MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT REV. DANIEL CORRIE, LL.D. [Illustration: _Woodman, Sc._ _Daniel Corrie, LLD._ _First Bishop of Madras._ London, Published by Seeley & Cᵒ. Fleet Street Janʸ. 1847.] MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT REV. DANIEL CORRIE, LL.D. FIRST BISHOP OF MADRAS. COMPILED CHIEFLY FROM HIS OWN LETTERS AND JOURNALS, BY HIS BROTHERS. SEELEY, BURNSIDE, AND SEELEY, FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXLVII. LEONARD SEELEY, PRINTER, THAMES DITTON. PREFACE. As the greater portion of these Memoirs of a loved and honoured brother, have been derived from his own papers, it is hoped that the risk of representing him other than he really was has, in a great measure, been avoided. In making use, however, of such materials as were in the possession of the Editors, they judged it to be desirable to give somewhat copious details of their brother’s earlier ministerial labours, because they conceived that it was then that the principles and motives by which throughout life he desired to be actuated were most severely tested. The Editors were of opinion, too, that whilst many of the particulars connected with their brother’s earlier labours in Northern India, would be new to the great proportion of the present generation, these records of “the day of small things” could not be without interest and use to all who may be engaged in the work of Missions. To account for the delay attending the appearance of this Volume, it may be proper to state, that, independently of the time consumed in the transmission of some papers from India, many unforeseen circumstances prevented the brother who had undertaken the task, from preparing any portion of these Memoirs for the press until August, 1845. At that time it pleased God to visit him with a serious illness, which ultimately brought him to the grave; and thus the responsibility of completing what an abler hand had commenced, devolved on the only surviving brother, who, in his turn, has not been altogether free from those interruptions which arise out of the duties and afflictions of ordinary life.