42 Memoirs of Bishop Maddox. 
frogs; and at night he worked with so 
much diligence in his cabinet, that his 
female attendant was often obliged to 
at him in mind, that for several nights 
a had not gone to bed. 
This attendant, who had served him 
since 1783, was an inestunable treasure 
to him: without her, itis probable that 
in the last fourteen years of his life his 
best labours, perhaps all his discoveries 
and his numerous collections of uatural 
productions would have been lost. This 
worthy woman, who supplied the place of 
relations, friends, and fortune, waited 
upon him the whole of the time when he 
suffered a want of provisions, fuel, light, 
and cloaths, during the day, and at night 
employed herself im work for the purpose 
of procuring him coffee and sugar, with- 
out which he could net live; whilst her 
husband, who was servant to another 
master in Picardy, sent him weekly a 
supply. of bread, meat, and garden-herbs, 
and even money to purchase other neces- 
saries:—and at length when Adanson, 
through the accumulated infirmities of 
age, grew daily more weak, came to 
live with him, and never after forsook 
him, not even when reduced to the great- 
est distress, and all his linen had been 
sold. But now his distress had reached 
its utmost limits: the Emperor Napoleon 
having been informed of it, sent him 
three thousand francs, which the good 
folks used so economicaily, that when it 
was hinted to them that on their applying 
for it the gift would be repeated, they 
constantly answered they seill had enough 
left. In this situation the venerable cul- 
tivator of the sciences closed his labo- 
rious life, which had merited a more fa- 
vourable lot. 
Fe 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of BISHOP 
MADDOX, by DR. TOULMIN, 
N looking over some extracts which 
a few years since I made from Dr, 
Calamy’s MS “ History of his own Life 
and Times)’ £ met with the names of 
gentlemen educated amongst the dis- 
senters, and most of whom appeared for 
4 short time in the character of dissent- 
jug ministers, and all, of whom were in- 
rended for the pulpit amongst that deno- 
mination, who, in the year 1727, or some 
tine before, conformed to the church of 
England. They were men of unble- 
wished character and talents, which did 
credit to the body of Christians, which 
they left, and secured them reputation 
and respect in the church to which they 
joined themselves, Tle names to which 
| Feb. A, 
I refer, passing over others of whom I 
have met with no memoirs, are Mr. 
Maddox, in a subsequent period Bishop 
of Worcester, and Mr. Secker, afterwards 
Archbishop of Canterbury; Mr. Biscoe, 
Mr. Strickland Gough, Mr. John Hors- 
ley, Mr. Mudge, Mr. Myonett, and Mr. 
Orr. To these may be added, Mr. But- 
ler, the celebrated: author of the Analo- 
gy, who rose to the see of Durham, and 
Mr. Rolleston, 
Isaac Maddox, descended from pa- 
rents in an obscure station, whom he lost 
while he was young, was taken care of by 
an aunt, who placed him in a charity 
school, and afterwards put him on trial to 
a pastry-cook, who, finding the bent of 
his genius, told her, that “ the boy was 
not fit for trade, that he was continually 
reading books of learning above /us, that 
is, the master’s capacity; he advised her 
to remove him, and to send him again to 
schoel, to foilow his inclination.” On 
this representation he was taken away, 
and he met with patronage and assistance 
among the dissenters, and an exhibition 
was raised to support the expences of his 
education at one of the universities in 
Scotland. He declined, however, taking 
orders in that church; and, through the 
kindness and inflzence of Dr. Gibson,. 
Bishop of Londou, ‘was admitted of 
Queen’s College, Cambridge. After en- 
tering into orders, he was first curate of 
St. Bride’s, then domestic chaplain to 
Dr, Waddington, Bishop of Chichester, 
whose niece he married, and was after- 
wards promoted to the rectory of St. Ve- 
dast, Foster-lane, London, His subse- 
quent preferments, and the dates of 
them, are specified in the epitaph on his 
monument, with which we shall close this 
memoir. 
Itis understood that he owed his pre- 
ferments to the assiduity with which he 
attended the levees of Sir Robert Wal- 
pole. The writer of this has heard, on 
respectable authority, that Dr. Maddox 
laid down three maxims for rising in the 
world: “ ist, To lose nothing for want 
of asking; 2dly, Not to take a denial; 
Sdly, To solicit for none but one’s-self.” 
However these rules may savour of world- 
ly and selfish policy, and appear to de- 
tract from the excellency of his charac- 
ter, there are abundant proofs that his 
mind possessed a generous benevolence, 
and that he employed wealth in good 
deeds. 
As soon as his fortune enabled him, he 
honourably re-imbursed to the dissenters 
the expences which they had ingurred by 
P his 
