MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. ^15$ 



usefulness. Whatever truth there may be in this hypo- 

 thesis, it is certain that the strength of Dr Garth- 

 shore vry speedily gave way after the execution of 

 the necessary legal formalities ; and Dr Wright had 

 the satisfaction to receive his dying assurance that his 

 mind had been relieved from an unspeakable load of 

 care and anxiety, by the execution of a task which was 

 equally due to his present peace of mind, and his fu- 

 ture good name ; and which he felt that he could not 

 have accomplished without the guidance and support of 

 a tried friend like Dr Wright. After the last duties 

 were paid to his remains, Dr Wright prepared for 

 his return to Scotland, in the full enjoyment of that 

 consciousness of mental rectitude which was not, in his 

 estimation, to be compared in value with the whole 

 fortune of Dr Garthshore. The sense of delicacy 

 and disinterestedness by which he was directed is in- 

 deed well worthy of commemoration. He had an- 

 swered the call of his friend with promptitude, in so 

 far as the performance of an abstract duty was con- 

 cerned ; but the importunity of the same friend, when 

 directed to his acceptance of a moderate portion of an 

 estate which was destined for distribution among com- 

 parative strangers, was resisted with equal firmness and 

 magnanimity, not because his compliance would have 

 inferred any moral wrong, but from a jealous regard 

 for the " immediate jewel of his soul," his own fair 

 fame. 



The noiseless and unvaried tenor of Dr Wright s 

 existence, in the latter years of his life, affords very 

 slender materials for biographical remark. He had 



