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supplying auxiliary societies with Bibles and Testaments.

1. That the committees of auxiliary societies shall be entitled to receive, gratuitously, if their local necessities shall require such a supply, Bibles and Testaments, estimated at FRIME COST, to the amount of half the entire sum remitted by them to the parent institution.

2. That the members of auxiliary societies, whose subscriptions amount to one guinea or upwards annually, or to ten guineas or upwards at one time, may purchase Bibles and Testaments at the REDUCED PRICES, in proportion to the share of its aggregate funds remitted to the parent institution.

3. That an adequate quantity of Bibles and Testaments shall be forwarded, as required, to their respective depositories; the same to be accounted for half yearly.

4. That the committees of auxiliary societies shall have the further privilege of purchasing to any amount, at PRIME COST.

UXBRIDGE AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.

On Friday, the 26th of October, 1810, a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the clergy and inhabitants of the town of Uxbridge and the neighbourhood, was held at the White Horse Inn, Uxbridge, pursuant to the following circular invitation, signed by Clergymen of the Church of England. "The clergy and inhabitants of Uxbridge and the neighbourhood, are requested to meet at the White Horse Inn, in Uxbridge, on Friday, October 26, at twelve o'clock, to take into consideration the propriety of forming a society auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society.---George Young, Iver; John Penrose, Harefield; John Hilliard, Cowley; W. W. Smith, Hillingdon; Edward Ward, Iver; Frederick Tomkins, D. D. Harmondsworth; Joseph Middleton, Harlington; J. Haggitt, Denham; John Josiah Pike, Uxbridge. --Uxbridge, 20th October, 1810."

The Right Honourable Lord Gambier having been unanimously called to the chair, the business of the meeting was introduced by the Rev. Mr. Ward of Iver; after which the secretaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society, who attended by invitation, severally addressed the meeting; when it was resolved to form a society on the plan of the British and Foreign Bible Society, to be entitled The Auxiliary Bible Society of Uxbridge and the Neighbourhood, for the purpose of aiding and co operating with the parent institution, in giving the widest possible circulation to the Holy Scriptures, both at home and abroad. The

Right Hon. Lord Gambier was chosen presi. dent of the society :-the Right Hon. JohnSullivan; Count de Salis; Sir Robert Harvey, Bart.; T. T. Clarke, Esq.; Edward Hilliard, Esq.; Charles Clowes, Esq.; and Harry Edgell, Esq.; vice-presidents--and Mr. Samuel Hull, treasurer. An offer of Mr. Riches, to be gratuitous secretary, was thankfully accepted. Letters were read to the meeting from the Rev. Robert Hodgson, vicar of Hillingdon, and the Rev. John Freeman, curate of Hayes, expressing their cordial approbation of the measure of establishing an auxiliary Bible society. The greatest harmony prevailed throughout the meeting; and persous, of every description and persuasion, seemed to rejoice in an opportunity of co-operating in a measure so happily calculated to promote the best interests of their fellow-creatures, both at home and abroad. A subscription was opened for the above purpose, and upwards of 1604. were immediately subscribed.

LEICESTER AUXILIARY BIBI.E SOCIETY.

The first anniversary meeting of the Leicester Auxiliary Bible Society took place" on the April last. A number of the most respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood were present, and all present appeared to have one object, and, in the pursuit of that object, one spirit.

The Rev. Mr Robinson opened the meeting with expressing his regret at the una voidable absence of the worthy president, Mr. Babington. He was, however, authorised to convey to the society his best wishes for its welfare. He then moved that the Hon. and Rev. Henry Ryder, rector of Lutterworth, should be called to the chair; and, in allusion to the residence of the Rev. Gentleman, took occasion to describe the holy delight with which the first of the reformers, the venerable Wickliffe-who was, in his time, rector of Lutterworth-would have surveyed the present assembly, and congratulated them on their zeal and unanimity in the glorious cause which it was the labour of his life to promote, the general diffusion of the sacred Scriptures.

