XXX MEMOIR. 



About Midsummer 1785, I returned to 

 London, and in the autumn, had the name 

 of Dr. Wells affixed upon the door of a 

 lodging which I had hired. During the 

 war my father's affairs had prospered, and 

 at the end of it he regarded himself worth 

 about .20,000. But as soon as peace 

 took place, his principal correspondents 

 became dilatory in their remittances, but 

 were still urgent for additional supplies of 

 goods ; he was weak enough to comply ; 

 so that when 1 returned to this country 

 in 1784, I found him considerably em- 

 barrassed in his circumstances. He told 

 me, however, that he regarded this em- 

 barrassment as only temporary, and there- 

 fore urged, that I should exercise my 

 profession in London, expecting, that he 

 should hereafter be enabled to afford me 

 all necessary assistance, though at pre- 

 sent, he could give rne nothing more than 

 the use of his table. I was obliged, in 



