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that the infant daughter of his brother was so danger- 

 ously ill that the family physician had declined to pre- 

 scribe for her. Having prevailed on DrW« IGHT to visit 

 the little girl, he found a case of fever incident to child- 

 hood, which happily yielded to the antimonial powder 

 which he administered. From this period his hands 

 were full of practice ; and leave was obtained for him, 

 in several important cases, to extend his visits far be- 

 yond the line by which the rambles of his fellow pri- 

 soners were circumscribed. 



On one occasion, he Was requested to proceed to 

 Cadiz to attend a lady, whose case had been given up 

 as hopeless by the physicians of tha place. On his ar- 

 rival there, he found to his surprise that his patient 

 was a near relation of his old friend Butler, the sur- 

 geon of the Intrepid, and that she had been one' of a 

 family of children who had sailed with him as passen- 

 gers from Gibraltar to England, in the year 1759. 

 The family had been for some time settled in Cadiz ; 

 and such of them as chanced to have been born in 

 Gibraltar were recognised as Spanish subjects by the 

 authorities of the place. • It was otherwise with the 

 older branches, who were natives of Ireland. They 

 were regarded as aliens, and were forced to reside at a 

 distance from their friends, in the interior of the coun- 

 try, where several of them had formed connections 

 with native families of distinction. Through this 

 channel Dr Wright was enabled to recover a part of 

 the property which he had been induced to abandon 

 on board the Morant, in his anxiety to secure the co- 

 lours of his regiment. He obtained the greater part 



