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and kind gentlemen bore through life was that 

 they were never known to undertake any dirty job 

 in hand to steer a villainous client through his 

 crooked wicked ways. What business I had to do 

 in law matters was transacted by my two intimates 

 Thos. Carr and Armorer Donkin, both gentlemen 

 of such abilities as placed them at the head of their 

 profession. There were several others for whom I 

 entertained a high regard, both for their share of 

 talents as well as for their social and friendly 

 dispositions. Of these I felt a particularly warm 

 attachment to my neighbours, Jos. Willis, Esq., 

 and Richard Scruton, Esq., of Durham. 



In passing* through life it has fortunately been 

 my lot to have the pleasure to be intimate with 

 both military and naval gentlemen as well as those 

 of the learned profession, though several of each 

 class stood high in the estimation of the world for 

 their gentlemanly manners and unsullied worth, to 

 which I may be allowed to add my testimony, as 

 well as to acknowledge the debt of gratitude I owe 

 some of them for their kindness and attention 

 yet on taking a comparative survey of the whole I 

 cannot help giving a preference to medical gentle- 

 men, for besides their learning and attainments in 

 common with the other professions, they appear 

 to me generally to be further removed from 

 prejudices, more enlightened and more liberal in 

 their sentiments than the other labourers in the 

 vineyards of science and literature. Some of the 

 latter description of gentlemen I had occasion to 

 mention in the earlier part of this memoir since 

 that time a succession of them has sprung up to 

 claim my thanks for their kind attentions. Of this 

 kind is John Ramsay, Esq., M.D., who watched 



