cere, studying to promote peace; as a Christian he followed the Lord fully. He was a man of prayer, much acquainted with his own heart, and one that abhorred sin in all its forms. As a Missionary, he determined not to know any thing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified, while he insisted and depended much on the influences of the Holy Spirit. His soul longed for the conversion of the Heathen who surrounded him. In pursuit of this object he attained their language under great disadvantages, reasoned with their Brahmins, and collected together the villagers, speaking to them the great things of God. In the most indefatigable manner he laboured at the translation of the scriptures, and used his utmost exertions to disperse copies of them throughout the country. During the months of May and June he laboured very hard, with much anxiety of mind, to finish the gospel of Luke, in order that he might send a copy of it to Bengal, against the meeting of the Corresponding Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He just accomplished his desire in that respect, but was soon obliged for ever to abandon that good work, in which his whole soul had been most actively engaged. He had also a strong desire to see a church of Christ formed in the Mission. In this also he was gratified: for just three months before his death he administered the Lord's Supper in English, for the first time, and in a manner peculiarly impressive. This was, alas! the last public service in which he was permitted to engage.

The affliction of this event was at the time much enhanced by the severe illness of brother Gordon; but subsequent accounts have been received of his returning health. To comply with the request for more Missionaries, and to strengthen this promising station at Vizagapatam, the Directors have forwarded to India, by way of America, Messrs. Spratt and May, and by way of the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. Thompson, the first of whom the Directors had intended for the long projected Mission to Surat, and the latter for a Mission to the Greek Islands, which are now necessarily postponed for the present, though by no means entirely lost -sight of.

The Directors now call the attention of the Saciety to

BELLARY.

THIS is a new station, which is occupied by our brother Hands, who was originally intended for Seringapatam, but as it appeared to our friends in India, that insurmountable obstacles presented themselves at that time to his proceeding thither, he settled at Bellary, to which place he appeared to be providentially directed. We are happy to hear from the

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journal of our brother, that from the mountainous nature of that part of the country, and the consequent salubrity of the climate, he is blessed with the enjoyment of good health: and from the respectful treatment which he receives from the civil and military authorities there, he is favoured with opportunities for the regular performance of divine service among the Europeans every Lord's-day. He is diligently employed in learning the language of the country, which is tspoken from the borders of the Mahratta to the bottom of the Mysore. He has collected several thousands of words, which he has formed into a vocabulary, and is also preparing a grammer, probably the first that was ever attempted there. The language approaches nearer to the Telinga than any other. He is assisted in acquiring the language by a Monshee, who is deemed a man of considerable learning. The Brahmins are comparatively few in that quarter, and seem to have less influence there than in many other places. Some of them have visited him in a very friendly manner. There are a good many country-born, or half-cast people, resident there, some of whom attend his ministry, and he has reason to hope that his labours have been blessed among them. One man informed him that he had commenced family worship, morning and evening, which he had adopted almost without a hint from Mr. Hands on the subject. Some gentlemen are very desirous of establishing a school for the instruction of the poor children. Mr. Hands earnestly requests that more Missionaries may be sent out to his assistance, and with this request it will be the happiness of the Directors to be enabled to comply.

MADRAS.

DURING the last year, our brother Loveless has continued to cheer us with accounts of his returning health, and of his recovery from the illness we were called to notice in our last report. He continues unwearied in his exertions to promote the cause of Christ in that important station, to which, in the providence of God, he was directed, at the Orphan Asylum, and in his new chapel in the Black Town, which is now finished, and supported by the liberality of his constant hearers. It is our earnest wish that his valuable life may be prolonged, and his labours crowned with an abundant blessing by the Great Head of the Church.

BURMAN EMPIRE.

THE entrance of our two brethren, Pritchett and Brain, into this remote empire, was scarcely announced, before we were called to receive the painful intelligence of the death

of Mr. Brain. He was removed by a violent disorder which seized him on the 2d of July, and which terminated his valuable life on the 10th of the same month: particulars have not yet been received, only that he bore his painful affliction with truly christian fortitude, and expired with a hope full of immortality. The Lord had been pleased to bless Mr. Pritchett with the continuace of health, though at the hottest time of the year, and during the rainy season. The brethren were received at Rangoon with truly fraternal affection by Messrs. Chater and Carey, the Baptist Missionaries, and lodged under the same roof. A great part of the city had been burnt down, but by the good providence of God, their habitation, which was a small distance, had been preserved. "The country," says Mr. Pritchett," about Rangoon is very pleasant, abounding with woods and groves, but the whole is in a wild state. The only effects to be perceived of human industry are the numberless praas, or temples, and images of Gaudma, which meet the eye in every direction, and cast a gloom over the mind, which the beauty of the country cannot remove. This is indeed one of the dark places of the earth, and full of the habitations of cruelty. O that the sun of righteousness may speedily arise, scatter this dreadful darkness, and shine into the hearts of the poor Burmans, that they may be turned from their dumb idols to serve the living God." The laws of the country are described as very sanguinary. A man had been executed in a terrible manner only for using a guilt chattra, (a kind of parasol,) which is considered as a treasonable action in the common people. Two other men were executed with him for having accepted a bribe to screen him from punishment.

