the course of suffer- 
ing, and endured the treatment there described, was purchased by the Society 
from Mr. Bardell, the omnibus proprietor, for £3 14s., for the purpose of ter- 
minating his sufferings by death. 
“ With regard to the other circumstances enumerated, although without 
any immediate personal knowledge of the facts, yet, from circumstances con- 
nected therewith, I have no hesitation in declaring my belief that the details 
are all equally correct. 
“ I have the honour to be, &c. 
“Aug. 21, 1839. “ Henry Thomas.” 
To this the Editor adds the following note : 
“ We will not dispute what Mr. Thomas says he knows as to one of the 
horses mentioned ; but as to the others, we believe the statements in the para- 
graph to be false, or greatly exaggerated. We invite the attention of our Cor- 
respondent to the above letter.” 
Here the Editor of the Times becomes 'personally implicated. 
He publicly states that “ he believes the statements in the para- 
graph to be false, or greatly exaggerated.” 
In the course of the 22d of August, my friend Mr. Daws called 
upon me with the news of this accusation, and told me that he 
shall take up the case of Mameluke, which came under his personal 
observation; and, accordingly, two days afterwards, the following 
letter from him appeared in the Times : 
“ Sir, — From some observations which have appeared in your journal, within 
the last few days, respecting the accuracy of statements relative to several 
horses, made by Mr. Youatt in his work on “ Humanity to Brutes," I feel my- 
self in a manner called upon to come forward, and substantiate the remarks 
of that gentleman, being one of those to whom he acknowledges his obligations 
for information received, as well as one among those to whom the work is 
dedicated. 
“ The cases of Ambo and Hit or Miss are vouched upon the authority of 
Mr. Hickman, veterinary surgeon of Shrewsbury*. 
“ With respect to Mameluke an error is said to have been committed, 
which I strenuously deny, and a short explanation will easily adjust the mat- 
ter. I furnished Mr. Youatt with the information respecting him, and, if he 
has erred, the blame rests with me. 
“ This said horse is one that was got by the original Mameluke out of a 
thorough-bred mare ; was trained and tried, and not proving sufficiently fast, 
was drafted and sold by the very gentleman to whom your anonymous corre- 
spondent refers for information, Mr. Tattersall, as a Mameluke colt. From 
that time to the day of his death, which happened a few months since, I can 
trace him, and bring forward positive proof from his several respective owners. 
He was publicly known by the name of his great progenitor, and he possessed 
the same symmetry, proportions, colour, and temper. 
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