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They did not want a fiscal, though, in other places wherever 300 people gut together, a justice had enough to do. In the late period of famine, sickness, and mortality, no relief had been granted to the poor Hottentots, but the Missionaries alone had supported the burden, and cared for the poor, sick, and famishing people. The more they deserve well, the more unjust were the encroachments made upon them." At taking leave, his Excellency promised to recommend the mission to the future government.

From the letters lately received from the Missionaries on the Coast of LABRADOR, we extract the following passages:

Hopedal, August 14, 1802. "Among some of our Esquimaux families, a particular awakening was observed last winter. One man and two children were

baptized, and seven admitted candidates for baptism. We rejoice greatly on such occasions, and pray fervently to the Lord, that he may establish their hearts, that they may grow in his love and knowledge, and that we may once have the pleasure to see a man of this nation, who not only exhibits a living example of the power of the grace of God, but may, with confidence,

be employed to testify to his countrymen, from his own experience, what the blood of Jesus can effect in changing and cleansing the heart of a sinner, making him an heir of everlasting life. The schools of the children were diligently attended, and the scholars, in some of whom there is no want of capacity, shewed a desire to learn."

"Nain, 9th Sept. 1802. "Whoever is acquainted with the Esquimaux in their natural and unconverted

state, and sees them met together at the Church, attentively listening to the word of God, or beholds a company of converted Esquimaux surrounding the table of the Lord, and favoured to enjoy his body and blood sacramentally, under a deep and comfortable sense of his gracious presence, must stand astonished at the power of our Saviour's love, which melts the hardest hearts, and imparts to them heavenly blessings."

"January 6, we had the joy to baptize a heathen woman. Feb. 19, a man called Seksigak, a noted sorcerer, and two women, were admitted candidates for baptism. And again, March the 4th, we had the joy to baptize another man."

At Ok-kuk, the Esquimaux congregation consisted of 33.

At Fairfield, in UPPER CANADA, there were 150 believing Indians at the close of 1801. The Missionaries at

that place had applied to the Chippe ways to know whether they were willing to hear the Gospel, and to permit a Missionary to reside among them?" The principal chief of the nation replied, "I will receive you," and pointed to the place in which the Missionaries should' dwell.

The latest accounts from JAMAICA are stated to be more encouraging than those received for some time past; the negroes seem more attentive in coming to Church, and requesting instruction, and several benevolent proprietors have shewn a wish to introduce Christianity among their slaves.

At Paramaribo, in SURINAM, 18 adult negroes were baptized in the year 1801. In the Island of ST. THOMAS, ST. CROIX, and ST. JAN, during the same year, 194 adult negroes were baptized, and 167 admitted to the Lord's Supper; and in ST. KITTS, 169 adult negroes were baptized, and 99 admitted to the Lord's Supper, from Easter 1801 to Easter 1802.

BAPTIST MISSION IN BENGAL.

We have already mentioned, that by the exertions chiefly of Mr. Carey, a translation of the New Testament into the Bengalee language had been printed. This must be considered as a highly important work. We also mentioned, that the attachment of the natives to their cast, had, in a few instances, given way to a conviction of the truth of the Gospel, and that six persons had been baptized. We now propose to give a few extracts from the accounts recently received, which will explain to our readers the present state of this mission.

"Both Europeans and natives laughed at what they thought the enthusiastic idea of breaking the bands of the Hindoo Casts, by preaching the Gospel. Where Krist noo and Gokool rejected their cast, many woldered at it; but the generality tauntingly asked, Have any of the Brahmans or Caestos believed on him?" Lately, however, they have been deprived even of this small consolation. One Caesto joined the Church a little time since. Last week, two more of the same cast, and one Brahman came, and voluntarily rejected their cast, even without our proposing it. While these were at Kristno's house, a Brahman

came, who was said to be on a pilgrimage to Benares. On the road, he met with one of the little tracts which we had cireu

lated in Bengalee. He came to Serampore, rejected his cast, and is determined

to sit at the feet of Jesus and hear his words. Another Brahman is expected to reject his cast. He is of the highest rank, and possesses a very superior understand ing. Even now he mightily convinces the Brahmans, as well as others, and gives some happy evidences that his heart is right

with God. His name is Kemol.

"We are now erecting a school for the board, clothing, and tuition of 20 native youths. Their instruction in the principles of Christianity is the leading object. The requisite subscription for it is nearly

finished."

