MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 37 



debtors, appears to have occupied the attention of Dr 

 WEIGHT, and his partner Dr Steel, during the great- 

 er part of the year 1776. Every thing seems to have 

 been conducted in the most amicable manner, as well 

 between the partners themselves, as in their settlements 

 with third parties. But at a period when the rate of ex- 

 change was very unfavourable, Dr Wright found so 

 many difficulties in realizing what was due to him, 

 that he at length resolved, in the month of July 1777, 

 to embark for England, and on the 1st of August, he 

 set sail from Montego Bay, on board the Thomas Hall, 

 Thomas Mercer, commander, bound for Liverpool, 

 accompanied by a fleet of seventy-six merchantmen, 

 and protected by a convoy of three ships of war. 



About two years before Dr Wright's departure 

 from Jamaica, his friend and partner Dr Steel was 

 married to the daughter of a neighbouring planter; 

 but that circumstance produced no alteration in Dr 

 Wright's domestic arrangements. The two friends 

 continued to reside together under the same roof? 

 maintaining to the last that perfect harmony and mu- 

 tual good understanding which had continued undis- 

 turbed during a connection of fourteen years. In his 

 anxiety, however, to effect his purpose of breaking 

 away from Jamaica, Dr Wright was at last obliged 

 to content himself with such a supply of money as his 

 immediate exigencies required, and to leave the great- 

 er part of the fruits of his labour to the proverbial un- 

 certainty of West India remittances, after his arrival 

 in Great Britain. 



On the 22d of August, the fleet experienced a vio- 



