Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-10-19

| Dean If the Rer DR.. Adam Clarke, bY ChOirf
| This well known and Justly celebrated indivi
| dual Lett his home at Eosteott, on Saturday last
| August % intending TO preach an anniversar
| sermon at BIyswaer, on the following day. Iodg
| ing at the house ofhis friend, Mr.. Hobbs, hc wa,
taken all during the night, and, early IN the mora
ing, requested 10 be carried home. a chaiSe was
! accordingly procured, but its arrival he was SC
| much to be unable to proceed. Medical
assistance was Immediately called IN, when strong
symptoms of cholera were d scovercd but, al
though Dr. Wilson Philips, Il. Clarke, Esq,
Surgeon r. Navy,-nephew of the dnccISed
and two others were in attendance, and
tho most powerful medicines were administer
ed all their efforts proved unavailing. lie cont.
| nued to sink undsr The dreadful malady until half
past three o'clock Tuesday morning, when ho
o7eathed hrs last Tine following more ample ac-
count is taken from the Christian Advocrte:--Fhis
melancholy and unexpected event occurred in Lon
don, at quarter past III o'clock, on Sunday night
ana was cccaSioncd by the mysterious disease to
which SO many of oil clAsscs have already fallen
sacrifice. The venerable doctor expected To
preach at Blyswoier SundIy morning, and. rs
usual large congregation assembled 10 hear him,
put while they were lost IN coujccturcs ~ 10 the
cause of their disc puiujmcnt IL - .gen n arrived
that he had been suddenly taken ri, a.. : was not
expected to survive the attack.
Mr. Thurston, of Catharine street, Strand, who
had been favored with the doctors friendships had
gone TO Bayswater, expecting TO hear him, aud, on
learning that he was seized with cholera, Iminedi-
atcly went to Mr.. Hobbs house in Bayswater
where DIR. Clarke was staying, and remained with
hun till nearly noon, when he started in chase 10
Heydon Hall, the Doctors own residence, for Mrs.
Clarke, wko returned with him about five and
found her husband breathing with great difficulty
Ii appears that the Doc or had been relaxed his
bowels for week past, and that he was attacked
Win alarming symptoms about o'cluck on Sun.
day morning, when I've desired Mr. Hobbs servant
TO call her master, who Immediately obeYcd the
summons. In short time Mr.. Cfeenlcy, Ghe
son of Il Methodist Mn-stcr,) MIR. Clarke
nff,rfe ,c-l.n,, IN
stefan were in attendance. On returning TO
bed, he told Mr.. Hobbs that ''he thought he
should die" on which that gentleman recommend. |
cd HIM to put his trust III his Saviour: the doctor
replied that ''hc had done already."-Au that |
could be done hy the united skill aud excrtous OF
tho medical gentlemen in attendance, was effected
but without alording any prospect OF recovery. |
The doctor said very little, being gre ally exhaust
ed Indeed, he was ut times insensiblc, as was |
evlnced by his occasional questions and Obscrva-
tIons such as What do the doctors think of mei"
"Havc they bcd mel" ''2ub nv lcgs!' His sons
Theodore and John, and his daughter together
with s afflicted wife, were present at his death.
Or. Clarke's remains were interrcd at the City
Road Chapel, on Tuesday, at ID O'Clock The fu
neral was strictly private Thus suddenly died
this great and excellent mana man who had pass
ed through a long life, in remarkable exemption
from the multltudnOus discusses incident TO human
nature-"broke by sickness in a day"
Or. Clarke was born in Ire and, but his father, |
a man OF great learning, was an Englishman, and |
his mother a native of Scotland. lie was born |
near Magherielt, in tive county of Londonderry in
the year 1862. He took early a serious turn and |
hIS boyhood was passed in acquiring the rudimcnts
of classical education, and in attending to his
fathers farm He was afterwards placed with Mr.. |
Bennett, u large linen manufacturer; but taking |
dislike to the business, aud probably, feeling u pre-
terence for life OF mental labor, he left that gen
tlemen. lie was brought, by letter, under the no. |
tice of the Rev. John Wesley, md became pupil
of that great mans school, at Kihgswood He had |
her hpfe ba diS,,I,
bic talents and great aptitude i'll the acquisition OF
The dead languages when MIR. Wesley inGnatcd
to him his intention 10 send him out as one OF hs
ltnerant preachers. Accordingly, i'll 1882, he
commenced his ldbours in that character AID |
though f.but eighteen years of age acunittpd |
himself to the satisfactloA OF Mr.. Wesley. |
he remained IN this active employment, continual. |
~ increasing his stores of knowledge; and adding |
TO his reputation and with great TIL the
Methodist Conference made him a supernumerary
During this perlod-a period which woud have
been hall a century had it cxtenGed TO the present
tIme--he travelled in most parts of England and
Ireland. Atthreo several Conferences he occupied
the Presidents CHI ir, and retained to the last
popularity which the word popularity fitted to
describe, for lie constantly enjoyed the mingled
yeneration, admiration, and affection ofbolh min
listers and laymen of his own denomination. In
1905 his requirements obtained for him the honor
AIRY degree OF M. a. which was followed in 1906 |
by That of ID. d., and subsequently, by his election
as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. OF late |
years he had lived IN comparative retirement but |
took great interest IN the progress of Christianity
especially in the Shetland Isles, where he was in-
in establishing a Wesleyan Mission,
which he continued to foster with great care. He
will live long IN the remembrance of poserity, az
one OF the wsest, best, most laborous, and useful
mon of his own or ofany age and, whether in the
grateful remembrance Of this and OF future genera
tions or in the eternal enjoyment of the happiness
OF the just made perfect, it will be proved, concern
ing HIM, that according to his niotto--FIDEs CAN
DIDIoR CYGNo.