NOTICES. THE Wilts and Somerset half yearly Association will be held at Bath, on Tuesday, the 15th of April. Messrs. Mitchell, of Warminster; Seymour, of Bradford; and Gough, of WestburyLeigh, are expected to preach. have the same destination in view; and provided the means we pursue of virtue and goodness are the same, the speculative parts do not possess the importance assigned to them by ignorance and superstition." Certain ly it must be allowed, that the claims of ignorance and superstition will not admit of defence; but we cannot allow the doctrines of Christian-held for the second time at Ridgmount, ity to be placed in the same class the last Wednesday in April. Messrs. with idle or harmless speculations. Knight, of Little Stoughton, and PeaWe hope better things of this inge-cock, of Rushden, to preach. nious lady-but the language here The Bedfordshire Association will be The Bucks and Herts Association will is very unguarded. In vol. iii. p. 168, be held at Ivinghoe, ou Thursday, May (see also p. 220,) there is an obscure 22. Messrs. Godwin, and Groser, sen. hint respecting "the highest happi"the highest happi- to preach.-Service to begin at ten. ness of all intelligent creatures," In the Press. Memorials, with considerable additions and corrections. The Rev. Mr. Barker, of Towcester, which appears to us incompetent LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. with the doctrine of the New Testament respecting the future state. But the most objectionable period we have met with, is in vol. iii. P. 218, "Let us not then rest for happiness on so weak a foundation as our own imperfect merits, but seek for salvation through him, whose life was a perfect pattern of the most pure and disinterested benevolence." Herc let the reader not forget, if the writer has forgotten-the cross of Christ! Miss Renou appears to have studied, with particular attention, the question relating to the original equality of the sexes; and she maintains the dignity of the female character with great spirit and force. "The pride of man (she observes) has too long clouded his reason, diminished his rational sources of happiness, and prevented him from enjoying those exquisite and refined gratifications which his Maker rendered him capable of partaking, in creating for him a mind, possessed of equal intellectual powers, but invested with greater delicacy, refinement, and susceptibility than his own." Not from his head was woman took, JOHN WESLEY. is publishing a discourse, entitled, Youth admonished of many sources of danger destructive to religious feeling. Just published, A Treatise, touching the Libertie of a Christian Man, written in Latin, by Doctor Martyne Luther, and translated by James Bell. Imprinted by R. Newbery and H. Bynneman, 1579. Dedicated "To Lady Anne, Countess of Warwicke." With the celebrated Epistle from M. Luther to Pope Leo X.Edited by William Bengo Collyer, D.D. F. A. S. and dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.-Published by Longman & Co. The first volume of the fourth edition of Beddome's short Discourses, adapted to Village Worship, or the Devotions of second and third are in the press, and the Family, is ready for delivery. The will be published in a few days, price 2s. each volume. A New Weekly Paper, entitled "The Philanthropic Gazette," has lately appeared, of which nine or ten number. are now published. It is particularly adapted for the use of Religious Families and Schools, by the omission of every thing indelicate or improper for the perusal of young persons. Its politics are moderate and constitutional. but independent; and it has a department particularly appropriated to plaus of public benevolence and utility.For further particulars, see the adver tisement in our Magazine for December. Missionary Retrospect and Foreign Intelligence. BAPTIST MISSION. THE following account will show the manner in which the missionaries circulate the scriptures among the heathens in India: and proves how well-founded the applications of the Baptist Missionary Society are to all classes of Christians for support. Parts of Scripture, and Scripture Tracts, gratuitously distributed from the Serampore Printing Office, during the year 1815: Sungskrita Pentateuch, Historical Hindee Pentateuch... ........ Ditto New Testament, (Hunter's Ditto Gospels..... Ditto Essence of Christian Doc-. ......... 