]8 MEMOES OF DB WRIGHT. 



At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War, in 1763, 

 Mr Wright returned to Britain in the Levant fri- 

 gate, which was paid off on her arrival at Sheerness, 

 in the September of that year. Mr Wright appears 

 by this time to have adopted the resolution of return- 

 ing to the Antilles, and applying himself to the prac- 

 tice of physic in the island of Jamaica : " Being 

 wearied," he says, " of wandering, I would fain settle 

 ashore, but I fear it must be abroad, as our own coun- 

 try is full of my profession." With this view he re- 

 paired to London, and applied himself, with his wont- 

 ed assiduity, to those studies which the proposed 

 change of circumstances had in some degree rendered 

 necessary. 



Although the general pacification which resulted 

 from the treaty of Paris, precluded all hope of obtain- 

 ing any farther employment in the public service, Mi- 

 Wright, with that stedfastness of purpose for which 

 his character was distinguished, immediately on his ar- 

 rival in London presented himself once more at Sur- 

 geons' Hall for examination ; when he obtained the 

 barren qualification of surgeon to a man-of-war, of the 

 third rate, which ranges from 6'4 to 80 guns. His 

 motives for making this application are described in a 

 letter to his brother, to have been the satisfaction of 

 his friends in Scotland, and the self-assurance that he 

 merited the advancement which he had hitherto been 

 unable to command. He laments the necessity which 

 compels him, from prudential considerations, to pre- 

 pare once more to cross the Atlantic, without being 

 able to see his aged parents, and with no definite pros- 



