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FOUNDED 1836
WASHINGTON,  D. C.
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GEttTAIN  CALUMNIES
          PUBLISHED I]V A PAMPHLET,


                      ENTITLED,


CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. GRANVJXXE SHARP PATTtSOflf
           AND  DR. NATHANIEL CHAPMAN."


      BY GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON, ESQ.
   *' Of all vices the most hurtful to Society, of all wrongs the most irreparable,
•-of all crimes the blackest, Calumny is certainly the greatest.
                                  JeiSd Letters to M. Voltaire.
              BALTIMORE :
PRINTED BY J. ROBINSON, CIRCULATING LIBHAtlt,
         Corner of Market and Belvidere-strects.
                  1820. 
 
PREFACE.
  IT may appear strange that I should not have answered imme-
diately after  the publication of Dr. Chapman's  pamphlet, the
charges contained  in  that unique  production.  My  apology is
two-fold.  1st. I was confident although the pamphlet circulated
a poison against my character,  that it carried with it at the same
time an  antidote—The charges made in it are of a most grave
and  serious nature;  but  the  contradictions and palpable false-
hoods  which it  contains  are  calculated to convince any think-
ing mind, that they have been made from a spirit of revenge,  not
for the purposes of justice.  2dly. My letters and papers, with
the exception of a  very few,  had been  packed up and put on
board  the  schooner Argo, before Dr. Chapman's  pamphlet was
published ; and thus, from the want of my documents, I was una-
ble  to  begin  writing  my answer before Saturday the 25th of the
present month.
             Baltimore,           \
    34 Sharp Steeet, Nov. 28th, 1820. J
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A REFUTATION, &c.
   TO be forced to appear before the public, even in defence oF
 professional reputation, is exceedingly painful.  To be obliged to
 con-  forward and defend moral character, is a thousand fold
 more  so.  I am a stranger in this country,  and it has unfortu-
 nately happened, that ever since  my settlement, I have been en-
 gaged in controversy and disputation.  No choice has, however,
 been left me;  in no instance have I been the aggressor.   It was
 necessary for me either to come forward, and vindicate  my pro-
 fessional reputation, or to suffer my brethren to believe, that I was
 a dishonourable plagiarist, and an ignorant pretender.  My scien-
 tific controversy is before the public, and with confidence I appeal
 to the profession for  their judgment on my conduct.  I flattered
 myself,  that having  brought the dispute betwixt Dr. Gibson and
 myself to a conclusion, that I should have a respite—that I  should
 have been permitted to appear before  the  public in my natural
 character, zealous for  the  advancement  of my profession, and
 anxious  to live  on  terms of friendship and  cordiality with its
 members.   My hopes have, however, been blasted ; my enemies,
 having found that they  could not convince the public that I am a
 fool, have now come  forward to endeavour to persuade them that
 I am deficient in morality.   Dr. Chapman knows well, that the
 charges  he  has  advanced against me,  are without foundation ;
 but,  had it been otherwise, had my moral  character been really
 as black as he has  attempted  to  paint it, was he, the man who
 seduced me from my country, the proper person to come forward
 as my traducer and calumniator.   If he had possessed one spark
 of noble or honourable  feeling, he assuredly would have been si-
 lent.
   I  stand too proud in  a knowledge of the rectitude of mv moral
 principles, to stoop and beg the public to support  me;  I  do  not
 come  before theni, to beseech  their pity, but to demand justice:
 and  I know enough of the feelings of the country of which  I have
 now become a member, to feel  satisfied that my demands shall
 be answered.
   I  shall  endeavour to write with calmness and temper;  much
 has  been  done to irritate  me,  but truth  being  my  support,
 falsehood and injustice have excited my contempt, not my anger.
 I look on Dr.  Chapman as a fallen and degraded man, one who
 never can require from  me an explanation ;  I shall therefore avoid
 harsh language  as much as  possible in speaking of my enemy,
for  he is no longer my equal.
   For the sake of perspecuity I shall adopt in my refutation the
 following order. 
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   1st.  A history of  the  causes which induced me to leave Scot-
 land, and the treatment I received from my arrival in  America,
 until the  correspondence  between  Dr.  Chapman  and myself
 occurred.
   2d.  The  allegations brought  against  me  in Dr. Chapman's
 pamphlet.
   A. That I was not invited to America.
   B. That I was compelled to  leave my native country.
   C. That this happened from an improper intercourse with Mrs.
 Ure.
   3dly. A  general  review of the  contradictions  and  palpable
 falsehoods contained in  Dr.  Chapman's pamphlet, and lastly, a
 few concluding observations.

   1st.  History  of the  causes  which first induced  me to leave
                         Scotland, &7C.

   1st.  On the 24th  of December 1818, I received the following
 letter from  my  brother, which was the first intimation I had of
 the vacancy  in the University of Pennsylvania, and what first led
 me to think of leaving Scotland.

                           Philadelphia, Nov. 17, 1820.
   My dear Granville.
          I  wrote  you  only three days ago, and mentioned the
 sudden  death of Dr. Dorsey ; last evening I  saw by the papers,
 that Dr. Physick (the uncle of Dr. D.) had volunteered his services
 to carry on the class of anatomy, for the present session—It im-
 mediately occurred to me that  this would save the trustees of the
 university, the necessity of making  a hasty or improper choice
 in filling the vacant chair. I called  on  Mr. Chauncey to whom  I
 always  apply for advice ;  I may say in every emergency, whose
 Dame I have already mentioned to you, and  to whom I must
 ever consider myself under  the deepest obligations.  Mr. C. was
 kind enough  to say that he had been thinking of you ; and agreed
 with  me in  opinion, that there was little chance of any professor
 being appointed before summer, or perhaps till the latest day ; he
 is moreover  inclined to  think that the  trustees, will  be more
 guided  in their choice by talent, than by any other consideration,
 and  that although your being a foreigner is certainly against you,
 still  it  may  be obviated.   I have pledged myself for your quali-
 fications,  &c. but that  of course is nothing; you must redeem
 that  pledge;  I feel  confident  that  you are able to do so.  It is
 true  that you have  got a handsome appointment for a man so
young,  but I  do  not believe  that there is any class in Glasgow
 that yields an  income of §8000, nearly ^2000, besides your chance
of practice.  You are of course  the best judge of what is best for 
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yourself, and I conjure you, my dear brother, not to be guided by
me in any way, in this very serious step, at the same time I con-
ceive  it my duty to state, that however good the society in Edin-
burgh may be, or the  chance which you have of reaching (he top
of the tree there, and that before many years, besides the profound
and inextinguishable  love that every good Scotsman bears to his
dear country, still there is a grandfieldhtre for a young man of ge-
nius, and talent is rewarded and respected.  In fact this is the beau-
ty of the system of the government, and of such consists the patri-
cians  or nobles of this land, which after all is the only true nobility,
and should  you succeed, you will enjoy the best society in Amer-
ica, and the first consideration in a country that, though still in its
infancy, is much further advanced than you or any man who has not
seen with his own eyes, can have an idea of. The climate I  con-
ceive inferior to our own,  and there is a witching charm in the word
home,  that I find very  difficult to express, but enough—Do not
think of me I intreat you, but if you see it an object you consider
desirable,  instantly  set  about procuring the strongest letters of
your character, abilities,  family, and standing in your  profession.
Letters  from your ^friend  Mr. Astley  Cooper, London, and of
the profession in Edinburgh, would be  of" most use.  There is a
Dr. Chapman here who  was  educated  in Edinburgh, and letters
got to him as a friend, Mr. Chauncey says, would  be of vast im-
portance.   You  had better say the extent of your museum, &c.
which I know Mr. Burns considered invaluable, and let me  have
the documents,  &c. with your wishes ; you cannot be too full inr
writing.  Perhaps you may  not like to appear as a candidate where
there is a  probability of your being ousted, but I shall take care
not to commit you unless there are good grounds for hope, and I
shall  be guided by Mr. Chauncey, who  is most able to direct me.
                                Affectionately Yours,
                                      JOHN PATTISON.

   Spending  the  Christmas holidays in Edinburgh, I  applied,.
 whilst there, to Mr. Jeffery, Dr. Barclay, and some other gentle-
 men  of that city, to  furnish me  with certificates of my profes-
sional character, and on my return to Glasgow,  I forwarded
these, accompanied by others I had received in  the latter place,
to my brother in Philadelphia, to be by  him laid before  the trus-
tees of the University.*  Having  done this,  I waited the result of
my application without anxiety.  I was not dependent on the  final
determination  of the trustees; for  I was  independent, and my
prospects in my own  country  were as brilliant as any man's could
be.   One resolution I had made; never to sail for  America un-
less I was appointed Professor of  Anatomy in the  University of
* See Appendix.  Class 1st: 
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 Pennsylvania.  Hearing frequently from my brother, and writing
 him occasionally on the subject of the professorship, I continued
 to pursue my usual avocations, until  I  received on the 17th of
 May, 1819, Dr. Dewees's letter. From the letters I had forward-
 ed, I conceived that the rank I held in my  profession, would have
 been so well  known in Philadelphia, as to have prevented any
 gentleman from sending me such an invitation, unless, as he there
 expressed it,  " my election was certain.'''  But  unwilling to de-
 cide on a  matter of such consequence, without  the advice of my
 friends, I went into Edinburgh on the morning of the 19th, and
 laid the letter before them, to ascertain their opinion of its con-
 tents.   And as they were unanimously of opinion  that  Dr. De-
 wees's  letter  was equivalent to an appointment, I  left  that city
 the following morning  for London, to take  leave of  my friends of
 the metropolis.
   Early on the morning of  the 24th I arrived in London, where
 I remained until  the evening of the 28th.   During the short pe-
 riod of my stay there,  the attentions I received were of the  most
 gratifying character.   I was visited by Sir  James M'Gregor, Sir
 Wm. Adams,  Messrs. Astley Cooper, Wardrop, Travefs, Law-
 rence, &c. &c. and received from all of them warm letters of in-
 troduction to  distinguished characters in the United States;  and
 meeting accidentally in the city, Mr. Stirling of  Glasgow, a man
 of  the first honour and respectability, and a gentle nan  Who is
 connected in Philadelphia, I received from  him letters to  Doctors
 Hare and Chapman, which he read to me.  They Were couched
 in the strongest language, and begged  of Dr. Hare  and the other
 individual to receive me with attention and kindness, and to in-
 troduce me to all their friends.*   Having  been  honoured by be-
 ing made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a mem-
 ber of  the Medico-Chirurgical Society  of London, I  left that
 city on the 28th, and early on the morning of the 30th June, ar-
 rived at Liverpool, from which place I embarked on the follow-
 ing day, in the packet ship Courier, bound for New-York.
  The Courier made land on the 5th of July, and on the 6th I
 landed in America.  The following morning I took  the stage for
 Philadelphia, where I arrived on the same evening.   After spend-
ing about  an hour with my brother's family, I was  requested by
him to accompany him to Dr.  Dewees's, as he was most anxious
about my  arrival.  Having paid the  Doctor a very  short visit, I
again returned home, and was scarcely seated, when  Dr. Dewees,
accompanied by Dr. Chapman, entered.   The latter expressed,
in the strongest terms,  his satisfaction  at seeing  me in America,


   * See Appendix, Ceass 2d.  The letters from Mr. Stirling I cannot  give,
as they  were delivered immediately after my arrival; but I appeal to Dr.
Hare, for a confirmation of this statement. 
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and by his language, led me to believe that he was reallv rny sin*
cere tnend.   Alter a very long visit they retired, and I had now
leisure to express to my brother the astonishment I had felt,
on  hearing,  that Dr. Physick had been  appointed Professor
of  Anatomy  in  the University.  This,  he informed me, Dr.
Dewees  had  stated  to  him,  was unavoidable,  as the  friends
ot Dr. Hewson had pressed the day of election, and that had Dr.
Physick not come forward, there was no doubt but that he would
have been the  successful candidate.  The same gentleman, he ob-
served to me, had assured him,  that should I arrive, matters
could easily be  managed  to  my satisfaction.   As  I could  be
made professor of Surgery, and a transfer  could then take place
betwixt Dr. Physick and myself.
  The following day I met Dr. Physick, accidentally.   He left
his  gig,  and  expressed,   in strong language,  the  pleasure  he
felt at meeting me.  Dr. Chapman called again this day, and Dr.
Dewees dined with me at my brother's.  Alter dinner, I for the
first time spoke to him on  the subject of the professorship.  He
expressed his  regret, that I had not arrived before the election ;
but  assured me, most positively, that every thing would yet be ar-
ranged to my  satisfaction.
  Dr. Physick called on me the next morning, and invited me to
spend the following evening with him at  Lansdowne, to meet
Drs. Chapman, Dewees, Patterson, and some other gentlemen.
  As it was arranged that we should go to Lansdowne together,
my  brother and  myself drove to Dr. Dewees', whose house was
fixed on  as  the place of rendezvous.  Dr.  Chapman requested
me to leave  my  brother's gig and take  a seat in his, as  he was
anxious to have  some  particular conversation with  me :  this I
agreed to, and we started.   During the drive, Dr. Chapman be-
gan to converse about the University. He told me,that very much
against  his  wishes,  he had  found it necessary to persuade Dr.
Physick, to become a candidate for the anatomical chair.  That
he had been forced to  this step, from my not having arrived be-
fore the election ; and censured my  brother, for his not having
written for me when Dr. Dewees first requested him to do so.  1
recollect his  having most  distinctly,  and  positively  declared,
at this time, that, had I arrived in the country one month sooner,
my  election xvould have been certain.   I told him that I thought
every thing might yet be easily arranged,  by adopting the plan
mentioned  by Dr. Dewees to my brother and  myself.   He in-
formed me I could not now hold the surgical chair, except in con-
junction with  another; and I now, for the first time, became ae-
quainted with the existence of Dr. Gibson.
  The account Dr. Chapman  gave  me of  his being obliged to
support Dr. Gibson, was, in substance, as follows :   Having been
informed by my brother, that it was not probable that I would leave
                                o 
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 home, unless I was elected, and Dr. Physick having agreed to be*
 come a candidate for the  anatomical chair,  he had thought that
 he would benefit the school most, by bringing  Dr.  Gibson,  from
 Baltimore,  as  his translation would operate beneficially in two
 ways.   It would strengthen the University of Pennsylvania, and
 at  the same time weaken that of Maryland.
   The proposal he made to me, was, that Dr. Gibson and myself
 should be appointed in conjunction, to the surgical chair.  That,
 as that individual's election depended upon Dr. Physick and him-
 self, he would agree to any arrangement they would desire ; and
 that in a  short time,  a distinct cnair would be created for me in
 the institution.   As I had never  complained of the disappoint-
 ment I had received, from the election having been made to the
 anatomical chair previous to my arrival,  I  did  not think  that Dr.
 Chapman could have any object in deceiving me, and therefore
 gave full  credence to his statement and promised.  After spend-
 ing a very pleasant evening with Dr. Physick, we returned to the
 city, and supped together  at Mr.  Rubicon's tavern,
   I have been minute  in detailing the first occurrences  which
 happened after my arrival  in the country, as  the periods  and sub-
 jects of mv first conversations  are naturally more forcibly im-
 pressed on  my mind than those which followed.   In continuing
 mv narrative, it will be impassible for me to  speak  with the same
 exactness as to dates.  I may, perhaps,  intermix in one conver-
 sation, the subjects of others, or. place the facts of one occurrence,
 in the history of another.  In recalling to mind past events, espe-
 cially when  conversation  forms their more prominent feature, such
 denarturc from correctness is certainly  to be expected.   Truth,
 however,  is never inconsistent, and facts  alone shall be related.
   A very short lime  after my arrival, Dr. Dewees stated to my
 brother, that Dr. Physick had expressed a wish to hear me lecture,
 and begged  him to endeavour to prevail on me to deliver one be-
 fore the Trustees of the University. This communication having
 been conveyed to me, I  intimated to Dr.  Physick,  when I next
 met him,  that it would  afford me  pleasure  to comply with his
 wishes. He expressed his satisfaction, and asked me to fix on some
 subject, and that so soon as I had prepared myself on it, he would
 send an intimation to the Trustees, that those of the gentlemen
 who felt inclined  might have  an opportunity to attend.   In an-
 swer to this, I observed  to him, that I did not consider any pre-
 pared discourse a test of the lecturer's qualifications.   That any
man of talents might,  by application,  prepare a  lecture on a
 branch of science  of which he knew little before; that if a man
 was qualified to fill a chair, he ought to be so well versed in the
subjects of  it,  as to be ready at once, wi'hout any preparatory
study, to deliver a discourse on any branch of it which might be 
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selected.  In conclusion,  I observed, that I had offered myself
as a candidate for the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery,  and was
willing, when a meeting of the Trustees and  citizens was  held,
to deliver a lecture on any Anatomical, Physiological or  Surgical
topic, which might, at the moment of the lecture, be fixed on by
the meeting.  That this, and this alone, was the true method of
testing  my qualifications.  These sentiments meeting Dr.  Phy-
sick's approbation, it was agreed, that, so soon as a respectable
number of the Trustees could be got together,  I should give a
lecture.
   About the time when this was in agitation, Dr. Gibson arrived
in Philadelphia.  The first morning he called on me, he talked
of Dr. Chapman's wish that we should  hold the chair in  conjunc-
tion.  The arrangement seemed to be agreeable to him  ; but on
the following dav, when he again called, his sentiments appeared
to have ch mged.  He now spoke of the hardship of the plan, in
relation to us both. That what remained of the fees, after paying
Dr. Horner the  $500 per ann.  which he  had agreed with Dr.
Chapman to pay him, provided  he succeeded in getting him
elected, would, if divided,  afforded only a pittance for each of
us. That the better plan would be, for the new chair to be formed
immediately  after the election had  been made  for the  surgical
one.  As it was certainly more agreeable for me to hold a single,
rather than a divided professorship,  I  was most willing that his
views should have a preference ; but was unwilling,  until the new
chair was created, to give up my expectation of filling the surgical
one.  Dr. Gibson, at this interview, spoke of the absurdity of my
delivering a lecture, telling me that even if my discourse were the
most eloquent that ever was listened to, still it would be ridiculed,
and found fault with, by the jealous practitioners of the city : and
as a proof of the justness of his observation, he stated to me, that
Dr. Hewson, he had been informed by a friend, had given a most
admirable lecture on the anatomy of the eye, when a candidate
for the  Anatomical chair; but,  that it  had had the effect of in-
juring  his  cause  with the  trustees,  from the  ill-tempered re-
marks which had been made by his brethren.   In despite of my
friend's advice, I still persisted in assuring him that I would lec-
ture.    After this conversation,  I found that Dr. Chapman  and
others,  who prior to it were most anxious for me to lecture, were
now opposed to it; for, after Dr. C.  had made and broken  many
promises, about  fixing a day, he at last told me, that it would be
impossible to get the  trustees  to meet, and that it would be,ab*
surd  to deliver a lecture except in their presence.
   I was so confident,  when I left home, of being appointed,  that
I directed  Dr.  Tumbull my demonstrator, to pack up my mu^ 
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seum  that it might be  in  readiness to be shipped immediately
on his hearing from me.  A short time before the day of elec-
tion,  having  little expectation of succeeding in my  application
for the surgical chair, and anxious as the season was  advanc-
ing,  to  come to a determination as to  my future plans;  I
called on  Dr. Chapman, and  requested  him as a friend,  to
inform me of his views,  his  powers, and  my prospects;  that,
if a new chair was  to  be made, and I was to  remain in the
country,  it  was  time   to write home  to have  my  museum
shipped.  I,  at the same  time, desired him to be perfectly candid
with  me,  as I really felt not very anxious whether I remained in
America or returned to  Europe, and that I certainly should wish
to return had  he not the power to get me appointed to a chair in
the University,  At this time  I received from him the most posi-
tive assurance  that I should be  appointed, that he was most anx-
ious  to resign the Institutes of Medicine, that it would, by the
Trustees, be  constituted  a separate  professorship, and that, with
Dr.  Physick's interest and his own, my election to it was certain.
He at this conversation  begged that I would immediately write
for my museum.  The first  time  I met Dr.'Physick, after this in-
terview, I told him  of  Dr. Chapman's willingness to resign the
Institutes,  and observed to  him  that I thought a very valuable
course of lectures could be delivered, by  uniting with the In-
stitutes, minute and morbid anatomy.  That by doing  so the min-
ute anatomy  of a particular  structure could be first given, then
its  physiology, and  lastly  its morbid  anatomy, or the changes
which disease  had produced on  its organization.  Dr.  P. was
delighted with my views and requested me to make them out on
paper, at my leisure, in order thai they might, after Dr. Gibson's
election, be laid before the Trustees,
  Living on terms of the greatest intimacy and apparent friend-
ship  with  Dr.  Chapman,  and  receiving   from  Dr.  Physick
the strongest marks  of   his  good-will,  matters went  on  until
Dr.  Chapman, in a conversation with me, began to throw out
hints,  that from  my being a foreigner, it would be impossible to
prevail on the trustees to give  me at once a professorship.   I told
him with  surprise,  and  considerable feeling, that he should have
thought of these difficulties before he had made me such  positive
promises, or before he had requested me to write for my museum ;
that   before  I had done  so, I was quite indifferent, whether  I
remained  or  returned, but that now  I  must  remain.   He had
now the indelicacy to propose, that I should associate myself with
Dr.  Physick's  dissector.    Never was a proposal  made to me,
which  excited so much my  astonishment and disgust; I told
him with  warmth,  that I conceived my standing in  my pro- 
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fession, fully equal to his own, and that the offer he had made me
could only be intended as an insult, as it was not to be supposed,
that I was to give up my rank to become  Dr. Physick's dissector;
and requested that the subject might never again be mentioned. I
concluded  by telling him I was fixed in the country  for one year,
that  if disappointed in relation to the surgical chair,  I  would
give lectures on Anatomy and Surgery.   We now parted, and
for the first time I began to suspect that  I had been deceived and
played  on   by  Dr. Chapman.  It  was my interest that  it should
be  otherwise,  and I endeavoured  to persuade  myself, that I
was mistaken.
   The  evening  before  the day of  election,  Dr. Chapman  re-
quested me to  write a letter,  withdrawing my name, as there was
no chance  of my being the successful candidate, and Dr. Physick
was desirous that every vote  which they could command,  should
be secured for Dr. Gibson ;  as he Was determined, should  his
election fail, to send in  his resignation.   I told him that I would
send  in no letter, but that I had no objection to his telling any of
the gentlemen  he thought inclined  to vote for me,  that as I had no
chance, I had no wish that votes should be thrown away upon me.
   So unwilling was Dr. Chapman that Dr. Hartsh rne should be
elected, that he declared, that it was  Dr. Physick's and his own
resolution  to retire, should this happen, from the present Univer-
sity, and to apply for a charter to found a new school. This subject
was talked over again  and again  at Dr. Dewees', as the gentle-
men  who visited there must remember.   And certain gentlemen
were named for the several chairs.  It is however, but justice to
observe, that I never heard any thing of the kind from  Dr. Phy-
sick.  On  the contrary, he always  spoke  to  me of the other candi-
date  with  respect.
   Dr. Gibson was by a majority of one elected Professor of Sur-
gery  ; * and I found from a  conversation immediately afterwards

