Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. N. Chapman : also, A refutation of certain calumnies published in a pamphlet entitled "Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. Nathaniel Chapman".

  • Pattison, Granville Sharp, 1791-1851.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. N. Chapman : also, A refutation of certain calumnies published in a pamphlet entitled "Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. Nathaniel Chapman". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is a very just observation of the Spectatou, that a liar can never be consistent. Here, although Dr. Chapman begins with the determination to despise truth, and merely compose the best story his head and his heart can fancy, do we find him contradicting himself in every sentence. In the very next page, after telling us. that I wrs driven from Glasgow and obliged to lin- ger about London, he informs us that 1 bring him a let- ter of introductin from Mr. Sterling of London, of the 27 Lh May. He is prudently silent as to its contents. I supposethat as he has so ill fulfilled Mr. S.'s requests, he is not very desirous tn make them publick. The first intimation, Dr. Chapman informs us that he had of my design to remain in America was, my con- sulting him whether I ought to accept of the appointment criTerred on me by the Trustees of the University of Transylvania, of the chair of Anatomy, with an offer, as he says, of g!500. That this is false I shall easily satisfy my reader. The Trustees of the University of Lexington did me the honour to elect me, without my knowledge some- time in the latter end of September. It was consequent- ly impossible for Dr. Chapman or myself to get infor- mation of this until lat* in October. That it was very late in the month I perfectly remember, for the infor- mation was only received in Philadelphia the day be- fore Dr. Caldwell's departure for Lexington, and he did not arrive until November. Now, both the Revd. Dr. Staughton, and Mr. Bradford, will recollect that I ap- plied to them for a class-room in the beginning of Sep- tember, six weeks at least before the Lexington appoint- ment 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 News- papers will, however, put this question at rest; and prove that if it had been possible that 1 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. mi ** m*'»J~~tr~ -