The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-02-02 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

For a length of time the horse-fair in Smithfield has been over-
run with what the dealers all " captains," that is, horses infected
with the glanders ; and when parties who have purchased them
have applied to the 3lagistrates siting at this office, to know what
redress the law gave, the answer has constantly been, that their re-
medy was only by an action against the seller, on the warranty, or
no the ground that the concealment of so material a circumstance
as the horse being unsound was fraudulent, and vacated the
can tract.

Alf. Alderman Cox being applied to on Saturday by a man of
the name of Bryant, who stated that he had purchased a rank
captain the prior erecting in Smithfield, of one George Rowe, said
he would grant a warrant for the apprehension of the offender.
Mr. Beresford, the Chief Clerk, repeated the usual advice to the
ccniplainant, to resort to an action at law, and hinted to the
Alderman that there was no Statute giving him authority in the
matter; and that if offering a glandered horse in a public market
was an indictable offence, the (baud Jury would soon be sitting a:
the Old Bailey, and the complainant might prefer his bill, without
any previous proceeding before a Magistrate.
31r. Payne. the second clerk, being appealed to by Mr. Alder.
man Cox, said the bringing a horse afflicted with a disease so noto-
riously contagious into a public market was an offence by the com-
mon law, and for such offences the Magistrate had the power to
call upon the party to find security for his appearance at the
Sessions.

Mr. Alderman Cox—Then if I may order the offender to find
bail, I may surely cause him to be brought before me, and I will
issue a warrant upon my own revonsibility, and conviction of the
public necessiry of such a step, although it has always been refused
before.

George Rowe, the vendor of the diseased horse, was accnrilingly
apprehended and brought before Mr. Alderman AT kiNS yester-
day-
The complainant stated that he gave Rowe 81. for the horse, who
warranted it sound, and went with him to the clerk of the market
and entered it as such with him. The practice of selling glandered
horses had greatly increased of late, and it was not done unknow-
ingly, for the same horse was sold over and over again in Smith-
held, upon the discovery of its unsoundness by the successive pur-
chasers. When he applied to the prisoner on the subject, he ex-
pressed his willingness to take back the animal, and pay any
expenses, but declared he was unable to refund the money at that
time.

A person in the office declared that he had lost thirty horses by
the introduction of one eandered animal into his stables.
Alr. Beeson, a veterinary surgeon, deposed that the glander,
was a highly contagious disease, and that the horse in questions
which had been left in his care, was infected beyond all dispute.
He kept in a stable set apart fur such objects, and the disease had
continued increasing.
Mr. BEnrsiono asked the complainant if he thought lit a fair
price for a sound horse ?—No answer.
Mr. Alderman Am isis said it was a new case; but as he was
anziotts to protect the public from such frauds, and be thought the
prisoner wds open to an indictment, he would call on him to find
bail, hiansulf and one householder in M.—Committed in default.