Mr. Ryder having taken the chair, and expressed his cordial approbation of the plan and general purposes of the society, Mr. Wood, the secretary, read a statement of the accounts, which was perfectly satisfactory to all present.

The Rev. Thomas Robinson, and the Rev. Robert Hall both addressed the meeting at some length, expressing their joy at the zeal with which men of all sects and parties had come forward on this great, occasion, and at the harmony which had pre

vailed in the society ever since it had been established; and, commenting with great energy upon the simplicity and comprehensiveness of its plan, directed to one end, the distribution of the Bible; and extending its benefits to all nations, and kindreds,

ed its full consummation in the perfection of all its members. It has been already marked by the singular blessing of Heaven, beyond the most sanguine expectation of its warmest friends; and in a manner sufficient to encourage our humble hopes. that it will be one instrument of fulfilling

and people, and tongues." The following is the Report read to the the prophecies, and of establishing the meeting. mountain of the Lord's house in the top of the mountains.'

"After a lapse of little more than twelve months, since a society was formed in this town, with a degree of union and cordiality seldom witnessed, for the purpose of aiding and cooperating with the British and Foreign Bible Society in London, the sole object of which is the dissemination of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment, throughout the whole world, we contemplate with much delight the progress, extent, and utility of this infant institution. The Report now published states that the sum of 6431. in cluding collections, donations, and subscriptions, has been received; from which the sum of 4001. has been transmitted to the parent society in London, with a view of promoting their general designs; and that in this town and neighbourhood, 716 Bibles and 785 Testaments have been dispersed among the peor. This simple statement alone, we should hope, will be sufficient to secure the continuance of those annual subscriptions which have been announced; to call forth the same lively and benevolent exertions which were shewn last year; and even to produce an increase of zeal and energy in a cause so conducive to the interests of religion.

Our conviction of the excellency and invaluable benefits of the plan has gathered strength in consequence of the circumstances which we have seen and heard during the last twelve months. We view with adinira tion, gratitude, and joy, the numerous and unexpected channels which the providence of God has opened to the Bible Society for diffusing the light of his truth, beyond all former example, in almost every part of the world. It was reserved for this favoured age, and this privileged country, to propose and to mature a plan, in which all denominations of Christians can most cordially unite, without making any compromise of their peculiar tenets, or engaging in any controversy.

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The scheme is grand and extensive. It knows no restrictions of place; it comprehends in its wishes and designs, not only Great Britain, the nations of Europe, and the men f our own day, but the darkest and repotest countries of the earth, and generations of men yet uuborn. It can never be unnecessary, till the ghurch of God has receiv

"The report of the parent institution lately circulated is highly animating. The perfect unanimity which continues to prevail among its members; the increase of their numbers and of the resources of the society; the avidity with which the Holy Scriptures are called for and received in our own countay; the eagerness manifested by other nations to form similar institutions, and to concur in this labour of love, the lively gratitude and joy excited among the thousands who, after having long been unable to peruse the word of God, now are unexpectedly in possession of it; impress our minds with a firm conviction, not only that good is already done to an immense extent, but that a continual augmentation of good is likely to follow.

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Encouraged by these appearances and prospects, in the formation and establishment of the Bible Society, we would entreat Christians of every class to befriend it with their prayers and their contributions, that with united strength we may send forth the word of salvation throughout the earth.

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The members of the Leicester Auxiliary Bible Society are requested to recommend the plan in their respective circles, and to be active in promoting the dissemination of the Scriptures around them. It is desirable that there may not be a family, or an individual, without the possession of the Bible.

"What general plan can be devised for doing so much good to our fellow-creatures; for promoting so efficaciously the glory of God, and the great ends for which the Saviour died; and for co-operating so successfully with the gracious dispensations of God,

who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth!”

