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THE VETERINARIAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1848. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The ejection of our Reporter from the Royal Veterinary College 
by Professor Sewell — as appears by his (Mr. Tenten’s) letter 
in another part of our Number — seems to us a most strange and 
unwarrantable act — an act unprecedented in the annals of public 
lecturing; an act, we will venture to affirm, no lecturer at any medi- 
cal school in the United Kingdom, save Professor Sewell, would 
for a moment have meditated, much less have put into execution. 
Such a proceeding is contrary to all usage, to all good manners, 
to all feeling, to all right, and, we may add, to all good policy. 
An “ Introductory Lecture” is accounted everywhere, and by 
every body, to be an open lecture ; — a lecture to which the public 
are gratuitously admitted — nay, invited, to give them an oppor- 
tunity of framing, in their own minds, some sort of estimate of the 
lecturer’s abilities, as well as of the nature and value of his lec- 
tures. It is, in a word, a kind of bill of fare and tasting dish of 
what is meant in the course to be served, and according as it proves 
pleasing and palatable is it likely to attract a greater number of 
subscribers to the regular or paid-for lectures : this being a lecture 
nobody is expected or asked to pay for ; but, on the contrary, one, 
we repeat, in which the public at large are invited to take com- 
mon property. Under such impressions as these it was that, on 
the 23d of October last, we commissioned Mr. Tenten to take 
down the heads of Professor Sewell’s “ Introductory Lecture,” 
with the view of giving the same to the profession in our im- 
pression for the present month ; conceiving, thereby, we might 
not only gratify our subscribers, but at the same time be serving 
the cause of veterinary science, as well as promoting the purpose 
and end of the lecturer. Wofully, however, have our good in- 
tentions been frustrated, and wofully thereby, we are afraid, will 
the reputation of him suffer who has, through weakness of mind, 
allowed himself to be instigated to the commission of an act so re- 
pugnant to all custom, in itself so ungentlemanly, so contemptible. 
Throughout the length and breadth of the profession will this act 
