150 MEMOIR OF DK WRIGHT. 



ment of his affairs. The period of the General Elec- 

 tion arrived before Dr Wright was disengaged from 

 the arbitrators ; so that, by the avocations of counsel 

 and otherwise, the proceedings were greatly interrupt- 

 ed, and he was detained much longer in town than 

 he intended. The intervals of leisure which thus 

 arose, gave occasion to a great deal of confidential in- 

 tercourse between the two friends. Dr Wright, on 

 this occasion, gave the same advice to Dr Garth- 

 shore which he would himself have adopted under 

 similar circumstances. He counselled him so to settle 

 his affairs, as to leave no ground on which a dispute 

 could be raised regarding the succession to his proper- 

 ty. But Dr Garthshore, from an infirmity of pur- 

 pose, which seems in some minds to be constitutional, 

 found a reason for procrastination, in the unsettled 

 state of the law-suit which had brought Dr Wright 

 to London. At the same time he was fully persuaded 

 of the soundness of the advice he had received, and 

 exacted from his friend a solemn promise of personal 

 assistance, whenever he should find himself prepared 

 for the performance of this important duty. 



Dr Wright arrived in Edinburgh by one of the 

 Leith packets on the 1st of June 1807, and soon af- 

 terwards proceeded on his annual tour to the High- 

 lands, spending some weeks with his brother's family 

 in Strathearn, and with his friend Dr Stuart on 

 the banks of Lochlomond. From Luss, he writes to 

 his brother, on the 24th of August : " It has rained 

 here constantly ever since we left you, but the worthy 

 Doctor and I are alwavs in the field?."' 