   * There was an anecdote which occurred  a day or two after the election,
which, as it is amusing, I shall relate   A supper having been given to Dr.
Gibson on his election, by Dr. M'Clellan, Dr. Chapman and a number of others,
with myself, were present-  After we had  supped, it being a very fine night,
Dr. Chapman requested Dr. Gibson and myself  to walk round Washington
Square with him for half an hour.   His object itseems, was to give Dr. Gibson
some  advice,  which  it was certainly most indelicate to deliver in  my  pre-
sence. He told him, that he would no doubt have a number of enemies in  Phi-
ladelphia ; that those who were not elected, or their friends, might feel dis-
posed to speak disrespectfully of him ; « But, by G-d," says he, " if they do,
call them out at once, and blow out their brains !   1 adopted this plan after 1
was appointed to a chair, and I soon made them respect me."  As 1 thought
this was perhaps done to intimidate me,  and keep me "on my good behaviour,"
I was determined to be as bold in words as any of them, and just said with a
sneer, " Yes, Doctor, your plan is an excellent  one; but if Dr.  Gibson  is nor 
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 with Dr. Physick, that it would be impossible at that time to in-
 troduce me into  the University;  at the same time he  said, that
 in a very short time he had  no doubt but that mv  wishes would
 be fulfilled.
   A short time after Dr. Gibson's election, having lost all expecta-
 tion of having a  chair constituted tor me, I had stated my deter-
 mination to deliver lectures on anatomy and surgery.  This was at
first opposed ; and as I seemed unmoved Oy the argumencs which
 were advanced against it, my brother was sent tor by Dr. Physick.
 But as he was equally dull with myself, in  seeing the advantages
 to be derived from my remaining quiet as a practitioner ot medi-
 cine, the attempt to dissuade was forsaken, and i flattered myself
 that I  had brought over  my friends to my views.  At ail events
 I never anticipated opposition from th(_m.
  Three or four  days  before the  commencement of the  session,
 Dr.  Chapman meeting me in Dr. IVikClellan's office, begbxu me
 to walk  home with  him, as  he had something ot importance  to
 communicate.  On our way to his house lie entered on  the  suo-
ject  of it, and stated  to me,  that he had Dr.  Physick's authority
to make the communication. ' That convinced 01 the  advantage
 of securing my abilities tor the Institution, they nad resolved to
 make  me  the  following  offer;  which was—Tnat Dr. Physick
 should become Emeritus  Professor of Anatomy and Surgery ; that
he should  give a part of the surgical  lectures, and it tew ot the
anatomical ones ; but that the greater number  ot tnese should be
 given  by Dr. Horner and myself.  That both Dr. Physick and
himself were pledged to support  Dr. Horner ;  for that ne liad
 only prevailed on Dr.  Physick to accept of the anatomical chair,
 on the express condition that Dr.  Horner should be his dissector
 so long as he lectured, and in return, that they hud both bound
themselves to support him as a  candidate for the chair ot anatomy
 when Dr. Physick retired from it.   My answer was, that I never
 would come into that  or any other LJniversity, unless as an  inde-
 pendent professor, with powers and privileges equal to those pos-
 sessed by my colleagues.   That one man was, it  qualified by aDi*
 lities and education, equal to any professorship.  It Dr. Horner's
 acquirements fitted him fur the delivery  of a part of the lectures,
 he must be qualified tor giving the whole j and that if he had not
 talents which qualified him  to become  the single professor,  it
 was certainly neither for my interest  nor for the interest of the
 University, that  such an association should be formed.   I there-
 fore begged  that the proposal might be considered  as refused.

 rery fond of exchanging pistol-bullets, he had better not call on any one  unless
 he is certain their principles are against  fighting."   This little story I'related
 tie tpuowing morning at breakfast, to the amusement of my brother and sister 
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  The lectures began early in November; and I attended  all the
introductory orations.  The professors paid me the same compli-
ment, andv were present  at my introductory discourse; and  both
Drs. Chapman and Physick attended one lecture after the regular
course had commenced.
  Believing that Dr. Chapman was friendly, I  was much asto-
nished by a piece of information conveyed to me  by one  of his
private pupils.  The gentleman called on me  to  know, whether
Dr  C. had yet waited on me, for  the purpose of getting me  to
change my hour  of lecture.   I was astonished, and answered no;
That my hour  could   not  interest him; for  that I  bad  been
particular in fixing on one with his approbation ; one  which  he
had assured me interfered with none of the  professors.   M^v vi-
sitor informed me, that this was not the case ; for that Dr. Chap-
man had himself fi.ed that hour for his private class, and that as
he was very desirous to  attend my lectures, he  had only become a
private pupil of Dr. C.'s, on his promising to get me to alter the
hour of my lecture ; and that the  doctor  told him daily, that he
would see me for the purpose.  1 requested him to give my  com-
pliments to his preceptor, and inform him, that I would on no ac-
count change my hour of lecture.
  Such treatment coming from a man who was every day telling
me  he was my. friend, was certainly enough to disgust any  one.  I
felt, indeed, highly indignant at his conduct;  but it was so clearly
my interest to continue  on  terms with him, that  I, did not take
any further notice of this affair until some  time afterwards.
  I began a second course of lectures on surgical anatomy  about
three weeks after the commencement of my anatomical course. Dr.
C.,,with the view of preventing any of his private class hearing my
introductory lecture to the surgical course, made an excuse to pu:
off this  class the day before, and requested them to meet the next
morning, at the hour of my lecture.   This information was con-
veyed to me immediately afterwards,  and I now determined that
all friendly intercourse should for ever cease between us.
  The  same day I met him.   He addressed  nre with his  usual
apparent frankness and  cordiality.  I repulsed his advances,  in-
formed him of my knowledge of the manner he had acted  in at-
tempting to injure my class, and  concluded  by observing to him,
that all friendly  intercourse  must now cease betwixt us;  but that
we  could still, as .a quarrel would be injurious to us both, live on
terms of distant civility.
  I  was elected  at the commencement of the session, an honorary
member of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania.  Attending one
of their meetings,  I was displeased at  the manner with which Dr.
Chapman enforced his opinions.   A young  physician had  dared
to differ from him, aM the  reply he  made to him was most un- 
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necessarily severe.   I was on the point of rising to support the
young gentleman he  had so unmanfully crushed, not by argu-
ments but by rudeness, but was requested by a friend not to spt ak,
as it  was unusual  for a member to do so the  first night he was
introduced.
  Some weeks after this, I happened  accidentally to go into the
Medical Society.   The same conduct was again pursued by Dr.
Chapman, and now I was determined to measure strength with
him.  I therefore rose and stated my sentiments in support of the
opposite side of  the question.  I certainly differed, in my views,
from  Dr. Chapman ;  but, in arguing the subject, I did so with
temper; it was a question of science, and truth should have been
the object sought for by  us both.   To  my astonishment,  upon
sitting down,  Dr. Chapman  got  up in a violent  passion, and
attempted to overwhelm me with invective, and the utterance of
the names of  all the physiologists his memory could collect,
many of  whom,  by the by, had never written on the subject un-
der consideration—and fearful that th'S would not convince  the
society that I was wrong, he concluded his silly and petulant ora-
tion,  by  calling on  the national feeling of his hearers.  "■ That
Americans were not to be instructed by a foreigner—an ignorant
humbug," &c. &c.   He  was, however, as some  or his friends
have since been,  deceived in this calculation.   A few  temperate
observations procured for me a  noble and  gratifying expres-
sion,  of the just and  honourable  feeling of the members of  the
society.
  This was the first open and public rupture betwixt Dr. Chap-
man  and  myself.  I  thought that  our  intercourse  would have
ended here, and was very much astonished at the conduct of that
individual a few evenings afterwards.  We happened to meet at
a ball given by his excellency  M. Pederson, &c. &c.  During the
first part of the evening, we  did not meet; but on my entering
the supper room, which  was much crowded, I was  surprised,
by  Dr. C.'s running  up to me, and seizing me  warmly  by the
hand, telling me he had a place for me.   This I accepted,  with
thanks, supposing he had already finished his repast.   But I had,
in this belief,  not  done his politeness justice j for after having
been  comfortably provided, I had the pain to see, that he who
had provided the situation for me, had yet to find an opening at
the table for himself.  He succeeded in this,  and having  sup-
ped,  requested me  afterwards to accompany him home  in  the
carriage he had in waiting, to which I consented.
  It may appear that the relation of this anecdote furnishes evi-
dence against  myself.  That it proves Dr. Chapman's kindness,
and my ingratitude*   But, I have  now to inform my reader, that
at the very time when he testified by his behaviour to me per- 
- r,


   sonally the strongest expressions of his good will,  that I had the
   most  undoubted proof, that he took every opportunity to detract
   from  my professional reputation, and m many instances to endea-
   vour to  blast nry  moral character.   Knowing this, it was hardly
   to be  supposed I could feel much respect or esteem for one, who
   gave me such evidence of his unworthiness.  I could not, there-
   fore,  meet him as a friend, but I associated with him  with the
   distant politeness of a  gentleman.  It would  both disgust  and
   fatigue  my  reader, were  I  to go  over all  the  contemptible  arts
   which Dr.  Chapman  and  his  party  brought  into  action,  for
   the purpose of ruining  me.  Falsehood  and the  foulest  ca-
   lumny,  were employed unsparingly;  but I had been introduced
   into society, and my friends judging of me from what they knew,
   not from what they were taught to believe—still continued to re-
   ceive  me with kindness and hospitality.
      In the month of  August, I  was, without any  application on
   my part, unanimously elected  Professor of Surgery in the Uni-
   versity of Maryland; and,  on  my removal,  I  was pleased  with
   the anticipation, that being no  longer a resident in Philadelphia,
   their  object for attempting to  poison,  by  falsehood, the public
   mind, in regard to mv moral and professional reputation, having
   been removed, their malevolence and  defamation  would  have
   ceased.   But in this hope, I was deceived; their  malignity  and
   hostility  pursued  me even to Maryland.  One  of  the faculty,  a
   Professor in the University of Pennsylvania! came to Baltimore
   immediately after my settlement in that city, apparently for the
   purpose of shutting me  out from  the hospitality of her citizens,
   by the most foul, the most malignant,  the most false aspersions
   against my character.  1 have no wish  to draw  individuals unne-
   cessarily into  this dispute; but justice demands,  that one  from
   the many calumnies uttered by the  professor referred to should be
   mentioned.  In the presence of one of my  brother professors, he
   declared, that my  character was  so  infamous  in Philadelphia,
   that every respectable family had closed their doors against me ;
   and that  I  was so much despised by the medical gentlemen of
   the city  I had left, that not more than  two  physicians would ac-
   knowledge  me.  The public and the physicians of Philadelphia
   must know that this assertion  was as  false  as it was  malevo-
  lent ;—that until the  hour I left that  city, every civility and at-
  tention was shewn me by the most  respectable of her inhabitants;
   and that I continued to enjoy the friendship of the most eminent
  of my  brethren until my departure.
     I have ever wished to deal with  principals,  not with thetr pup-
  pets.   1  knew well, that Dr. Chapman had been the master spirit,
  who had directed  all the abuse  thrown out against me since  my
  refusal to become one  of his creatures ;  and  it was with  him
                                 3 
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therefore, that  I was  desirous  to  come  to  a  settlement.  To
remain  longer  passive, under  such  u  warr nte :  insult, was im-
possible; and when I  heard,  a  short  turn  aft rwards, that he
had  declared before several gentlemen, "that I  was  a  bcotcn.
blackguard, a refugee driven from my country ;  that after having
in vain attempted to find bread in Lond n, I  hai  been forced as
a vagabond to fl e from  my country;" 1  was necessarily much
incensed; for 1 had heard this through a channel which rendered
it impossible for me to seek satisfaction.   But from  my having
left  Philadelphia, the doctor had become less guarded in his ut-
terance  of  falsehood, and I was not obliged to watt long before 1
had an opportunity of calling on him for an explanation.
   H .ving been informed that he had asserted that J was the au-
thor of  an  anonymous  letter, said to have been received by him
last spring, 1 called on mv friend Dr  Macauley, and requested
him  to accompany  me immediately to  Philadelphia, in order that
1  night receive either satisfaction, or an apology for the  gross
calumny circulated by Dr. Chapman, in relation to my being the
author of said anonymous letter.   By  the advice of my friend I
was  prevailed on to write the following letter, and await a reply
to it.

                               Baltimore, 12th  October, 1820.
       Sir,
   When the slightest  insinuation is thrown out against the char-
acter of a man of  honour,  it becomes  his painful duty, to
seek that redress,  which every gentleman  is entitled to demand,
and  no one, if he has injured another, can refuse.  Since my ar-
rival in this country, much has been done by certain individuals,
to injure my  reputation ; and I have frequently heard, but in a
manner  which prevented me seeking an explanation, that you
had  used  great liberties in speaking of my character.  As I am
determined that no person shall, with impunity, couple my name
either  with a  mean or dishonourable action ; my present object
in addressing you, is to ascertain whether you have asserted, that
you  believe  me to  be the author of an anonymous letter said to
have been  received by  you  last winter, and at present handing
about in Philadelphia.
   That  1  may immediately  know how  to  proceed in this af-
fair,  I have to  request  that you will answer this letter (which,
to prevent any mistake, shall be delivered into your hands by Dr.
Eberle,) by return of post
                I  have the  honour to be,
                   Sir, your obedient servant,
                       GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON.
       For Dr. Chapman. &c. &c.  &c. 
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   I heard by return of post from Dr. Eberle, that he  had de-
 livered the above letter into Dr.  C.'s own hands, and as 1 re-
 ceived  no  answer,  I  would  have immediately proceeded  to
 Philadelphia,  had it not been  for the indisposition of mv friend.
 He being  confined  from sickness, he addressed  the following
 letter to Dr.  Chapman.

                                 Baltimore, 17th Oct.  1820.
        Sir,
    Mr. Pattison called  on me last week for the purpose of getting
 me to  accompany him to Philadelphia as his tnend, to require of
 you  an explanation of a report injurious to his character, which
 he  had reason to believe had emanated from you.  The exalted
 character,  which I have ever entertained of you  for honour and
 justice, induced me to advise him to write you the letter delivered
• into your own hands by Dr.  Eberle on Friday evening—to which
 he  has not yet received any answer.  Unwilling that this affair
 should be brought to a disagreeable conclusion, I have again pre-
 vailed  on  Mr.  Pattison  to delay his departure to Philadelphia,
 until a reply  to this is due, when I hope to receive from you such
 an answer as  will enable  me to make an arrangement, at once
 honourable and satisfactory to the parties concerned.
                          I have the  honour to  be,
                             Sir, your obedient servant,
                                      P.  MACAULEY.
 Doctor N. Chapman.
    P. S.  That this should come safe  into your own hands, I have
 enclosed it to Dr. Eberle, with the request that he should deliv-
 er it without delay.                                P* -M.

    To which the following answer was received.

        Sir,
    In answer to your letter of the 17 th inst. I have only to observe,
 that from various  facts which have come to my knowledge, of
 the character and conduct of Mr. Pattison, as well in relation to
 the causes which compelled him to leave Scotland, as to events
 which have subsequently happened, I have determined to hold no
 communication with him, by correspondence or otherwise.
    If any further proceedings on the part of Mr. P. should render
 it necessary, I shall take an opportunity, through the medium of
 the  press, of assigning the  reasons  which have led me to this
 decision.
                           I am, Sir, very respectfully.
                                 Your obedient servant,
                                        N. CHAPMAN.
  To Dr.  P. Macauley,  &c.
      Philadelphia, Oct. 19th,  1820. 
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  One line  of conduct  only  remained for me to pursue,  and
thai  I  instantly adopted.   I left Baltimore the evening ot  the
da\  on which Dr. Macauley's letter was received, and  eany on
the Monday morning, tput up in two public places the following
Post.
                   TO THE PUBLIC.


