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A CARD.—It is with unfeigned concern and reluctance that Mr. Handy feels obliged to intrude himself on the Public’s attention, in consequence of a low and scurrilous attack on his character, inserted in a Morning Paper of Monday last. To suppose that the paragraph in question originated with any person connected with that paper, would be doing injustice to those concerned with it; nor would Mr. Handy deign to notice such ribaldry, did it only affect himself; but, as the shaft of this malignant though impotent envy, is evidently meant to injure a company of perhaps the first Equestrians in the world, in the esteem of the Public; he, in justice to their unequalled talents, (and as a grateful servant of that Public, whose indulgence and generosity is indelibly fixed in his heart,) has deemed it incumbent on him to answer a slanderous inventive, otherwise entitled to general contempt.
Astley’s Amphitheatre, Westminster-Bridge, June 5.
