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people do not possess the substance oi patronage, 

 they are fond of parading the shadow. \ am pom- 

 pously told " to move my doctortorial limbs into 

 *' the office of the Institution^ '^vhere I may see 

 •' the permission to use the Prince Regent's name, 

 *' in the hand-icriting of one of His Royal High' 

 *• ness's principal attendants." ^Vhoever doubted 

 this kind of permision ? I merely said that I dis- 

 believed His Royal Highness over granted his 

 patronage to the extent claimed (to the unquali- 

 tied abuse which this Institution, under the co- 

 lour of his high name, thought proper to bestow 

 upon a whole profession). It is impossible to take 

 up a newspaper without seeing the Prince Regent's 

 nominal sanction to the vending of cosmetics, 

 and a variety of things ; am 1 therefore bound to 

 consider his R03 al Highness as having that kind 

 of confidence in the infallibility of these nos- 

 trums, as to take them himse/f. With the urbanity 

 which distinguishes that exalted character, it is 

 impossible, in his situation, to refuse all the re- 

 quests of this nature, which may, through such 

 various channels, be made to his benevolence. I 

 well remember, some years since, seeing, finely em- 

 blazoned in golden characters, the name of " Ben- 

 *'Jamm liffin, Bug Destroyer to His Majesty-'* 

 but I did not, as a boy, even believe that the King 

 employed this Mr. Tiffin for any such purpose, 

 ^t hy not tell us of the number of horses thqy have 

 had entrusted to their care by the Prince Regent 

 *^what wers their cases — and the success of the 



