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200 FORTUNATE PRESERVATION OF MY LIMlt.
cd I must attend on a future day, in my sailor’s dress, to
receive a half-year’s payment of her Majesty’s bounty,
which I afterwards did, in the name of John Taylor,
though my name on the war-office book stood Taylor,
John. This was in August, 1799-
On my quitting Middlesex Hospital, Surgeon Mi-
ners informed me, my leg was not in a state to bear much
walking, and the obligation I was under to attend in.
person, on many occasions, brought on the complaint
in my leg as bad as ever; and I was recommended by
John Bond, Esq. a Magistrate, of Hendon, in Middle-
sex, to go into Middlesex Hospital a second timej
Surgeon Miners was at Mr. Bond’s at the time I was
thus advised, and told me I must in all probability have
my leg amputated: with this impression on my mind I
entered the hospital a second time, and only escaped
from thence without the loss of a limb, by a singular
though in the first part, unfortunate circumstance :—I
had previous to going into the hospital, taken under my
care a motherless child of about three years of age,
which when out of my power now to attend, was pro-
tected by two young ladies, who soon after having an
engagement to dine on board the Sophia, a West India-
man, lying off Hermitage Stairs, unfortunately took
their little charge on the party, who, not being suffici-
ently attended to, fell overboard and was drowned. The
intelligence no sooner reached me at the hospital, than
frantic at the loss of the child, although my leg was sur-
rounded with bandages in order for amputation, I the next
morning by seven o’clock, October 24th, 1799; quitted
the hospital, aftet taking off the screw bandage, and
walked to Hermitage Stairs, in such distraction of mind,
that I felt neither pain or impediment in my leg the
whole way. But on my arrival where the ship lay, I
could gain no information of the body, and though I
offered
cd I must attend on a future day, in my sailor’s dress, to
receive a half-year’s payment of her Majesty’s bounty,
which I afterwards did, in the name of John Taylor,
though my name on the war-office book stood Taylor,
John. This was in August, 1799-
On my quitting Middlesex Hospital, Surgeon Mi-
ners informed me, my leg was not in a state to bear much
walking, and the obligation I was under to attend in.
person, on many occasions, brought on the complaint
in my leg as bad as ever; and I was recommended by
John Bond, Esq. a Magistrate, of Hendon, in Middle-
sex, to go into Middlesex Hospital a second timej
Surgeon Miners was at Mr. Bond’s at the time I was
thus advised, and told me I must in all probability have
my leg amputated: with this impression on my mind I
entered the hospital a second time, and only escaped
from thence without the loss of a limb, by a singular
though in the first part, unfortunate circumstance :—I
had previous to going into the hospital, taken under my
care a motherless child of about three years of age,
which when out of my power now to attend, was pro-
tected by two young ladies, who soon after having an
engagement to dine on board the Sophia, a West India-
man, lying off Hermitage Stairs, unfortunately took
their little charge on the party, who, not being suffici-
ently attended to, fell overboard and was drowned. The
intelligence no sooner reached me at the hospital, than
frantic at the loss of the child, although my leg was sur-
rounded with bandages in order for amputation, I the next
morning by seven o’clock, October 24th, 1799; quitted
the hospital, aftet taking off the screw bandage, and
walked to Hermitage Stairs, in such distraction of mind,
that I felt neither pain or impediment in my leg the
whole way. But on my arrival where the ship lay, I
could gain no information of the body, and though I
offered