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were <457. In 1814, J441. In 1815, 

 ^764. In 1816 5 572 ; but in 1815, I 

 received at one time %10 for giving me- 

 dical evidence at Exeter. The smallness 

 of these receipts will perhaps appear the 

 more extraordinary, when I say, that dur- 

 ing a great part of this time, Dr. Pitcairn, 

 and during the whole of it, Dr. Baillie, 

 often sent patients to me ; and made every 

 exertion to promote my interest. But I 

 lived at a considerable distance from them, 

 and was unable, from the want of a car- 

 riage, and from various other circum- 

 stances, to appear properly as their repre* 

 sentative. In spite, however, of this small- 

 ness of my income, (which, during almost 

 the whole of the time spoken of, that is, 

 from 1801 to 1816, was rendered still 

 smaller, by my paying most rigidly the 

 income and property tax, and allowing an 

 annuity, for a good many years, of %Q to 

 a female relation,) so rigid was my eco- 

 nomy, that, during the few last years of 



