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years. There are many of the licentiates, Who,
frona a totas dis approbation os such a plan os admission, would rejoice at iis being abolislied, frona a convisiton, that the only legal and theon ly just medium os admistion, to the fello stip of the college, is a candid and equat eXamination of the learning and professional abilities of ali physicians, who should either propos e them-set es, or be proposed for election. It is worthy to be rem arked, howeVer, that not any licentiate, who has been honoured withthe recommendation of the president, and withso distinguissied a mark of the approbation of the college as admisiton in Consequence, haS CVerbeen considered so defective in learning, or in medical knowledge and sh ill, as to render hisbeing eXamined again necessary, notwithstandingin the election os sonae of them, their admisiton has been opposed by a number of the fellows of the College, nearly equat to the number of those
There is, indeed, another statute in the pririted Copy Oi 1765, whicli manifestly impli es that thetest os learning, and medicat information, givenby a licentiate, is such, as indisputably quali- fies him for the most distinguissied honours in the
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the college. No one mali be admitted into 'the order of candidates who mali not first have been examined according to the form presently to be described, unies le be of the num- ber of licentiales Still the admission was tobe speciali gratia. It was a hind of medium os incorporation to the fellowship of the college, substitutest for the abolimed privilege of beingincorporaled in the universities. Is there a man, who has ever been admitted
into the fellowssiip of the college speciali gratia,
o, Considering the Circumstances of his admission, can truly say, that he himself estimatesit as an honourable accession to his character ΘΙ know there are sonae, who, is they have sensi bility as men, in any proportion to their genuine merit as physicians, will feel them lues hiat litile elated by sucti an admission. Men, who delight in the science, contemplatethe trade of physic With abhorrenCe. They observe with pity and dis ust, the meannesse of con duct, the distriast and ill-Will, whicti frequentlyari se froni j ealous y even among practitioners, whohave but litile to apprehend stom competition:
' Nemo, nisi in permissorum numerum sumit, in Candidatorum ordinem admittatur, qui non Prius examinatus & approbatus fuerit secundum formam mox Praescribendam. P. 3I.
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and it bespealis biit a limited acquaintance withthe politios of playic, to be ignorant of the humiliating sacrifices, that are necessary to remove thedissiculy of obtaining susscient interest, in the college, sor the election os a licentiate irato the orderos fellows, under the most powerfui recommendations. The narrowness and illiberali ty of the by-laws of the college Dem to have Communicated totho , who have been froni time to time intereste lin their ContinuanCe, an UnConquerable aversionfrona every essori in the licentiates to obtain areas nable redress of their grievanCes: an aVersion, whicli the most candid appeals cannot induce themto moderate, not illis an ling the rigoroUS OXercise of their authority has been the frequent urce of remonstrance frona even sonae of theirown number, and of public admonition frona menos the highest officiat siluations in the law. In I 688, the College was admonis hed by Lord Chancellor Jeffries.-A litile prior to the year I7CO, a Petition was preferred to the Lord Chancellor Somers, and to the judges, by. severat fel-lows of the college, complaining That a pre- Valling party of the college had combined to- gether in a fraudulent and surreptilior S manner,
ali eady state J, they were accused by Sir Richard
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would recommend it to the college, to talae the best advice in reta ing their statutes; and to attend to the de In and intention of the cro u and partiament in theis insitution. I see a s urce of great dispute and litigation in them, as they now stand there, has not, as it should seem, been due consideration had of the charter, or legat advice taken in forming them ';V a hint which he repeated in 17 1. These lalter admonitions, especially, were serious and important; But what was the result of them 8 A new statute, Whicli potnted out a road for the licentiatesto the college, but iis gales Were impenetrably
lf any one stiali have been seven whole years of the number of those, Who have been ad- mitte l
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mitted by our college to practise physic in
d hus, after a licentiate has given eVery requisite proos of his being fully competent to PraC-ti se physic, in ali cases, as a physician, in three distinci examinations at the college, to obtain ulicense; and aiter he has ad ded to his acquire-ments Ven years e X perience in actuat practice ;it may be allo abfe, is he be 36 years of age, to
