Your worthy advocate is, it seems, rather 

 startled at observing Mr. Goodwin's name part- 

 nered in this horrific Prospectus; and, in order 

 to find an excuse, most cliarilaUy imputes to him 

 a few trifling' peccadilloes, such as quackery, 

 avarice, public imposition, and the like, which 

 motives he asserts have led this gentleman to such 

 professional prostitution and renegadoship. Now 

 these, however trifling they may appear to your 

 loving cousin, being rather serious charges, shall 

 shortly be answered seriously. At present, I am 

 called to a subject upon which he and I per- 

 fectly agree.' He says, " Unfortunately there 

 are men in all ranks, who will sanction what 

 their judgments condemn, (he might have added 

 —who, in spite of the very noon-day beams of 

 truth will cling to error with the utmost pertina- 

 city,, and regardless of who or what suffers, so 

 long as it fills their pockets) " otherwise we 

 " should not have to lament the enormous in- 

 <c crease of quacks both in religion and politics} 



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tible scholar. They were disputing in company about some 

 point in literature, when the -former exclaimed " How is it 

 possible for you, who have never been at college, to know 

 anything about the matter?" "Sir," retorted the latter, 

 " from the whole tenor of our argument, it has, I trust, 

 been proved, that it is quite as possible for a man who ha» 

 not been at school to know a great deal, as it is for one pos- 

 sessed of that advantage, to know nothing."-,— Hoc credo. 