RUSSIAN TARTARY.

In our number for November last, we gave some account of the progress

which Mr. Brunton had made in his attempt to establish a mission among the Tartars. Under the protection of the Russian government, he proceeded from Astrakan on the 10th of August, with the view of selecting an eligible spot for his permanent residence. He pitched at length upon a Tartar village, called Karass, situated near the source of the river Cubane, and at an equal distance from the Euxine and Caspian Seas. He and his brother Missionary lodge in the house of the Sultan, until their own can be built. They enjoy, at Karass, the protection of a Russian garrison, there being a fort in the place,

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

FRANCE.

A LONG journal of the proceedings of Scbastiani, during his late mission to Egypt and Syria, has been published in the official paper of France, and has deservedly attracted general attention. The measures of this agent, wherever he goes, are marked with the domineering spirit of Bonaparte. He commands the Pacha of Tripoli, and the Pacha submits, " since the great Bonaparte requires it." He asserts, that in every part of Egypt, the return of Bonaparte is eagerly desired; and he tells the First Consul, that 6000 Frenchmen are adequate to the conquest of that country. The islands in the Ionian Sea, he adds, are ready, at a moment's notice, to fraternize with France. He every where seems to have behaved with insolence, and on receiving the slightest offence, he threatens even the Turkish governors with the vengeance of Bonaparte. The object of Sebastiani's report seems to be, in the first place, to impress the French nation with the idea that Bonaparte's conduct in Egypt has strongly attached the inhabitants to him; and, in the next place, to lead foreign nations into the notion, that this gasconading journal contains all that is to be known of the objects of the First Consul, and thus to prevent further enquiry.

The First Consul has given another proof of his arrogant and domineering temper, in sending back General Lasnes to Lisbon, not only without a reprimand for his former outrageous conduct at that Court, but with applause on account of it. He even exhorts Lasnes to persevere in the same course which he had before pursued.

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at present in Paris, by which many have been carried off.

Every effort is making, by the French Government to reinforce the troops in St. Domingo. Bonaparte seems to have no intention of abandoning his enterprize. He will, probably, continue to pour fresh armies into that wretched colony, in order to carry on his war of extermination; but if he should finally succeed in this, it must be by the sacrifice of the flower of his troops. The negroes have learnt to fight and to conquer; but they are not his most formidable enemy. The climate will continue to destroy its victims as fast as the ingenuity of Bonaparte can supply them.

An arrete of the French Government forbids the intermarriage of whites with ne groes.

HOLLAND.

The Batavian Government of State has declared in favour of the petitioners for the repeal of a part of the law, prohibiting the transit of woollen goods into Holland. The manufacturers have, however, sent in counter petitions,

GIBRALTAR.

On Christmas-day, a mutiny broke out in one of the regiments doing duty at that place. The cause of it does not seem to be accurately known in this country. Some lives were lost on the part of the insurgents before it was suppressed. A few of those engaged in it have been tried and found guilty, and some of them have been executed. Perfect tranquillity is said to have been restored, when the last ac

An epidemic complaint is said to prevail counts come away.

AMERICA.

The cession of Louisiana to France has occasioned great alarm in America; particularly as the Spanish Governor of New Orleans, at the evident instigation of the French Government, had issued a prociamation which deprives the Americans of the right which they hold by treaty, of deposting, at that place, the merchandize which comes down the rivers Ohio and Mississippi, until sold, or exported. If Bonaparte should persist in this unjust and irritating measure, a rupture with the United States will be the probable consequence, as from the firm tone held by Congress upon the occasion, it is plain that they are fully determined to assert their rights. Leclerc's arbitrary conduct towards the Americans at St. Domingo; the equally severe treatment which they have received at the ceded Dutch colonies; together with the present attempt to deprive the Western States of all access to the ocean, look as if Bonaparte imagined that by bold and insolent measures he could terrify the Americans into submission, as he has done the continental nations of Europe In this, however, he will find himself greatly mistaken.

A convention entered into on the 8th of January, 1802, between Great Britain and America, has been made public, by which it appears that the latter has engaged to pay £.600,000 in lieu of all debts due by Americans to British subjects, which were contracted previously to the commencement of hostilities betweeen the two countries.

