We adopt the apology of the learned reporter both in words and substance; for we are well aware that many of our readers must be heartily tired of this long detail of litigations, which, as we hope, are not again to be required as precedents; yet we have deemed it necessary to give this account of the powers and privileges of those Corporate Bodies, to whom we must at least look for the elucidation of the medical branches of jurisprudence, and from whom we might expect the best execution of the laws respecting the public health, should they ever be in this, as they have been in most other countries, reduced to a regular system of Medical Police. Footnote 104: It is said that the College have determined not to interfere for the future with the licensing of Midwives; the policy of this resolution is very questionable, for the examination and licensing of persons in all branches of medicine is a public duty imposed upon them, which they are not at liberty to abandon or execute at their pleasure. It may be urged that this branch is rather Surgery than Physic; but as the College have once assumed the jurisdiction, it is doubtful whether they ought to relinquish it. The Surgeons might also disavow their obstetric brethren, and then the matter must revert, as of old, to the Bishops, who cannot be supposed to be the most competent judges of the necessary qualifications. Archbishop _Abbot_, a very conscientious divine, on a somewhat similar occasion, said “he knew not well how children were made,” and begged time to inform himself on the subject. Footnote 105: A writ of certiorari will also be granted on occasion directed to the College. 2 _Hawk._ 406. Footnote 106: The unprofessional reader will infer from the rank of the Counsel the importance which was attached to the case; and from their proved ability, that its merits were fully before the Court. Footnote 107: For which, at greater length, as also for the arguments of the other Judges, see 4 _Burr._ 2195. Footnote 108: A Fellowship is not in itself an office. _Carth._ 478. Footnote 109: Query of the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury _inter alia_? _Vide ante._ Footnote 110: And in midwifery it is desirable that the practice may be revived. Footnote 111: A limited license had been granted to one _Shepheard_ to practise upon Madmen, but with a proviso that a physician should also be called. Being summoned to answer a breach of this limitation, he appeared and submitted to the College censure. _Goodall_ 466. Footnote 112: This prophesy, like many others, was the cause of its own fulfilment, as will be seen in the sequel. Lord _Kenyon_ in Doctor _Stanger’s_ case took occasion to lament that it had been made. Footnote 113: