LETTER TO 



denominated republican, follow a far different 

 course. They labour with an apostolic zeal to 

 impress their tenets upon others. No fancy is 

 so wild as to be refused admittance into their 

 minds ; and whatever exists there is regarded 

 by them as a legitimate cause of action. To 

 employ the influence which they derive from 

 places of trust under an ancient government, 

 as a means of subverting it, is with them a 

 duty ; their great ambition is to show, that they 

 are ready to sacrifice friends, family, and coun- 

 try, to obtain their beloved object, the destruc- 

 tion of order. It appears*, therefore, highly 

 proper, that the guardians of the different public 

 establishments^ to whom any discretion is in this 

 respect allowed bylaw, should resist the entrance 

 of every person, who notoriously holds opinions 

 unfriendly to their existence. But though this 

 be granted, it surely ought not to follow, that 

 a vague surmise, an unauthorised suspicion of 

 disloyalty, should operate to the exclusion of 

 any one from a situation of honour or profit, to 

 which he is otherwise legally entitled. Envy 

 and malice in their native forms have considera- 

 ble influence over human affairs j if permitted 

 to assume the shape of patriotism, their power 

 must be irresistible. 



Upon what ground the college charged the 

 licentiates with being disaffected to the consti- 

 tution of their country, I know riot. It was 



