individual: and I believe that most of the world will be of the same opinion. I know indeed that declarations in print are not to be credited merely because they are _made_: but yet I cannot think that the mere act of _making_ them is a reason why they should be discredited. For, if the rule were established for interpreting every “declaration in print” into its opposite, I should be justified at once in concluding that _your object_ is to become a member of this obnoxious Association; _merely_ because you declare in print, “I cannot join myself to your Bible Society.” {9a} Surely, Sir, as a Country Clergyman, you must have heard of the vaccine inoculation. Now there is an association in the metropolis to which that ingenious invention has given birth, and which is publicly known as the _Jennerian Society_. I see no reason why it might not as properly be called “the British and Foreign Vaccine Society,” since its object is “to promote the circulation of vaccine matter at home and abroad.” Now indulge yourself for a moment with the supposition, that when this Society had printed their “object, their principles, and their reasons,” and solicited the countenance and support of the faculty and persons of every denomination, some country physician had stepped from his obscurity, and opened a smart attack upon them. Suppose him to have contended with all the gravity in the world, “that the object of a Society is not to be known from its public declaration in print;” {9b} that Societies which afterwards found their way “to the Old Bailey, or the Maidstone assizes,” had announced themselves to the world by “printed declarations of their reasons, objects, and principles;” {9c} and that for his own part, though he saw in their President a nobleman, “for whose head and heart he had the highest respect,” and among their supporters “many respectable names, with which he should be happy to place his own;” {10a} yet because they received guineas from quacks and empirics, as well as from regulars and licentiates in medicine, he considered the whole Society as a dangerous combination against the health of the community, and a conspiracy for effecting the diabolical design of poisoning his Majesty’s subjects. What, Sir, would you think of such a worthy gentleman? You would not question his sincerity, for no man who was not “horribly afraid” {10b} would intimate suspicions for which he was likely to gain so little credit among mankind: but I think you would feel yourself at liberty to question something about him, which if it did not provoke your resentment, might deservedly enough excite your compassion.