Excerpt from Reply to a Pamphlet Purporting to Be an Answer to a Letter Addressed to a Republican Member of the House of Representatives on the Subject of a Petition for a New Incorporation, to Be Entitled a College of Physicians What you state of a third gentleman whose name you have on your petition, is absolutely and wholely false; You know it to' be so, and he knows it. I could exhibit aletter to one of those persons you represent as persecuting him, written no long time since, in which Dr. J. Employs the most ardent professions of friendship: and I defy you to bring forward an instance of an attempt to lessen the respect of the public towards him, separated from your petition. If any such ex pression as crush the wretch, was ever applied to him, it was not by those you have impudently attempted to fix it on, but by a republican gentleman, now high in office, who together with another gentleman of the same politics, highly respected, but now reposed in the grave, was averse to your fellow petitioner. The ground of their opposition was a supposed ill-treatment of the American prisoners in Halifax during the revolution. A supposition, which probably was founded in misinformation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.