20 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGWT. 



education, and many amiable qualities, had totally in- 

 capacitated himself for the duties of his station by 

 habitual intemperance. The labour and responsi- 

 bility which thus devolved on Dr Wright, without 

 any adequate remuneration, in place of relaxing his 

 efforts or disturbing his equanimity, only tended, as 

 we have seen, to confirm those habits of activity and 

 application, which were the natural bent of his well 

 constituted mind. 



The last surgeon with whom he served in the Le- 

 vant was Mr William Collart, a native of Dum- 

 fries, who is described as a very good man, and an ex- 

 pert surgeon. In him Dr Wright found a disposi- 

 tion and habits congenial with his own ; and, but for 

 the disturbances which soon afterwards broke out in 

 North America, he had it in contemplation to accede 

 to a proposal which was made to him by Mr Collart, 

 of establishing a partnership in one of the British co- 

 lonies on that continent. The two friends resided to- 

 gether during Dr Wright's stay in London, and, on 

 his departure for Jamaica, he received a present from 

 Mr Collart of a valuable medicine chest, and an 

 assortment of surgical instruments. 



In the intimate, uninterrupted, and confidential 

 correspondence which Dr Weight maintained with 

 his brother from the earliest period, there is, strange to 

 say, not the slightest trace of his having ever been un- 

 der the influence of the tender passion. He had al- 

 ways, indeed, a keen relish for a good-natured joke, 

 and was as ready to receive, as to return, a little well- 



