Xll MEMOIR. 



same time one of my father's attornies; 

 my mother's brother was also one of his 

 attornies; and these two, along with my 

 elder brother, strongly resisted the execu- 

 tion of my design; but my mother who 

 was a third attorney, a woman of an en- 

 thusiastic turn of mind, declared, that the 

 first public act of my life should never 

 disgrace me; she, therefore, in spite of 

 the attempts of the others, sent me off to 

 England about three months after my 

 father had parted from her. I arrived 

 in this country in the autumn of the same 

 year, 1775, and was most kindly received 

 by my father, and applauded by him for 

 my conduct. 



In the beginning of the winter of the 

 same year, I went to Edinburgh, and 

 commenced my regular medical educa- 

 tion ; strengthening at the same time, my 

 former friendships with Mr. Hume and 

 Mr. Miller, with whom indeed I had 

 kept up a correspondence whilst I was in 