  Whereas Nathaniel  Chapman,  M. D. Professor of the
Theory and Practice  it Medicine in the University of Penn-
sylvania,  &c.  &c. has  propagated  scandalous  and  unfounded
reports against my character ; and whereas when  properly ap-
plied  to, he has refused to give any explanation of his  conduct,
or  the satisfaction which every gentleman has a right to de-
mand,  and which  no one having any claim to that character,
can  refuse,   I  am therefore  compelled to the only stept left
me, and post the said Dr.  Nathaniel Chapman, as a liar,
a coward, and a scroundel.

                     GRANVILLE SHARP PATTISON.

  Philadelphia, Oct. 23d,  1820.


  As it is the custom in Europe, after having posted a man
for  cowardice,  &c. &c.  to  remain  at  least  two  days in
the  same  cit), in which the posting has happened, and appear
at  all  public  places,  &c,  I  had resolved,  although I  was
most  anxious  on  account of the commencement of the lectures,
to return  to Baltimore,  to  remain until the Wednesday follow-
ing in Philadelphia, my  stay however  was  not  long  left to my
option.   An application was made to the public prosecutor by
Dr. Chapman's brother-in-law, and a warrant having been grant-
ted,  I was arrested at  11 o'clock A. M.  of the day on which
I  had  put up the post.  Dr.  Chapman denies all  agency in
this  matter,  be it so  ;  the Publick, however, will bear in mind,
that when arrested several persons very friendly to him, awaited
my  arrival at the mayor's office, and expressed by  sneers the satis-
faction  they  felt at my  supposed perilous situation and had even
joked  with  my  servant, and assured him that I should not be al-
lowed to  return  to Baltimore  in a hurry.   In  the examination
also of the case before  the Grand Jury, the correspondence above
detailed was furnished by Dr. C.  Perhaps, he only  did this, that
1 might be convicted, in order that an opportunity might be fur-
nished him of  displaying his generosity and magnanimity by ap- 
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  plying "instantly in person to the Executive for"  my "pardon.'"
   There is one question 1 would ask Dr.  Chapman.  When ex-
 amined  before the  Grand  Jury, did  he, or did he not declare,
 that he  had never opened my letter ?  Dr.  Eberle delivered this
 letter, and  saw him both open and read it.
   He introduces  the  name  of Mr. S. F, Bradford into a post-
 script; that respectable gentleman 1 did  see, as is there mentioned,
 but it  was only to express to him, the contempt and pity I felt
 for Dr. Chapman.
   Should my readers  suppose, from  the manner  I  have been
 forced to acf, in relation  to  Dr. Chapman, that 1 am a professed
 duellist,  I  should feel mortified.  J shall,  I trust, be excused
 making  a few observations on this subject.   There are two codes
 of laws  under which all  men  of principle and honour  must be
 ranked.   I allude  to those of Religion and Honour.   If  a man
 does not obey the requirements of one or other of these codes, he
 is unfit to hold intercourse with society, and deservedly soon be-
 comes a despised and neglected outcast.  If a man is an active,
 a genuine and a practical Christian, if  his whole soul  is alive to
 the  beauties  of this glorious system, and  the whole tenor  of his
 life be marked by a devoted, a constant, and an humble fulfillment
 of its strictest requirements;  then, this  man is  removed high
 above the laws of honour.   His conduct will never suffer him to
 injure another, and if he  bear with meekness unmerited insult,
 it excites our admiration, for we know that he is  not a coward,
 but a christian.
   I do not pretend to rank myself with the character I have im-
 agined,  for  although no  man can have a more firm and decided
 belief in the great doctrines of Christianity, nor a more profound
 respect for its  genuine  votaries than myself, still my conduet is
 not of so strict a character, as to entitle me to shelter myself un-
 der the laws of religion.  I must therefore be guided by the rules
 of honour, and I trust that neither in this, nor any other action of
 my life, have I been found wanting in the fulfilment of the strictest
 of her requirements.
  Is  Dr.  Chapman  a pure, a genuine, a practical christian ?
 The  previous history of his life furnishes  no evidence  of it.
 we have  never heard  of his charities nor his devotions, but we
 are  willing  to  hope  that  a worthy  clergyman's  observation,
 may be  correct, and that my letter may have converted him.
 Religion, however, is not the  apology  he pleads.   He talks  of
 the  disparity of our ages ; I should suppose the Doctor to be
40, and I  shall soon enter on the 28th  year of my  age—T, never
understood, that the laws of honour allowed a man to insult another
with  impunity, simply  because he is 12 years older.  He speaks
of the inequality of our conditions in society.  We are both pro- 
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fessors, in that respect we are equal, and if we come to measure
the line of our ancestry or the eminence we hold in our professions,
I  surely am not second to Dr. Chapman.  I have not a " nume-
rous  family," I admit, and  here I allow there is a distinction.
But  did  Dr  Chapman before he had a family, when he chal-
lenged  Dr. Dewees,  who  had  a numerous one, think that this
excused  him  ; or more lately, when he had this same numerous
family,   under  which he is  now  willing  to  screen  himself;
did he forget its claim, when he not long ago told  in the medical
society, a respectable member of the Society of Friends, whom he
had insulted  that "he knew whereto find him."  I  sincerely
believe, that the claims of his family were  not then forgotten, but
that the laws and regulations.of the  quakers were equally re-
membered.             '
   Becoming parties in a duel, would have assuredly been unfit
for either of us acting in our professorial  chartcters.  But I be-
lieve  that  neither the parents nor friends of the several hundred
young men committed to  our  care, would have  wished us, be-
cause we were professors, to bear insult unnoticed.  This is not
the feeling  nor character of the members of our country, and for
Dr. Chapman, a man who it is notorious  has constantly, even in
his lectures,  insisted on the necessity  of  his students,  repelling
with  promptitude,  the slightest insult ;  to make his situation  a
plea for his conduct,  is an absurdity, which  does not offer a
parallel.
   Unless my letter really operated as the instrument of Dr. Chap-
man's conversion,  it  is difficult  to give  a rational explanation
of his conduct.  He had  always  been  an  advocate for duelling,
and  had about  three weeks  before  I  wrote  him, declared on
the steps of his own door, to several  students,  and one me-
dical  gentleman, that  if 1  did not keep  quiet  at Baltimore,
he  would   call  me   out  and  blow out  my brains    This
warlike spirit was not confined to him, one  of  his colleagues was
equally courageous in  language.   He astonished  every  one with
the history of his prowess, and spoke much of ten paces.  Hearing
thus from  every quarter, of ten paces and the blowing out of
brains, and all these rumours of war coming from professors, was
it  astonishing that I  should conceive, that although a professor,
I  was intitled to require redress for unmerited insult and perse-
cution.   I did not suspect when I wrote to Dr. Chapman that
my  letter  was  to  verify the  fable  of the ass with the lion
skin ;   1  never suspected, that  he  was a  lion, but I  have
long considered him a serpent.
  It would appear from the observations I have advanced, that
Dr. Chapman  had no apology to refuse me the satisfaction I de-
manded.   It was his fear alone, which prevented  him comply-
ing with my wishes.   He felt that  he was degraded, and sunk
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 in society; and he determined, if falsehood and calumny could
 accomplish it, that his hated enemy would not long continue tri-
 umphant.  With the view of damning me in society, he composed
 and published his pamphlet, entitled «"■ Correspondence," &c;  a
 pamphlet which is written for the avowed purpose of picturing me
 as a heartless and abandoned seducer, to a society in which I am
 yet a stranger;—one, every allegation in  which, he has had the
 most positive and satisfactory proofs, is destitute of foundation.
   When Dr  Chapman published his pamphlet, he had no idea
 what pleasure its perusal would afford me.  That the doctor has
 injured me by whispering in the chambers of his patients the foul
 calumny regarding me,  I have long known;—that he  had the
 power in this way seriously to injure  my character in  a city
 where I  was unknown, I  felt  persuaded.   He  might now have
tbeen more active and open in  the circulation of his scandal; for,
 as he has lost his rank and standing in society, I could  not have
 called on him for an explanation, and so long as his blasting reports
 reached me  only through the  medium of oral  communication, I
 would not have been warranted in obtruding  myself  before the
 public with a vindication of my character.   My enemy has, how-
 ever, " written a book ;"  and  1 am now entitled, without the ap-
 pearance of forwardness, to prove the nullity of the  cruel and ma-
 lignant charges which have been brought against my reputation.
   Dr. Chapman's pamphlet contains three charges, on the refuta-
 tion of which I shall now enter.
   1st. That I came as an adventurer, to America, without any
 invitation.
   gdly.  That I was driven from my native country.
   3dly,  That this  occurred from my being engaged in an impro-
 per intercourse with Mrs. Ure.
   1st. Dr. Chapman asserts most positively, that neither  he nor
 Dr. Physick were parties  in  bringing me to America.   I  shall
 have  little trouble in proving  that  this assertion is destitute  of
 truth; and shall by the most satisfactory evidence  prove that he
 used every mean in  his power to induce my brother to write for
 me to visit  America; not  only assuring  him  that if I came, I
 should be elected to the  professorship, but also promising that he
 would himself insure me  $9000 per  annum from practice.
   The publication of the following extracts from letters written
 me during the spring of 1819, by my brother,  then residing  in
 Philadelphia,  and having  there  frequent  communications  with
 Dr. Chapman, would, of themselves, be sufficient to  prove that,
 that  individual was a most active agent in bringing me  to Ame-
 rica.  It cannot be  suspected that my  brother employed Dr.
 Chapman's name to persuade me to leave home, for the whole te-
 nour of  his letters contradicts this opinion.  It is evident through-
 out,  that he is not anxious for my  removal, but  that  he is ra-
 ther  desirous  that  I  should  realise the plan I had  laid down 
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 many years before, of settling in London, so soon as I had esta-'
 blished a sufficiently high reputation for professional eminence
 in my native city.   Writing under such feelings, he had no ob-
 ject in deceiving me, could we even suppose that one brother
 could be found guilty of acting such a part to  another.

 Extracts of  Letters from John Pattison to G- S. Pattison, rela-
          tive to the Chair of Anatomy in Philadelphia.

   January 8th, 1819.—To-day Dr. Dewees (Mr.  Burns knows
 him;  I think he said he  had corresponded with Burns,) called
 and I asked him the character of the Societe Phylomatique Sociele
 Medicale d'Emulation, at Paris ; he said they stood very high.  I
 took out your letter, and read the part  that related to  that; he
 seemed much struck ;  he asked several questions; he then  ex-
 claimed, " I wish to God your brother was here !" I replied why ?
 he then opened on the professorship.  Mr. Chauncey told me, that
 they felt if they did not get a man of first talents, the college was
 over.  Dr. Dewees also said, that the Anatomical chair, in fees
 alone, was worth 89000. I would far rather see you great in Lon--
 don; but  do you think you could get  on there  without strong
foundation V—think too, of my mother and the girls. There is one
 thing, if you did not like it, you could give it up.   But do no-
 thing rashly—indeed, I am confident you will not.  But I would
 not think of your coming out here unless you were  invited.
   January 14th,  1819.—The more I think of you, the  more I
 am  convinced that London is  the sphere for your action.   He
 says (Dr. Dewees,) if you were here you would get it; but that
 is out of the  question, it would be too much like a quack to come
 on chance.
   March  23d, 1819.—I  returned here  on Sunday,  and found
 your packets, and the notarial copies of letters which arrived that
 morning—indeed,  had it not been for these, I should have gone
 to Washington.   You may believe I was delighted to see such
 proofs of  the respect which the wise and good have for a  bro-
 ther I so tenderly love.  I hud been up travelling all  Sunday
 night,  and got home very much fatigued, but your letters were a
 rich repast, and I immediately paid my respects to Mr. Chauncey,
 even before I had washed and dressed.  I am particular that you
 may have  a review in detail of all my proceedings.  Mr. C. read
 your letter with much and deep  interest;  he said nothing could be
 stronger—that the night before, Messrs. Binney and Sergeant, two
 mer> (attornies) of  the first standing here, and two of the Trus-
 tees, had been with him, and had spoken of Mr. Jcffray's having
 written about you to somebody  in N. Y.   Mr. C said, that if you
 were here, there could be no doubt; and  as it was, there was none
 to oppose you as to  standing,  &c. &c. Next morning I called on 
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the Dr. (Chapman) just as he was sitting down to breakfast;  he
received me very kindly. He is not very clever, entre nous, but he
is the high fashion; he was amazingly flattered by  Mr. Jeffrey's
letter, he could not hide it, in fact.  Dr. C. opened out; he con-
fessed the existence of the University depended upon getting ta-
lent, and not one save yourself who had yet applied, were at  all
calculated to fill the chair—he only dreaded the prejudice of your
being a foreigner.   He asked  if you  practised ? I replied, as a
Surgeon, consulting Surgeon, and Operator.  He said there was
none to oppose you here;  that Dr. Physick  was in bad health,
and there was no other man in that department to enter the lists
with you.   He said,  even if you did not succeed to  the  chair,
that if you came out, he would insure  you /2000 (S9000) pet
ann.  I answered, that I was at a loss to judge which was best,
whether you should come or stay, even if you got the chair, and
certainly you should  never come,  unless as professor, with my
consent.  He appeared very friendly.   I then proceeded to Dr.
Dewees',  he was in raptures.  I said I hoped I had  redeemed
my pledge  with regard to you;  he answered  more, a  great deal
more,  for  such characters to have written stronger  would  have
been bombast.  He too said, except Physick,  there is  not a sur-
geon in Philadelphia, I would allow to come near me with a
knife.   He also stated, that unless some new candidate appeared,
and the Trustees refused you, the Medical School was  lost.  Cer-
tainly,  you would get more money here; but if you rise as you
have done, for the last  twelve months,  and it will be  your owii
fault if  you do not, you will  soon distance all your  compeers,
and rise as high as  man could desire.
   March 25.—Dr. Dewees said,  he thought it was  of conse-
quence  to get an M. D., but I replied, you did not like it,  and it
would be better to wait and see what was done.  I was writing
Matthew this  evening, when Dewees  called at the  counting-
house.  He said he had just been with  Dr. Physick,  and  had a
long conversation with him.   He  broke  the  ice by  saying to  P.
what think you of  the young  Scotsman ?  Dr. P.  asked who is
that?  He then entered fully into the matter, described the let-
ters ; said that were  he chosen professor himself, and saw your
documents, and could only credit one half of them, he  would re-
sign in  your favour.  Dr. P. replied, we must have him ! Dr.
Dewees also saw  Dr. Chapman  to day.   It seems that Chap-
mad, who is friendly,  had been preparing the  way for some rela-
tive ; but he told Dewees, were I you, I would advise Mr. Pat-
tison to  write to his brother to come out immediately—this I said
I would not do, and nothing would induce you to give up  a cer-
tainty for an uncertainty.   Both  Chapman and Dewees,  told me
that you would make  8 to  810,000 independent of the  professor-
ship, but this is all stuff—and I command you not to move with-
out a pledge.
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   March, 26th—This  morning I have seen Dr.  Chapman ; he
said,  " would  to  God your brother were here, a man with  one
fourth of his pretensions on the spot would get it !"  I mention-
ed the  M. D. ; he  said  it did not matter, as should  it come to
that, they could give an honorary one here.
   April 15th—Dr.  Dewees called this morning and said he  had
just come from Dr. Physick, that the Doctor was too unwell to
read the letters, but he  had read them to him, and Dr. P.  was
highly  pleased, and advised you to come over immediately—this
I promised Dewees to write to you— I  went  and  communica-
ted all I had heard, to  Mr. Chauncey, what he says is wisdom in
my opinion—he stated that next to myself, there was no man in
Philadelphia that was so anxious to have you in the chair as he was,
but that I might rely hte prejudice was in favour of an American;
he  said  that, standing in  your rank, he could not and would not
advise you to come, because he  thought it very uncertain ;  and
you would, (did you  not obtain your object) naturally feel dis-
gusted  with  the  country,  which he  should  be  very sorry for.
At the same time  I might  state to you, that coming with your
high  recommendations, you would certainly get the best practice
in  town in a very  short  period, particularly as  Dr.  P.  was in
such a bad state of health and very  probably you would get the
first vacant chair  after  you  were  settled  in  the country, that
should  fall—This  is all  very well, but certainly were I in your
place I should think very  seriously before I took a step so rash—
You are  independent and daily rising in what  I conceive the first
countrv in the world.
   April  17th—I  wrote yoa yesterday and I had only dispatched
my letter, when Dr. Dewees called and asked me, if I had writ-
ten you—I told  him I had, as well  as I was able, fairly stated both
sides, and you must judge for yourself—He asked me if I had in-
formed  you of the  high standing of Phyick—I answered that I
believed I had  formerly—he requested me to say, that Physick
was the very head  and soul of the profession—that  his  advice
had more weight with the trustees than any one else—all this with
a great number  of et cetera.  Physick has committed himself, yet
should you come here and fail in :he appointment, I fear you would
be in  a  very disagreeable situation.
          DEPOSITION OF JOHN PATTISON.

