302 LETTER TO 



On the 23d of January, 1797, Dr. Gisboriie* 

 then president of the college, made an affidavit 

 in answer to Dr. Stanger's, the purport of 

 which was the same as that of the affidavits of 

 Sir George Baker and Mr. Roberts, in the 

 former cause. In the new trial which followed 

 on the llth of May, 1797, the leading counsel 

 of the college, as in the preceding one, was 

 Mr. Erskine, who quickly abandoning all weak 

 points, again fixed upon the by-law for the 

 admission of licentiates, after an examination 

 of their fitness, as the only ground which was 

 fit to bear his works of defence. To prove 

 that I am here also justifiable in attributing 

 such conduct to him, I proceed to insert several 

 passages from his speech upon this second oc- 

 casion. 



EXTRACTS from Mr. ErsJcine's Speech in the Court 

 of King's Bencft, May 11, 1797, in the Case of Dr. 

 Stanger against the College of Physicians. 



" Your Lordship will take it that this last 

 statute which I have read, [that restricting 

 admission into the order of candidates to gra< 

 duates of Oxford and Cambridge] and which 

 still is in existence, and which is qualified by 

 others I am about to state, was the last in exist- 

 ence at the time when the cases of the King v. 



