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London, England, 1828-12-15 00:00:00

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

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dict on. Gentlenien, lam no e emy to the perm ocat
Press; far from it, though I bade never flattered it. ant'
will never do it; though I will say the exam.-1e of thin
proceeding has giver. it a triumph and an interest which
it never had before. Allow me, therefi re, so ei ter now
upon my case, and suspend, if possible, the doubts yon
entertain, for they can be but doubts, whether Mr.
Cooper is the object which*. yesterday it was elLihited
to you that he was. He is a Gentleman who has an •
hoof ur he has reason to be proud of, a conneciion
Sir Asti.), Cooper, my highly honoured and escellet t
friend. I should think it one of my greatt.st privileges
if I could claim that connection with him which Mr. B.
Cooper does. In early life, as soon as his profession
was finally clio,en, Mr. B. Co.tper became a pupil at
the Norwich Hospita , the most distinguished, except
thoe in London, for the riper ition of lithotun4. He
served with diligence in that frotpital for nearly two
years. He then came to London; he was admrttad'a
pupil of Guy's Hospital, where Le crn-inued for a year •
and a half, nearly two years, when, as I hope I may be
allowed to say, and I hope I shall offend nobody by
saying it, that his meths, as well as his manners, re.
coni'mendod him to that notice by which he was apa
pointed Assistant Singeon to a Ilegiyamt 01 Artillery,-
and went abroad in 1813 ; he was present in every
battle till .that of Toidouse—that gran.] rff ,rt which
was the basis of ;he peace of 1811.. His first i•xhibition
of conlntss was in operating on the field of battle, under
she roar of cannon, and exposed to dancer. His etpeu
rience as a surgeon was known in that field, where a
man requires both confidence and talent, and fie had
the opportunity of showing that (silent which w.s the
ground of his honourable relation's wishit.g lons to put..
sue that line for vi hich his abilities rench-red him eiLoble,
and in which, if he pursued it with the talent he Lad ex•
hibi:eJ, he had a prospect of attaining eminence. He
went to Canada, and served nearly a year in tf e 'ast
unhappy war in watch we had the misfortune to engage
with our frieocfs in America. *hen' that t• rtiii aed

,e was sent to Edinbergh, and was admitteo -h le AS a
student; and there he receored all the educ tio.► a man
could receise• pupil. He uas placed in the high
situation of (.f a Social, until he quitted
Ile ha.: it open to him in ch-inse what line he th.►e:g;ht fit.
He might have taken his degree, and established him'a
sett as a physician; Ire had the esample of his i.lus•rints
uncle in his view, one 91 the most disti.tgui heJ as well
as the most prosper►ous, and which he thought proper
to pursue. Sir Astir), Cooper was the Surg. on ut Gay's
Hospital; he had been the pupil of Mr. Cline, a man
educated in the same school ; he became bound ap-
prentice to his uncle in 1817. During th .t period his
assiduity was unremitting. I have a right tesay so,
from the evidence of that excellent and honourable
man who gave his testimony yesterday, and who was
intended to be insulted. who .stated that his conduct
was hunourable•to himself and satisfactory to all around
him. Sir A. Cooper made hint his demonstrator of
anatomy. Sir A. Cooper, who gave distinguished lec-
tures there, tumid him a valuable assistant, which led•
him to obtain sacptsintance- with all the mast abstruse
parts of the profession, and had an opportunity, which
every man does not possess, to become by and b3e of
the same tame and the same success as his honourable
relative. He did m re than that. Sir A. Co :per, whose
practice has been pi obably snore extensive. for a nurnher
of years, than any other surgeon in the world, called
by all sorts of prisons to perform the most diffic tilt ope-
rations, and who never, as those who know him can
say, allowed the call of the poor to be disregarded, who
ractised as much in humanity as for gain. Sir A.
Coop -r having daily and nightly requisitions,was obliged
to do that which every person in his extensive practice.
must do, namely, have a person to assist him whenhe
was called upon to one place of emergency, -that his
patients might not want him in another. Sir A. Cooper
found in his nephew one of the fi.test persons to assist
him, and was able, according to the statements of
that most em•nent man, to discharge thy m-I•t im-
portail dot es, wh A he himself, from the impi.ssibility .
of being i:► two or three places at the stime time,
was lotted to employ an assistant. (icst:e•r.en, do
not suppose such an emplilment can be viv result
tavotri ; the surgeon who employs an as,t•.rant for
that purpose, for his own honour and int re t, is obliged
to employ •a competent man—f e cannot do others. ise.
Conioter for a moment *Nat situation S r A. Cooper
would be placed in, if, on your sending ft r-liim to per-
' form a dittitaiitAsperstioo, and tin& g trim otherwise
engaged at the tiole—consider the situation in which
be would have been placed had he sent you for his sub-
stitute a person whom you found Met min tea, or
thought so. Sir Astley Croper would have beer► owned
'in practice as well as in reputation. Therefore he had a
.tight to say, not by his ettucation only, hut tit• that best
testimony which Sir Astley bone to his nephew's fitness
and capacity, that tut fitness and capacity are esta-
blished beyond all daubt on the must sub tact►al proof.
Gei►tlenren, his apprenticeship (spired in 1828 He hal
had at • that time conshteiable experience and great
practice. He became a surgeon upon his own account,
still continuing, however, to ter der assiststice when his
uncle required it. Whit happened at Guy's Hospital ?
that establishment, about %voids for the preteut I say
nothing—highly useful, and of the greatest advantage
to the poor—the individuals connected with which, the
Governors, upon whose character no impeachment was
ever made, until this scandalous and it fattous publica-
tion, thought it expedient, for the advantage of that
charity, to establish a, School of Anatomy. as well as
that w hich existed at St. Thomas's. They had a right
to do so ; having done so, who is it that dares, artless
he defies all decency and common sense, to cotriphin ?
Unless because they thought in their own hospital,
with the consideration of illustrious surgeons, it would
be well to found this schiiol. who is it dater to
complain that they did not advertise in the newspapers,
and ask some information from the Loner v here they
were to pet assistants? The Lan►beris and the WA, lys
might then have been called forth• Isom their dark places
to have been made surgeons to this b ►spit+l. It is not
hom the school of Cane, of Cooper, of Green, 00. nor
even MI. Callaway himself, that we ought to elect stir..
aeons ; no. it is trim the newspapers in vie shape of the
Lancet, that you ought to obtain ii.torns .tiun on such a
point. Tali is the wound that has sunk deep into his
breast: his dignity has been disregarded, the ifnmenre
circulation of his work has been disregarded, it has been
passed unnoticed by Guy's llospital. They haie th'.ught
tight to elect out of their own body•one wham 'they
considered competent. I hop- your Lordship will thinks•
and the Jury too, that the Goverinsrs of Glif.s'llos; ir4l
n•ot deserve to be t led and esecu• d b saute they