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he now believed that his intended motion would 

 be opposed, on this among other accounts, as 

 he understood, that I had been active in the 

 late dispute between the fellows and licen- 

 tiates. 



That an individual should lose his title to a 

 privilege which had been adjudged by a court 

 of law to belong to a body of men, of which he 

 was a member, merely because he had lent his 

 aid towards obtaining that adjudication, may be 

 perfectly consistent with the notions of right 

 entertained by the college of Physicians, but 

 is certainly not so with those of your Lordship. 

 For if any person had been pre-eminently active 

 in the dispute alluded to, it was surely Dr. 

 Stanger, who, by his applications to the Court 

 of King's Bench, had subjected the college to 

 considerable trouble, expence, and obloquy 5 

 and yet your Lordship expressly declared your 

 conviction of his fitness to become a fellow of 

 that corporation. My share in the dispute may 

 be described in a very few words. When it was 

 proposed to me by some licentiates, with whom 

 the scheme originated, to assist in endeavouring 

 to obtain admission into the college by process 

 of law, if it could not otherwise be gained with 

 honour, I immediately consented. I was after- 

 wards appointed one of five to draw up an ad- 

 dress to the college, and this address Dr. Cooke, 



