68 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



ships of the line, of which the French fleet had con- 

 sisted, twenty-six had been suffered to escape ; and, if 

 allowed to refit, and to form a junction with the Spa- 

 niards at Cape Francois, there was no British force in 

 these seas which could, at that time, have opposed an 

 effectual resistance. In the mean time, however, 

 their fears were happily disappointed by the general 

 pacification which came very seasonably to their relief. 

 The 99th was soon afterwards sent home to be dis- 

 banded ; but Dr Wright was permitted to remain 

 in Jamaica for the settlement of his affairs. 



His reception at Orange Hill by his old friends Dr 

 and Mrs Steel, was of the warmest and most af- 

 fectionate description ; but, in a few months after 

 his arrival at Trelawney, Dr Steel was seized with 

 a fever, of which he died, on the 4th of August 

 1784. Mrs Steel was left with five children, all 

 amply provided for ; and Dr Wright was named one 

 of the executors. He was restrained, however, from 

 administering, by a sense of delicacy, which, in a West 

 India executor, deserves to be recorded, — the greater 

 part of his own fortune having been invested in the 

 hands of Dr Steel. The example of right feeling 

 and correct conduct which was thus set by Dr Wright, 

 was met by his fellow executors with a corresponding 

 spirit of moderation and good will ; so that he was 

 enabled to effect the realization of his property in a 

 much shorter period than he could have anticipated, 

 and allowed to devote the remainder of his time in 

 Jamaica to an object which he had very near his heart. 



That object was the restoration of the Hortus sic. 

 cus, of which the want of feeling perhaps, rather than 



