102 .MEMOIR OF Dll WRIGHT. 



from behind a counter are made hospital-mates. This 

 class of men are no way like those of your time and 

 mine, when medical men of much information had 

 such appointments. 



" Say to Dr Crawford, that any thing in my 

 power will be at his nephew's service ; but I see he 

 will act with the army at St Domingo, and not with 

 us." 



The fleet again set sail on the 10th of December, 

 and during the whole voyage met with adverse winds 

 and stormy weather. The William and John hos- 

 pital ship, in which Dr Wright had embarked, was 

 separated from the rest of the fleet on the 21st of De- 

 cember, and they never saw any part of the convoy 

 until their arrival in the West Indies. The fleet sus- 

 tained many serious losses in the course of the voy- 

 age, and the William and John escaped narrowly 

 from shipwreck on the north-west coast of Madeira 

 They got into the Trade winds, however, on the 1st of 

 February, and on the 18th of that month reached 

 Barbadoes in safety. A complete dispersion of the 

 fleet had taken place. Fifty sail had reached the 

 rendezvous before the William and .John ; but of 

 these, scarcely two had arrived in company, and it was 

 several weeks before any intelligence arrived of the ad- 

 miral and the commander in chief. Dr Wright 

 landed on the 21st of February, and immediately as- 

 sumed the charge of one of the hospitals on shore. 

 Many of the transports had been sickly throughout 

 the voyage, which is ascribed to the negligence of the 

 military officers, in neglecting to see that the berths 



