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of acquiring medical knowledge. Dr. Wickham was in France engaged in these important pursuits on the commencement of hosilities [hostilities]. As no Englishman is so generally and so justly known & respected among men of science abroad as well as at home, he has desired me earnestly to request the favour of your intercession in his behalf. It is well known that Bonaparte is eminently an encourager of men of science. I can assure you that Dr. Wickham is a physician of a most respectable character, likely to become an honour to the profession, being zealously attached to it, and endowed with superior abilities. On these considerations, you will, I hope, excuse the liberty of this address, and be the means of my friend's permission to visit Vienna, Berlin,