  " On the fourth day of December,  in the year  of  our Lord,
eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared  before  the
Subscriber, Mayor of the City of Baltimore, John  Pattison, who
being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, 
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   «' That in consequence of the necessity under which the bro-
ther of the  Deponent, Granville S. Pattison, has ,been placed, of
giving publicity to a correspondence between Deponent and his
said brother, relative to the  inducements offered to  him to leave
Scotland, and  settle  in  Philadelphia, and supposing from what
has  occurred in relation  to some of the documentary proofs pos-
sessed by his said brother, that the genuineness even of this cor-
respondence might  by some be  questioned,  the  Deponent  has
deemed it proper, under the advice of several friends, to make
the following statement,  under  the  sanction of an oath.   Depo-
nent further saith, that having been for several years past  a resi-
dent of Philadelphia, he has maintained  a  constant correspond-
ence with his brother, Granville S. Pattison, to whom he has been,
perhaps, more  than  ordinarily attached.   That alive to his inte-
rest, and anxious  to  have  him near him,  he addressed  to  him a
letter, announcing the death of Dr. Dorsey, late Professor of Ana-
tomy in  the University of Pennsylvania,  and  expressing an idea
that the appointment to the  vacant chair  might be  advantageous
to him.  The correspondence on this subject was continued up to
the  arrival  in  Philadelphia of the said  Granville  S.  Pattison.
That said letters were written by  Deponent during  the interrup-
tions and turmoil of business, were the sentiments  of  his heart,
and dictated in the belief,  that no  eye would  ever see them, ex-
cept that of a brother, or family circle.   Deponent further saith,
that the extracts  of letters  given  by his brother in the present
pamphlet, are true and bona fide copies of the originals, and also
that the letters  and extracts of  letters from  the said  Granville S.
Pattison, to deponent, also published  in  this pamphlet, are ge-
nuine, and  faithfully copied from  the originals received  in  the
manner, and at the times they respectively are stated to be; and
which the Deponent believes were read  by him  to  a gentleman
of the highest honour and respectability of  Philadelphia, shortly
after they came to hand, as he was in the habit of reading his bro-
ther's letters to him,  that gentleman  having kindly expressed an in-
terest in his brother Granville S. Pattison, from having  heard his let-
ters read during the residence of the said  Granville S. Pattison in
Paris ; but Deponent declines giving the name, from a point of de-
licacy, not  having asked the permission of said individual for so
doing. Deponent further saith, that  Drs. Dewees and  Chapman al-
ways held out toDeponent, that the  chair and practice of a profess
sor in said institution,ranged from glo,000tc §18,000 per annum.
But still Deponent was inclined to think, and so expies ed himself
to said gentlemen, that it might not be for the interest of his bro-
ther to come over, as his prospects at home were so  brilliant, and
Deponent's  wish was, that he should  settle in London  or Edin-
burgh, though he certainly  was anxious to have him near him.
Deponent however, never would consent to request his brother to 
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come, until such time as he  should receive a pledge of the sup-
port of Dr. Physick.  That on the 16th  of April,  1819,  Dr.
Dewees called on Deponent, and stated, that  he had succeeded,
and obtained the desired pledge from Dr. Physick, viz. a positive
invitation from him for the said Granville S. Pattison to come out
immediately, with the understood assurance of his support in the
ensuing election ; and Dr. Chapman for several weeks prior to
this period, had pressed Deponent  to write  for his brother, which
was done ;  but deponent stated all  of the reasons for and against
his coming.   Deponent saw  Dr Dewees again, after he had dis-
patched the above letter, he said Deponent had not sufficiently re-
presented the weight and influence  of Dr. Physick, and requested
Deponent to  write again, which  he did on  the 17th.  On the
20th of April, Dr. Dewees called  again, and  Deponent and the
Doctor had a conversation  on  the  contents of the letters  dis-
patched on the 16th and 17th; and  Deponent  remembers parti-
cularly well stating, that he could not and would not write other-
wise than he had done.  The Doctor expressed some disapproba-
tion, and said that Deponent ought  to have written more strongly;
to which Deponent replied, that he  could not with propriety write
differently, or words to that effect;  but that  pen,  ink and paper
were there, and  the Doctor could write as he saw fit, and that
the letter would be forwarded to his brother.  Dr. D. then seated
himself, and wrote the letter of that date, published in page 31 of
this pamphlet, and also desired the Deponent to particularly ex-
plain to his brother the influence and power of Drs. Physick and
Chapman, zvho had in fact the chair in their gift.
   Prior to the arrival of Deponent's brother, Deponent was given
to understand, that  the  trustees of the University were about to
proceed to  the election  of a Professor of Anatomy;  and Depo-
nent not being able to say with certainty that his  brother would
come out, Drs. Dewees and Chapman determined  to prevail on
Dr. Physick  to take the  chair of  anatomy, as  this would effec-
tually exclude what was denominated the " Qiuiker party."  And
at the same time Deponent was given to understand, that his bro.
ther, should he arrive, would be appointed to the chair  of  sur-
gery, and  after the election  an exchange might be effected be-
tween him and Dr,  Physick.   Deponent  distinctly remembers,
that Drs. Dewees  and Chapman  gave themselves great credit,
for having persuaded  Dr. P. to take the chair of  Anatomy, for
the purpose of effecting their wishes,  as it appeared from what
they said to den.aflent, that they had  had considerable difficulty in
accomplishing it.   Deponent further saith, that although he was
aware that some  of the Trustees were unwilling to appoint a fo-
reigner,  still he  flattered himself that his brother  had a fair
chance with  the other candidates, and  he  felt easy as  regarded
Dr. Gibson,  from the character given by Drs. Chapman and De-
wees of that gentleman ; and  he  also was led to believe, that  if 
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his brother were not elected to the chair, Dr. Hartshorne would
be the successful candidate, in which event he was given to un-
derstand, that both Drs. Physick and  Chapman were to resign,
and an application would then be made to the Legislature for a
charter for a new School; and deponent remembers the  follow-
ing gentlemen named  as professors of the  newly contemplated
School :
                   Dr. Physick,  Surgery.
                    "   Chapman, Institutes, &c.
                    "   Dewees, Obstetricks.
                    "   Pattison,  Anatomy.
   Another gentleman was named for the chair of Chemistry, but
as deponent has no recollection of his being present at any con-
versation on the subject, he feels unwilling to introduce his name.
Deponent further states,  that he well  remembers an evening or
two previous—he thinks the very evening previous to the elec-
tion to the  Surgical chair, and a few days after deponent had
been  given to understand that there was no hope for his brother;
that  Dr. Dewees  and himself had a conversation at deponent's
house, in which they united in wishing that Dr. Hartshorne might
be the successful candidate, with a  view of the realization of the
proposed scheme of a new institution under the views already de-
tailed.  It is proper here to  state, that deponent never heard Dr.
Phvsick mention the above plan ; indeed, the only conversation of
a private nature,   which  deponent  ever  remembers  to have
had  with that gentleman,  was one  in an interview requested
by Dr.  P. through Dr.  M?Clellan, about the beginning of Oc-
tober deponent thinks—In this conversation, Dr.  P. endeavoured
"to persuade  deponent  to prevail  on  his brother not to give a
course  of  Anatomical  Lectures as a.private lecturer; in this,
however, deponent could not concur.
   It   having been  asked  why deponent, at the  time he was
desired  to write for his  brother to come  out, did not himself
see  Dr.  Physick—Deponent replies,  that  he  almost  daily saw
Dr.  Dewees, and  frequently Dr.  Chapman, and deponent con-
sidered  both as friends,  and as  Dr. Physick was  confined with
sickness  and he had  never doubted the  sincerity, nor question-
ed the  ' motives  of Drs. C. or  D., he could see  no  object in
calling on Dr. Physick.   Deponent further states, that be the
intentions of Dr.  C.  what they may, he feels  assured  the mo-
tives  of Dr. Dewees, in the whole of his agency in inducing his
brother  to come over,  were strictly sincere and friendly as well as
 with a view of benefitting the  Medical School, and he is fur-
 ther  persuaded,  that  if Dr. Physick  had not been practiced on,
 he  never would  have  consented, in  any  way, to injure the
 prospects of his brother, Granville S. Pattison.
   Deponent further  states, that  he received letters from Scot-
 land on  the 4th, or 5th of April, 1819, informing him of Dr. 
                             i

Ure's  conduct  in  relation to  his brother;  a few days after
they  came  to  hand,  deponent communicated the contents, and
he thinks submitted the letters to Dr.  Dewees for perusal.   It
will  be  observed,  that  Dr.   Dewees' letter requesting depo-
ponent's  brother to come to  America,  bears date the 20th  of
April, a short  time after the above  detail to him relative  to
Dr. Ure.
  Deponent further states, that  he  has read the anecdote con-
tained  in  a note  page 13  of this  pamphlet, and well  re-
members, that it was  related to him by his brother on the follow-
ing morning, and from other conversations and  anecdotes,  depo-
nent  had heard, he was always under the strong impression, that
Dr. Chapman was peculiarly tenacious of his honour and inclined
to sustain it by an appeal to  the usual modes, to be  found  in
the code  of honour.
  Deponent further states, that during  the  various conversations
he had had with Drs. Dewees and Chapman, deponent  occa-
sionally yielded  his judgment, and felt most  anxious,  that his
brother  should   come  over,  but  on  sober reflection,  when  in
the  privacy of home, he always  doubted the propriety  of  it,
unless under  the certainty of  his appointment to the chair  of
Anatomy.  Drs. D.  and C. expressed themselves so  strongly
and  sanguinely  on this subject as to induce deponent  to  think
at the time, that it  was  a most desirable appointment, and one
which his brother  could obtain.   Dr. Chapman spake so plea-
singly as to the actual profits  of the chair, stating it to be a better
appointment than that of President of the United States, that  de-
ponent could not but give a willing ear, at the time, but still his,
correspondence  shews, that on reflection, he  did  not write so
strongly  as  he would  have  been  authorised  and  certainly
should have done,  had not his judgment been sobered by con-
versation on the subject,  with the  very  intelligent  and highly
respectable  gentleman, formerly alluded  to in thi s deposition-—
who  considered that  Drs. D. and C. had perhaps spoken too
strongly and sanguinely.
   Deponent in  conclusion, saith, that  at the  commencement  of
his brother's Lectures, and during the  course, his brother receiv-
ed a  number of anonymous letters, which he at once committed
to the fire, with the exception of the first  letter.  Deponent chid
his brother  for not  reading the  letters, as  he appeared to have a
whole college opposed to him,  and the  letters might contain some
information which might prove useful to him.
                                     JOHN  PATTISON.
    Sworn to this 4th Dec.  1820, before me,
          JOHN MONTGOMERY,
                 Msvor of the Citv of Baltimore?., 
3:1
   But the proof of the fact of my being invited to this country
does not rest singly on my  brother's letters  and affidavit.   Dr.
Dewees, the accredited agent of Drs. Physick and Chapman, for
it is absurd to suppose that he would have acted in the manner
he did, unless he was authorised to do so, on the 16th of April,
came to my  brother, and told him that both Drs. Physick  and
Chapman  had requested that  I  should be written  for, and  had
pledged themselves to support me  as the candidate for the chair,
should  I comply with their wishes.  On the 17th, he called to as*
certain whether my brother had  written me, and on the 20th, my
brother heving described to him the contents of his letter of the
16th,* he thought it was not sufficiently strong, and then addressed
to me himself, the following letter :

                                Philadelphia, April 20,  1819.
     sear sir,
   Do not feel it an intrusion  that a stranger takes  the liberty of
addressing you.   But feeling a high interest in the success of our
University, aDd from the various and highly respectable  mention
of you, by those best qualified to judge of your qualifications, I
have felt  a persuasion that you are eminently fitted to fill the va-
cant chair in it.  Fearing, however, that your brother's letter, On
the subject of visiting this place,  was calculated rather to deter
than induce it, I have, contrary  to any right, taken the liberty to
advise  upon  the subject.   As far then  as a firm belief that you
would succeed, (and that belief founded upon pretty certain data)
will offer  an inducement  to  pay us a visit, I have  no hesitation
to declare, that no question remains, in my mind, that xvere you
upon the spot, that your election would be certain.  It is unques-
tionably the opinion of two  of the most  infiuential and best in-
formed men here.   Your visit should be  as  prompt as possible,
that you might have the necessary time  for  the preparatory ar-
rangements here.   My opportunities to judge  of the sentiments
of those who have this gift in  their power, will be best explained
by your brother f
        With  sincere esteem  and respect,
                            I am  truly yours,
                                         W. P. DEWEES.

   It is amusing to see how  Dr. Chapman attempts to  get over
this letter.   A person reading his pamphlet, would suppose thas

   • This letter  of the 16th has been  either lost or  mislaid. The reference
made to it  in the extract of the 17th, proves, independently of my brother's
affidavit, that it was written.
   f The passages which are in Italicks, were not particularly marked in the
original. My object In doing so,  Is to  call the attention of the reader to
the expressions. 
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I had been writing very warm letters, expressive of my anxiety to
be elected, that my brother was equally anxious, and that Dr. De-
wees merely writes me, " that whatever the weight of my creden-
tials may be, I cannot possibly succeed in my application, without
being personally present." Dr. Chapman is not, however, content
with the attempt to misrepresent the spirit of Dr. Dewees' letter.
He tells us that it was not written until " very late in April, and
therefore, in all probability, was forwarded " by the N. Y. packet
of the 10th of May," and  as  he had intimation  of  my leaving
London on the 27th of the month, he very candidly  draws from
his probabilities the positive  conclusion, that I did nofreceive it
before my departure from  home,  and  consequently  " that it
could  not supply the motive  of my removal.''*  Unfortunately for
this most just conclusion of  the Doctor's, I possess the original
letter, with the Glasgow post-mark of the 17th  of May upon it,
and as  will be afterwards shown, I  have  one dated  in Edin-
burgh, on the 19th of the same month, where it is mentioned that
I am then so far on my way to Philadelphia.  This I should sup-
pose was evidence  enough to satisfy  any  sensible  man, that Dr.
Dewees's letter was what made me determine to visit the United
States. I received it on the morning of the 17th, and two days af-
terwards left Glasgow for Edinburgh, to see my friends  pre-
vious  to my departure.
  Anxious to have an explanation from  Dr. Dewees,  as to  the
persons  meant by the " influential individuals? I addressed  to
him the following letter:

                                Baltimore, Nov. 14, 1820.
      Sir,
  As the fact  of my having been invited to this country, is de-
nied in  a late publication, and as you  were the  organ through
which this invitation was transmitted  to me, I have  to beg that
you will by return of post, send me answers  to the following que-
ries:—Did you not write the letter of invitation, with the autho-
rity of Drs. Physick and Chapman ?  Did  you  not frequently
after my arrival, press me to accompany  you to Dr,  Physick, to
satisfy me that what you had done, was done with his authority ?
Were not Drs. Physick  and Chapman the  individuals you in-
tended when you in your letter wrote, that it was the opinion of
the two  best informed and most influential men here, that I would
be elected ?
                  I have the honour to be,
                         Your obedient servant,
                      GRANVILLE SHARP  PATTISON.
  To Dr. Dewes, Philadelphia.
  P. S.—To prevent any mistake,  this letter will be  delivered
into your own hands by Mr. Duncan. 
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   To which I received this curious answer.

                                Philadelphia, Nov. 16, 18201
       Sir,                                                *
   In reply to  your's of the 14th inst.,  I have only to  say, that
your first and third  queries must  be answered by the  letter in
your possession ; and as regards your second, namely, " Did you
not  frequently after my arrival, press  me to  accompany you to
Dr. Physick, to satisfy me that what you had done was done with
his authority ?"  I say no—never.
                                   I am, Sir, yours, &c.
                                         W. P. DEWEES.
To Granville S. Pattison, Esq.

   It is  quite  evident  that  Dr. Dewees is Willing to assist his
friends  to the utmost.   There are three questions asked; «ne has
nothing to do  with the letter, and to this he gives a flat  and po-
sitive denial.   The two  others may be proved  by  the Contents
of his own letter,  he" therefore prudently replies, that " they will
be amwered by the letter in my possession?'   Is not the boldness
and diffidence of the Doctor, so opposite, easily accounted for ?
He thus reasons with  himself:—** When you ask me, did you
never after my arrival,  press me to accompany you to Dr. Phy-
sick to get him to acknowledge that I was authorised to  write for
you ? I know  that  a  confirmation  of this will not be found in
my own letter, and I therefore boldly answer, No, never!   But
when you ask me  two other questions, in  which my answers may
be contradicted by my own  letter,  1 timidly reply, the letter will
answer them." If Dr. Dewees had  not felt conscious that he  did
not write upon his own authority, but upon that of Drs. Physick
and Chapman, is  it to be  credited, that, because he had not kept
a copy of his letter  to  me, he  would hesitate a moment in giv-
ing at once a negative to my queries ?
   The proof I have thus adduced in support of my assertion,
that I was invited to America, is so  clear and satisfactory, that I
should consider it a work of supererogation to reason longer on the
subject.   But  as Dr. Chapman in his pamphlet puts the following
pointed  and distinct  question to  his  reader, I shall answer it.
" Can it be presumed for a moment, that any man situated as Mr;
Granville  Pattison is described to have been at the time, trium-
phant as a teacher, prosperous as a practitioner, devoted to  his
country, surrounded by family and friends,  would break such
ties, and surrender such  certainties for an attainment so indefi-
nite and precarious?"   It will be observed, that this interroga-
tory is so expressed, that I " surrender certainties" for whi»t is
" indefinite and precarious ;" but the reader, by recalling to his re*
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 collection my narrative, and my brother's correspondence and affi-
 davit, will  be convinced, that in giving up  my certainties, I did
 not do so upon slight inducements.   Dr. Chapman tells my bro-
 ther, that if 1 will only come  out,  he wui himself  Insure me
 $9000 per  annum from practice, independent, ot the  pr-'.ssor-
 ship.  Dr. Dewees tells my brother,, that Dr. Physick " has in fact
 the^gift  in  his  own power, and  that he h«s pledged  himsc-'t to
 support  and carry my election."  I am told that this chair is w.>rt:h
 g9000, and ihiu 1 am induced to give up my certainties at home,
 not for an " atummes;i precarious  and .^definite," but, from as-
 surances from men who. I could not. suspect would have any ob-
ject in deceiving me; men. who, from their situation, I could not
 believe  could  be  dishonourable ; that if I visited the  United
 States, I should immediately be appointed to a situation worth
 gl8,000 per ann.   That I had such views as to the emoluments
 of the situation, &c. will be satisfactorily proved by the follow-
 ing extracts of my letters to my brother ; the authenticity of which
 have been already established.
   *« I shall  send you no  more  letters of my character;  those I
 have already dispatched, should satisfy the managers, unless they
 are determined to elect  a native.   Moreover,  I am not very
 anxious  about the appointment.   At the same time, if you think
 I could make  at the rate of fram 4000/. to 5000/. sterling per an-
 num, it  is an immense temptation."
   "You ask me to get letters to Parish, and other merchants; but
 really  I  have no wish to be elected, unless it be considered by the
 Trustees to be for the interests of the  University ;  and  I shall
 therefore, although I  could procure a host of letters, to men of
 monied  interest, only send sucn, as write of my acquirements as
 a man of science.  On this ground alone do  I desire to stand."
   *' But besides these  pecuniary considerations, there are others
 which render the  appointment of Professor of  Anatomy in the
 Philadelphia University worthy of my ambition.   I would be en-
 abled, I trust, to raise the character of the School,  and would
 have the satisfaction of  thinking, that the  immense succeeding
 generations who will come to inhabit that great continent, in fu-
 ture, might mention my name as one who  had brought the sci-
 ence of  medicine forward," &c.
   *4 You say  something about my coming out upon chance ; this
 is, however, out of the question, as  I could not think  of sparing
 the time, or of making myself so cheap, as to come such a dis-
 tance  to beg an appointment."
   These extracts  from letters which were written to a brother in
 all the  openness of my heart, and  without  an  idea  that they
 would ever come  before the public, give satisfactory evidence of
 the three following facts. 
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      1st. That I considered the situation worth from /4000 to 5000
   sterling per ann.
      2d.  That I was anxious to  obtain the appointment,  from the
   greatness of the field, &c. &c.  And lastly, That  I never would
   have left home, unless under the positive  impression, that my
   " election was certain.'"
      Another question is apt to arise, why not return, when you
   found that  Dr. Physick was elected to the Anatomical chair ?
   My answer is two-fold.
      1st.  1 had a promise of being appointed, in conjunction  with
   Dr. Gibson, to the Surgical professorship, and afterwards a  most
   positive assurance, that a new chair would be constituted for me,
   and
      2dly. Because, after having stated to all my friends in Europe,
   that I waa  going out to the LTnited States to fill the chair ot Ana-
   tomy  in  the  University of Pennsylvania, the idea of returning,
   deceived and disappointed, was exceedingly painful.
      Having refuted the first allegation, and shown its falsity, I  shall
   proceed to the consideration of the second. Thai I  was compelled
   to leave my native country.
      If a man is forced to flee his native country, he must have com-
   mitted some act which has deprived him of the friendship and sup-
   port of the virtuous and the honourable.  He must have become
   an outcast from that society, of which he, previous to his miscon-
   duct, constituted a member, and in being banished from his for-
   mer associates, he leaves  them without receiving a single let-
   ter of countenance  or acknowledgement.  If a man on leaving
   his native country, has the highest honours bestowed on him—
   If the  most  respectable men of   his  own  country,  write  him
   the warmest  and most flattering letters of introduction to the dis-
   tinguished  characters  of the country, to which he is about to emi-
   grate;   he carries with  him, the  most unquestionable. and  une-
i   quivocal evidence of his having  been respected at home, and  con-
   sequently that  his leaving it, has, on his part, been a voluntary ac-
   tion.   It  appears from my  narrative, and the unquestionable  doc-
   ument  by  which it is substantiated,  that I only determined to
   visit America on the 17th of May, after the receipt of Dr. Dewees'
   letter,  and that I sailed on the 1st. of June, remaining in the coun-
   try'only  13  days after having  come to a determinationon the
   subject;  it  appears further, that a considerable part of this time
   was occupied in travelling overland a distance of 600 miles.  Yet
   short  as  the  time was, I received in it, the most positive expres-
   sions  of the estimation in which  my  character was held  by my
   countrymen.   Professional  honours  were lavished  upon  me,
   and letters  expressive of  the  warmest  approbation and friend-
   ship, were liberally bestowed. I would beg of my reader to pause,
   and then turn to the appendix, and peruse the letters contained 
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in  Class 2d.   When  he has done so I would demand of him,
if these are the testimonials, which would be bestowed by a " com-
munity which retains any sense of virtue or the positive obliga-
tions of religion," on an individual, against whom " a clamour is
raised"for " a most odious deed" a clamour M which he is unable
to  resist.1"   I am  aware  of his  answer—These are not the let-
ters,  which a  man  guilty of  " an odious deed" could have pro-
cured ; they are  in fact testimonials in favor of character, which
even  few men  of   honour could have commanded.  Facts are
better than arguments, and having  called my reader's attention
to such powerful and satisfactory evidence of the estimation in
which I was held immediately previous to my departure from Eng-
land, I shall not fatigue  him  by  reasoning further in refutation
of Dr.  Chapman's second  allegation.—That  I was banished for
an odious d#ed from my country.
   The third charge  delivered by Dr. Chapman  is the one  on
which the whole  of his pamphlet  rests.  For although other ac-
cusations are adduced by  him, they are of a trifling character in
comparison to this one, and are merely advanced by the author
for the purpose of masking his real intentions.  There are a few
remarks, which I am desirous to offer to my reader, before enter-
ing on the refutation of this charge-—and, as they are pertinent, I
trust the digression will be  forgiven.   The  character of Dr. Ure,
will,  with justice, materially influence  the decision as to the true
nature of the case   He  is  represented by Dr. Chapman,  as a
m^n  who continues to fulfil his avocations in  Glasgow, admired
and respected.   If this assertion was consistent with truth, I ne-
cessarily must be culpable, but, if it be a  notorious fact that  he
is shunned, and  despised by his  fellow  citizens, the  reverse  of
the former conclusion  becomes probable.  The letters, written
by 3cots gentlemen to several most  respectable  inhabitants  of
Baltimore, inc>,atrovertibly establish  the  fact, that he is  a de-
graded and infamous character;  and  that although he  still con-
tinues to reside in Glasgow, he is shunned and  despised by all
the respectable  members ot that community.   I  shall only state
two facts in relation  to Dr. Ure,  and these  I conceive will  be
sufficient to  place his character  in relief before the publick.   The
first is given upon  my  own authority, the second is taken from
a letter written by one of the most  respectable gentlemen of Glas-
gow—a letter, the genuineness  of which has been established by
%h■-'se gentlemen to whom the facts and documents of my case have
been submitted, in cxtenso.
   1st. It is  a  well  known  fact in  Glasgow,  that  I was one  of
the last person who was aware of the accusation ; and until I
became acquainted  with  it from rumour,  Dr. Ure kept  up to-
wards me the most attentive and flattering demeanour. 
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  gdly.  " The principal actor in this affair  is Dr. Ure, a man
who, a few years ago was only saved from Botany Bay for frau-
dulently stealing and destroying his father's will."* &c. &c.
  These two facts, are of themselves sufficient to prove  that  what
Dr.  Chapman says of the character of Dr. Ure, is in  harmony
with the rest of his assertions.
  The masked, but the true object of the pamphlet is revenge;
and  for its gratification, every honourable, just,  and generous
feeling has been sacrificed.  He has hoped to blast my reputation
and ruin my prospects; and, as I am a stranger in the society of
which  I have now become a member, he  has  trusted to accom-
plish his  purpose, by charging me with a crime of a  nature so
delicate  as to render it impossible for me  to lay those documents
before the public, which are irresistible, which he himself has ex-
amined, and which he has again and again declared, establish
beyond question the fact, that my conduct throughout the whole
of the affair, has been consistent with the strictest principles  ot
honour and morality.
   I have just stated, that it is impossible for me  to lay my do-
cuments before the public.  Their number, length, and peculiar
character forbid it,  and to enter into a full detail of the  affair
without publishing these, is impossible.   Fortunately, such  a his-
tory is not required for the purpose of establishing the proof, that
the charge  made against my character is " wholly destitute of
foundation ,-"  that it is so the following  observations and letters
will, I think, prove,                           .
   Is it to be presumed, that, had the calumny circulated by Dr.
Chapman been consistent with truth, that I should have left home
as I did, honoured and respected ?  That instead of having been
driven from my country as an unworthy member of it, I should
have taken  leave of its most distinguished citizens, bearing from
them the most  flattering testimonials of their approbation of my
conduct ?                                                .   ,
   The expressions of the approbation of my countrymen received
by me immediately previous to my departure, should of themselves
be sufficient to shew that the  community of whicn  I formerly
was a  member, were convinced that the charge advanced against
me  in relation to Mrs. Ure, was destitute of foundation.   But
this fact is not only established  by the above circumstance, the
following letters  will more fully establish it.   The one is written
by David Walker, Esq. of Philadelphia, who happened  to  be in
Glasgow when the affair took place.   The  other is from Dr.
Barclay, of Edinburgh, a man  who, whether  considered as a
* Extract of a Letter from Alexander Graham, Esq. certified in Appendix. 
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man of science, or as a strict moralist,  occupies a distinguished
rank in the Scotch metropolis.


