A letter addressed to the Faculty of Physic in London, on the illegal and unwholesome bye-laws of the College of Physicians of London, establishing a monopoly in favour of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge / by Henry Robertson.

Date:
1827
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Credit: A letter addressed to the Faculty of Physic in London, on the illegal and unwholesome bye-laws of the College of Physicians of London, establishing a monopoly in favour of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge / by Henry Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    general rights; but however high and respectable that authority may be, an opinion given in opposition to the law of the land is not to be implicitly assented to, however gratifying it may be to the Gra- duates of the English Universities.* The Act of Union between Scotland and Eng- land is either waste paper or valid in every unrepealed clause. The 4th article of that act still exists, and every attempt to degrade a Graduate of the former country, is an infringement of his civil rights. More- over, our Universities were chartered and * The case now alluded to, was a prosecution against the son of a Scots Graduate in England, who had taken out a game licence, supposing he was qualified, in like manner as the son of an English Graduate. To the best of my recollection the case was tried by Lord Ellenborough, with English counsel, and an English jury; and in the whole trial not one word was said about the 4th Article of the Union. If we are foreigners in the eye of the English law, as this decision palpably infers, the jury, being all English, made the trial invalid; and redress ought to have been sought by petition to Parliament, or the King in council.
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