Appendix to Dr. Mackintosh's statement, in answer to Mr. Syme's and Dr. Belfrage's new 'Statement of facts' / [John Mackintosh].

  • Mackintosh, John, -1837
Date:
1832]
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Credit: Appendix to Dr. Mackintosh's statement, in answer to Mr. Syme's and Dr. Belfrage's new 'Statement of facts' / [John Mackintosh]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tosh) was gone, we talked for sometime over what we. had heard, expressing our regret that Mr. Syme should he re¬ garded with such hostile feelings—our conviction that a. conspiracy was formed to do him every possible injury—and our desire that he should he apprized of what ivas going on, that he might adopt measures for his own safety.' (Page 13). In the following page, Dr. Belfragc states, that in his “ conversation with Mr. Syme on the 22d, the con¬ duct of that young lady (Miss Willis) was hardly in any degree an object of attention. It called forth only one passing remark.” It is quite true that Dr. Mackintosh defended himself to Dr. Belfrage; and it is very probable that Dr. M. said he did not know what Mr0 Syme would now do, since he had lost his two best friends, meaning Dr. Robertson and himself—that at no time did he stand in so much need of friendly assistance; for some arrangements had already taken place, and that others must soon be completed, which, he believed, would have the effect of reducing the num¬ ber of his pupils materially, both at his class and at his hospital. If Dr. Belfrage had done right, he should, in his zeal for the great cause of truth, of which he so often boasts, have made farther inquiry of Dr. Mackintosh as to the number and rank of the conspirators; and how they were to effect the ruin of Mr. Syme; and how it came to pass that Dr. M., one of the conspirators, should go to Dr. Belfrage, the bosom-friend of Mr. Syme, and expose his own wicked machinations, and that too in the presence of other members of Dr. B.’s family. If he had done so, Dr. Mackintosh would have given, without the slightest hesita¬ tion, the following very simple and true explanation. By this means all the subsequent mischief would have been prevented; and he would have saved himself from the odium which must now attach to his character as a man, not to speak of his Christian offices as a clergyman, which ought