LORD KENYON. 397 



college being thus both parties and judges in 

 the cause, it will doubtless be thought, that 

 from respect to their own characters, they have 

 attempted by every means in their power to 

 lessen the invidiousness, and even danger of 

 their situation. Have they truly done so ? No, 

 no, my Lord. They have, on the contrary, 

 invented a mode of trial, which places their 

 adversaries in the most difficult and humiliating 

 circumstances, and lays themselves open to the 

 influence of some of the basest passions of the 

 human mind. 



In the first place, before a licentiate is ad- 

 missible to the examination he desires, it is 

 demanded by the college that he be of seven 

 years standing, and upwards of thirty-six years 

 of age. But a rivalship for seven years with 

 his judges, for employment, may have excited 

 considerable animosity against him in the minds 



for some years enjoyed by Sir Lucas Pepys. When this was 

 taken away; some persons thought, that after such a dis- 

 grace, as they termed it, he would feel himself obliged as a 

 man of spirit, to resign his office, as he could in no other 

 way demonstrate the purity, if not the wisdom, of his inten- 

 tions in framing the rules which had been annulled. Fortu- 

 nately, however, he has been influenced by no such extrava- 

 gant notions of personal dignity ; but from unbounded zeal 

 for his sovereign's glory, and a most tender regard for the 

 welfare of our gallant soldiers, in eoery part of the world, 

 still remains Physician General to the army. 



