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1 have since known, of great prudence, and of 

 the mildest manners, and who was then proba- 

 bly not acquainted with any one of those licen- 

 tiates, placed notwithstanding a revolutionary 

 spirit among the reasons which were assigned 

 by him, in a public oration, for their attempt 

 to gain admittance into the college. Nothing 

 can more strongly demonstrate the pains, which 

 had been taken to propagate such slander, than 

 its having been received, credited, and still fur- 

 ther spread by Dr. Bourne. 



Opinions, leading to the overthrow of the 

 monarchical part of our constitution, have long 

 existed in this country, in a greater or less de- 

 gree ; but since the termination of the grand 

 rebellion, they have been, till very lately, almost 

 entirely confined to a few speculative men, who 

 have shown little desire to gain proselytes, or 

 in any other way to attempt a completion of 

 their fanciful projects. -Neither therefore the 

 college of Physicians, nor, I believe, any other 

 of our corporations, ever formerly refused to 

 admit a person among them, merely on account 

 of his notions of government, provided he had 

 complied with the forms which were prescribed 

 by the laws of the country, or their own private 

 regulations. But the modern holders of repub- 

 lican principles, if indeed the workers of confu- 

 sion can be said to possess principles, and if 

 tends to the misery of the whole can be 



