of their faction*. God be thanked, her majesty wants not those faithful subjects, who will defend both her person and reputation against the felonious attempts of such impious wretches, and who would serve her in the last moments of her life with as much fidelity and zeal, as if she had twenty sons and daughters to inherit after her. Her times are in the hands of that Almighty Being whose minister she is, and in whom she comfortably puts her trust; who will not shorten the period of her life one moment, for all the impatient curiosity of those people who are daily inquiring, "When will she "die?" So long as they keep off their hands, let them wish as much as they think fit: and, when it shall please God to give her the happy change of an earthly for a heavenly crown, let this be written upon her tomb: "That, in compassion to the "miseries of Europe, and the sufferings of her own subjects, after a bloody and expensive war, "which had lasted twenty years, she concluded a peace and, that she might transmit the liberties "of her people safe to posterity, she disbanded "her army by which glorious achievement, she acquired the hatred of a faction, who were fond "of war, that they might plunder their fellow subjects at pleasure; and of an army, that they might "do this with impunity." * It is a very remarkable circumstance that the publick funds rose considerably on the report of the queen's death, and immediately sunk again on her recovery. Stocks rose in like manner when her majesty's decease actually happened. See Mr. Ford's Letter, of August 5, 1714, vol. XI, p. 395. THE THE RIGHT OF PRECEDENCE BETWEEN PHYSICIANS AND CIVILIANS INQUIRED INTO. "Tu major, tibi me est æquum parere, Menalca." VIRG. "Fidis offendar medicis? irascar amicis " HOR. FIRST PRINTED IN 1720. THE RIGHT OF PRECEDENCE BETWEEN PHYSICIANS AND CIVILIANS. I HAVE waited hitherto with no little impatience, to see some good effect of that debate, which I thought was happily started at a late meeting of our university, upon the subject of precedence between professors of law and physick. And, though I cannot join in opinion with the worthy gentleman who first moved in it, I must needs say, the motion was seasonable, and well became him: for, beside that he intended an honour to a faculty he was promoted above, and was so self-denying as to wave all debates of that nature as long as he was a party concerned in the motion, he did what in him lay to put an end, by authority, to a point in controversy, which had long divided the gentlemen of those two faculties; and I am very much mistaken if the same * Trinity College, Dublin. + Some eminent civilian, probably, who had recently received preferment. |