XVI MEMOIR. 



in some other way than by complaining 

 to the marshal. There is no doubt that 

 the natural warmth of my temper urged 

 me to do, what might have appeared to 

 another person rash, but that I could not 

 have been much in fault is evident from 

 this, that, the present Dr. Storer of Not- 

 tingham, and the present Dr. Stewart of 

 Perth, both previous surgeons to the same 

 regiment, and the Rev. Mr. Pearson its 

 chaplain, now residing in the neighbour- 

 hood of Chelsea, had all abandoned their 

 situations in the regiment from the treat- 

 ment they had received from colonel Ha- 

 milton. 



Immediately afterwards, that is in the 

 beginning of 1780, I went to Leyden, 

 where I remained for about three months, 

 chiefly occupied in preparing a Thesis 

 upon " Cold/' a paltry affair, and having no 

 other recommendation, than that its Latin 

 was altogether my own. From thence I 



