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Article MEMOIRS OF THE LATE . DR. PAUL HIFFERNAN. ← Page 6 of 10 →
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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
This transient exhibition , we believe , was the last public effort of his either as a physician or an author : not but he sometimes used to advertise works , perhaps without any design of publishing them , but for the purposes of . giving pain , or extorting money . In this list we find many pamphlets , some ; perhaps , written , others intended to be written—but all calculated to form his miserable Ways and Means for raising the Supplies .
In this shifting manner our Author went on , living as he most conveniently could make it out , without feeling much of the disgrace or embarrassment of his situation , till the spring of 1777 , when he contracted the jaundice , which very soon made an evident impression on his frame and spirits . His friends , knowing his pecuniary situation , saw it was necessary for him to confine himself to his apartmentsand
, liberally assisted him for this purpose . Amongst these were Mr . Garrick , Mr . Murphy , Dr . Kennedy , Mrs . Abington , and others . The Doctor , however , used to creep out during the morning sun for an hour or two , which he trusted would do him more good than either physic or confinement .
In one of these morning excursions he gave a singular proof of the ruling passion sticking to us even in the hour of death . Calling at a friend ' s house so faint and spiritless that he was unable to walk up to the drawing-room , he was told in as delicate a manner as possible , " that as sickness always brought on additional expences , if he would give his friend his address , he would very readily lend him a guinea per week
until he recovered . " The Doctor received the promise of the loan with becoming gratitude , but referred him for his address to the usual place , " The Bedfordcoffee-house . " " My dear Doctor , says the other , this is no time to trifle : I assure you in the most solemn manner , I do not make this enquiry from any impertinent curiosityor idle wish to extort a secret
, from you under your present circumstances ; my only reason is , for the quicker dispatch of sending you any thing that may be needful . " The Doctor still expressed his gratitude with a si gh and ardent gripe of the hand , but left the house b y referring his friend to the Bedford coffee-house .
It was in vain to expostulate further- —the gentleman sent on the two following Saturdays a guinea each day , sealed up in a letter , which on enquiry he found the Doctor received ; but on the third Saturday no messenger arriving , upon enquiry it was found that the Doctor was no more , having died the preceding ni ght at his lod gings in one of the little courts of St . Martiii ' s-lane , about the beginning of June 1777 . Hiffernan in his
was person a short , thick-set man , of a ruddy complexion ; black observing eyes , with a nose somewhat inclined to the aquiline , and upon the whole , though not formed with much symmetry , might be called an intelligent and well-looking man : but as he has humourousl y described both his person and mind in a poem called " The Author on Himself , " we shall use his own pencil ; Yys '
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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
This transient exhibition , we believe , was the last public effort of his either as a physician or an author : not but he sometimes used to advertise works , perhaps without any design of publishing them , but for the purposes of . giving pain , or extorting money . In this list we find many pamphlets , some ; perhaps , written , others intended to be written—but all calculated to form his miserable Ways and Means for raising the Supplies .
In this shifting manner our Author went on , living as he most conveniently could make it out , without feeling much of the disgrace or embarrassment of his situation , till the spring of 1777 , when he contracted the jaundice , which very soon made an evident impression on his frame and spirits . His friends , knowing his pecuniary situation , saw it was necessary for him to confine himself to his apartmentsand
, liberally assisted him for this purpose . Amongst these were Mr . Garrick , Mr . Murphy , Dr . Kennedy , Mrs . Abington , and others . The Doctor , however , used to creep out during the morning sun for an hour or two , which he trusted would do him more good than either physic or confinement .
In one of these morning excursions he gave a singular proof of the ruling passion sticking to us even in the hour of death . Calling at a friend ' s house so faint and spiritless that he was unable to walk up to the drawing-room , he was told in as delicate a manner as possible , " that as sickness always brought on additional expences , if he would give his friend his address , he would very readily lend him a guinea per week
until he recovered . " The Doctor received the promise of the loan with becoming gratitude , but referred him for his address to the usual place , " The Bedfordcoffee-house . " " My dear Doctor , says the other , this is no time to trifle : I assure you in the most solemn manner , I do not make this enquiry from any impertinent curiosityor idle wish to extort a secret
, from you under your present circumstances ; my only reason is , for the quicker dispatch of sending you any thing that may be needful . " The Doctor still expressed his gratitude with a si gh and ardent gripe of the hand , but left the house b y referring his friend to the Bedford coffee-house .
It was in vain to expostulate further- —the gentleman sent on the two following Saturdays a guinea each day , sealed up in a letter , which on enquiry he found the Doctor received ; but on the third Saturday no messenger arriving , upon enquiry it was found that the Doctor was no more , having died the preceding ni ght at his lod gings in one of the little courts of St . Martiii ' s-lane , about the beginning of June 1777 . Hiffernan in his
was person a short , thick-set man , of a ruddy complexion ; black observing eyes , with a nose somewhat inclined to the aquiline , and upon the whole , though not formed with much symmetry , might be called an intelligent and well-looking man : but as he has humourousl y described both his person and mind in a poem called " The Author on Himself , " we shall use his own pencil ; Yys '