Remarks on Mr. Syme's Statement ... with documentary evidence / [John Mackintosh].
- Mackintosh, John, -1837
- Date:
- 1832]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on Mr. Syme's Statement ... with documentary evidence / [John Mackintosh]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![44 4 Dr. Sharpey waited on Dr. Mackintosh at half-past two o'clock on Wednesday, the 26th September 1832, on the part of Mr. Syme, and required an apology from him for having written a letter addressed to Mr. Syme, dated the previous night, and stated that on Dr. M. doing so, Mr. S. was prepared to admit that his having dictated the note alluded to was inconsiderate, and that he regretted his having done so.* Dr. Mackintosh declined making any apo¬ logy ; on which Dr. Sharpey requested Dr. Mackintosh to name a friend with whom Dr. S. might arrange. This Dr. Mackintosh declined doing.' 44 After some conversation, Dr. Mackintosh made the fol¬ lowing proposal :—4 If Mr. Syme will say that he regrets having acted as he didin the first instance, and if all restric¬ tions be taken off from Miss Willis' actions, then Dr. M. will say that he regrets having written the letter.' \This in inverted commas was minuted at the time.] 44 Dr. Mackintosh stated that this was the only proposal he would listen to ; and on Dr. Sharpey's again requesting him to name a friend, he refused to do so. He farther stated that he would not even have made that proposal, had it not been on account of ladies' names being unpleasantly intro¬ duced, and old recollections. Dr. Mackintosh was obliged to leave town immediately after this interview, and said that he would return again at six in the evening. Dr. S. again called upon Dr. Mackintosh at seven, at which meeting the above minute was written by Dr. S. as his distinct understanding of what had taken place at the previous meeting, Dr. Mackintosh also assenting to the same, with this difference, that Dr. M.'s impression of Dr. S.'s proposal was that Mr. Syme requested an apology for * Neither then nor now can Dr. M. see any reason why Mr. S. should apologize merely for u having dictated the note.” It was the barbarous means he used to get the note written, and the mean unmanly act of making M iss Willis the medium of his insulting the ladies of Dr. M.’s family that required an apology from him_J. M.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30363470_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
