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in it the seed of death, before it received this new 

 infusion of health. I am much inclined, how- 

 ever, by what has been already mentioned, to 

 suppose, that your Lordship's opinion was de- 

 rived from a very cursory view of the subject 

 to which it relates, and I embrace this conclu- 

 sion more strqngly, when I consider a further 

 point of difference between the by-law in ques- 

 tion, and that for the admission of physicians 

 from Oxford and Cambridge, the simplest notice 

 of which must excite disgust and indignation in 

 every bosom, the least animated by a love of 

 justice. 



The persons, who decide on the examination 

 of an English graduate, are those to whom it 

 is committed, the president and censors. The 

 examination of a licentiate is also committed to 

 the president and censors, but not its decision. 

 When this is given, they vote as individuals 

 only, in a meeting consisting frequently, I be- 

 lieve commonly, of more than twenty members, 

 none of whom, except themselves, are under 

 any other than the ordinary obligations of men 

 to good conduct, or are even required to be 

 present at the examination, whose event they 

 are to determine. But if these obligations have 

 been esteemed insufficient to ensure justice from 

 English graduates to one of their own class, 

 and it has therefore been thought necessary to 



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