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ensure the preservation of human existence. The Act, however.
front the manner in which it was framed, was attended with hard.
ships, and those of nu very inconsiderable degree, and to remove
these his (Mr. Brougham's) amendment was principally intended.
When an Apothecary brought an action fur medicine furtiished
hint, he must show that he is duly qualified to practise as an
apothecary, or he tails. Now the fifty-fifth of the late King pm.
vides.• that no person can practise, or be qualified to practise, after
the lit of August, 1816, unless he be examined and duly licensed
Wthe wardens, toil other officers of the Apothecaries' llall.
ell, to return : viten the apothecary sues for his inedicine, het
must show that he has undergone this examination, and must pro-
duce a certificate to that effect. Ile trust also prove the anthem.
ticity of the certificate, or he cannot recover; and how ran he
prove it ? Ne otherwise titan by witnesses, brought down from
London, frequently at a great expense, an that that operated in
some measure as a bar to the action. Now the alteration be meant
to ituroduce on that held was, that the rule of evidence, as it ap.
plied to records and original writs, should apply there also—that
wee, that a licence under the hands and seals of authorired officers
should be sufficient to prove itself, subject of course to the usual
guards against forgery, as in the case of records and write. There
were one or two other objections, of a mimic nature, to the law as it
now stood, but he would mention one, and one only, now to the
Haase. Many persons came to London to practise, with licences
from the Irish and Scotch Universities. Ile believed, as the law
now stood, that those who graduated in Trinity College, Dublin,
could not so much complain as those grwluating in the Scotch
Universities, particularly Edinburgh and Glasgow. He wished to
'see the Ihnottrable Member for Aberdeen (31r. Hume) in his
place, from which indeed he was seldom absent. (A laugh.)
He wished for his presence, as he had occasion to allude to the
University of Aberdeen, with which that Honourable Gentleman
was connected, as well its to St. Andrew's. Now a practice pre-
vailed, with regard to the latter, which m present brought their
character into disrepute. It wan well known, indeed every one was
aware, that any one sending fifteen pounds to either of them would
receive by return of post, a license to kill and slay, s.candern
artetn, his Majesties liege subjects. IA laugh.) &ell conduct
was highly injurioua to their character, and was calculated to tits-.
iishejstit than of the eh:carter of their ancestors. At tresent he
felt It iirstlf bound to eirelnde them front the benefits of the pro.
posed alteration in the la*, unless they should examine those whom
they licensed, as was the rase In the other Scotch Universities.
Indeed, the practice at St. Andrew's and Aberdeen subjected to
suspicion every person graduating in Scotland, anti nothing was
more common than when such • person appeared in a Court of
Justice, to taunt him with being a Scotch Doctor, so that in fact
they all were tainted with contagion. The llonoomble and
Learned i;entleman passed a high eulogium on the prote.sors and
course of studies of' Edinburgh and Glasgow, and concluded,
after repeating his intention to exempt Aberdeen and St. Andrew's
front the operation of the new hill, by moving leave to bring in a
Bill to amend the 51;th of the late King.
On the question that leave be granted,
Mr. CROKE P. aaid,'he felt gratified at the proposed mrsoire:
it leaded to excite tha publid feeling with regard to Scotch l iver-
shies. they hod ail become tainted front the practice of two.
Indeed, Glasgow had more muse to complain than Edinburgh of
the error in the pnblic mind.— Leave granted.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a QVAIT ER TO SEVEN.