boats of every size and shape, with sails of every imaginable variety; innumerable ships riding at anchor far as the eye could reach, and the city extending along the shore, and covering the hills to the furthest point of sight."* The day is so fine, the air so soft, the scene so novel, that they impart fresh strength and spirits to the invalid voyager, who for two hours continues upon deck, and is so refreshed as to indulge in flattering hopes of recovery. But these promising appearances are illusive. Landed at the port, and hospitably entertained at the house of Mr. King, the son of one of his old members, he gradually sinks. He is removed into the country, but the rainy season comes on and produces a change which cuts off all expectation of recovery. The spirit

*This description of the Tagus is taken from "Southey's Life and Correspondence,” vol. ii.

Dr. Doddridge, in a letter dated August 12th, 1746, alludes to some news he had received from this gentleman ::-" Mr. King writes me word that the Portuguese looked on the English government as quite overthrown; upon which the common people began to think it was not necessary to keep on terms with heretics, and the Papists, though protected there by us, threatened soon to wash their hands in the blood of Protestants. Yet he says many of them have lost vast sums of money by the prodigious wagers they have laid of the success of the rebellion."-Unpublished Correspondence, in the possession of Josh. Wilson, Esq.

The following passages from an unpublished letter from his wife, give a particular account of Dr. Doddridge's illness:-" My time, after the first day, was chiefly employed great part of the night in writing letters, as I had no time for this in the day, which was in a great measure taken up in looking after lodgings, which I was not able to procure till Wednesday evening. And as the Doctor was very desirous we should get into the country as soon as possible, we purposed to have went to them on the Thursday; but I was taken so

rises in joy as the body sinks in death; and at last, on the 26th of October, 1751, a gentle sleep falls on the worn-out frame, a harbinger of more tranquil slumbers to remain unbroken till the judgment bell shall toll time's requiem, and ring in the morning of eternity. All that is mortal of Doddridge sleeps in the buryingground of the British factory;* but the immortal spirit, violently ill in the night, as not to be able to stir out of my room for three days. On the Thursday the dear deceased was seized, and we were both too ill to be able to move our quarters; but on the Monday, as we were both better, we went to our lodgings, though I was so weak as hardly able without help to walk across my room. Our lodgings were about three miles out of Lisbon; and though he was conveyed in a sedan-chair and carried very slow, yet he was so extremely fatigued that he wanted to have gone to bed as soon as he got in; but notwithstanding the repeated charges that had been given, and the promises of the person of the house, that the rooms and beds should be thoroughly aired, when I came to examine his bed, I found it so damp that I was forced to have large fires made, and every part of the bedding aired; so that he could not be got to bed for more than three hours.-What still increased this melancholy scene was my maid's being taken ill, I think the very next day, and incapable of doing anything for us for several days. The sudden change of weather, which came on soon after we got into our lodgings, cut off everything I had to hope from air and exercise, and by the manner in which it affected him, I doubt not was the appointed instrument of Providence to cut shorter his few remaining days. He never was out of his room but once after the first night he was put to bed, which was on the Wednesday about the middle of the day; the weather being fine, he walked, with my helping him, into another large airy room that we had joining to our lodging-room."

* A simple monument was erected over his remains. This, in the course of time, became decayed; but the Rev. Mr. Miller, the British chaplain in 1814, had the stone cleaned at his own expense, and the letters recut. In 1828, the Rev. Mr. Taylor caused a new marble tomb to be erected, of which a drawing now lies before me. It bears the following inscription :

"Philip Doddridge, D.D., died October 26th, 1751, aged 50."

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the man himself, is where they no more sleep than die, for "there is no night there."

A beautiful letter from Mrs. Doddridge, inserted in the correspondence, but too long to be introduced here, shows the Christian magnanimity with which she bore the heavy trial thus laid upon her by her heavenly Father in a land of strangers. She soon returned to her desolate home, and devoted herself, with characteristic energy and wisdom, to the formation of the character of her four surviving children. They had from their infancy been mainly dependent upon her instruction and influence, their father's numerous public engagements having interfered with the maintenance of much parental oversight and instruction on his part. The son was sixteen years of age at the time of his father's death, when he was sent to Dr. Ashworth's academy to study for the ministry. Letters still preserved show, that before his studies were completed he became conscious the ministry was not the office to which he had received a vocation, and, relinquishing his early prospects, and disappointing, probably, a mother's hope, he adopted the study of the law. Miss Doddridge was married to John Humphreys, Esq., of Tewkesbury, to which town Mrs.

To this-according to the "Congregational Magazine" for 1830— is added:

"With high respect for his character and writings, this stone of remembrance was raised upon a former one in decay, in the month of June, 1828, at the desire and expense of Thomas Taylor, of all his numerous pupils the only one living."

Doddridge retired with her two unmarried daughters, Mary and Anna Cecilia. This excellent lady lived to a good old age, and distinguished by noble qualities of mind and heart, and after passing through fresh domestic trials in her last days, entered her everlasting rest in 1790, at the age of eighty-two. Her children seem all to have been possessed of vigorous minds, and in this respect to have inherited their mother's endowments; especially Mary, whose mental qualities were evidently of a very superior order. She died at Bath in 1809, at the age of seventy-five.*

* A lineal descendant survives in the person of Mr. John Doddridge Humphreys, son of the editor of the Correspondence, grandson of Mr. Humphreys, and great-grandson of the doctor. He was present at the meeting in Northampton when this memorial was read.

CHAPTER VII.

RESULTS OF HIS LABORS.

DODDRIDGE'S ministry extended over the space of nearly thirty years. We have seen what was the state of things among Dissenters towards the close of the first decade. Evidence remains that no general improvement took place during the latter portion of his life.

A comparison of such imperfect statistics as it is in our power to consult, shows a diminution in point of numbers. Pedobaptist congregations, including both Presbyterian and Congregational, are reported in a MS. in Dr. William's library, as being 843, in the year 1715.* In 1773 they sink down to 729. The decrease was in the Presbyterian congregations. Several probably became Independent. The great defect was, that Dissenters generally did not take proper means to meet the spiritual wants of the age, by the employment of missionary efforts. Few meeting-houses had been built, or new churches formed, since the first excitement occa

* But the Baptists increased from 246 to 391.

The Fund Board and the King's Head Society, as will be seen from the postscript, were not inactive.