The gold-headed cane . he would use all the influence hepossessed to procure his liberty: For, saidhe, smiling, however much your cultivatedmind is enabled to amuse itself by reading andwriting, I presume you will have no sort of ob-jection to resign your newly-acquired officeof Medicus Regius ad Turrim */J Very shortly afterwards, the opportunity ofeffecting this did actually occur; for when SirRobert Walpole, the minister of the day, sentto consult Mead on account of an indisposition,he availed himself of the occasion to plead thecause of the captive. He urged, that thoughthe warmth and free
The gold-headed cane . he would use all the influence hepossessed to procure his liberty: For, saidhe, smiling, however much your cultivatedmind is enabled to amuse itself by reading andwriting, I presume you will have no sort of ob-jection to resign your newly-acquired officeof Medicus Regius ad Turrim */J Very shortly afterwards, the opportunity ofeffecting this did actually occur; for when SirRobert Walpole, the minister of the day, sentto consult Mead on account of an indisposition,he availed himself of the occasion to plead thecause of the captive. He urged, that thoughthe warmth and freedom of Freind might havebetrayed him into some intemperate observa-tions, yet no one could doubt his patriotic feel-ings and loyalty; that his public services hadbeen great, for he had attended the Earl ofPeterborough in his Spanish expedition as anarmy physician; and had also accompanied inthe same capacity the Duke of Ormond into * This appointment was held by Dr. Gideon Harvey,from the year 1719 till 1754. 76 Flanders; that he deserved well of science, forhe had done much to call the attention of theworld to the new and sound principles of theNewtonian philosophy; and was besides a manof excellent parts, a thorough scholar, and onewhom all acknowledged to be very able in his * From a spirited medallion of Dr. Freind, carved inbox-wood. There is a portrait of him in the hall ofChrist Church, Oxford, upon which is inscribed the fol-lowing stanza from the pen of Anthony Alsop:Cui suas artes, sua dona laetusEt Lyram, et Venae salientis ictumScire concessit, celerem et medendiDelius usum. MEAD. 77
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