Report of the trial, Cooper versus Wakley, for libel / from the notes of W.B. Gurney ; with remarks on the evidence, by Bransby B. Cooper.

  • Cooper, Bransby Blake, 1792-1853.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Report of the trial, Cooper versus Wakley, for libel / from the notes of W.B. Gurney ; with remarks on the evidence, by Bransby B. Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    particular parts of it in question. To members of his own profession, or to persons of general science, he need not appeal: they well know how to estimate the skill and com- petency of the witnesses who were brought to speak against him, as well as their veracity and integrity. But he trusts, and believes, that every reader who bestows his candid at- tention upon the following pages, will be fully satisfied that every one of the insinuations and assertions to his preju- dice, contained in these libels, has been fully, completely, and satisfactorily refuted, not only by the evidence adduced on his part, but, in a great measure, by the most credible witnesses for the Defendant. Finally, he thinks it must also appear to those who will take the trouble to weigh the whole case, with attention to all its parts, that, to accomplish his ruin, was the object of a conspiracy, in which ignorance and malice took the lead, and were followed by fraud and falsehood. To the mem- bers of his own profession, who voluntarily and cheerfully came to his aid, he cannot adequately express his grateful sense of their conduct. He feels a conscious pride and security from injury, not only in the testimony of those dis- tinguished and honourable persons who were called as wit- nesses on his behalf, but in the zeal and kindness of many others, well known and highly esteemed by the public, who did him the favour to attend, and who would have been requested to give their evidence, but for the lateness of the hour, and the opinion of his counsel that it was not expedient to fatigue the Court with further examinations. He can never forget what he owes to them, or that the best manner of discharging- the obligation is to exert his efforts with theirs to elevate and adorn their common profession, not only by the improvement of art and the cultivation of science, but by the love of truth, and the practice of libe- rality and candour.