8 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER LV. 



Dr. Smith appointed by the Masonic Order of Pennsylvania to Pre- 

 pare AN Address to President Washington, which he does — He 

 Receives an Answer from the President — Dr. Smith to Jonathan 

 Williams, Esq. — Marriage of Dr. Smith's Daughter, Rebecca, with 

 Mr. Samuel Blodget, of Boston — Mrs. Cadwalader to Mrs. Ridgely, 

 giving an Account of the Wedding, etc .'.... 347 



CHAPTER LVI. 



The Yellow Fever of 1793 in Philadelphia — Mr. Mathew Carey's 

 Account of it — Advertisements and Communications in the News- 

 papers ABOUT IT — Extracts from Dr. Smith's Diary during the Pes- 

 tilence — De.'vth of Dr. Smith's Wife — Address and Exhortation by 

 the Clergy of Philadelphia, etc 365 



CHAPTER LVn. 



The Eight Sermons on the great Visitation of Pestilence remarked 

 on — Distinguished, even above the Author's other Pulpit Discourses, 

 BY Seriousness and Solemnity — Extracts from several of them 381 



CHAPTER LVni. 



Dr. Smith Devotes Himself to Internal Improvement through the 

 Union Canal Scheme — His Half-brother, Thomas Smith, Appointed 

 TO THE Bench of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania — Death of John 

 Penn — Dr. Smith Preaches on the Subject of Itinerant Missions — 

 Also at Funeral of Col. Joseph Rudulph — Also before the Grand 

 Lodge of Pennsylvania — General Convention of 1795 — Consecration 

 TO the Episcopate of South Carolina of Dr. Robert Smith — Dr. 

 William Smith Preaches the Consecration Sermon, also that of 

 Edward Bass— Birth of Richard Penn Smith 407 



CHAPTER LIX. 



Dr. Smith III at Lancaster— Letter to his son, William Moore 

 Smith— Death of Governor Mifflin— Dr. Smith preaches a Guarded 

 Funeral Sermon upon him — Gilbert Stuart makes a Portrait of Dr. 

 Smith— General Convention of 1801 — Builds and Inscribes a Mauso- 

 leum — His last Will 4" 



CHAPTER LX. 



Dr. Smith begins to publish his Works— Only two volumes printed 421 



CHAPTER LXL 



Dr. Smith's last illness— Dies— Is buried in his Mausoleum— His 

 funeral 446 



CHAPTER LXII. 



Causes of Dr. Smith not being consecrated Bishop of Maryland— Con- 

 clusion 450 



APPENDIX 467 



