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 Reply to Letter the Fourth.

SIR,

Upon a strict examination of the two pictures by the Limner in your lane, I am clear you are in possession of the identical horse you intended to purchase, although he does not exhibit quite so much agility under you, or make so tearing a figure as when mounted by Mr. who I am well acquainted with, and who, you may depend upon, is as honest a man as any that deals in horse flesh. You could have no right to return the horse if he went no better than one with his legs tied. You stand in the predicament of Lord P, who gave twenty guineas for Punch, and when he found he could not make him speak, prosecuted the Puppet-shew-man; but my Lord Chief Justice