Queries respecting Dr. William Preston Lauder, of 91, Sloane Street, Chelsea.

Date:
[1828]
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Credit: Queries respecting Dr. William Preston Lauder, of 91, Sloane Street, Chelsea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    QUERIES RESPECTING DR. WILLIAM PRESTON LAUDER, OF 91, SLOANE STREET, CHELSEA. Fraus est celare fraudem.—Maxim op Law. My object is the Public Good, which is more promoted by exposing villany, than by emblazoning virtue.—Spectator. Having published a Statement of Facts respecting Dr; Lauder’s conduct and character, and deeming it quite beneath me to return any answer to the weak, contemptible, scurrilous, unconnected, and unintelligible production which has just ap- peared from his pen, I have merely to request the Public will do me the favour to peruse the subjoined Queries. 1. It having been proven that Dr. Lauder solicited me to allow him to join me in the purchase of Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson’s practice, and that he attempted to persuade me to advance the whole of the first instalment of the premium to be paid for it, and promised that he would repay me the money, with the loan of which he wished me to accommodate him, from 5000/. which he alleged he had lent his brother-in-law, Colonel Dalmer, for a specified number of years, to which circumstance he ascribed his pecuniary embarrassments ; I would ask, when it is known that Dr. L. never had any funds in that gentleman’s hands, nor the means of paying for his share of the business, can there be any doubt that his intentions towards me must, from the beginning, have been dishonorable ? 2. Whether the baseness of Dr. Lauder’s designs is not ren- dered evident by the fact of his writing letters to my brother and me, dissuading me from joining the co-partnery, or settling in the neighbourhood ; and whether it is not fully established by that of his having avowed to the family, to whom I alluded in my Statement, that he would retain the whole of the practice to himself} 3. It having been proven that Dr. L. wrote me a letter dated the 16th January, 1826, apologizing for having asked me to join him in the bill to Milne and Parry for the 700/. which