alleged, must appear fully sufficient, with or without the opinions of the surgeons.
2. That those very motives must have been the foundation on which the Earl of Rochford thought proper, &c.
3. That he cannot but regret, that the Earl of Rochford seems to have thought proper to lay the chirurgical reports before the king, in preference to all the other sufficient motives, &c.
Let the public determine whether this be defending government on their principles or your own.
The style and language you have adopted, are, I confess, not ill suited to the elegance of your own manners, or to the dignity of the cause you have undertaken. Every common dauber writes rascal and villain under his pictures, because the pictures themselves have neither character nor resemblance. But the works of a master require no index. His features and colouring are taken from nature. The impression they make is immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to mistake his
