LONDON.

African and Asiatic Society.

VICE PRESIDENTS,

Lord Barham, Lord Calthorpe, W. Wilberforce, Esq. M. P. J. Stephen, Esq. M.P. T. Read Kemp, Esq. M.P: July 19, the Society held their Annual Meeting at Free Masons' Tavern. After transacting the general business of the Institution, the Governors and friends dined together, W. Wilberforce, Esq. M. Pin the chair. A brief Report of the proceedings of the Committee for the past year was read, from which it appeared that the Society had been actively employed for the religious instruction and temporal relief of the untutored and distressed natives of Africa and Asia, and their descendants resident in London. Nearly 240 cases of deep affliction have been relieved during the past year. Upwards of 50 persons of colour have in the same time joined the Benefit Society, established by the Africans them selves; by the rules of which they are bound to attend the means of grace when able. The means of religious instruction have been attended in many instances with the happiest effects. The gospel has evidently been made the power of God to salvation' to not a few, while of others, good hopes are entertained. It appeared also to be the wish of the Society, to enlarge the sphere of their benevolence, by the adoption of such plans as may be commensurate with the wants and miseries of the natives of Africa and Asia in this metropolis.

A number of persons of colour, Connected with the Society, and who dined in an adjoining apartment, were introduced to the company. Their appearance and their lively expressions of gratitude to their benefactors, and especially to the worthy Chairman, for his exertions in the cause of their enslaved countrymen, seemed to produce feelings of the deepest interest on the part of the company. Besides their own simple and fervent expressions of gratitude, Dr. Rippon, in their name, presented to the

Chairman an address, expressive of their grateful sentiments to him and the other members of both Houses of Parliament who supported the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Mr. Wilberforce delivered a most eloquent and impressive speech, in which he modestly disavowed the credit which had been given him for his exertions; attributing the success chiefly, under Providence, to the co-operation of others, of whom two present were adverted to: James Stephen, Esq. M. P. and Zachary Macauley, Esq. Mr. Stephen aiso, with his usual manly eloquence, addressed the company, modestly expressing how little he felt was due to him for any operation he had given; and then adverted to the nature and objects of the Institution which had brought the company together, the excel-, lence and importance of which he justly and feelingly described.

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We rejoice to see the cause of the poor Africans, &c.at home espoused by such characters; and we trust the beneficial infinence of this institution will continue to extend. Among the principal persons present, besides those named, we observed Lord Calthorpe and Thomas Read Kemp, Esq. M. P. Various persons,among whom were the Rev. G. Jerment, and the Rev. G. Greig, Secretary, addressed the company. The Meeting was altogether highly interesting, and, we should hope, affords a happy proof of the rising usefulness of this infant Society.

Subscriptions, we understand, are received by David Niven, Esq. Treasurer, 15, King Street, Soho; and Rev. G. Greig, Secretary, 25, New North Street, Red Lion Square.

AFRICA.

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man is about 20 years of age; and seems to have obtained all that kind of knowledge which is particularly necessary for his purpose. He understands the Arabic language, is remarkably abstemious, and has accustomed himself to make raw flesh and insects his food. At Gottingen he submitted to circumcision, that he night appear to be a true believer in the Koran; and, in the character of a physician, travel thro' those countries where the naine of a Christian would infallibly lead to slavery or death. In his peregrinations on foot through Gerinany and Switzerland, he always chose the worst lodgings and accommodations, to inure himself to hardships. in Germany and Paris he has collected a number of questions, proposed by the literati, relative to the unknown regions which he intends to visit. He means to endeavour to accompany a mercantile caravan from Mogador to Timbuctoo. Hamburgh correspondenten, April 17.

Mungo Parke. By the arrival of the Merced, at Plymouth, accounts have been received which terminate all hopes which the friends of this enterprizing traveller had entertained of his being yet alive. The search which was made for him tended fully to confirm the accounts previously received of his dissolution. It seems that the immediate cause of his death was a fever, occasioned by the hardships he had endured. He expired in the hovel of an old negro woman.

owned and navigated by negroes. This brig is owned and commanded by Paul Cuffec, the son of Cuffee, a negro-slave, imported into America. Her mate and all her crew are negroes, or the immediate descendants of negroes. Capt. Cuffee is about 56 years of age; has a wife (a negress) and six children, living at New Bedford, Massachussets, of which state he is a citizen. When Capt. C.'s father (who had acquired his freedom) died, he left a family almost unprovided for; but he (the son) laboured hard to support them. He began trade in a small boat; and after a while, almost by himself, built a larger vessel; in which he worked some years with assiduity. Having met a person wishing to impart some knowledge of naviga tion, his ideas were enlarged; and with his prospects he enlarged his efforts to succeed. Happily for him and his family, his mind received religious instruction from the Society of Friends; and he attached himself to that respectable body, adopted their dress and language, and is now a worthy member of their community. When Mr. Clarkson's celebrated History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade fell into his hands, it awakened all the powers of his mind to a consideration of his origin, and the duties he owed to his people. With the view of benefitting the Africans, he made a voyage to Sierra Leone, and with the same object has come to England. Capt. Cuffee is of an agreeable countenance, and his physiognomy truly interesting: he is both tall and stout, speaks Eng lish well, dresses in the Quaker style, in a drab-coloured suit, and wears a large flapped white hatHe is coming to London to confer on his favourite topic with the Directors of the African Institution.

FRANCE.

The proceedings in the ecclest astical synod lately held at Paris, have been kept out of the public papers; but it is asserted that this reverend assembly, on account of the freedom of some of its discus sions, was suddenly broken up by

Vaccination, or Coto Por.

