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consequently dispute both the justice and ex- 

 pediency of acknowledging in the graduates of 

 Oxford and Cambridge, any title to be received 

 into the corporation, which does not depend 

 upon their learning and good character ; and 

 their own number might in a few years become 

 so great, as to exceed that of all the other re- 

 sident fellows. Can we now even imagine, 

 that the present fellows of the college, all of 

 them, except five persons who have been ad- 

 mitted through favour, physicians from Oxford 

 and Cambridge, are not generally hostile to a 

 measure, which, if executed, must immediately 

 diminish some of their own advantages, and 

 may hereafter deprive the members of the En- 

 glish universities of the chief rule in a corpora- 

 tion, which has long been regarded by them as 

 their own ? 



I have thus, my Lord, replied, and I hope 

 satisfactorily, to the question concerning the 

 interest, which the college have in acting un- 

 justly towards those licentiates, who may apply 

 to them to be examined for fellowships ; and, 

 while doing this, I have proved by indubitable 

 testimony, that even before the decision of Dr. 

 Stanger's case, they had not always shaped 

 their conduct by the rules of honour and good 

 faith. It may therefore be thought, that my 

 address to your Lordship ought now to close, 