180 171 3328 22 300 243 646 11,466 1000 2716 87 12 2934 "I have to communicate the painful intelligence of our dear brother Trowt's death. He left the world of sin and sorrow on the 24th of October. His complaint was a dysentery, with which he had been afflicted for a long time; but it seems he did not apprehend his end was near, till within the last hour of his life. His heart was much set on his work among the Javanese; and, probably, it was the earnest desire he had to perform that work, which induced him to hope for recovery, when all just ground of hope was removed. I suppose little or nothing can be said of the state of his mind, with the exception that just before his dissolution, he said to brother Bruckner, that all his hope was in the promises. We are not, however, reduced to the necessity of examining the state of 26,841 his mind on his death-bed, for proofs that he was a true Christian: his life gave full proof of this; so that while we lament that he has been taken from us, we need not doubt but he has entered into the joy of his Lord. The Java Mission has sustained a great loss by his death; for he had good abilities, and he made a good use of them. I really suspect he hastened his end by a too close application to study. The Javanese language 322 7 3684 86 24 3450 206 200 6 255 417 152 10 398 2384 *These pamphlets include the Chris tian Soldier, or the Lives of Col. Gardiner and Col. Blackader; Jesus Christ VOL. IX. the only Refuge from the Wrath to OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARY STATIONS ASTRACHAN. A city in Russian Tartary, situate on the Caspian Sea, distinguished for its extensive conimerce. Edinburgh Missionary Society.—1814.- In the Rev. Mr Pinkerton's History of the Greek Church, there is an account of a sect of dissenters, called Duchoboorzi, who are said, in many of their sentiments, to resemble strongly the English Quakers. The persecutions against this sect have been very severe. They were banished from their homes on the banks of the Don, and placed, in remote and solitary parts of the empire, to prevent them from spreading their opinions. Their children were likewise taken from them, that they may not be educated in their principles. The Emperor Alexander has been induced to relieve these Christians from their perse. A printing-press is established, at cutors The following is an extract which an edition of the Psalms, in Turkfrom the Military Rescript to the gover-ish, has been printed. The Tartar New nor of Cherson:-"The departure of Testament, printed at Karass, with Tar this sect from the true faith of the Grecotar Tracts, are widely dispersed by Russian church is stated to be a deviameans of Persian merchants, who tion founded upon some erroneous representations of the true worship, and of carry them, as they will the Persian Scriptures and Tracts, when ready, to the spirit of Christianity; but as they are Derbent, Shirvan, Ispahan, &c. not without religion-for they seek for what is divine, though not with a right understanding-it does not become a Christian government to employ harsh and cruel means, torture, exile, &c. to bring back to the bosom of the church those who have gone astray. The doctrine of the Redeemer, who came into the world to save the sinner, cannot, it is said, be spread by constraint and punishment; cannot serve for the oppression of those who are to be led back into the paths of truth. All the measures of severity exhausted upon the Duchoboorzi, in the course of 30 years, up to 1801, were not able to extirpate this sect, and only increased the number of its adherents; they are, therefore, in future, to be protected from unmerited insults, on account of the difference of their faith." We should have been happy had this rescript ended with this period; but, with singular inconsistency, it is added, "If these sectaries seek to draw away others from the established church, and to injure them with their own religious BAHAMAS. A chain of islands in the West Indies. ELUTHERA. Joseph Ward. HARBOUR ISLAND AND ABACO.Roger Moore. LONG ISLAND.-Michael Head. members. BALASORE. A town in the Province of Orissa, in India. about 120 miles s. w. of Calcutta, and in the vicinity of the Temple of Juggernaut; to which many hundred thousand Hindoo devotees annually resort. Baptist Society.-1810-John Peter, an Armenian. His labours, with those of a late na tive assistant, Kreeshnoo-dass, have been very successful. An edition of the scriptures, in the Orissa language, has been distributed Before the missionary came hither, even Portuguese worshipped the idol. A Brahmin, named Juggu natha, has been lately baptized, and preaches the gospel. BARBADOES. An island in the West Indies. United Brethren.