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haftily manufa€tured, poffeffes much to 
eommend, but more to aiLAppION of. 
The German play of the Rodlers, feems 
to have fuggefted the idea of Don Pedro, 
who is both a robber anda hardened vil- 
Jain ; but the Roy, which f/errifies more 
than it pleafes, diiters confiderably, and is 
chiefly taken from a romance’ of Mr. 
Cumberiand’s. The play is intended as 
a mixture of grave and gay 3 but as vil- 
Jains always keep theirown countel, it con- 
fequently abounds too much with So/do- 
utes. "Lhe incidents, though few, are 
fudden, therefore unnatural, and the 
charaélers imperfectly drawn, the au- 
thor, it is evident, depended too much 
upon his hero. ‘Towards the end of the 
fourth aét, it met with fome oppofition, 
and was, with difficulty, given out for 
Monday evening. ‘The prologue and 
epilogue were both well written, and 
well delivered, by Mr. R. Palmer, and 
Mifs De Camp. ‘The play aid not ad- 
mit of much good aéting. Mrs. Kem- 
bic’s character jwas too trifling. The 
me 
LAW eR 
Case Or THE LICENTIATES, AND 
THE COULEGE oF PHYSICIANS. 
[ Concluded from our laft.| 
MB. ERSKINE next read a letter from 
Charles I]. (which he admitted 
had no legal authority) direéting the Col- 
lege to admit none but graduates of the 
Enelith Univerfities. Act the period this 
was written, the dread of papifts and 
difaffeéted perfons was fo great, that in 
order to keep them out of all corporate 
bodies and places of truft, many fimilar 
arbitrary and illegal meafures were di- 
rected and adopted. But, happily, the 
motive for fuch urconfitutional orders 
and the fubferviency which would co mm 
ply with them, do mot now exift. Mir. 
Erfkine went on to fubmit to the Court, 
that ‘* fome of the greateft men that 
England ever bred or ever {aw in medi- 
cine, have been under the fame circum- 
fiances as Doctor Stanger: that Sloane 
and Mead were only admitted after pur- 
chafing Cambridge or Oxford degrees ; 
and that Sydenham had never been ad- 
mitted.’”” This is an argument againft 
the claims of the Licentiates, deduced 
from the excefs of injuftice they have 
hitherto fuffered ; becaufe the brightef 
ornaments of thei order, and of their 
profeffion, have been deprived of their 
due honours and juft rights, without re- 
dcefs, it would imply, that their fuccef- 
« 
Cafe of che Licentiates, concluded. 
only Pofaas who could and did ex 
ert themfelves, were Mr. Palmex, Mr. 
Suet, and Milfs De Camp. The un- 
pardonable delay between the acts, was 
fufficient to put the audience in ill-hu- 
mour. Don Pedro, we 
will not be permitted to flourith long in 
his wickednefs ; like Don Juan, he fhould 
have ftrutted in a Pantomime. 
Orera House. 
Mr. Didelot brought out for his bene- 
fit (July 7) two new pieces, both com- 
pofed by himfelf. The firft, a Ballet, im 
one act, called Fore Siar. ‘This met 
with ceneral approbation. Ihe other, a 
grand divertifiement, in three acts, in 
the Scotch ftyle, called L’Hewreur Nau- 
frage, or Les Sorveres Ecsffisfes, which 
was not fo well received, but on being 
altered and contracted, was afterwards 
approved of. “he mufic, by Sig. Both, 
was much admired. The fccne-{hifters 
were very imperfect. The houfe clofed 
on the 23d, with Viganonis benefit. 

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apprehend, 
{ors ave for ever tamely to fubmit to the © 
fame hardihips. Mr. Erfkine next fated, 
very eloquently, that “ fome men whe 
were never taught, conducted by their 
own energies, Ss teach the fchaols 
what they ne knew: co Newton 
would probably he 'e difcovered the laws 
of gravitation, had he never feen Tri- 
nity Colleges. and» that Shakfpeare, 
without being acquainted with the great 
mod tels of antiquity, had foared beyond 
them.” He argued, that notwithftand- 
ing the -infittutions of “mankind 
made forthe <ommon occurrences 6f the 
world, and mot for 
that the fciences throw light on one dn- 
other; that a very learneu education en- 
ables aman to be more fkilful in.a fcience 
which is connected with all ae and. 
gives him that Anes which adds luftre 
to a profeflion, thet always fae conferred 
are 
honour upon. Hnglith fociety. Here we 
cannot help joining in the exclamation, 
which immediately followed. “ But 
what of all this? 1 learning no where 
to be acquired but in the two wniver- 
fities of England?” The Lic entiates 
are fully fenfible of the nece lity of a 
learned education, and of the import- 
ance of the dead languages, and of the 
thefe phenomena ; 
{ciences which may throw light on their + 
profeifion, r add dignity to the charac- 
ter of a phyfician; and they infift, thar 
they have ulivated them with as much 
ardour 