"HENRY RYDER, Chairman."

DUMFRIES-SHIRE BIBLE SOCIETY.

A Bible Society, on the plan of the British and Foreign Bible Society, has been formed in the county of Dumfries, under the presidency of the Duke of Buccleugh; the Earl of Dalkeith and the Marquis of Queensberry being among the vice-presidents. In the address to the public from this society, we find the following just and striking observations,

"The formation of such an establishment constitutes, as it were, a new era in the history of religion. It affords a rallying point for the piety of the age; an unsuspicious medium of communication among the good of all parties and nations; a centre of union and co-operation in the advanceInent of the common cause, which caunot fail to be productive of the most happy con sequences; and which seems destined by Providence to hasten the arrival of that glorious period, when the whole Christian world shall join together in the unity of the Spirit, and the bond of peace,' and when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ.'

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The particular period in which the British and Foreign Bible Society has been instituted, bestows on it a peculiar interest and importance, and leads the benevolent heart to regard it with increased hope, as an earnest of extensive blessings to the human race. We live at a period when the most awful revolutions have taken place in the affairs of men. The judgments of God are abroad upon the earth. Amidst the desolations of war. He who causes the wrath of man to praise him, is, we trust, working in silence amongst the nations, and secretly That furious bringing good out of evil. storm, which has carried darkness and destruction over the civilized world, and has threatened to lay in the dust all that wisdom had consecrated, or age had rendered venerable, will, at last, under the direction of an unseen hand, pass away, and may leave a It is, at least, salutary influence behind. the duty of every Christian, at this important crisis, to exert all his powers for the welfare of his fellow creatures. By the new impulse which the minds of men have received from the civil and religious distractions prevailing on the continent of Europe, an opportunity seems in that quarter to be afforded for giving a proper direction to their unsettled opinions, and for opening their hearts to the knowledge of the truth."

SOCIETY FOR MISSIONS TO AFRICA AND THE EAST.

ON Whit-Tuesday, the 4th of June, being the eleventh anniversary of this Society, a Sermon will be preached at the parish church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Anne Blackfriars, by the Rev. Melville Horne, late chaplain to the colony of Sierra Leone, when a collection will be made for the benefit of the institution. At two o'clock the annual general meeting of the society will be held, at the New London Tavern, Cheap side,

This society was instituted in the year 1800, by members of the Established Church, and is conducted in conformity to her doc uines and discipline. Upwards of fifty per sons, adults and children, are dependent on it in Africa, at the society's settlements on the Rio Pongas. Six are either now pres paring for future labours, under the Rev. Thomas Scott, or are waiting for a passage to Africa: and three have sailed, as settlers, under the direction of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, in New Zealand. All friends to missions, therefore, will have an opportu nity of contributing their support to a society, which has a prospect of usefully ems ploying whatever funds may be entrusted

to its care.

EDINBURGH MAGDALEN ASYLUM.

Three thousand pounds having been raised by voluntary contributions for that object, a new Magdalen Asylum was erected in Edinburgh about five years ago. The building, however, required an additional expenditure of 1100l. the interest of which hangs heavy on the finances. From the Report of the Directors, however, the following important facts appear.

1.That nowithstanding the frequent sick. ness of the women in the house, and the ig norance of many of them on their first admission, the fruits of their industry do more than pay for their maintenance: a produce from female labour which is rarely to be found, and unprecedented in the history of charitable institutions. 2. That the expense to be provided for, over and above the ex pense of the establishment, which is very moderate, arises chiefly from the circum. stance, that the objects of the charity on their admission, are almost always destituta of clothing, and one-third of their earnings is not more than sufficient to procure the 3. That the ordinary necessary supply. contributions have been sufficient to answer those purposes, and that the deficiency. which has occurred these three last years, arises from the interest of the debt of 1100) still due for the new buildings."

