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feel themselves aggrieved, prevent the very 

 beginnings of those baleful passions, and thus 

 preserve their hearts always in a condition to 

 obey the great command of their Maker, to 

 venerate his image in man. Our climate, my 

 Lord, may be rude and boisterous, but still it 

 is free from the hurricanes, which desolate 

 countries possessing skies, for the most part, 

 calm and serene. Under the influence of these 

 opinions, I have long been accustomed to give 

 free expression to my sentiments upon the con- 

 duct of other men, and experience of the benefit 

 hence derived to the health of my mind has 

 contributed to establish the practice. If, there- 

 fore, I should be regarded by your Lordship 

 as having employed too great liberty of speech 

 in this address, I humbly request that you will 

 ascribe my fault, either to error of principle, 

 or inveteracy of habit, but in no degree to any 

 deficiency of respect for your high station and 

 character. 



I retire at length, my Lord, from your pre- 

 sence, and at the same time relinquish my 

 struggle with the college of Physicians. I con- 

 sider myself now as a veteran in the contest, 

 and therefore as entitled to repose ; 



Spectatum satis, et jam donatum rude. 



To those, however, who still combat on the 



