Before this could be done, the conduct of his father had rendered a voyage to the Continent indispensable.
"Lodi had a daughter, whom, a few weeks previous to his death, he had intrusted to an American captain for whom he had contracted a friendship.

The vessel was bound to Philadelphia; but the conduct she was to pursue, and the abode she was to select, on her arrival, were known only to the father, whose untimely death involved the son in considerable uncertainty with regard to his sister's fate.

His anxiety on this account induced him to seize the first conveyance that offered.
In a short time he landed at Baltimore.
"As soon as he recovered from the fatigues of his voyage, he prepared to go to Philadelphia.

Thither his baggage was immediately sent under the protection of a passenger and countryman.

His money consisted in Portuguese gold, which, in pursuance of advice, he had changed into bank-notes.