                                   Glasgow, March 30,  1819.
To  John Pattison,  Esq.
        Dear Sir,
   Through your kind  letter, which  reached me in London, I
have had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with your respec-
table mother and her family.  I  was,  therefore, in common with
their other friends, much  mortified  at the  injurious report  re-
specting your brother, Mr. G. S. P., which got  into circulation
about a month after my arrival;  the  more so, as it  appeared to
be justified by the sentence  of a court.* It was some relief, how-
everyto be assured  that it was false ;  and would,  in a little time,
be proved so.   I waited,  therefore,  with some impatience,  for
your brother's " Statement of  Facts, &c.''  Being prevented by
some legal restraint, on the  part of his adversaries, from publish-
ing it,  I attended and heard it read  (as far  as was permitted) to
his class, a few evenings since ;  and I have  now no hesitation in
saying, that the whole evidence taken together,  and in connexion
with other circumstances, which  could not be known to the court,
did  not  justify the sentence ; and on the contrary, I think your
brother has been grossly abused, and become the dupe  of a foul
conspiracy between Dr. U. and  others ;  for I cannot otherways
account for many circumstances  that  I have become  acquainted
with.  Indeed, the conduct of that man stamp  him the most  de-
praved of human beings.   With regard  to  the sentence of  the
court,  it is only to be accounted for by recollecting, that as far as
regards your brother, the evidence was ex parte.  It is unfortu-
nate,  too,  that he appears to have  no  legal  remedy—immedi-
ately available.     ^^
  * The consistory court of Scotland is an ecclesiastical court, in which all
prosecutions connected with marriage, &c. &c. are settled.  If A is desirous
to obtain a divorce from his wife B, all that A is required, to do, is merely to
go into court,  and file a bill, alleging that 3 had an adulterous intercourse
With C. It is obvious  that  there  are only two persons connected with
this action; A  the person prosecuting, and B the person prosecuted.  C, the
individual  who is  the reputed paramour may be an ideal personage ; he, it
is evident, is no party in the cause, and consequently, as parties only are quali-
fied to lead proofs in court, allowing that he was aware of the suit, and could
pFove  that  he  has dnly  the day before returned home, after an absence of 20
years in India, and that the alleged crime, as said to have been committed by
him, must  be  groundless ; still it is impossible for him  to appear in court to
prove this,  and as judges are only entitled to judge from the facts delivered in
court, although the fact of his  absence be notorious, no notice could be taken
<uf it by the court; and if the wife did not resist the action, and this she  will 
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   I hope to have  the pleasure of seeing you in the  fall; mean
 time, remember me respectfully  to Mrs. P. not  forgetting our
 poor friend Simpson, to whom I wrote some time since*
            Believe me very sincerely, yours,
                                       DAVID WALKER.
   P.  S.  I might add that, judging by the loud and repeated plau-
 dits of his audience, consisting of 500 people, the  effect  of your
 brother's expose was common to all.

                                   Edinburgh, May 19,  1819.
        DEAR  DOCTOR,
   My friend, Mr. Pattison, is with me  at present, and so far on
 his  way  to visit Philadelphia, before  he can resolve to  settle at
 such a distance  from his native country.  If he finds the vacant
 chair of  Anatomy at Philadelphia affording better opportunities
 than what he has  had at  Glasgow, of improving himself  in his
 profession, and extending his reputation, doubtless  he  will re-
 main, if  he is likely to be the  successful candidate, and  if he be,
 I know none  in  this country,  who from zeal, activity and pro-
 fessional information, is likely to do more credit to himself, or to
 be of more advantage to his pupils, by  inspiring them with that
 professional enthusiasm,  which has already distinguished him in
 his native city, in  such a situation, as prophets seldom meet with
 much esteem.   Even he too, has had his enemies and opponents,
 who have been active and indefatigable,  and who, not being able
 to depreciate  his  professional talents,  or his acquirements, have
 tried to censure the correctness of his co-duct in point of morals,
 and to convict him of some gallantries; the impression, however,
 which  they have made, is confined to their own party,  and he
 has  openly repelled the charge, and in  such a  manner  that the
 blow they intended for him, is now recoiling on their  own  heads,
 by which means it has neither  diminished the number of his for-
 mer friends,  nor darkened his future prospects, ^were he to re-

 most certainly  hot do, if  she  colluded with her husband, as a  matter  of
 course the  bill of divorce would be granted.         •
  In all cases where a husband A. obtains a divorce from his wife B., from her
 having really been guilty of an improper  intercourse with C, a second action
 immediately follows.  A. now prosecutes C. for  damages;  and in this second
 action, C. having become a party, he can appear in court, and endeavour to put
 aside the charge made against him by A- of guilt with B.  But it will at once
 occur to my reader, that if A. has obtained his divorce by a collusion with B ,
 he will not  proceed to  an action for damages, seeing it gives C. a power which,
 in the former action he did not possess, viz. to appear in court, and  prove the
nullity of the charge brought agaipst  his character. Dr. Ure, although in very
needy circumstances,  aware had such an  action  been instituted,  that I would
bring forward incontrovertible  evidence of the conspiracy, wisely declined
entering on it. 
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 turn.  We have reason to regret here, that you in America hold
 out such prospects to men of genius and enterprise;  and to speak
 frankly, I should hardly be sorry were he disappointed,  for your
 gain  would be our  loss.   He and his  predecessor, Mr. Allan
 Burns, have kept our Anatomists constantly on the watch, who
 were otherwise very much disposed to take a sleep.  With best
 wishes, after all, for the  success and prosperity of your  rising
 schools, and for every real friend of science,
                    I am, Dear Doctor,
                         Yours, truly,
                                      JOHN BARCLAY.
 To Dr. Mease, Philadelphia.

   When 1 left home, 1 did  so under  the conviction that this
 calumny would have been well known in Philadelphia, and that,
 as in Glasgow, my innocence  would have been there established
 and acknowledged.  When I  arrived,  and  found that it  was
 otherwise, I would ask, was my conduct what it would  probably
 have  been  had I  been guilty ?  Did I court concealment ?   Did
 I not, on the contrary, come spontaneously forward and lay before
 Drs.  Physick,  Dewees, and  Chapman,  the  whole facts of  the
 case; and even after having satisfied them, I was not contented,
 but was  anxious that I might have  an opportunity  of making
 known all the circumstances of the affair to the Trustees  of  the
 University, before I placed myself before them as a  candidate fcr
an important and responsible situation.
   The last proof  which  I  shall adduce in refutation of  the
 third  charge, is one which seems to me  conclusive.  Prevented
by the reasons already mentioned, from  entering into any discus-
sum of this disgusting affair in the present pamphlet, and with
the view of entirely  obviating the  necessity of it, I requested
the four  following gentlemen, who in rank, intelligence, and re-
spectability, are inferior to none, either in this or any other coun-
try, to examine the  documents in my  possession, relating to this
transaction ; pledging myself at the  same time to publish,  in this
my defence, whatever  they should afterwards say was their im-
 pression of my conduct in  it,  should  it  be in favour or against
 me.
  Robert Smith, Esq. late secretary of state to the United  States.
  The Rev. John M. Duntan.
  The eminent counsellor at law, General W.  H. Winder.
  The Honourable Judge Nesbit.
 I did not select my friends, for they might be partial. I did not fix
on my colleagues, for they might feel disposed to support me against
an attack so cruel  and dishonourable.  But  I  requested judges
to  whom  I was almost a perfect stranger—I begged them to
consider me guilty, until I had proved  to them that I was in- 
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nocent.   When  I had gone over my documents,  I requested
them, if they did not consider the proofs  of  my innocence, such
as no other evidence could possibly controvert, to call on  Dr.
Chapman to produce  every thing which he conceived wou.d
criminate  me.   They unanimously declared that they were  sa-
tisfied that the charge made against me,  of  an adulterous inter-
course with Mrs. Ure, was wholly destitute of foundation ;  and
expressed their  readiness to sign any paper to that effect which
I might desire.   Accordingly the following certificate was made
out and signed by them.

                     CERTIFICATE.

   Being requested by Granville Sharp Pattison,  Esq. Professor
of Surgery in the University of Maryland,  to examine a series
of Letters and Documents, relative to the causes ol his c ming
to the United States, with the view of  becoming  Pn.lessor of
Anatomy in the  University of Pennsylvania; and also in relation
to a charge made against him by Dr Andrew  Ure, of Glasgow.
The undersigned examined said letters and documents, and are
satisfied,  1st, That said  letters and documents are genuine,  and
were written and made at the  time,  and in  the manner they re-
spectfully profess to be; and 2dly,  That the charge of adulterous
intercourse between Mr.  Pattison and Mrs. Ure, is  wholly desti-
tute of foundation.
   The letters and documents examined by us,  are as follows:
   1st. Letters   from John Pattison, Esq.  of Philadelphia, to
Granville S. Pattison, Esq. of  Glasgow,  of  the following dates:
17th November, 1818;  8th and 14th January, 1819; 23d, 25th,
and 26th March, 1819; 14th, 17ih, and 20th April, 1819.
   Sd. Letter from Granville Sharp Pattison,  Glasgow, to John
Pattison, Philadelphia, 20ih February, 1819.
   3d. Letter of Sir William Adams, London, to G. S. Pattison
26th May, 1S19.
   4th.  Letter from Dr. W. P. Dewees, Philadelphia, to G. S.
Pattison, 20th April, 1819
   5th. Letter from Sir James M'Gregor, London,  to Dr. Fran-
cis, New-York,  28th May, 1819.
   6th.  Letter from Dr.  Barclay  to  Dr. Mease, Philadelphia,
19th May, 1819.
   7th. Letter  from  David Walker  Esq of Phiadelphia, then in
Glasgow, to  John  Pattison  Esq. of Philadelphia, 30th March,
1819.
  8th. Letter from Mr. John Scott, Glasgow,  to G. S. Pattison,
10th March, 1819.
   9th. Letter fr <m  Alexander  Stevens, Glasgow, to G. S. Pat-
fison, 10th March, 1819.
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   10th. Fac simile of a letter from Dr.  Andrew Ure, to Catha-
jine U>e,  12th. Oct  1818.
   ll;h. Reclaiming petition  of Catharine Ure, 12th February,
1819.
   12th. Glasgow  News-Papers, 6th.  and  27th.  March,  1819,
containing Granville  S.  Pattison's advertisemeut,relative to his
pamphlet,  and  calling on  Dr. Ure and his wife, to exhibit their
charge and evidence.
   13th. Granville S. Pattison's pamphlet,  repelling  Dr.  Ure's
charge, read publickly in Glasgow,  26th  March, 1819.
                                   R.  SMITH.
                                   JOHN M. DUNCAN.
                                    W. H. WINDER.
                                    A  N1SBET.

