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yours ; and thus your loving cousin stepped from 

 a counter into a curricle*. Whenever the con- 

 fidence reposed in high official characters is 

 abused, either through their own indolence or 

 the un worthiness of their understrappers, the 

 whole country suffers. — Alas ! that in speaking of 

 professors we do not always speak of learned men y 

 but only of those ivho should he learned ! 



As a member of that community whose boun- 

 ty you are enjoying, I shall now assert my right 

 to ask you a few questions, which the public, 

 as well as your immediate employers, have an 

 imperious claim upon you to answer to their sa- 

 tisfaction. If those who conferred this bounty 

 upon you dozed under the soporific influence of 

 your plausible theories, that is no longer the 

 case. Open to conviction, and as they ought to 

 be, alive to the public interest, they behold the 

 mist dispersing, and nothing less than direct an- 

 swers will be satisfactory. A few flimsy lectures, 

 interlarded with high-sounding technical phrases, 

 while the practice is in such a deplorable state; 

 while lameness and disease with unarrested pro- 

 gress vitiate both the camp and the country, and 

 yearly annihilate thousands of the public money 



* Since writing the above I have been informed it was a 

 Barouche; which, as soon as he became viiLiii%td , he.actuaw 

 ly sp-.it'd!!!— But, melancholy was the event, and dolorous 

 the fall of his pride! 



