426 
ic \ . 
to be a mere recital of common-place ob- 
fervation and hacknied phrafes. 
s¢ Let Tommy ARNE, with ufual pomp of 
fiyle, 
€¢ Whole chief, whofe only merit’s to compile; 
«© Who, meanly pilf’ring here and there a bit, 
& Deals mufic out--as Murpuy deals out 
wit.” CrHuRCHILL’s Roscrap. 
Vichout affeéting the general conclu- 
fion, in candour it muft be allowed, that 
ARNE, in the.mafs. cf his works, has 
produced fome pieces, which may, fora 
jong time, be efteemed by men. of tafte 
and fcience. I am, fir, your's, &c. 
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To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
Bik 
READ 
efteemed Mifcellany, a letter on the 
Subject of zaizonal unanimity, in the fenti- 
ments of which I fully concurred. I 
think, however, that there is room to 
make farther’obfervations on the fame 
topics and that, in particul ar, the uxjuf? 
differences which our laws have ma ade 
sbetween individuals equally members of 
the ftate, and equally deferving of i 
countenance, ought, at the prefent a 
to be fet ina clear light, f for the informa- 
tion of every weli-wiiher to his county ry: 
As particular infiances are commonly 
more impreilive than general obferva- 
tions, I thal! beg leave to begin with 
Has my own tafe, which, in faét, in 
ts moft important circumftances, is that 
of thoufands of perfons over whom I can 
claim no fuperiority of defert. 
Defeended from anceftors who were 
not content to pray, or believe, according 
to AG of Parliament, but thought proper 
to exert an active ae: in their religion, 
T was educated in diffent from the efta- 
plifhed church of this country; and 
maturer examination having failed to 
conciliate me to its doctrines ana oe 
¥ have inherited the civil dtfabilities 
which it has feemed good to the ftate to 
impofe on all who do not join the ‘pre- 
doininant fect. I do not abtolutely affert 
that it would be impoible for me to 
elude them, by fubmitiing to what is 
called a ¢e/?, but which I might, perhaps, 
only. confider asa oe ania in my eyes, 
perfe etly indifferent ; yet, Town, I! ae 
not relith this expedient; ‘ andila 
fenfible that iny abfolute exclufion a 
every office of truft and emolument was 
really intended by the makers of the 
tet law. As far, then, as-this goes, I 
cant but regard myfelf as one fufpecied 
and vilified by my country. 
AY 
Vite 
Unjufe Differences in Soczety. 
fome eonrhe ago, im your 
— ignorant 
[June, 
I was deftined to the profeffion Bt 
phyfic, and, in confequence, fough* 
medical micaeoee in thole {choo!s where 
it was beft to be found. I-did nor feek 
it in the Engl ifn univerfities, for the 
obvious Featon, that E knew it. did -ndt 
exift ; nor did i think “itexpegient 
x 
4 ere 
ei 
to lofe invaluable years in purfuing, in 
thofe an cient feats of {cholaftic difciplme, 
a courle of fiudy ill adapted to the 4ite- 
rary de ead ot the preient age in aay 
profe(lion—peculiarty fo to thofe in m-ze. 
1 did not, however, forget that phyfic is 
a learned, as well as an wfeful, profeffion ; 
and that it may claim kindred by affocia- 
tion with almof all the liberal and orna- 
mental acquifiions of the mind. Of 
thefe, too, [ therefore fought: 3 layin a 
competent ftore, and I naturally reforted 
fer them to places where they were to be 
purchafed on the faireft terms ; above all, 
1 relied on my own efforts, (ufficiently 
aware, that with them I might, even in 
my own clofer, acquire knowledge; and 
without them, might temisip ignorant in 
the meit eee feat - letters. In 
procé{s of time, I obtained, in a regular 
manner, nee at a medical jcbool of repute, 
thofe = demical honours which cuftom 
has ma de the warrant for prattifing-in 
the higher line of the profetlion. In 
this I have now been engaged many 
years, as I hope, upon jut principles, 
and with unblemifhed reputation.. Thus 
circumftanced, there appears no teafon 
why I fhould not. look .towards the 
higheft honours my profefiion can beftow. 
But an obftacie ftands in my way, lately 
recognized by law.to. be infuperable 
The college or phyficians in this metro- 
polis, originally. inftirut ed for no cther 
purpole than to fecure the public againft 
pretenders ne ‘the art, ~has 
thought proper entirely to defert this duty 
(for never did quackery © range more un- 
controlled); and to conftitute arfelf anee 
a body of graduates of the Englije umver- 
fities, meonopclizing all the power, and-as 
much as they can vof the credit, of the 
medical faculty . , And~ this ufurpation 
has been fol emnly decreed to be accord- 
ing to the laws of the land. Thus, asa 
profetfiona! man alfo, I find myfelf cut of 
by my country from what I conceive to 
-be my right. 
Farther—being an Englifhman ‘by 
birth, father of a family, a houfe- 
keeper, a confiderable contributor to the 
ublic revenue, it fo happens that Iam 
poffefied of no voice in the ele&tion either 
ofa municipal magifirate, or of a repre- 
fentative in. the great ceuncil of the 
nation, 
