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To, Esq.

SIR,

Hearing much of your knowledge in horses, I beg leave to ask your advice in a business wherein my delicacy as a Gentleman is deeply concern'd, and flatter myself that you will sensibly feel for my situation, my future fortune in life in a great measure depending on your decision. I have the happiness to be well received by a young Lady of fortune in this town, who rides out every morning, and has had the goodness to permit me to join her for some days past. I flatter myself I am belov'd; but,