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Oration comprehends the remainder of what I was desirous of saying with respect to the labours, opinions, and cha- racter of Mr. Hunter. It has been printed in this form, that it may be bound up with my lectures at the College, which are designed to exhibit Mr. Hunter’s opinions of life and its functions in the states ol health and disease. Yet, as my conduct in this publication has been lately aspersed by Mr. Lawrence, in a point which I should be always most eager to defend, though, I trust, it is one of the least vulnerable parts of my character, that of honesty and lair dealing; I feel under the necessity of adding a few words, and, for the first time in my life, of speaking of him, before the Public, in other terms than those of commendation. As an introduction to his lectures, just published, he has placed what he has chosen to call an answer to some charges which, he says, I have made against him. But as neither my own, nor Mr.