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fully among the Namaquas, in teaching the women and girls to knit, &c.— The Missionary B. Tromp has been for some time past assisting Mr. Albricht in that Mission; but it is said that his wife is in a deep decline. She has been very useful among the female natives, and even on her sickbed, endeavours to instruct them.

It appears from the last Journal of the Albrichts, that, about the beginning of February, 1810, two shocks of an earthquake were felt at a place where some Kaminquas reside, which is several hundred miles north of the Cape, where so many shocks were experienced. Some of these people had formerly shewn a regard to the gospel; but had returned to Heathenism. When they expressed great alarm on the occasion, one of their chiefs told them, that God was now rebuking them, on account of their unbelief, and their return to their Pagau superstitions; which he exhorted them totally to abandon.

When the people learned that Mr. Abraham Albricht was about to depart to the Cape for medical advice, &c. they expressed great fears lest the Missionaries should all leave them; but they were pacified on being assured of the contrary. A man being there, who had acted as an interpre ter in another place, was not permitted by them to remove, as they judged his assistance was necessary among themselves. Captain Kagap paid them a visit with his sons and other Namaquas; and expressed their wish that some of the Missionaries would return with them to teach their people; but they cannot comply with their request till they obtain more labourers. This captain informed them, that another nation, called Fieldshoebearers, had become peaceable; and, together with another people who reside at Karrashill, had er pressed a wish to hear the word of God.

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In the month of April some of the natives suffered a loss: Four lions having killed three of their oxen and wounded several others; one of these fions has since been shot. At another time, four lions approached very near the habitation of the Missionaries, and devoured one of their Battle. Some men pursued them on horseback; but in vain.

Provincial Intelligence.

ORDINATIONS, &c.

Oct. 16, 1810, Mr. Nathaniel Rowton was set apart to the pastoral office over the church formerly ander the care of Mr. Jonathan Evans, at Foleshill, near Coventry. Mr. Gill, of Hinckley, began by prayer and reading; Mr.James, of Birmingham, delivered the introductory discourse, and received the confession, &c.; Mr. Jerard offered up the ordination-prayer; Mr. Burder delivered the charge, from 2 Tim. iv. 1-5; Mr. Smith, of Manchester, preached to the people, from 1 Thess. v. 12, 13; and Mr. Burkitt, of Kenilworth, concluded with prayer.

Oct. 31. A neat little chapel was opened at the village of Kelvedon, between Chelmsford and Colchester. Mr. Crathern, of Dedham, opened the service of the day by

an introductory discourse, &c.; Mr. Forster, of Maldon, prayed; Mr. Savill, of Colchester, preached an appropriate sermon to a crowded and attentive audience, from Gen. xii. 9; and Mr. Merchant, of Layer Bretton, concluded the service by prayer. The people in this vil lage have, for the last six or seven years, met for religious worship in a licensed room, which was found too small for the increasing congregation.

Nov. 1, a neat and commodiou place of worship was opened at Market Deeping, Lincolnshire. In the morning, Mr. Keyworth, of Slea ford, read suitable portions of Scrip ture and prayed; Mr. Arrow, of Godmanchester, preached from the 1 Chron. xxix. 5; and Mr. Cave, of Peterborough, concluded. In the afternoon Mr. Morell, of St. Neot's, preached from 1 Thess. iv. 10; Mrs. Woodward, of Piachbeck, and Ms.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Green, of Uppingham, engaged in the devotional parts of the service. In the evening Mr. Morell prayed before the sermon, which was delivered by Mr. Foster, of Oakham, from 2 Cor. viii. 9; and Mr. Jeanes, late of Peterborough, who has accepted an invitation to the charge of this infant interest, closed the pleasing solemnities of the day.

In June, 1807, a small chapel was opened at Nuneaton Common, since which, such has been the increase of hearers under the ministry of Mr. Dagley, that it was found necessary to enlarge it. On this occasion, Nov. 27th, 1810, a double lecture was preached, by Mr. Jerard, of Coventry, from 2 Cor. vi. 10, and by Mr. Hartley, of Lutterworth, from Isa. lxv. 1; Messrs. Eagleton and Brackstone, of Coventry, engaged in prayer. The inhabitants of this place and Badgeley, another vil lage where Mr. Dagley labours, are principally poor people, and many of them colliers.

