xliv MEMOIR. 



themselves justified in putting to death a 

 Colonel Haynes, the propriety of whose 

 fate was afterwards a subject of debate in 

 the British House of Commons. 



I think it right to say something more 

 particular than I have hitherto done, re- 

 specting the clear profits of my profession, 

 the only source of revenue that I have 

 ever enjoyed in London. In 1801, the 

 sixteenth year after I had become a phy- 

 sician in London, they amounted only to 

 307, in which sum were included about 

 J60, which I had received in the form of 

 salary from St. Thomas's Hospital, and of 

 fees, for the attendance of medical pupils 

 there. The following year my total re- 

 ceipts diminished to 235. They remained 

 in this fluctuating state during the three 

 following years, that is, till 1806 included. 

 During the next six years, they fluctuated 

 between ^325 and ^455. In 1813, they 