THE Board of the National Vaccine Establishment have made a Report of their Proceedings during the year 1810: which has been printed by order of the House of Commons; from which it appears that the Surgeons of the nine stations established in London, have vaccinated during the last year 3,108 persons, and that 23,362 charges of vaccine lyinph have been distributed to various applicants from all parts of the kingdom; being one third more than in the year preceding.

They also report, that no case of failure has occurred, in any individual vaccinated by the Surgeons of these stations, since the commencement of this Establishment; that the few instances of failure,, submitted from other quarters to the investigation of this Board in the last year, have been asserted without sufficient proof; that such reports of failure as have been received from the country, have been ascertained to rest upon imperfect evidence.

They state the favourable result of Vaccination in the Royal Military Asylum for the children of Soldiers, and in the Foundling Hospital. in the former of these charities, Vaccination was intro. duced in the year 1903; and during seven years, this institution, which contains more than 1100 children, has lost but one by small pox; and that individual had not been vaccinated, in consequence of having been declared by the motter to have had the small pox. In the latter institution, death has occurred by small pox since the introduction of Vaccination in the year 1801; from which period every child has been vaccinated on its admission to

the charity; and in no instance has the preventive power of Vaccination been discredited, although many of the children have been repeatedly inoculated with the matter of small pox, and been submitted to the influence of its contagion.

They also state, that similar success has attended the practice of Vaccination at the Lying in Charity at Manchester, where, in the space of nine years, more than 9000 persons have been effectually vaccinated; and, by a report from Glasgow, it appears that, of 15,500 persons who have undergone vaccine inoculation in that city, during the last ten years no individual has been known to have been subsequently affected with the small pox.

The Board then proceed to state the number of deaths from small pox, announced in the bills of mortality of the year 1810, amounting to 1,198; which, although great, is considerably less than it had been previously to the adoption of that practice. They are persuaded that this mortality has arisen from contagion having been propagated by inoculated persons, of the poorer class, whose prejudices against Vac cination are kept alive by false and mischievous hand-bills, denouncing various imaginary and feigned diseases against all those who have undergone Vaccination: and the Board have reason to believe, that these bills are issued by persons who derive emolument from small pox inoculation.

It appears from extensive correspondence, that in the principal country towns, gratuitous Vaccination of the poor is practised on an extensive scale: that, among the superior classes of society in the country, Vaccination is very generally adopted; and that the prejudices of the lower orders appear to be gradually yielding to a conviction of its benefit.

The information received from Scotland, is of a very favourable nature. The practice of Vaccination there, is universal among the higher orders of society; and that, in the opinion of their learned

bodies, the mortality from small pox has decreased, in proportion as Vaccination has advanced.

The Reports of the Vaccine Establishment, instituted at Dublin, state, that Vaccination continues to make progress in that city, and in Ireand generally; and that the pre judices against it are subsiding.

Very favourable accounts have been received of the progress of Vaccination in India; the favage of small pox has been repeatedly prevented, and the disorder exterminated in the island of Ceylon.

The Board declare their unabated confidence in the preventive power of Vaccination that the local and constitutional maladies, which frequently follow the small pox, rarely (if ever) succeed to Vaccine Inoculation; that it produces neither peculiar eruptions, nor new disorders of any kind; and that they are of opinion, that by perseverance in the present measures, Vaccination will in a few years become generally adopted. Signed by

L. PEPYS, President.

The New Rupture Society (instituted in 1804) have lately circulated a short account of their progress; in which it appears, that they have relieved, since their commencement, 2190 persons afflicted with bernia and prolapses. The Governors have notified to parochial of ficers, conductors of charitable institutions, &c. that the benefits of this Society are extended to all parts of the kingdom, provided exact descriptions of the cases, with proper measurement of the palients, be sent by any subscriber #post paid) to W. Blair. Esq. Sur.

geon, No. 69, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury. Subscriptions are received by the following bankers:Mess. Hoare, Fleet Street; Fuller and Co. Lombard Street; and Ran som and Co. Pall Mall.

Aberdeen Female Servant Society.

A Society has been established at Aberdeen, composed of female servants, who, by subscribing small sums quarterly, are raising a fund for promoting the diffusion of the Scriptures. They have already collected £49. 9s; £20 of which has been given to the Edinburgh Bible Society. This Society was first formed in August, 1809; and consists at present of 110 members.

Surely, it is a token for good, when a love to the Bible, and a zeal to promote its diffusion, thus actuate all classes of people among us. The Bible is Britain's best

bulwark!

ST DAVID'S.-The present Bishop of St. David's (Dr.Burgess) discovers a most laudable zeal to promote the cause of religion in his diocese. The establishment of a College, or Seminary, for training up young men for the church, is a special object of his altention. Another ob ject is the support of Superannuated Curates. Subscriptions are also raised for the distribution of religi ous Tracts, for giving premiums for Essays on certain subjects,-and for the Proficients at Grammar Schools, in Hebrew, &c.

Among the subjects of the Essays proposed for the present year is the following: An Essay on Conversion, and on the three following questions: Whether a minister of the Church can be an unconverted professor of Christianity? What

are the marks of unconversion in a minister of the Church? What are the means most likely to excite in the mind of a minister (if such can be) a sense of his unconverted state." A premium of ten pounds will be given by a friend to the Society for the best Essay on this subject.

Subscriptions for the College, Library, &c. received by Messrs. Hoares, Bankers, Fleet Street; and by the Rev. T. Pryce, Carmarthen.