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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    consistent 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 mi- litate in no nay 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 £20, a perpetual ticket of admission to one of the courses of his lectures, it has become a question, whe- ther the money given was bestowed on him as an indi- vidual, he granting personally an equivalent, or to the Corporation of the Institution. When Dr. Ure, about six years ago, fradulently 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 ard neglected character, he was permitted to continue connected with the Institu- tion. The tenure by which he holds his appointment, and which prevented his expulsion in the former in- tanci-, 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 re- lating to myself,was without foundation ; and, tonunate- ly I became possessed of documets which could une- quivocally establish the fact that it was so. My wish was to have come immediately before the Publick with a Statement of Fads ; but, for certain legal reasons, my law advisers requested me to postpone this for a tew weeks. Many 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