FRENCH WEST INDIES,

It is said, that since General Rochambeau has assumed the chief command in ST. DOMINGO, the French cause wears a more favourable aspect. Some fresh troops had arrived, and given a temporary confidence to the thinned ranks of the consular army. The blacks also are said to have been worsted in several rencounters; but it is likely still to cost many thousand lives before the French obtain a firm footing even on the shores of the island.

ENGLISH WEST INDIES.

ANTIGUA, which has been remarkably preserved from the yellow fever, even while it raged in the other islands, has lately been visited by that fatal scourge, and many are said to have fallen a sacrifice to it.

GREAT BRITAIN.

PARLIAMENT met pursuant to adjournment on the 3d instant. The only measure of importance which has hitherto occupied its attention (much of the time of the House of Commons being taken up in ballotting for election committees) is the Bill for continuing, till six weeks after the meeting of the next Session of Parliament, the restrictions on the Bank of England from issuing specie in payment of their notes. The measure gave rise to some discussions, but these chiefly respected the duration of the restriction, there being a general admission that some further restriction was necessary, in order to prevent too sudden a run upon the Bank. The Bill has not yet passed the House of Lords.

The King has been pleased to appoint William Drummond, Esq. to be his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

The King has also been pleased to appoint Hugh Elliott, Esq. to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentary to the Court of Naples,

The King has also been pleased to appoint Anthony Merry, Esq. to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America.

The King has also been pleased to appoint Edward Thornton Esq. to be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Hague.

On the 7th instant, came on before Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Justice Le Blanc, Mr. Justice Chambrè, and Mr. Baron Thompson, at the Court-House, Horsemonger-lane, the trial of Colonel Despard; and on the 9th, the trial of John Wood, Thomas Broughton, John Francis, Thomas Phillips, Thomas Newman, John Doyle, Daniel Tyndal, James Sedgwick Wratten, Willium Lander, Arthur Graham, Samuel Smith, and John Macnamara, for

HIGH TREASON.

The following are the particulars of the charge preferred against them.

1st. That on the 16th of November last, the prisoners at the bar had conspired together, and attempted to seduce several soldiers in his Majesty's service, to unite with them in sub

verting the government of this realm, in Church and State, and to depose, kill, and destroy the king.

2d. That they had administered oaths to sundry persons, in order to combine for these purposes.

3d. That they had conspired to lie in wait, seize, and set upon the King as he went to open the present session of parliament, to secure and imprison his person, and to depose him from his imperial state and dignity.

4th. That they had conspired to attack and seize upon the two Houses of Parliament, the Bank, the Tower, and the magazines, arms, &c. contained in it; to stop and detain the mail coaches, and other carriages, travelling from London; and to raise insurrection, and rebellion, against the king, and to slaughter his subjects.

After a long and patient hearing, these facts were substantiated against all the prisoners, except Thomas Phillips, John Doyle, and Samuel Smith: the rest were found GUILTY, and the awful sentence of the law was immediately pronounced upon them. That sentence was executed on the 21st instant on Colonel Despard and six others; three of the convicts, Thomas Newman, Daniel Tyndale, and William Lander, being respited during his Majesty's pleasure. (See Obituary for an account of Despard's death.)

We cannot close our account of these trials, without joining our voice to that of the community at large, in bearing testimony to the tenderness and dignified forbearance of government in their conduct towards the unhappy prisoners. No attempt was made, previous to the trial, to rouse the indignation, or interest the feelings, of the nation. The proceedings of his Majesty's Attorney-General were marked with that fairness and candour, for which he is so much distinguished; and the conduct, not only of the judges who presided in court, but of the juries who tried the issue, proved incontestably, that never did a similar trial take place more free from any bias of interest, party, or passion. We have not the smallest hesitation in expressing our perfect conviction of the equity of the sentence, and our warm approbation of the lenity of the prosecutors. And in reviewing the particulars of the conspiracy which has been discovered, what gratitude ought we to feel to the

Great Disposer of all events, who has, by means of the vigilance of our government, defeated the purposes of violent and wicked men; for though we do not believe that any great number of persons were implicated in the treason, which has so happily been brought to light, yet if the blow had been struck, which the conspirators meditated, we tremble to think of the confusion which the scattered remnant of jacobins in this country, operating, by the usual jacobinical arts, on the passions of a mob, might have occasioned; and of the blood which might have been shed in consequence. We have a confidence, that, through the divine blessing, the loyalty, and spirit, and good sense of the country would, in no long time, have crushed the attempt to deprive us of every thing most dear to us. But, thank God, we have been spared the awful trial.

