Important official documents relative to the disagreements between the members of the late Army Medical Board, not included among the papers printed by order of the House of Commons.

  • Thomas Keate
Date:
1810
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Credit: Important official documents relative to the disagreements between the members of the late Army Medical Board, not included among the papers printed by order of the House of Commons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Mr. Knight adverts to the 5th Report of the Commif- fioners of Mili- tary Enquiry,& the fubfequent publications. ticnlarly against myself; and your Lordship may feel some surprise that Mr. Knight, after such acts, should have so much rashness as to complain that his colleagues did not assist him on a recent occasion, and to require their dismission from their offices because there is a want of harmony between himself and them, a requisition which, in truth, is but a new effort to overturn the Army Medical Board, and possess himself of its patronage and power, small as they are. Mr. Knight appears to take credit to himself for not entering “ into a relative view of onr services,” and for not adverting “ to the 5th Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, or to the disgraceful controversies that have grown out of it.” On these several points 1 am ready to meet Mr. Knight, and submit our respective pretensions to your Lordship’s decision ; not that I feel any improper disposition to enumerate or boast of my services, but I cannot be so far wanting in common jus- tice to myself as to suffer it to be even insinuated by Mr. Knight that be has in that respect any advantage over me;—nor can I admit of any reference on that subject to the 5th Report of the Military Commissioners, who, as is now notorious, (and it is most probably known to them- selves) w'ere grossly deceived respecting both Mr. Knight and myself, principally by the misrepresentations and falsehoods of those who continue to be his most intimate friends; misrepresentations and falsehoods which have chiefly occasioned the controversies resulting from that Report. And if your Lordship should ever condes- cend either to read the several publications by which those controversies were maintained, or to consult the public opinion concerning them, as expressed in the dil- ferent Reviews, &c. or in the conversation of intelligent and impartial readers, you will, I am confident, find that if they are disgraceful, the disgrace appertains not to me, nor to any friend of mine ; but to Mr. Knight or his par- tizans, particularly Drs. Jackson, Borland and M'Ciregor.
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