Dec. 13. A commodious chapel was opened at Upway, near Weymouth. Mr. Keynes, of Blandford, preached in the morning, froin Ps. Ixxxiv. 4; and Dr. Cracknell in the evening, from Matt. xvi. 26. The gospel was first preached in a private house, when finding it was acceptable, an opulent individual erected this chapel at his own expence.

Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

Edinburgh, Dec. 22, 1810. We understand that the many housands of our countrymen in the Isles and Highlands, who are unable to read, have engaged the attention of the public. A numerous and very respectable meeting of the inhabitants of this city, and also several from a considerable distance (called together by circular letters) was held on Wednesday last, in the New Rooms, Royal Exchange Coffee-house. The object proposed is, to teach this people to peruse the Gaelic Scriptures, which have been Branslated and printed for their express use. Several resolutions were ead to the meeting, expressive of gard for those long-continued and laudable sæertions n the High

lands, which have been made by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, specifying, at the same time, the deplorable ignorance of those parts which they have been unable to embrace (many large disthe means of instruction) and pointtricts being still unprovided with ing out, finally, the steps necessary to be taken in such a state of things. Some gentlemen then stated various very painful circumstances relative to the different parts of the Highlands and Hebrides, when the meeting (before adopting the resolutions) unanimously appointed a committee of their number, amounting to 24; which, in addition to the

knowledge they already possess. shall be open to the reception of further information, and shall embody the evidence on this important subject, in a report to the next general meeting, which is to be held in the same coffee-house, on Weds nesday, the 16th proximo, at 12

⚫'clock.

LONDON.

To the Ministers, Deacons, and
Members of the Congregational
Churches in England.

Christian Friends,

as

THE Circular Letter which I took the liberty of addressing to you, on the subject of a CONGREGATIONAL ASYLUM, and a thousand copies of which I had printed and circulated in town and country, opportunity occurred, has not produced that general and prompt expression of zeal toward the object which I had reason to expect. Had I not been sanguine that it was an object in all respects so desirable. that it would instantly excite and combine the talents, the influence, and the pecuniary aid of all those who are well wishers to the poor ministers of our denomination, and who could either afford a life subscription of teu, or an annual subscription of one guinea, I should .not have ventured to propose the

measure.

Although I am a little disappointed in hot meeting with that voluntasy and general concurrence which

I anticipated, yet, I am not at all discouraged. Many of those who have not yet expressed their intention of promoting the design, are probably waiting for the time, when a more minute and detailed account shall be presented to the public; or even till its operations shall actually commence. Not aware how much time and how much pecuniary assistance is required to commence such a measure, even upon the smallest scale possible.

In answer to the letters which the writer has received from his brethren, expressing their joy at the proposed formation of the Institution; and enquiring when its operations will commence, he can only say, It must depend entirely upon the promptitude and liberality of those who design to befriend the measure. It must, however, be evident to all, that Midsummer is the earliest period which can be reckoned upon.

It is the intention of the writer, about the first or second week in March, to call a general meeting of sach persons as have given in their names as the friends to the general object, from which list of names a committee will be formed, on whom it will naturally devolve to draw up and submit to the inspection and approbation of the general body, such laws and regulations as are adapted to the good government and permanent prosperity

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not wound the feelings of any worthy brother, he will omit the names and substitute figures. These extracts will speak home to the hearts of the truly benevolent, more powerfully than a thousand arguments; and, he trusts, they will induce a very general and permanent liberality. J. TOWNSEND.

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British and Foreign Bible Society.

THE spirit of Christian union and consequent zeal which the good providence of God caused to be excited by the Missionary Society, has extended itself, in a most eminent degree, in the formation and support of the British and Foreign Bible Society; whose influence and beneficial effects are now extensively felt and thankfully acknowledged in every quarter of the globe.

years, it has furnished the Scriptures Although it has existed but six of Truth to people of various nations, from the Brahman in the East to the Eskimaux Indian in the West;

and from the Hottentot in the South

to the Polander in the North; and, by the period when the vernal sun shall next beam its enlivening rays upon the half-frozen Laplander, the New Testament will be ready to be delivered to him in his vernaculag tongue.-May the beams of the Sun of Righteousness shine upon his own word, and accompany it with power to the hearts of those numer

ous readers, who have hitherto sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death!

