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ashamed of his bargain, sold her to a butcher-looking fellow for 
seven pounds. 
He went to the next market, and learned that it was quite a 
common thing to sell glandered horses—re-purchase them for a 
small sum, and sell them again to new fiats. While he w'as talk¬ 
ing, he saw the same identical mare with which he had been 
duped run up and dowm for sale, and he heard eighteen pounds 
asked for her. 
He immediately started in search of the police, but on his return 
the mare and her professed owner and purchaser had disappeared. 
He went immediately to the police office, and stated all the cir¬ 
cumstances, adding that he had no desire of obtaining redress 
himself, but he wished to put an end to such rascally proceedings. 
The publican was sent for: he owned that he knew a person of the 
name of Brown, but not where he was to be found; and as for the 
circumstance alluded to, he had no recollection about it. The 
magistrate ordered him to appear again on the 26th, and to bring 
with him the man who was at his bar when the transaction took 
place; observing that a most villanous conspiracy had long been 
carried on in Smithfield, which the magistrates were determined to 
put down. 
The matter was not suffered to be slumbered upon, but the fol- 
lowing memorial on the subject was presented to the Common 
Council:— 
“ To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c.—The memo¬ 
rial of the undersigned inhabitants of West Smithfield and its 
neighbourhood sheweth. That a public horse market has long been 
held in Smithfield on Friday afternoon, and your memorialists are 
indebted to you for this, and take this opportunity of thanking your 
honourable court for the many recent improvements made therein. 
“ That a nuisance of great notoriety still remains unabated, in 
the introduction and sale of glandered horses in the said market 
by unprincipled men, who conduct their traffic in horses in such a 
manner as to deceive unwary purchasers and evade the law. 
“ That glanders is a highly contagious disease, and, in several 
instances, has affected and proved fatal to the human subject. 
“ That your memorialists feel aggrieved and alarmed to see this 
perpetrated without restraint in a shameless manner. 
“ That the character of the market in public estimation, and 
also its fair and lawful trade, are seriously impaired thereby. 
“ That the market police-officers, although very efficient in 
almost all cases, and with power to attach the seller of a glandered 
horse for a misdemeanor, yet feel themselves incompetent to judge 
of the existence of this insidious disease, which demands all 
the knowledge and tact of a skilful veterinary surgeon. It has 
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