PRICES of STOCKS, from APRIL 27 to MAY 26, 1792, both inclufive. By ANTHONY CLARKE, Stock-Broker, No. 13, Sweeting's-Alley, Cornhill. 4 per C. 5 per C. Long Short India India India reduced. confols. confols. confols. Ans. Ans. Stock. -Ans. Bonds. South Sea Stock. Old New Ann. Ann. Navy Bills. 203 90 1 92a90 100 118 3/ 25 12 206 85 1048.pr 100. 90 di 28 205 92 92 293 99 2 118 261 12 208 100 91 30 200 91 92a93 118 26 12 3 209 93 94a922 118 210 108 * 103 93 93 4 207 A 92 922a934 100 207 92 93-4 100 87 92 118 26 87 *107 119 92 § 118 9 92 93492 100 118 10 205 92 93a91 100 118 99 1 118 666 AND 16 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 26 25 II 103 26 11 2c8 * 104 208 84 4 103 89 급 26 25 211 .103 104 91 208 103 99 / 207 102 90 204 100 204 99 87 플 II 99 205 100 In the 3 per Cent, confols. the higheft and lowest Price of each Day is given; in every other Article the highest Price only, the Long and Short Annuities excepted, which are given within a fixteenth of the highest Price. In the different Funds that are fhut, the Prices are given with the Dividend till the Day's of Opening. 1 The UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE for JUNE, 1792. 401 MEMOIRS of the LIFE and WRITINGS of PHILIP DODDRIDGE, D. г: With a fine Portrait of that eminent Divine. DR. Philip Doddridge was defcended from a refpectable family in Devonshire. His great-greatuncle was fir John Doddridge, knt. a juftice of the King's bench, in the reign of James I. His grandfather, John, rector of Sheperton in Middle fex, was ejected, by the act of uniformity, in 1662 *. Mr. Daniel Doddridge, his father, an oilman in London, married the daughter of the Rev. John Bauman, of Prague, who, in confequence of the troubles which followed the expulfion of the Ele or Palatine from Bohemia, came to England, and, having brought ample tef timonies from many German divines, was appointed matter; of the Freeschool at Kingston-upon-Thames +. Mr. Daniel Doddridge had twenty children, all of whom died young, except one daughter, and our author, who was the twentieth child, and was born in London, on the 26th of June 1702. So deftitute was he, at his birth, of the figns of life, that he was thrown afide as dead. But one of the attendants thinking the perceived fome motion in him, cherished with fuch affiduous care the almoft expiring flame of existence, that it was happily preserved. From his infancy young Doddridge had an infirm conftitution, and a thin confumptive habit, which rendered both himself and his friends apprehenfive that his life would be fhort. He frequently was accustomed, therefore, efpecially on the returns of his birth-day, to exprefs his wonder and gratitude that his years were fo long continued. His parents brought him up in the early knowledge of religion. His firft initiation in the learned languages was in a private fchool in London. In 712, he was removed to Kingston-upon-Thames, and placed at the school there under his grandfather Bauman. Here he continued till 1715, and diftinguished himself by his piety and diligent application to literature. The fame year, he loft his father; and he had been deprived of his mother fome time before. This circumftance, of his being left an orphan, excited in him very ferious, but not gloomy reflections; for he expreffed a devout, and even a cheerful trul in the divine protection.. On his father's death, Mr. Doddridge was removed to a private school at St. Alban's. Here he was happy in forming an acquaintance with a gentleman who behaved to him with the kindnefs of a parent-Mr. (af terward Dr.) Samuel Clark, the diffenting minifter of the place. What rendered Mr. Clark's protection particularly feafonable, was a calamity that befell Mr. Doddridge. By the mifmanagement of the perfon into whofe hands the care of his affairs had been entrusted after his father's death, he loft the whole of his fubstance; and had not Providence raised him up fuch a generous friend, he could not have proceeded in his ftudies. During Mr. Doddridge's refidence at St. Alban's, he began to keep a diary of his life; from which it ap pears how anxious he was to be advancing in knowledge, piety, virtue, and ufeiulnefs. As he had the Chrif tan miniftry in view, befide his application to the languages, he read, every morning and evening, portions * At that time, he