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This Oration comprehends the remainder 

 of what I was desirous of saying with re- 

 spect to the labours, opinions, and cha- 

 racter of Mr. Hunter. It has been printed 

 in this form, that it may be bound up with 

 my le-ctures at the College, which are de- 

 signed to exhibit Mr. Hunter's opinions of 

 life and its functions in the states of health 

 and disease. Yet, as my conduct in this 

 publication has been lately aspersed by Mr. 

 Lawrence, in a point which I should be 

 always most eager to defend, though, I 

 trust, it is one of the least vtilnerable parts 

 of my character, that of honesty and fair 

 dealing ; I feel under the necessity of add- 

 ing a few words, and, for tlie first time in 

 my life: of speaking of him, before the 

 Public, in other terms than those of com- 

 mendation. As an introduction to his 

 lectures, just published, he has placed what 

 he has chosen to call an answer to some 

 charges which, he says, I have made against 

 him. But as neither my own, nor Mr. 



