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    confinement . But in one respect it wcw a most happy circumstance far hjm to gig in , safecustody . The night al | er jb ^ fio& ^ ittal , a numerous mob assembled before | he private Jbouse vfltjefigti W&yi i * VpPQ&& } 3 &at hfen was a firuest . and thev demanded that he

    should be surrendered to : them ; an event which , had it taken place , would 1 > robat > ly have been followed l > y his oss of life . . .. /¦ , - - ' . < •' - After some delay , a Commissioner was sent by General Tonyri to demand me release of jDr . Welis , who still could not regaip his freedom without the payment of what he considered as aii unjust claim . On the termination

    of this affair , he embarked with the Commissioner in the vessel which had brought him to Charlestown , and proceeded towards St . Augustine , which he reached with , the greatest difficulty , after being shipwrecked on the

    passage * In May 1784 , he finally left the American continent for Great Britain . Th $ next spring he spent three months in Paris , and , returning to London , entered on medical practice in the autumn of 1785 . Nor was he able to

    commence this career without borrowing £ 130 from one of his friends , as the circumstances of his father were now : much embarrassed , and no pecuniary assistance could be afforded him from that quarter . Dr . Weils passed several years almost without taking a single fee . He ttien was appointecT one of the physicians of the Finsbury Dispensary . In tliis situation . he was . furnished with

    the means of studying medicine practically : from the Institution he received a gratuity of £ 50 annually ; and hence he , ; \ # as introduced to some private practice . . y § t he had . resided in London fo % : ten years before his income from ; ey # iy « * && $ & amounted to £ 2 bO per annum . Tp supply tihe deficiency , he ^ made further lo £ ns , ; all which he afJtarrorAiralft rli « r » hfkrnrArl'" ^ It . who nr \ +

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    himself from any further atftaclc of tne same complaint : but his g ^ peral health became precarious hn&tiOiM& ^ Iteiiig ^ tiie atittoiy W M& 9 Dr . Wells undertook his M <| p ^ % | a -tfe nature of D ^ v ; and steadily piirsued his experiments , notwithstanding the labour which they required ; and the fatigue which they occasioned . His Essay on this subject was published in August ISU z he c ^ mpo ^ it ^ ith the greatest eagerness and assiduitjr , in

    consequencci of some alarming $ vmptons of disease which now manifested themselves , and of its being deemed improbable that he would survive more than a few months . Contrary to the apprehension <> f one of the most

    intimate of his personal and medical friends , his illness was not immediately fatal : he even appears to have resumed with some activity his favourite stuctfes and the duties or his profession . His constitution , however , was undermined :

    a complication of ailments ensued ; they seem to have terminated in hydrothorax—and he died in the evening of Sept . 18 , 1817 . We cannot ^ form an impartial estimate of the intellectual , literary and moral character of Dr . Wells , unless

    we advert to the diversified scenes and the eventful nature of far the larger portion of his life * The native firmness and vigour of his mind , appear to have been considerably increased by the difficulties with which he was called

    to struggle : and it will be scarcely paradoxical to affirm that his peculiar excellencies , as well as his defects , arose out of the singularity of his circumstances . His education ( we now employ J ; he word in its more restricted sense ) was

    greatly > interrupted : yet * his industry and perseverance surmounted every obstacle of this kind ; $ nd in the learning of his profession , and in that which is collateral to ity he rose to distinction , though ncit ko WfialtJIi . H ^ # to sagacious , acute and patient in hi § inquiries : the talentsj tod , which he «^^ froiaj wtwcn nis

    nature ^ ana ttie ^ di ^ cTOlme or life immovefr ^ mW mhWfiM ^ eifi totiber cidtivtftfe *^ mtf $ ^ { The list ^ ht |^ ## tfflg »^ tlii ^ is su ^ jokted to ^ t ^ im ^ mM ^^ 'W gfefttee : the ^ Metnt ) ir ^ mmM ^ * ofWW t » ii friend- * p ^ m ^ m ^ m 0 ^ m ' % i recoveiy , and while n * ## ' m mfim

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    3 $ & Essays and Memoir *? Hr . WelU .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/44/