A letter to ******* ***** [William Lewis], M.D. heretofore of ****** ****** [Christ Church] College in the University of O-*-*-*-*-d [Oxford] / [George Wilmot].

  • Wilmot, George.
Date:
1752
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Credit: A letter to ******* ***** [William Lewis], M.D. heretofore of ****** ****** [Christ Church] College in the University of O-*-*-*-*-d [Oxford] / [George Wilmot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Power: But whether larding your Defence with a Panegyrick on your Magiftrate, and blend¬ ing Your own dirty Caufe with His Conduct, will anfwerYour Purpofes, is a Matter which ad¬ mits of fome Doubt. Whatever Your Expectati¬ ons from Him may be, I am really told that He is heartily fick of Tou; and I am in no Meafure fur- prifed at it, fince Your admitted Imprudences, Faults, Offences, Indecencies, &c. have been the only Infelicity attending his Adminiftration. His publick and his private Character ftand confef- fed, without the leaft Afliftance from your Pen: “ Non tali Auxilio, nec Defenjoribus ijlis cc Tempos egetT- And whatever Writer fhall take upon him to cenfure His Conduct, as You, Sir, have cenfured that of fome of his Predecdfors (for having in the Cafes of Th—te, S—l—n and H—be, acted, as You in Terms affert, without a due Foundation in Law) [pag. 28] will find as (len¬ der an Attention from the Publick as You, or Your doughty Apologift have hitherto done. The Mention of thefe Cafes reminds me of fomething refembling a Triumph in Your An- fwer, built, it feems, on an Obfervation made by the Inquirer, that £C a Similitude of Offence call’d c< for an Uniformity in judgment, and, in Cafe £c of Conviction, for an Equality in Punifhment.” Can He in the firft Place fay (as your Hero afks the Queflion) that there is any Similitude be¬ tween the three Cafes themfelves ?——Why yes truly, Sir, He, or any one elfe, acquainted with the