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propose his, et on one particular da ' in the year. Burhis admision is not to be ac complis hed, uiatila iter three fui ther examinations, tu elve monilis
ment, as they are primari ly and ultimately to bedetermined at generat meetings of the sellows; Who, as individuals, are not bound by any oathio malae a fair decision; and who have generat lymown thenaseives indisserent, or under the influence of prejudice, in ali concertas, of whichthe object is to promoto the interest of the licentiates, or to eXait their digni ty. It is asserted that a man may obtain his doctors ip in physic, at OX ford or Cambridge, without be ing once recognised as a medicat sudent in the universi ty, either be fore the period of his determining for p sic, or during the intervals of his subsequent degrees. Such a pii Cian, Where ever he may have acquired his knowledge, is admitted in to the fellowship of the college of London, Dona the mere ACcident of locat gradu-ation, twelve monilis aster he has passed threeoXaminations, whicli are essentia γ the fame, asevery licentiate is subjected to for permission to practis e. Can then any rea sonable being, UPonthe principie os candour or moderation, justi sythe conditions, Under Whicli admission to the fel-
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application has been made by a licentiate tobe examined for a fello vi hip. It was propos dby a fellow of the college, that this gentie
ing to the statute, but even the ballot for his CXAmination was refused, as I am informed by himself, after every artifice had been exerted bysome of the college, to intimidate him frona his purposse of mahing the application.
Is this like the equitable condust suggested by
Lord Manssield, when he potnted out to the college the necessii ty of revising their statutes, and of rendering them Confurmable to the intentionos the Crown and partia ment, in granting their charter ξ Allow that their indignation mighthave been roused by reiterated opposition; stiali the plea os vindictive resentinent be, for CVer, an excuse for the oppressue meas ures of an incorporaled societyξ For the public meas res of a society, whose boasted pre-eminence is founded Ialy On a presumed superiority of learningi Forthe meas res of men, who, while they stigmatige others with the imputation of ignorance and illiberal condust, are not thonas et Ves un-ta in te l
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Corporate Proceedings, any proos of that enlargement of sentiment, Whicli is the Only true Characteristic of the high cultivation of ingenuous minds ξThat their procee lings have not a nearer alliance with justice, than with reason, may be Clearly inferred froni the declared opinions of men mosteminently learned in the la .
se are so me amongst the licentiates uiast to be re- ceived into any society, it is a breach of trusi in the college to license persons alto gether unfit. -lt has been said, that there are many amongst the licentiates, who would do honour
as weli as other valvabie and amiable qualities, and that the college thenaseives, as weli as every
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notan, or thought by them to be reatly si and qualified, such by-laws require regulation . VII e have seen, however, that the college in thesi sit statute de permisis, in the Copy prini ed in I 765, acknowledge that there are many in theci ty and suburbs, qualised both by their learning and morais to practise physic, whom Ileis salutes forbia them to admit into the order of candidates or os fellows. The statute to be substituted for this, in the proposed alterations of the
the most barbarous period in the history of the college. Then do not ali sicli statutes interfere vitii their exercising their own judgment i Donot lacti statutes prevent them frona receivinginto their body persons known by them to be reatly fit and quali fied ξ And ought not ali such statutesto be regulated Θ
every person of proper education, requisite
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Nothing can malae a man a fellow of the col-
lege without the aft of the college. The first asi to be done, by them, is their judging of the
qualifications of the candidate. The admis- sion, irato the fellowsesp, is an asi subsequent to that The main end of the corporation is to keep up the succession, and it was to be Lept up by the admission os fellows after examina- tion. The power of eXamining, and of ad-
trary Power, but a power Coupled with a trust. They are bound to admit eVery Person, Whom, upon eXamination, they think to be fit to be admitted within the description of the charter, and the aes of partiament Whicli confirms it The person, who comes Within that descrip- tion, has a right to be admitted into the fel- lowmip. He has a claim to severat eXemp- tions, privileges, and adVantages, attendant upon admission into the fellowship : and not only the candidate himself, is mund fit, has a personat right, but the public has also a right to his service, and that not Only as a physician, but as a censor, an elest, AS an ossicer in the ossices to which he will, upon admission, be- come eligibie