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LETTER THE TENTH.

SIR,

Permit me, through the channel of the Penny Post, to address you on a subject I do not entirely understand; and which you, no doubt, from the eminence of your name, are a most complete master of. I have bought a grey gelding lately, which I never had seen out of the stable, but he look'd a very grand figure in a stall, and they assured me he was sound: so, Sir, I bought him, and the next day mounted and rode him to Chiswick. The horse, Sir, I presumed went oddly; and I got the hostler of the King of Bohemia to get up instead of me, and let me see him go. He went ex-