had ten children unprovided for; notwithstanding which, he quitted a benefice of 20cl. a year, rather than violate the dictates of his confcience. This gentleman likewife gave a great example of integrity. That he might enjoy the free exercife of the Proteftant religion, he quitted the poffeffion of a confiderable eftate, and withdrew, on foot, in the habit of a peafant; carrying with him nothing but a hundred broad pieces of gold, plaited in a leathern girdle, and a bible of Luther's tranflation: VOL. XC. 3 E of of fcripture, with fome commentary upon them; and it was feldom, indeed, that he permitted either his fchool-bufinefs, or any amufements, to divert him from this courfe. He recorded the fubftance of the fermons he heard, with the impreffions they made upon him; noting what was most worthy of imitation in the preacher. In 1718, Mr. Doddridge left the school at St. Alban's, and retired to his fifter's houfe, at Ongar in Effex. Strong as his inclination was to the miniftry, he had little profpect, from the narrowness of his circumftances, of being able to carry his withes into execution. While he was in this ftate of fufpenfe, the duchefs of Bedford, hearing of his fituation and character, made him an offer, that, if he chofe to be educated for the church of England, fhe would fupport the expences of his education, and afterward provide for him. This propofal he received with gratitude, but declined it in a refpectful manner, as he could not comply with the terms of minifterial conformity. In the diftrefs of his mind, from an apprehenfion that he should not be able to accomplish what was fo near to his heart, he entertained thoughts of ftudying the law, and was on the point of entering into an advantageous connection with Mr. Eyre, a counfellor, when he received a letter from Mr. Clark, offering to take him under his care, if he chofe the miniftry upon Christian principles. He confidered this offer as a feasonable interpofition of Providence; and, accordingly, he returned to St. Alban's, and continued fome months at the houfe of his excellent friend, who directed his ftudies, furnished him with books, and laboured to cherish religious difpofitions in his heart. In 1719, he was placed under the tuition of the Rev. John Jennings, who kept an academy at Kibworth, in Leicestershire *. In 1722, Mr. Jennings removed to Hinckley, at which place, Mr. Doddridge preached his first fermon, on the 22d of July. From his first appearance in the pulpit, he was remarkably acceptable in the places where he exercifed his talents. In 1723, he fettled at Kibworth. As he lived in an obfcure village, he could devote almoft his whole time to the acquifition of knowledge. Soon after his fettlement at Kibworth, one of his fellow-pupils having condoled with him, in a letter, on his being buried alive, he returned the following anfwer: Here I ftick clofe to thofe delightful ftudies which a favourable Providence has made the business of my life. One day paffeth away after another, and I only know that it paffeth pleasantly with me. As for the world about me, I have very little concern with it. I live almost like a tortoife, fhut up in its fhell, almost always in the fame town, the fame house, the fame chamber. Yet I live like a prince; not indeed in the pomp of greatnefs, but the pride of liberty; matter of my books, mafter of my time, and, I hope I may add, master of myself. I can willingly give up the charms of London, the luxury, the company, and the popularity of it, for the fecret pleasures of rational employment and felf-approbation; retired from applaufe and reproach, from envy and contempt, and the deftructive baits of avarice and ambition. So that, inftead of lamenting it as my misfortune, you fhould congratulate me upon it as my happiness, that I am confined to an obfcure village; feeing it gives me fo many valuable advantages, to the most important purposes of devotion and philofophy; and I hope I may add usefulness too." Dr. Kippis obferves, that he has tranfcribed this paffage with peculiar pleafure; as he has reafon to reflect with fome degree of fatisfaction, that *Author of Two Difcourfes on preaching Chrift, and particular and experimental Preaching, which were fo much efteemed, that they were recommended by two Bihops, at their vifitations of their clergy. |