-SHARON.-1765. Nicholas Ganson, J, A. Kaltofen. Wesleyan Methodists.-Wm. Westerman. An alarming insurrection lately broke out in Barbadoes, which was suppressed with the loss of many lives A futile attempt was made to connect this insurrection with missionary exertions; but it is a fact that deserves the notice of even the mere politician of this world, that Christian efforts to instruct the Negroes have met, in Barbadoes, with more than usual resistance. By the last returns, there were only 54 persons members of the Wesleyan Society; and we know, from the Report of the assistant secre tary of the Church Missionary Society, who landed at Barbadoes on his return from Sierra Le ne, that the missions of the United Brethren do not meet there with their wonted encouragement and success. Very little has, at any time, been done toward the instruction of the Negroes; and, at the time of the insurrection, and for many months preceding, there was no Methodist missionary on the island. If the slaves of Barbadoes had been diligently instructed, and brought under the influence of the gospel, no such event would have taken place. Some of the planters themselves have discernment enough to see this. BERHAMPORE. A town in Bengal, about 120 miles N. N. w. of Calcutta. Baptist Missionary Society. Pran krishna Nidhee-rama, Natives. A station lately formed. Mr. Gardiner, born in the country, assists the native missionaries. BERMUDA. An island in the West Indies. In 1728, the very Rev Dean Berke ley, aiterwards Bishop of Cloyne, generously resolved to surrender his preter ment at home, and to form a Missionary College at Bermuda, for Indian youths, in order to evangelize America. He was patronised by George I; but, through the influence of Sir Robert Walpole, this noble scheme proved abortive, after the Dean had sailed to Rhode Island, and had expended much of his private fortune. Wesley 'n Methodists-1788.-William Number of members, 96. By the blessing of God on the ministry of Van der Kemp, Read, Uilbricht, and others, hundreds of Hottenots, and other Africans, have been converted. Their improvement in civilization is great, and they practice no less than sixteen trades. The settlement consists of about 1200 persons. Four hundred and forty-two adults, beside A town in the Mysore, in India, The children, have been baptized. They are language is Telinga. now building a school-house and printLondon Missionary Society.—1810.—Johning-office, and the society has lately sent BELHARY. London Missionary Society.—Cornelius the west coast of the Peninsula, the seat | Kramer's District-in the Drosdy, or of an archdeaconry, ten miles in length District, of Tulbagh-about 40 miles by three in breadth, population about north from Cape Town. 220,000; of whom about 8000 are Parsees, nearly as many Mahomedans, and about half that number of Jews; the remainder Portuguese and Hindoos; the Hindoos composing more than threefourths of the whole population. American Board of Missions.-1813.- BOSJESVELD. In South Africa-sometimes called Kramer. CAFFRARIA. A country in South Africa-700 miles London Missionary Society.-1816.— (To be continued.) There is reason to believe that several branch societies exist, of which no account has yet been transmitted to the parent institution. In addition to the above Societies, there are numerous Bible Associations, consisting chiefly of subscribers of one penny or two pence a week, connected with Auxiliary Societies; which Associations have, in some instances, produced thrice the amount of the subscriptions to the auxiliary within whose district they are comprised. Their beneficial effect upon the morals of the people is already considerable. Expenditure of the Society. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. On Friday, the 14th March, the first stone of a School was laid at Newington Butts, by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. This school, for 400 boys, is to be conducted on the principles of the British and Foreign School Society, and will admit children of all denominations. On this occasion, the Rev. Dr. Collyer addressed a very numerous assembly, on the advantages of extending knowledge, both in respect to the present and future state of man. Thomas Scott, Esq. the Secretary, read the inscription on the plate, which was depesited with some coin of his present Majesty the patron and friend of educa tion on this broad and liberal plan. The Lord Mayor then laid the stone, and addressed the company in an appro |