our capital, the Public will not be inclined to 

 thank you for your ingenious apology for scep- 

 tical opinions, nor your reiterated sneers at the 

 government and religion of your country. 



In accepting the office of a Professor at the 

 Koyal College of Surgeons, you were not indeed 

 bound to accede to the creed of the Established 

 Church, nor compelled to express your admira- 

 tion of the civil institutions of the English na- 

 tion. You were still at liberty to enjoy your 

 opinions in private, nay, to publish them to the 

 world in any separate and independent form. 

 But, I appeal to your sense of decorum and pro- 

 priety, whether it be fair or expedient to trans- 

 form the professor's chair into the seat of the 

 scorner and the sceptic ? Suppose, Sir, that I 

 had sent my son to attend upon your Lectures, 

 that your fame and reputation as Anatomical 

 and Surgical Professor, had determined him to 

 give you the preference above all your brethren ; 

 should not I be shocked, on his return, to find 

 that his religious principles were destroyed, and 

 his moral principles corrupted; that he had 

 ceased to admire the constitution of his coun- 

 try; and that he had gained his professional 

 knowledge at the expense of all dignified and 

 elevated moral sentiment ? 



It would be a poor satisfaction for me to 

 learn, that you had no such nefarious design; 

 that all you wished was, to divest him of pre* 

 conceived prejudices, and to free him from na- 

 tional partialities. I had sent him to perfect 



