Volume 1

Medical and miscellaneous observations relative to the West India Islands / by John Williamson, M.D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, formerly surgeon to the Caithness Highlanders, and late of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

  • Williamson, John (Surgeon)
Date:
1817
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Credit: Medical and miscellaneous observations relative to the West India Islands / by John Williamson, M.D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, formerly surgeon to the Caithness Highlanders, and late of Spanish Town, Jamaica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ttie otherwise. And, in addition to his paternal advice^ letters in the most friendly terms were handed to me for his Jamaica friends. That only son was preserved to him; andj during a long minority, his paternal estates were much involved. He came out to Jamaica, where he unadvisedly entered on a project to take for- cible possession of his estates. In effecting which, 3ome acts of violence were committed against the white people in charge , upon which, grounds of action were laid, and Mr Edwards was fined and imprisoned for three months. It is much to be regretted that Mr Edwards should have thus become the victim of inconsiderate rashness. Sentence, however, being passed, it should have been remembered he was a delicate young man, much afflicted with rheumatism; that he was the son of Bryan Edwards, who had been an useful and ornamental character in the island for many years, as a public and private indi- vidual ; yet was this gentleman, the son of Bryan Ed- wards,—a name which should be held venerable in Jamaica,—doomed to the common jail in Spanish Town for three months. During his imprisonment, though lamenting the op- portunity, I visited him as often as my time would per- mit. His situation, and even his accommodation, were humiliating; yet was no mercy extended to him. A melancholy occasion was thus given me of returning an act of friendship from a father to his son; but, I fament to add, that Mr Edwards, on his passage to