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neus, and among whom, by the influence of a can- 
did and benevolent mind, he preserved the peace 
and harmony of the community he had framed, and 
the esteem and good-will of its members. 
He had said long before, “ My heart is formed for 
friendship, and cannot exist without it :” so his soul 
was formed for high intellectual pursuits, and could 
not exist without a fairer field than the opening ofa 
young physician’s course presented. In the present 
object both his tastes were gratified; and he found 
it in England, as he had done on the Continent, a 
passport to the best society. 
Early in the month of February 1788, Sir James, 
in a letter to his father, acquaints him that he has 
engaged a house in Great Marlborough-street, be- 
longing to Mr. Bendish, a Cambridgeshire gentle- 
man; and to this he removed a few weeks after. 
His leaving Chelsea was with an expectation of 
beginning his medical career in London; yet in the 
same letter, wherein he expresses a desire to per- 
form his duty as a physician, he adds, “ In that rank 
in science to which I may say J have raised myself, 
with every prospect of taking a lead in the studies 
to which I am peculiarly attached, with so many 
fortunate circumstances about me, and especially 
when I consider that all I enjoy is owing to this 
study, you can hardly expect I should give up that 
and all my hopes. You may depend upon it Natu- 
ral History will always be the main object of my life ; 
and I doubt not you will be thankful that I have so 
noble a one. I rely on this to give me real lasting 
honour, and to make me useful to mankind through 
