404 LETTER TO 



to it, when your decision was given, you would 

 necessarily have entertained some suspicion, 

 that they, who had openly violated one part of 

 a law, were not to be restrained by honour and 

 good faith from violating any other part of it, 

 when their conduct should be screened by a 

 ballot. 



The last act of the college, to which I shall 

 solicit your Lordship's attention, seems alone 

 sufficient to have demonstrated their total un- 

 fitness to decide between themselves and other 

 men, when the only guard against their doing 

 wrong should consist in their feelings o'f what 

 is right, Some of the circumstances, indeed, 

 which I am going to relate, occurred in your 

 Lordship's presence, in the course of Dr. 

 Stanger's cause ; and I am not ignorant, that 

 you then considered them as unconnected with 

 any serious intention, on the part of the college. 

 Admitting, however, for a moment, this to have 

 been the case, surely the system of morality, 

 which permits its followers to accuse a gentle- 

 man, by way of joke, of a most disgraceful crime 

 before the Lord Chief Justice of England, ought 

 to have no place in the sanctuary of honour and 

 good faith. But not to dwell longer upon this 

 argument, I shall, I think, soon convince your 

 Lordship, that the charge to which I have 

 alluded was deliberately formed, and seriously 



