HORSE CHAUNTING. 
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stable in Turk’s-head-mews, Harley-street, which appeared to be 
quite the sort of animals that he was desirous to obtain. He ac¬ 
cordingly went to the stable, where he saw the prisoner, who shewed 
him the animals, and stated that they were the property of a lady 
named King, who resided at Eastbourne, and that she had bred 
one of them and purchased the other about two years before, and 
that he (Mowatt) was her coachman, and had driven the horses 
constantly together for the last two years in a clarence carriage, 
and that they were particularly quiet, good animals. The prose¬ 
cutor pressed him with regard to the point of quietness, and Mowatt 
then with great earnestness repeated the story, and said that the 
larger horse of the two had been driven by his late master in sin¬ 
gle harness, and was an excellent horse. The prosecutor inquired 
the price, and was then referred to another man named Ward, 
who represented himself to be the job-master, and he said that 
Mrs. King expected to get a hundred guineas for the horses, but 
he thought she might take eighty guineas, as she was at great ex¬ 
pense for their keep, and also the expenses of the coachman, and 
would be glad to get rid of them. The prosecutor refused to give 
that sum, and Ward then said that a relation of his, who was an 
omnibus master, had offered him seventy guineas for the horses, 
but that Mrs. King was so fond of the animals that she would not 
allow them to go into any other than private hands. At length 
the prosecutor, upon the faith of the representations made to him, 
and believing that he was buying a pair of horses the genuine pro¬ 
perty of a lady of respectability, consented to give £65 for the 
animals, and the}? - were sent the same evening to the Eastern 
Counties Railway station at Shoreditch, and the prosecutor paid 
Ward the sum agreed upon, and received from him a receipt, in 
which the animals were described as sound and quiet in single 
and double harness; and it was also stated upon the document, 
that if the horses were not approved of within one week they were 
to be returned, and the money should be refunded. The prose¬ 
cutor then proceeded with his purchase to his residence at Chelms¬ 
ford, and the next morning a trial was made of the capabilities of 
the horses, when it was soon discovered that they were a couple of 
vicious, useless brutes. It. was with considerable difficulty that 
they were got out of the stable-yard, and, after they had proceeded 
a short distance, they began to rear and kick, and also attempted 
to bite each other; and it was very evident that, so far from their 
having been constantly driven together, they were not at all used 
to harness, and, instead of having been constantly driven together 
for two years, in all probability had never seen each other until 
they were introduced to the stables in Harley-mews through the 
instrumentality of the defendant. The story about the lady, of 
course, turned out an entire fabrication ; in fact, what in the lan- 
