XXX11 MEMOIR. 



deficiency, I was frequently obliged to 

 make further loans from my friends, until 

 the whole of my debt amounted to about 

 600. I think it right in justice to myself 

 however, to mention, that these were my 

 only debts ; for I never allowed a trades- 

 man to call for money and go away with- 

 out it. 



About 1795, my professional receipts 

 became equal to my expenditure; agree- 

 ably to the rigid, and almost sordid manner, 

 in which it was conducted. In the next 

 five years, I w r as enabled to pay off a little 

 of my debt. 



At the expiration of that time, in 1800, 

 I was suddenly seized with a slight fit of 

 apoplexy. From this, however, I did not 

 recover so far as to be enabled to return 

 to the exercise of my profession, for several 

 months ; and I never afterwards regained 

 the complete possession of my memory. 

 I became, too, much more unfit for the 