   To express all the gratitude I feel to those gentlemen  who  so
generous I v consented to sit in judgment on my case, and  do jus-
tice to a  stranger, would, I trust, be unnecessary.  Silence is
often more grateful and eloquent than  language.  I shall, there-
fore, only express a hope and confidence, that, from a continued
intercourse  and connexion with me, they will never have occa-
sion to repent the act of justice they performed to me whilst yet
a stranger.
   From a reconsideration of  the pages of this pamphlet, it will
be remarked, that all the facts  of moment have their truth es-
tablished,  not by my dictum,  but by incontrovertible documents.
But, as there are necessarily some  of the minor points which
rest on my assertion, and as these  may be denied  by my adver-
sary, a short examination of the palpable falsehoods,  discovera-
ble in  Dr. Chapman's pamphlet, becomes necessary.  If, from
this singular production, we can  prove  that  Dr. C. has been
guilty of falsehoods, his assertions will  surely be  no  longer en-
titled to any weight.  That even Dr. Nathanial Chapman should
have adopted a procedure so  unmanly  and unique, as  the one he
has  pursued  in  relation to me, has  created  my unfeigned sur-
prise.  That he should so stupidly have woven a tissue  of con-
tradictions and falsehoods, is certainly more  than  I could have
expected.   Had I, indeed, no other document than his own pam-
phlet, I should find no  difficulty in establishing the futility of his
charges, and  the little evidence that should  be accorded to his
statement.   His pamphlet, from beginning to end, is but  a series
of bold assertions, without an attempt even at  reasoning, much
less  of  proof.   I shall  not,  therefore,  enter into an elaborate
refutation of this curious production,  but shall  merely call my
reader's attention to a few of his statements,  for the purpose  of
exposing the gross absurdities they  contain.  By so doing, I
shall demonstrate  what I have previously declared—that these 
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charges have  been delivered  by  Dr. Chapman,  knowing  that
they are  groundless, and that they have been dictated by a spirit
of deep, and black revenge.
   The author begins by informing us that Dr. Physick and him-
self received last spring anonymous letters of  a  very offensive
character;  and he thinks he  has proof that I, if not their author,
was at least privy to their production.  The evidence, so satis-
factory to Dr. Chapman, and which has authorised him to charge
me with the dishonourable act of being their author, is,<w that they
were marked by Scoticisms,  and phrases peculiar  to the medical
schools of Scotland."t If these letters were so peculiar in their  con-
struction, J  would ask, why  not publish them ?  Some  of my
writings are  befcre the publick, which are, perhaps, offensive to
certain professors,  but which are  assuredly neither marked by
Scoticisms, nor phrases peculiar to the  medical schools of Scot-
land.  But,  perhaps, the Professor will inform us, that 1  only
adopt  the peculiarities of my country, when I am writing anony-
mous letters, and when I am consequently anxious that the in-
dividuals, to whom 1 address them, should not suspect that  they
are from the pen of a Scotchman.   Although these letters are so
ill written, their object appears  to  have been no  trifle.   It  was
nothing less than to overturn the University of  Pennsylvania, at
least,  by turning out the  Professor of Surgery,  and  Dr.  Phy-
sick's  dissector,  to open a situation for myself, and my  own
demonstrator!!!
   Dr.  Chapman next assures  us, positively,  that  his  know-
ledge  of me first commenced on the 12th of  April, 1819.  One
of the extracts  from  my  brother's  letter, will prove that the
letter addressed to  him by  Francis  Jeffrey, Esq.  in  my behalf,
was delivered into his own hands, the  23rd of March, of the
same year.  Again, in the next paragraph we are told, that Dr.
Ure sues for a divorce, in the  month  of  March, 1819, when, in
fact,  the divorce is sued for in the month of November, 1818.
I  allow that it is very possible for a man to forget dates, but here
it will be remarked, that Dr. C.'s want of memory, always minis-
ters on one side.   According to Dr. Chapman,  this  said divorce
is sued for in the month of  March, and what is  the consequence,
as related  by the Professor of  the  Practice  of Physick.—w' As
must  happen in  every community  which retains  any sense of
virtue, or the positive  obligations of religion,  a clamour is raised
against me," which,  according  to the Doctor, I cannot resist;
and am, therefore, obliged to flee to London, where I linger un-
til I embark for America
   It is a very just observation of the Spectator,  that a liar can
never be consistent.  Here, although Dr.  Cnapman begins with
the determination to despise truth, and merely compose the best
story his head and his heart can fancy, do we find him  contra- 
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dieting himself in every sentence.   In the very next page,  after
telling us, that I was driven from Glasgow and obliged to linger
about London, he informs us that I bring him a letter  of intro-
ducti n from Mr. Surfing of London, of the 27th  May.   He is
prudently silent as to its contents.  I suppose that as he has so ill
fulfilled Mr.  S.'s requests,  he is not very desirous to make  them
publick.
  The first intimation, Dr. Chapman informs us, that he had of
my design to remain in America was, my consulting him  whe-
th< r I ought to accept of the appointment conferred ou me by  the
Trustees of the University of Transylvania, of the  chair of  Ana-
toim, with an < ff.r, as he says, of Si500
  That this is false I snail easily satisfy my reader.  The Trustees
of the University of Lexington did me the honour to elect me,
without my knowledge sometime in the  latter end of September.
It was consequently impossible  for  Dr. Chapman or myself to
get information of  this until late in October.   That it was very
late in the month I  perfectly remember, for the information was
only received in Philadelphia the day before  Dr. Caldwell's de-
parture  for   Lexington, and he did not arrive until  Novem-
ber.  Now, both the Revd. Dr. Staughton, and Mr. Bradford,
will recollect  that I applied  to them for a class-room in the begin-
ning of September,  six weeks at least before  the Lexington ap-
pointment could be  known in Philadelphia; and that the former
gentleman had kindly given up to me his room early in the month.
But it might be said, that all this was done by  stealth.  The
advertisements in the  Newspapers will,  however, put this  ques-
tion at rest;  and prove that if  it had been possible that I  could
have an object in concealing my intention as  to Lecturing, from
Dr. Chapman, he must have obtained information of it from  the
public prints.
   Dr. Chapman having thus denied  that he had any idea of  my
remaining in  America, then proceeds.  " Now  commences  the
distinguished kindness, or as he is pleased to term  it, the perse-
cution of Dr. Physick and myself.   The masquerade dress which
hitherto  had  enveloped him, he throws off—ipproaches us  in his
proper person, avows his pecuniary distresses—upholds his  views
»—and solicits our patronage."  This is truly a remarkable para-
graph, and  requires some little attention.  I have  given my rea-
der, in the narrative, an account of the treatment I  received from
Dr. Ch ipman, and therefore leave him to  settle, whether  his
term kindness,  or mine   persecution,  is  the most applicable
to  it.  Before the Lt-xington   appointment,  according  to  the
author ol the *' Correspondence," neither Dr.  Physick, nor him-
self, had any  idea of my  intention  of settling in the country.
Th'rir friendship and support was  consequently of little value to
me, and up to this date my  conduct had been *« humble, laudatory, 
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 and submissive.'19  But observe the consistency of Dr. Chapman's
facts—die moment I make them acquainted with  my intention of
 remaining in Philadelphia—so soon  as their friendship and sup-
 port would have been valuable to me, my demeanour immediately
 becomes changed.   I am no  longer the humble,  laudatory,  and
 submissive character I  formerly was; but  I throw off my mas-
 querade dress, and approach them  in my proper person.  In  the
 next member of the sentence the  object of mv appearing in  my
 true character, " hostile to the school, and personal in my detrac-
 tion of the professors,'1  will strike the reader as a very remarkable
 one.   I  <■<■ avow my pecuniary distresses, unfold  my views, and
 solicit their  patronage.''  My readers having seen the  object
 which induced me to change  my demeanour, will probably con-
 sider it rather an odd circumstance, that  a person  involved in  the
 pecuniary  distresses under which  I  am  described to  have con-
 fessed myself, should have hesitated a moment in accepting  the
 offer made me by the University of  Transylvania, of gl500,  ac-
 cording  to Dr. Chapman's statement, but in fact  of S3000, if I
 would " lecture from t  e 1st of January until March."
   Having refused this offer, we are told that in  opposition to the
 advice of  Drs. Physick and Chapman, I determine to establish
 myself in Philadelphia.  Although I am obstinate, it seems that
 Dr. P. now, and not before this date, attempts to  " introduce  me
 into practice," and  " consults me in some difficult  cases."  I ob-
 serve, by looking into my day-book, that  I  was  consulted by Dr.
 Physick  in five cases.  I was called in to see the first on the 27th
 of July, and made my first visit to the last patient on whose case
 he ever did me the honour to  consult me on the 7th of October;
 before the Lexington  appointment  could  possibly have  been
 known in Philadelphia.
  Having gone over my documents to  Drs. Physick,  Chapman,
 and Dewees, it is stated that  I  requested them to furnish me with
 a certificate of my innocence.  This is not the  fact.  I never
 asked from them such a certificate; but I requested them to en-
 deavour to get me an opportunity of laying  my documents before
 the trustees,  that they might satisfy themselves  as to the facts of
 the case.   In relation, however, to this part of the statement, as it
 is not  important for my argument, and  as  assertion can only be
 brought against assertion,  I  shall allow it to rest.  They advise
 me "■ to submit the case to Mr. Binney,  or some other eminent
 legal character." That I was recommended by them to submit my
case to some eminent  legal character, I most readily admit; and
for  what purpose ?  That there might be some distinguished gentle-
man to whom they and my other friends could refer with confidence
am  person who wished to have correct information in relation to that
affair.  Taking it for granted, for the sake of argument, that I
was conscious of the weakness  of my cause,  and  unwilling to ex- 
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 pose it to the  keen scrutiny of an eminent legal character, is it
 to be believed that I should have adopted so short-sighted a po-
 licy as to have assured Drs. Physick and  Chapman, men  who
 were in the  daily habit of meeting  Mr. Binney, who  were in
 fact his attending physicians at  the  time that  I had shewn my
 documents to that gentleman, and that he " had decided in my
 favour?"  I would inquire, what was the object and intention of
 laying my documents before some eminent legal  character ?  Was
 it not that there might be some person to whom the publick might
 be referred for satisfaction on the subject of my  case ?
   Allowing,  therefore, that there had been no connexion betwixt
 Drs. Physick  and Chapman,  and  Mr. Binney, that I  had
 a full  assurance that no  communication  could  happen  be-
 tween them—still  it is not to be credited that I should have
 been so weak  as  to  have  told  Dr. Chapman that  Mr. Bin-
 ney had  decided in  my  favour, when  in truth I  had never
 held any  communication with that  gentleman  on  the  subject.
 For had I been capable of uttering a falsehood, the one of which
 I have  been accused was one of such a nature,  that so far from
 benefiting  my cause, it must of necessity have destroyed it, as the
 very first  individual referred by Dr. Chapman  to  Mr.  Binney,
 would not  only have denounced me as a liar, but would with jus-
 tice have been entitled to infer, that as I had stooped to a delibe-
 rate falsehood for the purpose of avoiding an impartial examina-
 tion of my cause ; that I must be guilty of the charge circulated
 against  me.
   I trust  that 1  have, from the few observations I have made
 upon this  subject, convinced my reader that it is not  to  be  be-
 lieved that I would have stated to Dr. Chapman, that I  had sa-
 tisfied Mr. Binney, even had I been unwilling to lay my documents
 before an eminent legal character.   But if I can further show  that
 I did lay my documents before an eminent legal character ; a gen-
 tleman who in reputation is not second to any one in Philadelphia
 in this  respect.   If  I satisfied  him of my  innocence, and if I
 was requested by him to  refer any  person who wished infor-
 mation  upon  the subject to him, and that he  would convince
 them that  the charge was groundless, how  improbable and  ab-
 surd is  it to believe  that I should, thus situated, have told Dr.
 Chapman  " that Mr. Binney had decided in my favour."  He
 himself informs us that I was directed to  submit " my  case to
 Mr. Binney or some other eminent legal character, &c."   With-
 out the slightest disparagement to the character of Mr. Binney, I
 would with confidence assert,  that the moral  and  profession-
 al reputation  of Mr.  Chauncey, is not  inferior to that which
has been so deservedly  obtained by himself.  Mr. Chauncey was
 fully satisfied that the charge as made against me was without
foundation; and he was most willing to satisfy the  pubhck that 
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my  proof, corroborative  of this, was incontrovertible.  These
facts need not be reasoned on;  the publick, I  feel assured, will
be convinced from their recital, that Dr.  Chapman in making the
statement in relation to Mr. Binney, has delivered an invention of
his own, as  much  to be despised  for  its absurdity, as for its
malevolence.
   There is only one other contradiction  to which I shall call the
attention of my reader.   P. 15, Dr. C. observes, " The object
of this address 1 hope, will not be misunderstood—it  is not to
vindicate the  alleged refusal  to meet   Mr.  Pattison."  In p.
5, the author  in his  letter to Dr. Macaulay contradicts the above
assertion .  " It any  further proceedings  on the part of Mr.  P.
should render it necessary,  I shall take an opportunity, through
the medium of the press,  ©f assigning the reasons which have led
me to this decision."  Query—What decision? A refusal to meet
Mr. Pattison.
  The palpable contradictions  in  Dr. Chapman's pamphlet, are
of themselves sufficient to set aside the charges it  contains. That
the tew,  I conceive, to which I have alluded, will make good the
assertion I formerly made—that, had 1 no other document than
his own  publication, I  could, from it,  prove  that it is the  off-
spring of his own invention, and destitute of any foundation.
  There are  only  two facts stated by Dr.  Chapman, which are
consistent  with truth.  They are, that  Dr. Ure still retains his
professorship ;  and  that some of the gentlemen  who  gave  me
letters, expressed, upon the publication of the  divorce, their re-
gret at having done so.
  I admit, without hesitation, that these statements are consist-
ent with  truth—and I feel convinced,  after I have explained
to my reader the reasons why they are so, that  he will agree with
me in thinking,  that they  militate  in no way against me.
  The Andersonian Institution, of which  Dr.  Ure is a member,
is an establishment of late date.   The funds which were obtained
for the erection of its buildings, were procured by subscription;
and as Dr. Ure was very  active, at the time when the money was
raised, in obtaining it, and granted to the subscribers of £^0, a
perpetual ticket of  admission to one of the courses of his lec-
tures, it  has  become a question, whether  the  money given was
bestowed on  him as an  individual, he  granting  personally an
equivalent, or to the Corporation of the Institution.   When Dr.
Ure, about six years ago, fraudulently stole his father's will, for
the purpose of defrauding  his family, an  attempt was  made  to
expel him  from  the Institution;  but  as  the Trustees, upon
taking advice, learnt that  his expulsion would involve them in a
tedious litigation, a  litigation which would  require to be carried
on by money advanced by them as individuals,  the  attempt was
abandoned; and, as he now is, a despised  and neglected character, 
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 he was permitted to continue connected with the Institution. The
 tenure  by which he holds his appointment, and which prevented
 his expulsion in the former instance, has in the present permitted
 him still to continue in office.
   When the  Divorce was first published in Glasgow, it came
 upon me as suddenly and  unexpectedly as a  thunderbolt.  I
 was conscious that the charge, as relating to myself, was without
 foundation ; and, fortunately, I became possessed  of documents
 which could unequivocally establish the fact that it was so.   My
 wish was to have come immediately before  the Publick with a
 Statement of Facts;  but, for certain legal reasons, my law ad-
 visers requested me to postpone this for a few weeks.  Manv of
 my friends, knowing my character, and the character of Dr. Ure,
 never gave credit to  the charge, and were  anxious  for  me to
 continue to associate with them, as I had been in the habit of
 doing before  the  divorce was  first published.   This I refused
 to do, declaring, that  until I  was permitted to refute the calumny
 with which my character had been charged, 1 was determined to
 hold  no social connexion with  any but my own family.   All I
 requested of  the  publick was,  that  they  would  suspend their
 judgment upon the case, until I was allowed to lay before them
 a  statement of facts, so supported and established by documents,
 as to place the case  in its correct  light, and restore to me the
 honourable rank which I had before possessed. I wrote to the Rev.
 Drs.Dick and Chalmers, and other gentlemen who had, a short time
 before, given me letters to forward to America, requesting them
 to suspend their judgment until the publication  of my statement.
 I was much hurt  and astonished by receiving in reply  a note
 from the latter gentlemen, with whom I had been on terms of per-
 sonal friendship, requesting me to  return the letters I had re-
 ceived from him a«rhonth before.  As these had been already for-
 warded to  Philadelphia, it  was  impossible  for me to comply
 with  his wishes; I therefore  wrote him a letter, in which I ex-
 pressed, with  considerable warmth, how much astonished  I was
 at his uncharitable behaviour,  my regret at  being unable to re-
 turn his letters, and my willingness  that he should  himself write
 to Dr. Mason  and recall them.  Although I never suspected that
 Dr. Chalmers  had  recalled his letters from  Dr. Mason, until I
met eight days ago that gentleman in  Baltimore, still, as  I con-
sidered  it a fact which in no way affected my  cause, I made no
secret of the correspondence which had passed betwixt Dr.Chal-
 mers and myself, upon the  publication  of  the divorce.   Drs.
 M'Dowell and Revere well remember, that I related the occur-
rence to them,  before my quarrel with Dr. Chapman; and, conse-
quently, before I could be aware that the fact would ever become
publick.  And in the same spirit of  candour I related it to those
gentlemen to whom I  exhibited my documents. 
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  Dr.  Mason informed me that  the contents  of Dr. Chalmer'«
letter, as far as he recollected, merely stated, that as there was a
disagreeable rumour in regard to my character in circulation,  he
was unwilling, although I had pledged myself to vindicate my repu-
tation, that his name should appear as one of those who had written
concerning me to America.  This letter, it  is therefore  evident,
must have been written before I came before the publick with a re-
futation of the charges which had been delivered against me; and,
consequently, cannot be considered as in the slightest degree  mili-
tating against my character.  But I would go much further in this
argument, and allow for a moment that it  was written  long  after
my coming before the publick with my Statement of Facts, and
that it distinctly noticed  this,  and declared that these  had  no
effect  in changing  the writer's  mind, and  that  he  still was de-
cidedly of opinion,  that I had not exculpated myself from the ac-
cusation made against me.  It would be a very cruel case, indeed,
if such a letter,  or  even fifty such letters, were to be held as suf-
ficient to  substantiate the  charge.  No  man that  ever  lived,
against whom a charge of guilt is made, let the history of his lifej
previous to it, have been the most perfect  model of virtue, mo-
rality, and honour; and  let his exculpatory proof be the  most  sa-
tisfactory and decided, will be  able  to convince the  whole world
that he has been perfectly blameless.   The  crime  of which 1 have
been charged, is of a  most  peculiar character; and one, when  ad-
vanced by collusion and  conspiracy,  which it is almost impossible
to controvert.   By a  series  of most fortunate occurrences, I have
become  possessed  of documents which establish my innocence,
so  satisfactorily, that no   individual, nor  body  of  individuals,
who have seen them, have  hesitated a moment in declaring their
 full conviction,  that the  charge  brought  against me is wholly
destitute of foundation.  From  Mr. Walker's letters, it seems that
when  I laid even a part of those documents before five hundred
gentlemen, the conviction  produced  by them  was  unanimous.
Dr. Barclay writes, that " I have openly repelled  the charge ; and
in such a manner, that the  blow  my enemies intended for me, is
now recoiling on their heads.  By which means it has neither di-
minished the number of my former Iriends, nor  darkened my fur
 tare prospects, were  I to return."  So satisfied  were the general
 bodv of my countrymen, that the charge brought against me was
 destitute of  foundation;  that, after  its  publication, I  was  ho-
noured  by being unanimously elected a member ot  three of the
most eminent and respectable societies in Britain, and brought out
letters from  men whose respectability was not second to Dr. Cnal-
 mers, expressive of their approbation.   Such powerful facts being
 established,  the  fact which was never denied, and which is now
 readily admitted, that  Dr, Chalmers  expressed  a  regret that he
 had written a letter in  favour of a person against whom there
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 was even a suspicion, ought not to be allowed to bear in any way
 against my reputation.
    Out of the fourteen gentlemen who wrote me letters to send to
 America,  none, with the  exception  of  Dr. Chalmers, and one
 other,  ever hinted, in the most distant way,  a regret on the sub-
 ject.   The other individual was a medical gentleman,  who was, I
 believe, deceived by a party ; he is a man whom 1 still  esteem,
 and, I  believe, long ere this, he regrets his groundless suspicion.
 The notarial copy of his  letter I have not used, and although the
 original was addressed to a gentleman of this country, I have never
 availed myself of the acquaintance  it might have  gained me,
 having never paid my  respects to the person to whom  it was
 written.
   That there may be a few solitary individuals who may yet sus-
 pect that I was guilty, is very probable ;  there never  was a case
 where it was otherwise. If, however, I possess documents so clear,
 so satisfactory,  so conclusive, as in every instance to have satis-
 fied those who have examined them, that  u the charge of an
 ADULTEROUS INTERCOURSE, BETWIXT MYSELF AND MRS. Ure,
 is wholy desitute  of foundation," Justice  demands  from
 the publick a clear and unanimous acquittal.
   Dr. Chapman, conscious of the weakness of his pamphlet, has,
 I understand, ever since its publicadou, been ferreting out stories,
 which may tend to injure my  reputation.  Upon the arrival of
 Dr. Mason in Philadelphia, he  lost no time in paying his respects
 to  him; his  object was  not to inquire after the  health of that
 worthy  clergyman, but,  to learn if he had heard any rumours
 against  my  reputation   Informed of the  fact, which I have al-
 ready related, and which  I had  never concealed, he has circulated
 a  new edition of it, so distorted by misrepresentation  and  false-
 hood, that it is difficult to perceive that his statement has any con-
 nexion with the one he received from Dr.  Mason.  The truth, as
 communicated to me by Dr Mason, is as follows :
   Dr. Mason, very shortly  after the  receipt of the letter  from
 Dr. Chalmers, published in the appendix,  received another from
 the  same individual, which,  as  far as he  remembered, merely
 stated,  that since writing his letter respecting me, a disagree-
 able rumour had been circulated  in  Glasgow,  in  relation to
 my character,—that / had pledged myself to prove its falsity,
 but that he did not  wish  his  letter used.  Dr Mason  gave Dr.
 Chapman a note, which simply  stated, that  Dr. Chalmers had re-
 quested him not to use the letter he had sent him regarding me.
1 have, already,  I hope, proved  that this, from the manner it was
expressed,  must have  been written before  I read to the Glasgow
pubhck  my  "Statement of Facts;" and that even had it been
otherwise, still no conclusion tending  to criminate me, ought to
be drawn from it. 
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    Dr. Mason arrived in Baltimore a few days after his interview
 with  Dr. Chapman, and what was very remarkable, he arrived
 at the house of his nephew, the Rev. Mr. Duncan, just as he was
 about to leave home to meet the gentlemen who formed the com-
 mittee to investigate the facts of my case.  This  gentleman,
 after  having spent five hours  with them in the examination of
 the affair, returned  home to  join his uncle.  Having been in-
 formed by a letter from Philadelphia, some time after Dr. Ma-
 son's  departure from it,  that he had given Dr. Chapman a certifi-
 cate of a nature very different from the  one above stated, I called
 upon  the former gentleman, and then became acquainted with the
 facts which I have detailed.
    When the Rev. Mr. Duncan was requested to meet the gentle-
 men who investigated the charges advanced  against my charac-
 ter, it was most particularly intimated to him by David Hoffman,
 Esq. that as he was  a clergyman, even although  he might feel
 the most decided conviction  that  the charges were destitute
 of foundation,  still,  if  in the slightest degree  disagreeable to
 his feelings to have his  name  appear  in  the affair, his signature
 to the certificate would not be required.  The examination of the
 documents, it appears, took place on the evening of Dr. Mason's
 arrival ; and as it was late before  this  was concluded, the gentle-
 men separated without drawing up any certificate; and did not
 meet until the  Friday following, when the business was finally
 concluded.   There was,  therefore, it is  obvious, no hurry or pre-
 cipitation in getting  the signatures;  on the  contrary, one week
 was permitted to elapse betwixt the examination and the granting
 of the certificate.   Mr.  Duncan had sufficient leisure to consider
 the documents, and to converse with his uncle, on the subject of
 his granting Dr. Chapman the certificate, &c. &c.  He was placed
 upon such ground, that he could, without the slightest indelicacy,
 have refused his name, on the score  of his  unwillingness to ap-
 pear in any way in  the  business. No such unwillingness was
 however manifested by him ; and  without a moment's hesitation,
 he signed that certificate which declared, that the charge  made
 against me in relation to an adulterous intercourse  with  Mrs.
 Ure, is  wholly destitute of foundation.  Is  it to be  believed,
 that if Dr. Mason had  been under the impression, that what he
 had heard from  Dr.  Chalmers in respect to  me,  and which he
 innocently made Dr. Chapman acquainted with, really criminated
 me, that he would not have intimated this to  his nephew; and if
 he  had done so, can we  suppose that that gentleman would  have
 granted his signature? There was no obligation,even in delicacy,
towards me, for him to do so ;  but had it been otherwise, had he
 been so situated as  to render it  impossible for him to refuse his
 name without stating his reasons, can it be supposed  that a man
of  his character,  so  eminent  for his independence  and piety, 
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would for a moment  have hesitated in fulfilling what was  his
duty.
   Dr. Chapman, ever since he has discovered that  I was too in-
dependent to serve his  purposes, has, I know, been most indefati-
gable in hunting out stories which might have  the effect of in-
juring my reputation.  In attempting to gain information against
me from Dr.  Mason,  he  has merely been following up his con-
temptible system of espionage.   I have  every reason to believe,
that many months before  my removal from Philadelphia, either
he or one of his creatures  had written to Dr. Ure, to obtain lrom
him information regarding me;  and from whispers, which  have
come from his immediate friends  and patients, I  have little doubt
that that individual has  furnished him with an octavo volume,
which was printed at  a very great  expense in  Glasgow.  This
suspicion, which I have long entertained, has been strengthened
by one passage in his pamphlet, where  he insinuates that a letter
from  Dr. Ure to  his wife,  which J  possess, is in  all probability
a fabrication.   As this was  what constituted, I understand, the
basis of Dr. Ure's expensive volume, which from certain disclo-
sures made just prior to its  publication, was prevented  from ever
appearing in Britain.
   The history of '• The  Book"  I  shall relate  in  a few words.
After I came before the  Glasgow  public with my statement of
facts,—after I had in vain called by newspaper advertisements on
Dr. Ure and the others connected with him, to dare to lay before
the  public the proofs they  possessed, which were said to crimi-
nate me,—after the) had by  their silence given a tacit confirmation
of all my statements, and an allowance that the infamous letter, of
which I had circulated y^c similes was a genuine  production.  Dr.
Ure was discarded from society, and as a degraded character he
was shunned  and despised by every body.   So long as  I  conti-
nued  in  the  country, he  durst not  attempt  to question my
statements.   He was  aware that the  proof of his villany and
my innocence, rested  on  a basis which he could not destroy.
But four months after  my arrival in this country, having by bribes,
&r. &c.  obtained  a false  declaration, he put to press an octavo
volume, which he expected would from its character find a ready
sale, and from  its falsehoods  bring  into  a questionable  shape
those documents which I had in vain seven months before called
on him to  attempt to subvert.   His  villany, however, did not
serve  his purse or his character.  One of the  actors, who had
granted a false declaration, came  before the public, and made  a
confession, that  it was  destitute of truth, and a statement of all the
means, bribes, threats, &c.  &c. which  had been employed to ob-
tain it.  The book was now suppressed by  Dr. Ure for two rea-
sons ; the argument upon which the  whole of it rested, had been
destroyed;  and,had he now attempted to circulate it, he  would 
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have subjected himself to a criminal prosecution.  Although Dr.
Ure has thus been prevented, after having gone to a great expense,
giving a circulation to his work in Britain, I have no doubt but
that he will allow his friend Dr. Chapman to have the whole edi-
tion upon most moderate terms.   No person who sees the letter
from  Dr. Ure  to his wife, can doubt for a moment its genuine-
ness.   Independent of its being in his  hand-writing, it .contains
statements  which prove  a knowledge which  could  only be pos-
sessed by himself.   But the fact that it is no fabrication, need not
be argued upon.  That it is a genuine letter, is certified by those-
gentlemen  who went over my documents.
  One circumstance in Dr. C.'s pamphlet, which has had a consi-
derable effect in operating to my prejudice, is, that there  are intro-
duced into  its pages a great number of highly respectable names,
and these are often employed by its author as confirmatory of certain
statements.   Here I confess that Dr. Chapman has  shewn  some
cunning. His object has been, by scattering through the pages of
his  " Correspondence," respectable names, to impress the  minds
of his readers, that  his statements do not rest  upon his own as-
sertion ;  but that  they are confirmed by the gentlemen  whose
names he  so frequently  introduced.   The trick may  deceive a
careless reader, but is detected at the first perusal by a man of at-
tentive observation.  For it is discovered, that wherever  a state-
ment  of any importance  is made, it  has no name to confirm it,
and rests upon  the single assertion of the author.  When,  how-
ever,  something is mentioned  which is  not of the slightest mo-
ment  in the controversy, there are a number of names brought
forward to prove that it was so.  e. g. We are told that I made
no  complaint to Dr. Hare upon my arrival,  when  he  informed
me that the election to the chair of  anatomy had already taken
place.   I can believe this; as I am satisfied, let my feeling of dis-
appointment have been ever so severe, I  would  not have been so
weak  as to have exposed myself to a stranger.  Before Dr. Dewees
and others  it is stated that I thanked Drs. Chapman and Physick
for attending my introductory lecture. This is very possible ; and
it is very probable that they in their turn thanked me for attend-
ing their introductory  discourses, as such thanks are  usual on
such occasions.  Statements of the character of those just  given,
are the ones to which  in  most instances he restricts his con-
firmations ; but the desire to garnish  his pages with names, some-
times carries him a little  further; and although  he never  has the
hardihood  to bring forward  the names of gentlemen to confirm
those assertions upon which the  question rests, and which  would
affect the controversy, still he employs them occasionally as sup-
porting facts of more consequence than  those  I have related.
Whenever  he does this, it is probable that the  names  are  used
without the permission of the  gentlemen to whom  they  belong. 
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  I cannot suppose that Dr. Dewees could have been guilty of the
  gross misrepresentation of the contents  of his letter, as stated by
  the author of the  " Correspondence."  1 have proved in another
  part of this refutation, that it is a false statement, and Dr. Dewees
  may settle with  Dr. C. as he judges most expedient.  Wherever
  a name has been employed in confirming  even an assertion of
  minor importance, I have taken care by bringing facts before my
  reader, to prove to him that if the permission of its owner has
  been granted to  Dr. Chapman, he, like that individual, must be a
. party in the circulation of  a falsehood.
   Another method has been  adopted by Dr. Chapman,  with a
 view  of  supporting his sinking reputation.  He endeavours to
 twine himself around  Dr.  Physick, and by entangling in his cause
 the name of that eminent Surgeon, who is so justly and so  uni-
 versally-admired and respected in Philadelphia, he hopes that the
 publick will not desert and forsake him.   As he has attempted to
 strengthen his own cause  by clinging to Dr.  Physick, he has at
 the  same time attempted to prejudice the  Philadelphia publick
 against me, by circulating a report that I  am most vehement in my
 detraction of  the character of that gentleman.   1  have  no wish
 to retract one iota of what I said against Dr.  Physick, in my an-
 swer  to  Dr. Gibson's1 " Strictures"   What  I there stated, was
 written from a consciousness that it was just and necessary—my
 sentiments on  this subject have undergone no revolution—and
 until they do so, it is impossible for me to express  regret for my
 conduct.   Although I have no apology to offer  Dr. Physick for
 what I have written respecting him,  I am anxious to undeceive
 the publick, as to  my being one of his traducers.  The fact is
 otherwise ;  I have spoken  of him invariably,  as my friends and
 pupils can testify, with respect  and admiration; he was the pupil
 of the illustrious Hunter ;  and as I have before written,  ' I con-
 sider him the Hunter of  America'! But although  I have done
 all this, I shall, as I have acted heretofore, continue to speak and
 write, concerning his professional opinions, with the most perfect
freedom and independence.
   Is the man,  I  would ask, to  be considered the sincere friend of
another, who, to serve a selfish purpose of his own,  has induced
his friend to leave a  situation  where he stood unrivalled, and
where he was every year adding hundreds to the list of his admir-
ers,  to accept of one where his fame and his reputation were plac-
ed in jeopardy, and where, from his age and habits, it was im-
possible for him to give a demonstration of his  acquirements ?
Was it friendly to poison his ear by falsehood and deceit,  and en-
 deavour to drag him into cabal and controversy.  Dr.  Chapman
has done all this, and much, much more to Dr. Physick j yet una-
bashed, he has the hardihood to tell the  publick,  that I am hos-
tile to  the fame and reputation of that gentleman. 
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  I am well aware, that every thing which can be said against me
has been urged to Dr.  Physick.  1 must conless, 1 am astonish-
ed that coming as they have done, from a man whose true charac-
ter  was so well understood, and so openly expressed by his late
very eminent relation, he did not hesitate before he gave  credence
to such statements.   Time will in all likelihood demonstrate, that
I, although no  sycophant, was much more to be  believed and
trusted, than he on whose councils he has acted.
  This pamphlet has been published for the purpose of satisfying*
the  publick".   I was a  stranger, and some answer to the  gross
calumnies of  Dr. Chapman was to be  expected.   Had  I estab-
lished,  by  a  residence in  this city, a  knowledge  of  my real
character, his  malicious  efforts to injure me, would have been
treated with the silent contempt they merited.  Having published
this  refutation,  which my friends consider perfectly conclusive
and  satisfactory, I shall never again notice  any thing which he
ma) print upon this disgusting subject; and, that I may not again
be tempted to  write, I shall never again read any of his attacks
upon my character. Two reasons have induced me to adopt this
determination.
  1st.  A man of honour can never,  in  such controversy, have
any chance with a man who is destitute  of principle.  1 have, in
the  clearest and most unanswerable manner, proved Dr. Chapman
a liar,  and  a calumniator.   Having convicted him, we are war-
ranted  to infer,  that  he may go on to  circulate  falsehood after
falsehood, and calumny after calumny; to reply to which, would
to the  publick be disgusting, and to myself  irksome and unpro-
fitable.
  2dly. I have been honoured by being appointed to a most im-
portant and responsible situation—one  which demands from  me
the most active and undivided energies of my mind and attention,
for  the fulfilment of its duties.  To waste  my time, therefore,
and distract my attention, by writing  pamphlets, would  be to ill
repay  the confidence which has been  placed in me  by  the pub-
lick.
  Dr.  Chapman declares that I have never  complained; here, I
allow,  he has  truth  to support.  He has, it is true, deceived  me
in respect  to  the situation which induced me to leave my  coun-
try  ; but I  am proud to think, that, by my own exertions, I have
gained one, which I conceive, is superior to it.
  I have to apologize  to  the^publick  for laying before them  a
statement of facts so tedious  and egotistical, and to express to
them my gratitude  for their having refused to judge until pos-
sessed  of my  statement.  It is now before them, and with  confi-
dence  I appeal to their judgments.  That it will be  found  faulty
in style, 1 am  ready to admit; but  when it is recollected, that it
has been composed amidst the  hurry and bustle  of the  engage- 
56
 ments of a laborious profession, and  merely during half-hours
 of leisure, this, I am satisfied, will  be overlooked.  Its  truth
 rests not on my own testimony,  but on documents which cannot
 be questioned.
  I would, in conclusion, ask a single question of Dr, Chapman.
 Has he fulfilled to me the kindnesses, the civilities and attentions,
 which the letters  I delivered to him demanded ?  In no one par-
 ticular.   Having  seduced me from my country, he has deceived
 me  with  promises;  he has attempted to blacken and blast my re-
 putation; and  when he has driven me, by unmerited  insults,
 which no man who had a spark of feeling could submit to, to ask
from him an explanation, he  has, as an apology for his cowardice,
circulated over  the whole continent a slander,of a description  the
 most destructive and poisonous to the reputation of a professional
 character.
  Were I capable of condescending to retaliate on Dr. Chapman,
 I have ample scope to do so, for  I  have been furnished,  from
various sources, with  facts cf his history, of  a much more dis-
graceful character than those with which he has falsely charged
me.   But these,  I  shall not even hint at.   I pity him  for  his
meanness—I feel  that he is too contemptible to be my enemy. 
APPENDIX.
CLASS I.
                    LETTER FROM  DR. B\R^LAY,
     The very eminent teacher of Anatomy and Phvsiologv in Edinburgh.'

