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Merit; in confequence of which, he appoint- 
ed him furgeon to his houfehold. This fitua- 
tron, which was highly defirable for a young 
man, afforded him an opportunity of being 
with the Ambaffador, and participating in 
the good company and good cheer of his table; 
but as Mr. Moore’s attachment to his profef- 
fion was at that time unbounded, he pre- 
ferred to lodge nearer the hofpitals, and other 
fources of inftru€tion, with which a more 
diftant part of the capital abounded, than at 
the botel de Mfirepoix, ftuated clofe to the 
Jnvalids, and in a more fafhionable diftri&. 
He accordingly chofe to live in lodgings, ina 
quarter more congenial to his habits and pur- 
fuits, and vifited Lord Albemarle’s family 
only when his affiftance was required. After 
refiding two years in Paris, it was propofed by 
Dr. Gordon, who was not infenfible to the 
aifiduity and improvements of his former pu- 
pil, that he fhould return to Glafgow, and en- 
ter into partnerfhip with him—a cuftom very 
common in North Britain, and neceffarily re- 
fulfing from the extenfivenefs of a practice, 
which, among the other branthesof medica! 
{cience, embraced that of midwifery. Mr. 
Moore by the advice of his friends accepted 
the invitation, but deemed it proper to ‘take 
London in his way, and while there, in addi- 
tion to the lectures of Dr. Hunter, which he 
‘had attended before, he went through a 
courfe under Dr. Smellie, then a celebrated 
accoucheur. On his return to Glafgow, the 
fubject of thefe memoirs praftifed there dur- 
ing the {pace of two years, but when a dj- 
ploma was granted by the Univerfity of that 
city to his partner, he chofe to prefcribe as 2 
phyfician alone, an example which, at that 
period, was only followed inthe great towns, 
and is fill unknown in the more northern 
counties. On this occafion, Mr. Moore ftill 
continued to act as a furgeon; and, as a part- 
mer appeared to be neceflary, he chofe Mr, 
Hamilten, Profeffar of Anatomy, as his aflo- 
ciate. Mr.-Moore remained for a confidera- 
ble period at Glafgow ; but when he had at- 
tained his fortieth year, an incident occurred 
that gave a new turn to his ideas, and opened 
new purfuits and fituations to a mind natu- 
rally active and inquifitive. James George, 
Duke of Hamilton, a young nobleman of 
' great promife, being affected with a confump- 
tive diforder, in 1769, he was attended by 
Mr. Moore, who has always fpoken ef this 
youth in terms of the highett admiration 5 
but as his malady baffled all the efforts of me- 
» dicine, he yielded to his preffure, after a lin- 
gering illnefs, in the fifteenth year of his 
age. This event, which Mr. Moore recorded, 
together with the extraordinary endowments 
of his patient, en his tomb in the burying- 
place atHamilton, led to a more intimate con- 
nection with this noble family. The late 
Duke of Hamilton,being like his brother,of a 
fickly conftitution, his mother, the Duchefs 
of Argyle, determined that he fhould travel 
Account of the late Dr. Fobn Moore, 
[March ty 
in company. with fome gentleman, who toa 
knowledge of medicine added an acquaintance 
with the Continent.. Both thefe qualities 
were united in the perfon of Dr. Moore, whe 
by this time had obtained the degree of M. Dy 
from the Univerfity of Glafgow. They ac- 
cordingly fet out together, and they {pent a 
period of no lefs than five years abroad, dur- 
ing which they vifited France, Italy, Switzer- 
land, and Germany. On their return, in 
1778, Dr. Moore brought his family from 
Glafgow to London, and in the courfe of the 
next-year appeared the fruits of his travels, 
in ** A View of Society and Manners. in 
France, Switzerland, and Germany,” in 2 
vols. 8vo.—-Two years after, in 1781, he 
publifhed a continuation of the fame work, in 
two additional>velumes, intitled ‘* A View 
of Society and Manners in Italy.” Having 
fpent fo largé a portion of his time either in - 
Scotland or on the Continent, he could not 
expe€t fuddenly to attain an extenfive prac- 
tice in the capital ; perhaps, indeed, his,tra- 
vels and literary recreations rendered. him 
averfe from engaging in the hurry, buftle and 
ntrigue, incident to the profeffion of a London 
phyfician; he however was, till the time 
of his death, confulted by his’ particular 
friends, Asif to prove, however, that he 
was neither unworthy, nor incapable of em- 
ployment, in 1785 he publifhed his ** Me- 
dical Sketches,” a work, like all his other 
productions, favourably received; he is, 
however, fuppofed to have given fome of- 
fence to afew narrow-minded men among 
his brethren, by the difclofure of certain ar- 
cana which they wifh for the fake of their in- 
tereft to conceal, and therefore confider it as 
high treafon for any one to reveal. Thenext 
of our author’s works which we fhall men~ 
tion, is his Zeluco.' This performance 
abounds with many interefting events, but - 
its chief tendency is direéted towards the edu 
cation of youth, as it fully evinces the fatal 
efte€ts refulting from uncontrouled paffion 
on the part of a darling fon, and uncondi- 
tional compliance on that of a fond mother. 
While drawing the character of his hero, the 
author confiders himfelf employed in “ trac- 
ing the windings of vice, and delineating the 
difgufting features of villainy.? This ftory 
is calculated rather to affect the reader with 
horror,than warn him by example; it abounds, 
however, with incident, but it is to be hoped 
that a chara€ter fo atrocious as that of — 
Zeluco never exifted in life, and is only 
to be met with in the pages of a novel. 
A great and important event, no lefs than 
that of the French Revolution, now occu- 
pied the minds and writings of the literary 
world. Dr. Moore, inftead of furveying it 
at a diftance, like the bulk of mankind, was 
lucky enough te contemplate a moft critical 
portion of it on the fpor: he was not, indeed, 
lucky enough to be prefent at the period 
when the Baftille, a fru@ture dedicated for 
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centusies- 
