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to pardon the unusual liberty which I take in 

 addressing you thus publicly. 



But it seems to me proper, before entering 

 upon this narration, that I should speak at 

 greater length of the case of Dr. Stanger. 

 Your Lordship's attention must have been so 

 much occupied by the many important affairs, 

 in which you have been engaged since its oc- 

 currence, that the traces left in your memory 

 by some of its circumstances, the knowledge of 

 which is necessary to the right understanding 

 of what I have to say respecting myself, are 

 now perhaps nearly, if not altogether effaced. 



On the 26th of January, 1796, Dr. Christopher 

 Stanger, a physician of eminence in this metro- 

 polis, made oath in the Court of King's Bench, 

 that he had shortly before applied to the College 

 of Physicians, to be examined for admission 

 into their order of candidates; and that this 

 examination had been refused to him in con- 

 sequence of a by-law, which he conceived con- 

 trary to the intention of the charter and acts 

 of Parliament, by which their corporation had 

 been established. The next day, a rule was 

 granted by the court for the college to show 

 cause, why a mandamus should not issue to 

 compel them to examine that gentleman. In 

 the beginning of the following April, Sir George 

 Baker, president of the college, and Mr. Roberts, 