We understand that the Scriptures have been received, both by the Hottentots and the Eskimaux, with the most lively emotions of gratitude and joy; that in the East Indies the translatious into the vernacular tongues of the various nations are increasing in number, and proceeding with vigour;-and that in America the number of Bible Societies, formed on a similar principle of Christian union, amount to 12 or upwards in the United States, several of whom have received liberal donations from the British and Foreign Bible Society; and an institution of a similar nature has been formed in Nova Scotia.

In Great Britain and Ireland the influence and advantages of the Brifish and Foreign Bible Society have been no less conspicuous. Notwithstanding the opposition it has met with, the number of Auxiliary Soci eties has considerably increased since the Annual Meeting; and these several branches, under the auspices of the most respectable patronage, have been actively engaged in supplying the spiritual wants of the poor, by a liberal distribution of the holy Scriptures in their respective neighbourhoods; and we are happy to learn, that since the publication of certain pamphlets against the Parent Institution, the number of its Subscribers has been augmented in a very considerable degree.

The attention thus excited, in various parts of the world to the written word of God, ought to stimulate Christians to far greater efforts for preaching the Gospel to the Heathen than have hitherto been exerted. If we consider the advan tages with which Missionaries may now go forth among the nations, from having the written word to accompany their ministerial labours; and that hitherto, in the dispensations of Providence, every considerable awakening has been by the union of these two modes of diffusing divine truth, ought we not to seek the Lord in fervent prayer, that, great may be the company of the preachers,' who shall go forth to preach the everlasting gospel?

But we should not be content without also using vigorous endea vours to accomplish this desirable object. The labours of the Missionary Society must necessarily be li mited by the inadequacy of their funds, to enable them to engage and support Missionaries equal, in any degree, to the vast field that opens before them for Missionary exertions. It would therefore, be very desirable that the example above mentioned should be followed by the formation of AuxiliarySocieties in aid of the Missionary Societyk as such Associations would not only tend to angient its Funds, but also to stimulate their respective members and connexions to unite in this labour of love, and to offer themselves to en

gage in the arduous and honourable work. Thus a suitable supply of Missionaries would probably be provided of the Lord, and the means of supporting them in their respective stations would be sufficiently furnished. Whoever reflects on the events which have taken place in the church of Christ within these few years, may justly exclaim, What hath God wrought!' - and may we not, in the confidence of Faith, look forward with the cheerful expectation of seeing greater things than these?' To God ia Christ be all the glory! Amen.

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DUELLING. — A law for the sup pression of this horrid practice has lately passed in the Illinois territory, in America. The punishment of the surviving duellist, if his antagonist die within three months, is to suffer death by hanging. The challenger, or person accepting a challenge, is declared incapable of being elected to, or holding any office of trust, civil or military. Persons entering on an office are to swear that they have never been engaged in a duel, in any way whatsoever.

EASTERN JEALOUSY. A letter from Travancore, dated March 4, states the following tragical occurrence: A shock of an earthquake being experienced during the night at one of the small hill-forts, owing to which some houses were thrown down, nearly at the same time a fire unfortunately broke out, which so much alarmed the people, that numbers left the place and sought safety in the open country. Among the fugitives were several females, who, under the impulse of terror, had fled half naked from the Rajah's Zenana. The natives, pitying their condition, took them in, and the next morning conducted them back to the fort; when their jealous tyrant ordered eight of them to be immediately decapitated, for having exposed themselves to the observation of men; and sentenced five of their innocent conductors to have their eyes put out, for having had an opportunity of gazing on their persons! - Will the opposers of East India missions maintain, that

the mild and gentle Gospel of Jesus Christ is not wanted where tyranny and cruelty like this prevail?

Church Robbery. -On Saturday night, Dec. 22, or the following morning, some thieves contrived to

steal the whole of the valuable church-plate belonging to St. Paul's Cathedral, although the property defended by many strong doors. was locked up in iron chests, and The number of ounces of silver stolen, is said to amount to 1600.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROFITS OF THIS MAGAZINE.

Ar a Meeting of the Editors, January 16, the following Cases being presented, were approved and relieved accordingly:

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MISSIONARY COLLECTIONS, &c.

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