314 LETTER TO 



your Lordship, guided rather by the suggestions 

 of a warm and virtuous fancy, than by an ac- 

 curate knowledge of the object to be repre- 

 sented, before I produce another picture of the 

 same object copied from nature, by an artist, 

 rude indeed and unskilful, but whose diligence 

 and fidelity may have compensated his want of 

 genius and taste. 



Before the decision of the Court of King's 

 Bench, in the case of Dr. Stanger, I had with 

 many others believed, that the fellows of ih& 

 college never meant to admit any licentiate to 

 an examination. But when I had become ac- 

 quainted with the declarations of their counsel, 

 respecting the by-law for examining licentiates, 

 and with your Lordship's opinion, that it fur- 

 nished a remedy for the evil in the former system 

 of admission, equal to that which even a man- 

 damus could afford, I concluded with some 

 firmness, that although my belief had been 

 originally well founded, still they would scarcely 

 be hardy enough to refuse to examine a licen- 

 tiate, while the circumstances of Dr. Stanger's 

 cause were recent in the memory of every one. 

 Not having been in court myself during the 

 trial of that cause, my first knowledge of the 

 proceedings in it was derived from verbal re- 

 ports. Fearing, however, that these might be 

 incorrect, I thought it prudent not to form any 



