78 THE DISPUTE WITH DR. LEEDS CHAP, vm 



were ministered to by an unknown hand ; it was whispered 

 that it was the hand of Fothergill. 1 



Little need here be said of another matter, FothergilTs 

 relations with the Parkinsons. He tried to act as peacemaker 

 in a dispute between a young Friend, brother to Sydney 

 Parkinson the explorer, and Mr., afterwards Sir Joseph 

 Banks, in whose service the explorer had died. As is the fate 

 of some peacemakers he turned the ire of the young disputant 

 upon himself. Those who have the curiosity to read the 

 story in the prefaces to Parkinson's Voyage can have no doubt 

 of Fothergill's justice and generosity throughout. 2 



1 See Elliot's Fothergill, p. x ; Works, in. p. cxlvi ; MS. Minutes of Meetings 

 concerned ; MS. Letters from and to Fothergill, Fds. Ref. Lib. ; [W. Smith 

 L. Weston & J. Sherwin] An Appeal to the Quakers on the late Difference, etc. 

 1773 5 Gent. Mag., 1773 ; 1781, pp. 165, 205 ; The Georgian Era, ii. 327 ; Dr. S. D 

 Clippingdale, in London Hasp. Gazette, No. 172, 1913, p. 183 ; B. W. Richardson 

 Disciples of Msculapius, ii. 444 ; Darlington, Bartram and Marshall, p. 507 

 Journ. Frds. Hist. Soc. iv. 109 ; Friends' Quarterly Examiner, xxxvi. 493 

 Letter to the Author from Mr. John Millar, Univ. Edin. ; Thomson, Life of 

 Cullen, i. 654-657 ; Hutchinson, Biographia Medica ; MS. Records & Recol- 

 lections of James Jenkins, 1761 to 1821, p. 167, Fds. Ref. Lib. 



2 Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in the " Endeavour," from the papers 

 of the late Sydney Parkinson, draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq., 1773. 

 Fothergill bought up the remainder of the edition for the benefit of the brother's 

 destitute children, and circulated it, adding an explanatory preface of his own 

 to clear himself from the unjust reflections conveyed in it. This brother was 

 excitable and impracticable, and died in 'an asylum before the book was 

 published. See also Fds. Quart. Exam., 1877, p. 97. A letter from S. Parkinson 

 to Fothergill, 1770, relating his circumnavigation of New Zealand, is in Frds. 

 Ref. Lib. 



