He married an Irish lady whom he at first supposed to be immensely rich, but after the nuptials it was discovered that she merely had a life interest in a large estate in common with several others.
The Doctor, it appears, was formerly a soldier in the French Army, and quite recently he received from thence a medal of the order of St.
Helena, an account of which appeared in the Herald.

Prior to his death he was engaged in writing his biography (in French) and had it nearly ready for publication.
Here follows a supposedly humorous speech in broken English, quoted from the London Lancet, in which the Doctor is satirized.

Continuing, the articles says: "The Doctor was what was termed a 'fast liver,' and at the time of his death he kept a drug store in Grand Street, and had very little of this world's goods.

He leaves three children to mourn his loss, one of them an educated physician, residing in Hoboken, N.J.
Dr.C.has 'gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns,' and we fervently trust and hope that the disembodied spirits of the tens of thousands whom he has treated in this sphere will treat him with the same science with which he treated them while in this wicked world.".