Mr Pritchett will, we hope, in due time, proceed to Ava, the capital of the country, where, by acquiring the knowledge of the language, in the speediest and most advantageous manner, he will be better qualified to effect the great object of his mission, by translating the sacred Scriptures, and preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ to the perishing heathen. When the Directors shall have received from their now solitary Missionary a more particular account of his situation, and of the necessity of his receiving additional aid, they hope to be provided with the means of furnishing him with such assistance as he has been deprived of by the death of his colleague.

OODAGHERRY, IN TRAVANCORE.

THE last accounts from our brother Ringeltaube were dated from this place, where he is now gone to reside. Owing to a complication of distressing events, in consequence of the

war in Travancore, particularly by a treacherous assault upon the British troops, in which the Travancoreans were at length happily defeated, he had been detained a considerable tme, nearly inactive at Palamcotta. He, however, continued to carry on divine service in both languages, and to apply himself to the study of the Tamoul. Peace having been at length restored, he had resumed his itinerant labours. He specifies six places as his principal stations, where he is assisted by native catechists. His journal contains an account of his having baptized between two and three hundred, and that there were many more candidates for baptism. At some of these stations he had built and opened places of worship, and in others ground and timber had been purchased for the purpose.

At Auticada, he writes, that on the 7th October, after preaching to a considerable number under a mango tree, he baptized an old man from Covilvilley of ninety-seven years of age, whom he called the Patriarch Jacob, who leaning on two of his sons, shed tears of joy for their conversion as well as his own, as they were baptized at the same time with himself. But a more interesting figure, if possible, in this groupe, was a schoolmaster crippled in both legs by a fall from a tree, who had been brought ten miles on men's shoulders to hear the word. Since,' said he, 'I lost the use of my legs, I have nothing but heaven in view.' After preaching on the latter part of the second chapter of the first Epistle of Peter, adds our brother, "I took occasion to exhort the people to be obedient to their masters, and particularly to the magistrates, and to wave all views of temporal advantage by professing Christianity, and not to imagine they would be exempt from the cross, or discharged from the obligation of their relative duties."

CEYLON.

In our last annual report we noticed the lively interest which the deplorable condition of the native Cingalese had excited in the breasts of some benevolent persons filling situations of great respectability in the island. By the arrival in this country of the Hon. Sir Alexander Johnston, Chief Justice of Ceylon, the Directors have been favoured with an opportunity of conferring with him on this important subject. Impressed with a generous concern for the melioration of the condition of the natives, Sir Alexander Johnston was earnestly desirous of obtaining Christian teachers to superintend the schools which had formerly been established, and was of opinion that if our Missionaries were directed to leave the coast towns, which are inhabited chiefly by Europeans, and to reside more

in the interior among the natives, that the fostering hand of Government would not be withheld, but would, in all probability, co-operate in forwarding the benevolent views of the Society for the instruction of those whom Providence has placed under their care. As this gentleman was on the eve of returning to Ceylon, the Directors have written to their three Missionaries, Messrs. Palm, Erhardt, and Read, to this effect, and that they should embrace the opportunity which now of fers of prosecuting the work of their Mission, by going to such parts of the interior as-the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint; so that by a residence among the people, they may be able more speedily to acquire the language, that by the instruction, particularly of the children, in the pure principles of the doctrine of Christ, a foundation might be laid for raising Christian churches, among the Cingalese.

CHINA.

By Mr. Morrison's Journal it appears, that he continues to apply himself with the most commendable assiduity, and with considerable success, at Canton, and occasionally at Macao, to the study of the extremely difficult language of China. From the grammar and dictionary which he has with immense labour composed, the most valuable assistance will be derived by any Missionaries who may hereafter be sent to that empire, as well as by others of our countrymen, who, from their peculiar pursuits, may be induced to study the language. By Mr. Morrison's superior facility in writing the character and conversing with the natives, he has already been enabled to render important services to the public, of which a suitable sense appears to be entertained, and which are likely to be advantageous towards the support of this expensive' Mission.

When we consider Mr. Morrison as the first Protestant. Missionary to this vast country, and as the translator of the sacred Scriptures, the word of life and salvation, into the language of three hundred millions of souls, we cannot but entreat the prayers of the whole Society that the great Head of the Church may be pleased to prolong his valuable life, till he shall not only have completed the translation, but printed and circulated it through all the regions of that extensive empire.

As Mr. Morrison greatly needs, and earnestly desires a coadjutor in his arduous work, the Directors are still looking out with anxious hope for a devoted man of sufficient talents to unite with him in the great undertaking—a measure which, however expensive, appears to be necessary for the relief of Mr. Morrison, and the stability of the Mission.