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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 722, 16 March 1853, Page 3

The Fate of a Learned Man.—Hard Case. There is a man in Boston, an old man of sixty, who graduated at the University ot Dublin, Ireland. At the age of 22 he was admitted as a surgeon in the British army, and in that capacity visited the U. S. with the English ; was present at the destruction of the public buildings at Washington city ; has been in India wilh the British army ; has been present during his sei'vice? as a surgeon at over 4,000 amputations and fifteen severe batdes; Wris shot twice, performed surgical operations on three wounded generals, seven colonels, twenty captains, and over eleven hundred officers of s nailer grades. He has dined with two kings, one empress, one emperor, the sultan, a pope, innumerable great generals, &c, has held the largest diamond in his hand known in the world, except one, has been married three times, father to eleven children, all of whom he has survived. Broken down by disease, he could no longer practice his profession. Too poor to live without employment, and too proud to become a pauper, he sailed in an emigrant ship to this country three yaars ago—and this man of remarkable adventurer, classic education, master of four languages, sixty years of age, poor, old and decaying, is now peddling oranges and apples in the streets of Boston ! "We know what we are —verily, wc know not what we may be,"