                                         Edinburgh,  December 30, 181S;
 Dr. Mease,  M. D. Philadelphia.
      HEAR DOCTOR,
   The last  publications  which ybu sent me,  I presented to the Werneriari
 Society,  engaged in similar pursuits as yours,  for the improvement  of every
 branch of Natural History—a society which, in  point of the number and re-
 spectability of its members, is not inferior to any society of the kind in Britain.
 It maintains a general and extensive correspondence with distinguished  Natu-
ralists, not only  in every part of the British dominions, bin in  every part of
Europe;  and eminent Naturalists in different parts of the continent of Europe
 are become members of it  In presenting the Fasciculi published by your so-
ciety, I proposed you as a member, and was seconded by the president, Pro-
fessor Jamieson,  the  favourite pupil of the illustrious Werner,  and  upon the
day of election, you were chosen unanimously, as a foreign member ;  and may,
in future, mention the circumstance in  your titles.   But I have not accom-
plished all that I wished:  It would be desirahle that a connexion were formed
between  your society and ours.  We have often  communications  from  the
British Colonies  in America, but we should wish to have them also  from the
United States. However different the views of politicians may be, in different
countries, the views  of men zealously interested in  the advance of science,
must be the same. 1 have  still another  object in writing this letter.  It  has
been reported here that your Anatomical  chair has become vacant, and a friend
of mine has some thoughts of becoming  a candidate, if no person of decidedly
superior claims is to offer himself.  The  name of my friend is Granville Sharp
Pattison,  a member of  the  medical faculty  of Glasgow—successor to the late
Mr. Allan Burns, a very distinguished lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery—and
Mr. Pattison, for several years past, no less so himself; still rising daily in
reputation, both  as an Anatomist and  Su~f;eon; appointed lately by the citi-
zens of Glasgow  Anatomical and Physiological Lecturer to the Andersonian In-
stitution.  The personal friend and  acquaintance of the  most eminent Anato-
mists and Surgeons in London—a member of some of the Literary and Medical
Societies in France—a gentleman of good connexions, ardent and enthusiastic
in his profession ;  and  if you are so fortunate as to get him to  Philadelphia,
you get along with him one of the best private collections of morbid  \natomy
in this country;  the whole collection of the late Mr. Allan Burns, with all the
additions Mr. Pattison has made to it himself.
  Respected  and prospering among his friends at home, there are  few who
have less temptation to change; but a strong attachment to a brother, now in
your country, with youth and  vigour on his side, and a little,  I must say, of
the spirit of adventure, induce him  to overlook what some more cautious and
timid would consider as more prudent, although he be conscious that he will
leave a very general regret behind him, and a considerable blank in the Medi-
cal School of Glasgow,  where for several years  past he has been a popular and
successful Teacher. Be your fortunate candidate who he will, 1 hope he shall be
one, who like Mr. Pattison, not only promises well, but lias shown, like him,
 that he also can perform well what he promises.
                 With best wishes,
                           I am,  dear Doctor,
                                    Your's truly,
     (Signed)                                        JOHN  BARCfcAY- 
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                 LETTER  FROM JAMES WARDROP, Esa.
                           Surgeon to the King.
                         London, Charles street, St. James, Feb. 19,  1819.
To Dr. Physick,
       sir,
  As Mr. Pattison, of Glasgow, has offered himself as candidate for the va-
cant Anatomical chair in your University, I take the liberty to  address you on
this  occasion, and to state,  that I have been personally acquainted with Mr.
Pattison for many years—that he has been Pupil, Assistant, and finally  succes-
sor to the late Mr. Burns ; and that since his decease, Mr. Pattison has taught
Anatomy and Surgery in Glasgow with great success—the very large  number
of his students affording a  fair measure of his talents as a teacher.
  I may further  mention,  that Mr. Pattison's whole  attention  has been devo-
ted to the acquirement of Anatomical knowledge, and  in such a direction as
best  fit him to teach that science.  He has also collected an excellent museum
of morbid  preparations, which  is not only extensive, but  selected with much
discrimination.
  On the whole, the opportunities, the industry and zeal, and the line of pur-
suits, indisputably enable  Mr. Pattison, in an eminent degree,  to fill the Ana-
tomical chair of your University with credit to himself,  as well as with honor
to the  University.
  I have the honour to remain, with every sentiment of respect,
                             Your obedient servant,
                                                  JAMES  WARDROP.
                   LETTER FROM  DR. CHALMERS,
              Author of the Astronomical Discourses, &c. &c.
Rev. Dr. Mason, New York.                  Glasgow, 4th January, 1819.
      MY SEAR SIR,
  I wrote you some time ago a letter, which I hope you received.  I now write
to inform you of a gentleman from this town who stands very high in profes-
sional reputation, and who I know has recommendations of the first order from
this country, to the medical vacancy that has taken place in one of the colleges
of Philadelphia.
  I of course am not at all qualified to vouch upon my own personal judgment,
for his scientifical or practical qualifications for the office, in such a way as to
carry the confidence of tfiose who are versant in the matters of his depart-
ment.
  But as one of his students, I can vouch for his talent of clear  and masterly
demonstration in Anatomy, and have no doubt that he is most eminently fitted
to impart to hearers an entire acquaintance with the science, up to the limit
of the present discoveries,  and to enrich it by further discoveries and observa-
tions of his own.   I know the ardour of Mr. Granville Pattison,  and put real
confidence  in his powers as a Lecturer; that I enrolled myself  as one of his
students two years ago, when he appeared to me to pessess the rare talent of
at once thoroughly introducing the professional student into all the minutiae
and intricacy of his subject,  and, also arresting the interest of the more gene-
ral student, whose only object of attending,  was to add to the number of his
literary  acquisitions.   I almost feel ashamed to add this humble testimony in
his behalf,  to the crowd of other splendid  and full testimonies which he has
obtained from the most distinguished members of our medical elect both in
Edinburgh  and London  Yet, 1 think it right to furnish you with my opinion
of him,  and nothing but the conviction that there ought to be no  favoritism in
the business of literary preferment, restrains me from  stating to you, that any
exertions by  which you might find it to be proper and convenient to forward
the objects  of Mr. Pattison, would be esteemed a singular favour by myself.
                Believe me, my dear  sir,
                           Yours, very truly,
    (Signed)                                   THOMAS  CHALMERS 
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                   LETTER FROM DR. CHALMERS.

