Memoir of the late William Wright, M.D. ... With extracts from his correspondence, and a selection of his papers on medical and botanical subjects / [William Wright].

  • William Wright
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1828
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    debtors, appears to have occupied the attention of Dr Wricut, and his partner Dr STEEL, during the great- er part of the year 1776. Every thing seems to have been conducted in the most amicable manner, as well between the partners themselves, as in their settlements with third parties. But at a period when the rate of ex- change was very unfavourable, Dr Wricurt found so many difficulties in realizing what was due to him, that he at length resolved, in the month of July 1777, to embark for England, and on the 1st of August, he set sail from Montego Bay, on board the Thomas Hall, Tuomas MERCER, commander, bound for Liverpool, accompanied by a fleet of seventy-six merchantmen, and protected by a convoy of three ships of war. About two years before Dr Wricut’s departure from Jamaica, his friend and partner Dr STEEL was married to the daughter of a neighbouring planter ; but that circumstance produced no alteration in Dr WricGuHtT’s domestic arrangements. ‘lhe two friends continued to reside together under the same roof: maintaining to the last that perfect harmony and mu- tual good understanding which had continued. undis- turbed during a connection of fourteen years. In his anxiety, however, to effect his purpose of breaking away from Jamaica, Dr WRIGHT was at last obliged to content himself with such a supply of money as his immediate exigencies required, and to leave the great- er part of the fruits of his labour to the proverbial un- certainty of West India remittances, after his arrival in Great Britain. On the 22d of August, the fleet experienced a vio-
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