From the physician, who lingers out a life of _studious suspense_, and derives a scanty subsistence from the alternate labour of morning visits and evening lectures—from that _dignified_ “member of the corporation,” whole _mercurial_ abilities are thrust into the hand of every dirty passenger, in the more dirty avenues of the metropolis—from that industrious _accoucher_, whose incessant nocturnal labour renders him, in common life, little superior to the _nightman_, and that equal drudge the metropolitan _pharmacopolist_, I can have little to expect but universal denunciation of vengeance, and threats of malevolence: to the effect of these, I oppose the stability of _truth_, that will render me _invulnerable_ to all their attacks. A steady observance of the iniquity of medical practice has long since powerfully convinced me of the absolute necessity of professional reformation, and should I (by arming the public with a weapon of self-defence) succeed in producing a change in the systematic imposition of one, and preventing perpetual depredation upon the other, every idea of personal ambition will be fully gratified, for “So little slave to what the world calls fame; As dies my body—so I wish my name.” But this obscurity in the present instance is much more anxiously to be _hoped_ than _expected_, for there cannot be the least doubt entertained but _some one_ of his Majesty’s ministers (who are ever anxious for the public good and increase of revenue) will, through the medium of the publisher, discover the joint secret of _name_ and _residence_, that by placing the author in the TREASURY, CUSTOMS, or some office equally lucrative, they may avail themselves of his INTEGRITY, not hesitating a moment to believe, that so just an investigator of professional impositions upon individuals, must unavoidably render the STATE adequate service, in the discovery of official depredations upon the PUBLIC. FINIS. BOOKS lately published by G. KEARSLEY, At DOCTOR JOHNSON’s HEAD, No. 46, FLEET-STREET, LONDON. Where all NEW PUBLICATIONS may be had on the shortest Notice. A TOUR through HOLLAND, DUTCH BRABANT, the AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS, and Part of FRANCE: In which is included a Description of Paris and its Environs. By the late HARRY PECKHAM, Esq. One of his Majesty’s Counsel, and Recorder of the City of Chichester. Price 3s. 6d. half bound, with a Map of the Low Countries. Of Kearsley may also be had, in Pocket Volumes, together or separate, The TOUR of FRANCE, with two Maps, price 3s. 6d. TOUR of ITALY, with a Map, 4s. 6d. TOUR of SWITZERLAND, including M. De SAUSSURE’s Account of his Expedition to the Summit of MONT BLANC, with a Map, 2s. 6d.