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clearly no proof of their being so, that they 

 appealed to the Court of King's Bench, for a 

 rigid execution of a charter, which had issued 

 from the most tyrannic prince of the despotic 

 house of Tudor; or that they founded their 

 title, to what they prayed the court to grant, 

 upon -the interpretation given to that charter 

 by your Lordship's immediate predecessor, 

 Earl Mansfield, certainly no friend to levelling 

 principles, or to seditious combinations of men. 

 Perhaps the proof was derived from this cir- 

 cumstance, that no oiTe of the licentiates who 

 signed the address to the college, in which they 

 set forth their right to be examined for admis- 

 sion into the corporation, either enjoyed, or 

 expected to enjoy, any professional honour or 

 advantage directly connected with the present 

 government of the country. " Is it probable 

 that these men," the fellows of the college 

 might say, " who are attached by nothing spe- 

 cial to the existing constitution, can desire its ; 

 continuance? Our own bosoms declare that 

 they cannot ; they must, therefore, be labour-* 

 ing to subvert it." But the pampered Rich 

 basely deserted his master in the hour of dis- 

 tress, while thousands of our countrymen, bound 

 to their sovereign by no other tie than their 

 allegiance as Englishmen, fought and died in 

 his defence. From whom did the expiring 



