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in accomplishing this design, I thought it might 

 be both curious and useful to show, that their 

 rejection of the application was not incon- 

 sistent, either with the principles which it might 

 have been supposed would influence a body of 

 physicians in their situation, or with the actual 

 tenour of their ^conduct, prior to the decision 

 of the Court of King's Bench in the case of Dr. 

 Stanger. I saw, indeed, that such an attempt 

 would be an indirect attack upon the propriety 

 of that decision, not as connected with the in- 

 tentions of those who gave it - 9 the honour, and 

 integrity, and uprightness of English judges, like 

 axioms in science, are always beyond doubt j 

 but as far as it was founded in considerations, 

 the strength, or weakness of which many per- 

 sons had better opportunities of knowing than 

 your Lordship or brethren. I imagined, there- 

 fore, that in making the attempt, I should only 

 act similarly to one, who applies to a court of 

 justice for a new trial of his cause, in 'con- 

 sequence of obtaining new evidence to support 

 it, or who appeals from the jurisdiction of one 

 court to that of another; and hence I con- 

 cluded with some confidence, that the plan of 

 my letter would be regarded by your Lordship 

 as blameless. But now that it is finished, I 

 greatly fear, that the execution will not be 