BAPTIST MISSION IN INDIA. The 21st Number of the Periodical Ac counts of this mission has just reached us; but we have only time to state, that about thirty natives appear to have embraced the Christian faith in the course of the year 1809. About seventy persons of different nations, many of them Hindoos and Mussulmans, had been baptised in the first nine months of

1810.

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

In our last number, we were guilty of a mistake, in stating that Almeida had been évacuated by the enenry: this place alone, of all Portugal, remained in the possession of the French. Lord Wellington, as soon as he had driven the French across the Agueda, undertook the siege of it; and, while that was proceeding, he himself made a journey to the southward, for the purpose, as is supposed, of conce.ting with Marshal Beresford the operations of the campaign. Olivenza surrendered to the allied forces on the 15th of April. The state of the Guadiana, which had been flooded by the rains, prevented for some days the investment of Badajoz. That measure has since been carried into effect, and its fall is confidently éxpected,

When Lord Wellington returned to his head-quarters, in the neighbourhood of Almeida, on the 28th of April, he found that Massena had been increasing his force on the Agueda, and particularly at Ciudad Rodrigo, with the manifest intention of fuaking an effort to relieve Almeida. The enemy had attacked our lines on the 23d and 27th, but had been repulsed. On the 2d of May, having previously drawn to one point all the troops he could collect from Leon and Castile, he crossed the Agueda at Ciudad Rodrigo, and on the 3d and 5th made two desperate attacks on the British army. The contest was very severe. It terminated, however, in the complete repulse of the enemy, the allied army continuing to maintain its position. On the 7th, at night, the French army, finding all their attempts to raise the siege of Almeida, or to make any impression on the British lines, ineffectual, retired again across the Agueda, leaving Al

meida to its fate. In these two actions the Bri tish loss was 170 killed, and 1045 wounded; that of the Portuguese, 64 killed, and 191 wounded. The number of the allies missing on the two days was $16. The enemy's loss is said to have amounted to 7000 men. Almeida has since been evacuated by the French.

A similar attempt was made on the 16th instant, by Soult, to relieve Badajoz. The contest with the allied army under Gen. Beresford was long and sanguinary, but it terminated in the repulse of the enemy. The particulars of the action have not yet come to hand.

Joseph Bonaparte has quitted Madrid, in order to return to Paris. He passed through Valladolid on the 27th of April.

The intelligence from different parts of Spain is of a favourable nature, the papers being filled with accounts of the successes of the Guerillas and other Spanish corps in dif ferent parts of the Peninsula. Whatever truth there may be in these accounts generally, it is no longer doubtful that the Spaniards have obtained great advantages in Catalonia. The important fortress of Figueras surrendered to them on the 10th of

April. S. Phillan and Palamos were taken possession of two days after by some British men of war, the guns embarked, and the bat teries destroyed. Rosas is also expected to fall.

We rejoice to hear that the Cortes have at length turned their attention to the subject of the Slave Trade. A proposition for its entire abolition has been received with apparent satisfaction, and referred to the consideration of a committee. A law has also been brought in, and seems to meet with general concurrence, for interdicting entirely the use of the torture.

GREAT BRITAIN.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

1., The Report of the Bullion Committee has been most amply discussed in the House of Commons. The debate continued for five nights, during which much more light was thrown on the subject, than by all the pamphlets, numerous as they have been, which have appeared upon it. The points tissue were chiefly, whether the present

unfavourable rate of exchange with foreign countries, and the corresponding high price of bullion, did not prove that our currency was depreciated; whether that depreciation was not caused by an excessive issue of such currency; and whether the remedy for the evil was not to restrain the amount of such issue. The affirmative of these propositions was maintained by Mr. Horner, Mr. H.

