To return to Moseley. He was not the man to endure Hill’s aggression submissively, and in a pamphlet entitled _An Oliver for a Rowland_,[174] he made a terrific reprisal. The public were delighted with it, and in the course of a few months it ran through ten editions. Hill was generally regarded as a clerical mountebank, with more impudence than piety, and to see him knocked over, kicked, and rolled in the mire, was sport that carried many sympathisers. Moseley’s opening address gives the key to the whole performance-- ROWLAND,--I bought your pamphlet, entitled _Cowpox Inoculation Vindicated_, dated the 25th of March, 1806. I paid a shilling for it. Rowland,--it is not dear. The same quantity of folly, falsehood, and impudence, could not have been bought for twice the money of any other Cowpoxer from the Ganges to the Mississippi. But let me ask you, Rowland, what could induce you to take up your pen to attack me on the subject of Physic, who never attacked you on the subject of Religion? Would it not have been more prudent in you to have continued to expose yourself in your own trade in your own shop? As to my learned friend Dr. Lettsom (who is never out of the way when there is good to be done) being moved to instigate you, a Methodist parson, to enter into a medical controversy--that can only be accounted for by supposing he owes you a grudge, and put you into my hands for payment. Paid he was with interest--gross and Rabelaisian; and Hill, when he had picked himself up and recovered his senses, discreetly retired from the combat. Spite of his pomposity and buffoonery, there was good sense and humour in Moseley, and his resistance to the Jennerian mania was not ineffective. As he wrote in 1808-- It is ten years since I began this Trojan war against Vaccinia; and if it be not yet ended, I have at least the satisfaction to see that her original troops are no longer able to defend her throne; and that the mobled Queen with “a clout upon her head where late diadem stood,” has fallen to a new dynasty of mercenaries.[175] In Dr. Munk’s _Roll of the Royal College of Physicians_ we read, that Dr. Moseley was appointed physician to Chelsea Hospital in 1788, “an office which he filled with the highest _éclat_ for more than thirty years”--until his death in 1819-- Though a shrewd practitioner, and undeniably a man of extensive mental capacity and very considerable attainments, Dr. Moseley was a violent opponent of Vaccination, on which his communications to the press were incessant. They did little credit to his medical penetration, or his qualifications as a dispassionate searcher after truth, and, happily for his reputation, are now well nigh forgotten.[176]