                                            Glasgow, 4th January, 1819.
Granville Sharp Pattison, Esq.
      MY  DEAR SIR,
  I enclose you the letter  which I have written respecting you to Doctor Ma-
son, of New York, and at the same time I cannot contemplate even the possi-
bility of your leaving us without expressing the sense which I entertain of the
many obligations under which  you have  laid me—both as my teacher and as
my medical attendant.
  I regret  that tlrj urgency of my  professional  avocation has  hitherto pre-
vented me from completing my course of Anatomy—a science rich  in the evi-
dence of divine workmanship, and the principles of which, as well as the most
minute  and exquisite details, of which you are  so  well qualified to demon-
strate.
  I am well aware of your professional ardour, and also of the guarantee which
this affords for your professional eminence.  Let me only intreat you, that it
will be subordinated to another order, which ought  to be  the engrossing prin-
ciple of every heart.
  You guess  that I advert to  the  great matter of Religion, for  which  you
may afford all the room to which it is entitled, and that too without excluding
from its place the studies and  labours of that respectable calling,  which you
have chosen  as yo»r tract and your path way through the rapid pilgrimage of
this world.   It may look a paradox—but it is not the less true, that when Re-
ligion takes in the  human mind that part of supremacy  which belongs to it,
it may enliven the very pursuit upon  which it stamps a character of inferiority,
and if there be a pursuit in which  it is more possible than another to be both
not slothful  in the business of it, and  at the same  time fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord, it is surely connected with yours, when by any new step of
advancement, you either gain  some new  view characteristic of the Creator's
wisdom, or impart some new benefit to the creatures of his love.   Boyle is a
very noble example, of one who contained all that  was peculiar in the creed
and practice of Christianity, with  that ardent and  inquisitive faculty which
lead him so luminously forward in the career of science.
                       Believe me, my dear sir,
                                 Yours, very truly,
                                               THOMAS CHALMERS'.
                    LETTER FROM DR. BARCLAY.

                                        Edinburgh, 31st December, 1818.
      MY DEAR SIR,
  If you be still of the opinion that the vacant Anatomical chair of Philadel-
phia is  an object  worthy of your ambition, however much your native  city
and your native  country may have cause to  regret it, I should think it un-
friendly to throw any obstruction in your way, or to damp that ardour and spi-
rit  of enterprise which promise so much for the advancement and improve-
ment of Anatomy.   With these sentiments, I have written the enclosed for Dr.
Mease,  of Philadelphia, informing him  as seriously as upon  soul and  con-
science, what I think he and his  fellow citizens may have reason  to expect
from you, if they elect you to the vacant chair.  And with  every good wish,
ever am,
                           My dear sir,
                                 Yours,  most truly,                 .  t
    (Signed)                                         JOHN  BARCLAY.

Granville Sharp Pattison, Esq.
      Surgeon, Glasgow. 
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                       LETTER FROM DR.  DICK,
             Author of the celebrated work on  Ins -iration. '
                                              Glasgow, January 7, 1819.
The Rev. Dr. Ma-on, New York, N. A.
       MY D  AR SIR,                          ,         ,,  ,     ,...,.
  I wrote to you last spring by Mr. Duncan, and presume that my letter was
delivered.  Since that  time, I have heard  little  respecting you, although I
have often wished to know, whether your health is restored,  and you are able
to perform the duties of your office.  A few lines from you by Mr. Duncan, or
at any other time,  will be very acceptable.  My design in  writing to you at
this time, is to  recommend to" your attention, Mr.  Granville Sharp Pattison,
a medical gentleman of this city, who  is a candidate for the  professorship of
Anatomy in the college of Philadelphia.   It would be presumptuous in me to
give my attestation to  the merits of Mr. Pattison,  in a  profession so different
from my own.  But by the voice of general fame, and by the more valuable
suffrage of those who are  deemed the most competent judges, his attainments
are allowed to be of the first rank, and have  procured for him a degree of ce-
lebrity, which rarely falls  to the lot of one, who may be said  to be only in the
outset of life. It is the  well earned reward of a youth spent in the ardent and
enthusiastic study of the  science.   For several years past, he  has delivered,
with  great  applause, a course of lectures to a numerous audience; and last
year,  the esteem of the public for his character and talents,  was expressed by
his election,  to the professorship of Anatomy, in the Andersonian Institution,
a college founded in this city by the late professor Anderson, of the University.
I have  had the pleasure, for some time past, to hear his lectures ;  and  I am
happy to have this opportunity to state, that he appears to me to  be  com-
pletely master of his subject; has a great command of language, and possesses
the talent of rendering every topic of discussion perspicuous to his hearers.
A gentleman so  eminently qualified, to fill the vacant  chair in  Philadelphia,
would be a great acquisition to that college,  and to America,
  The interest which you take in the honour and prosperity  of your country,
and the influence which you have  acquired by your  character and talents,
have induced me to write  to you, in the hope that  you will espouse the cause
of my friend.  It is to you alone, that my recommendation will be of any value.
The letters  with which Mr. Pattison is furnished, from the first professional
characters in Britain, will give ample  satisfaction to those who are immedi-
ately concerned  in the election.
  My fam.ly  is in the same state as when you were in Scotland.  Let me  hear
from  you soon.   Present  my compliments to Mrs. Mason,  and your  family,
and believe me to be, my  dear  sir,
                                     Yours, truly,
    (Signed)                                             JOHN DICK.
                     LETTER FROM DR. BROWN,
           Late Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow.
                                             Glasgow, 3d January, 1819.
 To Granville Pattison, Esq. &c. &Ci
      MY D£A1l  SIR,
  As I understand that it is your intention to propose yourself as a candidate
for the vacant Anatomical chair in  Philadelphia, I cannot refrain from express-
ing to you how fully I consider you as qualified for the situation.  It is almost
needless to state, that the  education necessary for an accurate knowledge of
Anatomy is very different  from that  which any other branch of the medical
profession requires   And I can say, upon my honor,  that from your infancy, I
nave known you to have  been  literally an enthusiast in Anatomical  pursuits.
You  were long the favourite pupil  and assistant of the late Mr. Allan Burns,
whose  success as a teacher of Anatomy in Glasgow,  was very well known.
You  almost lived in his  dissecting room,  and were  wholly engrossed  with
pnctical Anatomy.   At  his death you  acquired  the possession  of his Ana-
tomical museum, and since you have  distinguished yourself as his successor 
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  At present I know you are lecturing on  Anatomical subjects, to near three
hundred students; and it is needless  to state, thai this great audience is the
be9t proof that can be offered of your success and eminence  as a teacher.
  Your Anatomical museum, founded by  Mr. Alien Burns, and increased and
improved by  yourself, is, perhaps, unequalled,  both from the beauty and va-
riety of the specimens it contains, and from  their perfect preservation.
  The rare morbid preparations that it contains, and the minute and beautiful
dissections, render it particularly valuable  to a teacher of Anatomy.
                         Believe  me,
                               My dear sir,
                                      Your sincere friend,
                                                          T. BROWN.
               LETTER FROM FRANCIS JEFFREY,  Esq..
                     Editor of the Edinburgh  Review.
                                       Edinburgh,  28th December,  1818.
Dr. Chapman, &c. &c Philadelphia.
     DEAR SIR,
  I am afraid it mny  appear very presumptuous in me to present myself as a
recommender of others, to a gentleman on whom I have no other claims, than
what  may be, rather ungratefully, founded, on the very polite attentions I
have myself  experienced at his hands.
  As I am very much interested, however, in the success of the gentleman, on
whose account I now address you, and very firmly persuaded, that it will, ulti-
mately,  be a  source of satisfaction and comfort to yourself, I do not  hesitate
to risk the appearance of forwardness, that may attach to this application, and
to bespeak your good offices in behalf of Mr.  Granville Pattison, as  a candi-
date for the vacant chair of Anatomy in your city of  Philadelphia.
  Of his professional qualifications, I do not pretend to speak, but from the
report of  others; but living, as I do, among the oracles of medical science, I
may venture to say, that 1 do not  remember  an individual, in  whose favour
they have all testified so universally;  and, from what I know of his history, I
may add,  that no person has, for many years, appeared  in this country, who
has united so devoted a zeal for his science, with so  much acuteness  and  ca-
pacity,  and so happy a faculty of communicating, and  rendering  interesting
the knowledge he has attained.
  His situation in Glasgow is extremely lucrative and respectable, and it may
give you some idea of the attractions of his manner, and the extent of his re-
putation,  when I mention, that,  having been persuaded,  last year, m addition
to his proper  scientific  class, to deliver a course of more popular lectures on
Anatomy, he immediately assembled an audience of nearly three hundred per-
sons, most of them unconnected with  the profession of medicine.
  He has  spent a considerable time, both in London and Paris, with  a more
thorough and ardent dedication of himself to those pursuits, than I ever heard
of in any other individual. In sliort, I verily  believe, that  a more accomplished
Anatomist, or a more  successful  lecturer, could not be found, and, for the ho-
nour of Scotland, as well as for the good of America,  I cannot help being very
much interested in his success.
  Of course he will lay before you the most ample testimonials from the pro-
per professional authorities; without  these  my recommendation would be ri-
diculous,  and with  them, I am very sensible it may well be regarded as idle
and obtrusive.  But I could not resist  adding my insignificant testimony in be-
half of  so much merit; and, endeavouring at  least,  to excite some attention
to its  claims,  in the mind of an individual  of great influence,  whose former
kindness to myself,  encourages me to think, that he  will at least pardon the
liberty I have  now taken.
                   I  have the honour to be,
                       Dear Sir,
                            With great respect and esteem,
                               Your faithful and obedient servant,
    (Signed)                                             F. JEFFREY. 
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                  LETTER FROM DR. THOMPSON,
          Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh.
                                       Edinburgh,  7th January, 1819.
To Granville S. Pattison, Esq.
   Lecturer on Anatomy, Glasgow.
     MY DEAR SIR,
  I received  your letter this afternoon, and do not lose a moment in assuring
you how happy I should be, to think I could in any way  forward your  views
*vith regard to America.
  To obtain the chair of Anatomy, now vacant in the first Medical University
of the United States, i^ an  object of ambition,  worthy  of a mind ardent as
yours, in the pursuit and  improvement of  Anatomical science,  and I cannot
but heartily wish you success ; however much I may regret our losing the be-
nefit of yoi".r  labours, in the country where your professional talents,  know-
ledge and zeal are already  so well known, and have been so eminently useful.
  Your knowledge of Anatomy, and the experience you have already acquired
in teaching it,  with your  extensive  and  valuable collection of  preparations,
must give you a claim to the attention of the patrons of the University of Phi-
ladelphia, which no other candidate, I am convinced, can possibly possess.
  With this impression of your merit I cannot but feel anxious that you should
succeed  in the  attainment of your wishes,  confident, as I am, that  your ap-
pointment to the office you  are soliciting,  must reflect as much honour on
those who confer it, as you can receive by obtaining it.    I remain  Dear Sir,
          With the sincerest regard, Yours, very trulv,
  (Signed)                                JOHN THOMPSON, M. D.
               LETTER FROM ASTLEY COOPER, Esa.
                    The celebrated London Surgeon.
                                        London, February  \4th.  1819.
  Mr. Pattison, I most firmly believe, has cultivated Anatomy most ardently,
and with the  greatest success ; he is also exceedingly well informed in every
branch  of professional  knowledge, and I  do most sincerely believe him to be
in the  highest degree,  qualified to perform the duties of the situation he so-
licits, with  the highest credit to himself, and the utmost possible advantage to
those he is  called to instruct.       (Signed)        ASTLEY COOPER.

  Besides the letters published in this the first class, there were three others
which have been mislaid.   They  were from  the  following justly celebrated
characters.
  Dr. Munro, professor  of Anatomy in the  University of Edinburgh.
  Dr. Duncan, Sen. professor of the Materia Medica, &c. &c.  And
  Dr. Graham, professsor of Botany in the same University.



                       APPENDIX.

                            CLASS  II.

   There were eight other letters received by me immediately be-
fore my departure, which having  been delivered,  I am unable to
publish.  They were as follows:  Two to  Dr, Physick, one ad-
dressed to him by  Mr.  Astley  Cooper,   and  another by  Mr.
Wardrop, Surgeon  to the King of England ;  one from Mr. Stir-
ling to Dr.  Hare, and another from that gentleman to Dr. Chap-
man ;  the fifth was  from Mr. Travers to Dr. Mott; the sixth
from  Mr. Astley Cooper to the last named  gentleman ;  the  se-
venth  from  the same to  Dr. Post; and  the last was from the 
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Revd.  Dr.  Love of Glasgow,  a man who,  whether considered
for the  eminence of his  talents, or the purity of his piety,  is ad-
mired as one of the  most celebrated of the clergymen of the Kirk
of Scotland.  This letter was sent by me to Dr. Mason, by  one of
the waiters at the City Hotel, when I passed  through New-York.
These, with the five published below, made in all 13  letters. Had
I  been  desirous to  obtain letters of mere introduction, I  might
have procured any number of them; but, as I observe in the ex-
tract of one of my brother's letters, " I only wished such as spoke
of me as a man of science."   All those which I brought, had this
for their  principal  object;  and yet  most of  them are  strongly
recommendatory of me, as a man of honour  and a gentleman.

               LETTER FROM SIR WILLIAM ADAMS,
                   The eminent Occulist and Surgeon.
  To  Professor Pattisox.             26, Albemarle-strect, May 26,  1819.
      MY DEAR SIR,
  I cannot refuse myself the pleasure of addressing a few lines to you, previ-
ously to your departure for America.  For me to take  pains to convince you
that you  have my most  friendly wishes for  your health and prosperity, I hope
would be unnecessary.
  It would afford me sincere pleasure were it in my power to contribute to ei-
ther.  In common with the rest of your friends, I deeply regret your depar-
ture, although selfish feelings ought not to be indulged, on such an occasion.
For, when a professional man, of your zeal and knowledge, is placed in a situ-
ation to be pre-eminently useful in teaching his art to the professional men of
a great and rising nation, we should look to the benefits which will,  thereby
accrue to science and humanity,  to the individual, through whose means such
good  is effected.  I shall not hurt your modesty,  by repeating in this letter
the degree of estimation in which you are held in this country. The letters'
which you  have obtained,  from  most of  our  eminent surgeons, must carry
much greater weight with them than any  thing I could say.  Originating, as
they do,  from such high authority, I conceive if any further recommendation
than your own well merited reputation were requisite to ensure the attain-
ment of the honour you are solicitous to procure, these documents cannot fail
to be  successful.
  That you may live long to render yowrself, as heretofore, an example in
your profession, an acquisition in every social circle,  is the sincere wish of
                       My dear sir, yours,  very faithfully,
           (Signed)                                      W. ADAMS.
               LETTER FROM SIR WILLIAM ADAMS.
To  Wm. Prescott, Esq. Boston.                  London, May 26, 1319j
      MX dear sir,
  Before this letter can reach you, a friend of mine, Mr. Hayes, will have de-
livered to you  some of my recent publications.  I took the liberty of recom-
mending him to your friendly notice,  which I was encouraged to do, by vour
assuring me at our last meeting, that you would ftel pleasure in attending to my
wishes,  should you be enabled to promote them in America.  Again, I am about
to intrude on your good nature.   The bearer, Professor Patxison, of Glasgow,
is a particular friend of mine, for whose interest I am most warmly interested.
Having  been the Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow, for some years, and from
having established the reputation  of being one of the first practical Anatomists
in the British empire, he has been invited to accept the Professorship of Ana-
tomy at Philadelphia, notwi'hstanding he had one of the best,  if not the very
best class of students out of London, (his popular class exceeding three hun-
dred persons) he has been prevailed upon by a brother in Philadelphia, to quit 
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his native country, and to visit him, with the view of ascertaining, by personal
observation, how far it would be adviseable  for him to  change his future place
of residence.  Upon the probability that he may be induced to remain there,
he has taken letters with him from the highest literary  and professional charac-
ters in this kingdom, notwithstanding which, he has thought it worth his trou-
ble to ask me to add  my mite to the massive weight of recommendation he
already possesses.  This I give with great  sincerity;  but as I possess  none,;
except through the medium of friends, you  will, I hope, render my wishes as
effective as is in your power, by requesting your father's powerful interest in
his favour, should he  determine  to offer himself a candidate for the vacant
Professorship.  Should he be elected,  I cannot doubt  but  that he will  prove
himself of the utmost utility to the profession in America.
            Believe me most sincerely yours, My dear sir,
   (Signed)                                                W. ADAMS.

                LETTER  FROM  SIR JAMES  M'GREGOR,
            Medical  Director-General  of the  British  Army.
 To Dr; Francis,                                 London, May 28,  1819.
      BIT DEAR  SIR,
  I am  induced to intrude on you at this moment, with the view of introducv
ing to you my friend, Mr. Pattison.
  This gentleman, for some years  back, taught Anatomy with great success in
Glasgow,  to yearly increasing audiences, and was getting into great eminence
as a surgeon.  From inducements  which have been held out to him, however,
he embarks for the United States, carrying  with him his valuable museum, in-
tending to stand for the Anatomical chair in Philadelphia.
  Mr. Pattison is intimately known to, and highly esteemed  by the first charac-
ters in the medical profession in this metropolis, as  well as in Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and I believe, will,  by them, be introduced to some of the first  cha-
racters  in America.  I am very desirous to make him known to you, and  I
would further venture to request of you, to make my friend known to Dr. Ho-
sack,  and to the other eminent professional men in New-York,  and that you
would kindly grant him your friendly attention and information of a country so
new to him.    *
  If I can have  the  opportunity  of shewing any attention  to any friends of
yours, who come to this country, believe me, it will afford me sin cere "pleasure.
In regard to any thing  new in medicine, or in science in general.  I can with  con-
fidence  refer you,  for any  information,-  to Mr. Pattison   I regret that I was
not sooner aware of his intentions—if I had, you should have had a longer let-
ter. Lady M. begs to send her kind compliments, and I remain,
               My dear sir,  most truly yours,              J.  M'GREGOR.

             LETTER FROM THOMAS  THORVELY, Esa-
My dear Sih,                                Liverpool,  May  31sl, 1819.
  AT the request of an  intimate  friend, I have the honor to introduce to you
the bearer,  Granville  Sharp Pattison, Esq. a medical gentleman of Glasgow,,
now on his route to Philadelphia.
  The testimonials of the character and high attainments of Mr.  Pattison, are
from  the highest  authorities of our country,  <md quite supercede any thing
that I  might  have said.   1 have only therefore to request your kind reception
of Mr. Pattison, and that you will have the goodness  to render him such assist-
ance as you may find convenient.   Believe me with much respect,  dear Sir,
           Your very obedient servant.            THOMAS THORNELY.
   To David Hosack,  M. D. &c.  New  York.

   The fifth letter, still in my possession, was received from Dr. Barclay the
 day before I left Edinburgh, ;20th May, 1819.)  It is printed in the pamphlet,
 p. 39, and need not be entered in the appendix.
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