On the 10th instant, thirty publicans were, at the instance of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, convicted by the magistrates of Union Hall, in the penalty of ten shillings each, and full costs, for having suffered tippling in their houses on the Lord's Day, notwithstanding the previous notice sent them by the Society to desist. The above convictions, added to those before the magistrates of Queen-square, Westminster, Hatton-garden, and Worship-street, make the number of shopkeepers and publicans nearly a hundred, who have been thus punished for obstinately persevering in the exercise of their ordinary callings on the Lord's Day, in open defiance of the laws. These frequent convictions shew the laudable readiness with which the magistrates assist the exertions of the Society, and are calculated to produce the happiest effects.

It is with great pleasure we observe, that through the highly praiseworthy exertions of the same Society, two more of those persons, who are systematically employed in corrupting the morals of the country, by the sale of books and prints of the most shocking tendency, have recently been prosecuted to conviction in the Court of King's Bench. We are truly concerned to see it established by the evidence produced on these trials, that the great mart for the books and prints in question, has been in the seminaries of youth of both sexes.

The Irish mails state, that tranquillity has been restored in the counties of Waterford and Tipperary, owing, in a great measure, to the conciliatory expedients adopted by Lord Donoughmore, whose example appears to have excited a becoming emulation among the noblemen and gentlemen of the county of Limerick to pursue a similar line of conduct. The disturbances that have for some time past prevailed in the South of Ireland, we are assured, have no political relation whatever: they have arisen

from local jealousies, and individual grievances among the wretched peasantry, the nature of which the government have wisely determined to ascertain. Mr. Wickham, the Lord Lieutenant's Secretary, is now on a tour to the perturbed districts, and great hopes are entertained, that the laudable measures adopted in this instance by the government, will tend, in a material degree, to the permanent tranquillity of the country, and the general happiness of the people.

OBITUARY.

ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF SENEX'S SON. ble end of a schoolfellow, to prepare

(Continued from p. 62).

THE following was written on his birth-day, when he entered upon his twentieth year, and while he resided at-College, in Cambridge.

"When I look back upon the past year, how am I called upon to humble myself before God! I must lay my hand upon my mouth, and my mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope; for I am vile. I have not walked so faithfully with God as I ought. The sin, which so easily besets me, has had too much encouragement. The table of the Lord has not witnessed that contrition, that fervour in me, which ever it used to do; and my heart has been ever ready to start aside like a broken bow. O Lord, examine me, and try me, see what wicked way is in me, and lead me in the way aerlasting.

"But the mercy of God has been renewed to me continually. Before I left H—, when I cast all my cares upon God, he cared for me. Since I have been here, how mercifully has God dealt with me; how has he preserved me from the snares and vanities which surround me! How has he blest me with kind and useful friends! The state of discipline I am now under, is wonderfully calculated for my good, and God blesses my studies. Let me, then, now devote myself afresh to God.

"I have spent nineteen years of my life, and know not how much longer I may be spared.

I have been warned by the death of my cousin H. H. and the lamenta

to meet my God. O Lord, may I be thine here, that I may enjoy thee for ever hereafter! May I never be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ! May I walk closer with thee my God, for this is my greatest happiness!-Preserve me, O Lord, from all evil! Thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever; forsake not the work of thine own hands."

I found a paper written by him at the expiration of that year, in which he entered upon the ministry. He begins his reflections thus I am now come to the end of another year: what an eventful year has this been to me! It has been marked by important events, in all which I hope I have been in the way of duty." Of the last of these events he writes thus-"In December, I took Deacon's orders. May God make me a burning and shining light to his glory! I would endeavour to follow the guidance of providence, wherever that would lead me. I would have the glory of God to be my chief aim, whatever trials and crosses I may thereby be exposed to; for I know, that even here I shall eventually be the happier, the more uprightly I walk in the path of duty: and hereafter, when time shall appear a mere point, crosses will be nothing, they will be as the light affliction of a moment, but they may work out an eternal weight of glory. May I then devote myself to God and his service!

"Since God doth thus his wond'rous love
Through all my life extend;
That life to him I will devote,
And in his temple spend."

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