View report page

24
so trifling a degree that it was cured by a dose of
brandy, for it was well when it landed. On
arriving at Hull, the animals were again examined
by the two custom-house inspectors, who are duly
qualified veterinary surgeons, and they were passed
as sound and healthy. The day after their arrival
106 of the oxen were sold and sent to different
parts of the country—40 of them to Manchester;
and all the sheep were sold for slaughtering. On
the 31st of May the remainder of the cargo was
sent to London, and they were lodged in lairs
adjoining the Metropolitan Cattle Market, where
they were examined by Mr. Honck, to whom they
were consigned, and 40 of them were sold and
forwarded to Gosport, where they were again
inspected by a government inspector, both before
and after they were slaughtered. On the 1st of
June, the rest of the animals, 135 in number, were
sent into the market, and there they were seen by
the inspector of the market, who is a veterinary
surgeon, and by many butchers; at last they were
sold in several lots to the butchers of London, all
of whom declare that the animals were perfectly
sound, and that the meat was unexceptionable. It
appears, therefore, that a period of ten days must
have elapsed from the shipment of the animals at
Revel to the last sale of them in London; and
many days must have been spent in the gathering
of the cargo together at Revel. During the whole
of that time the animals were free from disease, for