Thornton, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Parnel, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Canning, Mr. Giddy, Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Magens, Mr. Marryatt, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Ponsonby, and Mr. Tierney. The speakers on the other side were, Mr. Rose, Mr. Vansittart, Lord Castlereagh, Sir T. Turton, Mr. Manning, Mr. Perceval, Mr. Long, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Simeon, the Attorney General, and Sir Jolin Sinclair. The propositions were negatived by a majority of 151 to 75, and resolutions of a contrary tendency, proposed by Mr. Vansittart, were adopted. We must, how ever, take the liberty of saying, that, to our apprehension, the whole weight of the argument was in favour of the unsuccessful side. If ever any point of political economy was satisfactorily, we would say unanswerably, established, both by the deductions of reasoning, and the evidence of facts, it is this; 1. That, under the existing circumstances of the bank restriction, an issue of paper, larger than would have circulated if paper were convertible into the amount of coin of the standard weight and fineness, which it pro fesses to represent, will cause a depreciation of that paper;--2. That the actual existence of such depreciation of the paper of this country, to the amount of about 20 per cent. is proved by a proportionable rise in the price of bullion, and a proportionable sinking of the foreign exchanges;-3. That the true and only remedy for this evil, no less an evil than the diminution of all monied income to four-fifths of its former value, is to restrain within somewhat narrower limits the issues of paper from the Bank.

2. Lord Sidmouth brought into the House of Lords the bill of which he gave notice in the last session, for explaining and amending the provisions of the Toleration Act. We really believe, that his Lordship had not the most distaut intention to abridge the religious privileges of dissenters. At the same time, we have no doubt that such would have been the effect of his measure, and we therefore cannot but rejoice that he has consented to withdraw it. Upwards of five hundred petitions were presented to the House of Lords against the bill in one day; and had it not been withdrawn, that number would probably have been multiplied four-fold, But while we congratulate the friends of religious liberty, among whom we ourselves take our decided stand, on the result of their exertions, we are anxious that they should use their victory with moderation. Let none Among them be persuaded, by any heated spirits, to adopt such prospective mea

sures, as, while they are wholly unneces sary, may tend to provoke hostility, excite jealousy, and create divisions. We speak to wise men, who, we trust, will understand what we say.

3. The bill for rendering the acts abolishing the Slave Trade more effectual, received the royal assent on the 14th instant, and is now a law of the land. Its main object is to punish as felons, with transportation for fourteen years, or with imprisonment and hard labour for five years, all who shall be concerned in the slave trade, as owner, or part owner, freighter or shipper, factor or agent, captain, mate, supercargo, or surgeon; or who shall carry away, detain, or confine, or who shall buy, transfer, or sell; any person, in any part of the world (except within our West India Islands), for the purpose of being used or dealt with as a slave. An inferior punishment attaches to seamen and servants. This act is a great triumph gained to the cause of humanity. The slave trasie is at length classed, as it deserves, in the list of felonies; and we cannot but hope, that the very circumstance of its being se classed, will of itself have a powerful effect in deterring men from engaging in it.

4. The thanks of both Houses of Parlia ment have been voted to Lord Wellington, and his gallant army: to his Lordship, for the consummate skill and admirable perse verance; and to his army, for the distinguished valour, displayed in the late came paign in Portugal. All parties seemed to vie with each other in exalting the talents, the foresight, the generalship of Lord Wellington: and it clearly appeared from his Lordship's letters, which were read in the House, that the whole plan of the campaign had been concerted by himself, in such a way as to bring about the very results which have taken place, and with a clear foresight of those results.

5. A bill has passed for erecting a bridge over the Thames, from Queenhithe, in the city, to Bankside, in the Borough. This bridge, when finished, will greatly add to the general convenience.

6. By a bill which is now before Parlia ment, it is proposed to make the militia regiments of Great Britain and Ireland interchangeable; a measure which, we conceive, will be attended with many good effects.

7. On the 20th inst. the Chancellor of the Exchequer brought forward his budget for the year. We mean to take another opportunity of stating the details. Suffice it to say at present, that the amount of the loan for the year is 12 millious, which has been

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