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OBITUARY.

At St. Helena, ANNE, wife of the Rev. James CHATER, one of the missionaries at Ceylon, and sister of Mrs. Sketchley of Liverpool. Mrs. Chater was possessed of talent and much sensibility, and her attention having been directed early in life to the religious state of the Heathen world, by the powerful preaching and conversation of her uncle, the late Rev. John Thomas, founder of the Baptist Mission to the East, (see the "Baptist Periodical Accounts," she married in 1806 with the express design of becoming personally useful to that Mission, but a fast-increasing family, and a climate destructive to her health and constitution, caused her some disappointment as it regarded the primary object of her voluntary exile; a disappointment of which she speaks in the most pathetic language in some of her private letters. In 1815, she suffered the loss of her two elder sons, on their passage to this country for education, in the Arniston sloop of war, which was wrecked on the coast of Africa, and in which perished at the same time Lord and Lady Molesworth, who had taken the children under their protection during the passage. From that period Mrs. Chater's health became so much impaired as to destroy her public usefulness, and oblige her to relinquish a school which she had till then conducted in Columbo

for the benefit of the Missionary funds. In March last, having already borne ten children in India, and being again in a state of pregnancy, her physicians recom. mended her return for one year to her native land, assuring her that they believed two months at sea would restore

her to her original health. The embarkation of herself and seven children, leaving her husband at Columbo on account of his Missionary engagements, was the last important effort of her firm and courageous mind. On their arrival at St. Helena, being in a state of such extreme debility as to make it necessary to the saving of her life that she should land and await there her delivery, she did so, retaining her two younger children, infants of one and three years, with her, while her five elder ones were separated from her to proceed, under the care of the captain, to England. On the 18th of May, four days after their departure, she was delivered of female twins, and her constitution being now in a state of rapid exhaustion, she expired on the 5th of June, leaving an interesting family of nine children, the eldest of whom is but just turned of nine years. The four infants at St. Helena were instantly after her death taken under the protecting care of the Rev. J. B. Vernon, officiating

Episcopal clergyman of that place, whose attention to Mrs. Chater during her last sufferings, and subsequently to her children, and his Christian conduct in other instances of personal suffering abroad, entitle him to the respect and admiration of every Christian community in his native land. The family of Mrs. Chater owe him the most unbounded gratitude, and while they record his name and his deeds in the perishing memorials of earth, they believe them to be already written in heaven. Although Mrs. Chater died in circumstances of almost unparalleled trial, in a land of strangers, and severed from every earthly friend, her lamenting relatives have consolation in believing, that as she lived in the fear and the service of God, she died in the exercise of that faith which, realizing the Divine presence, makes the chamber of death "the gate of heaven."

Rev. THOMAS LETTER TAYLOR, minister Sept. 6, at Billingshurst, Susser, the of the Unitarian Baptist congregation, of apoplexy, in the midst of his career of Christian duty and increasing usefulness, at the early age of 26 years, 66 leaving a widow, with two infant children, and the prospect of a third, without any means of support. Mrs. Taylor has for health, which, united with her present some time been in a very weak state of situation, will render it impossible for her to use personal exertion for the support of herself and children for a considerable time to come.

"The Society at Billingshurst are desirous of raising a fund by subscription, sufficient to provide necessaries and a few comforts for the bereaved widow during the trying scene immediately before her; and they have already entered into a subscription for this purpose to the utmost of their ability, and feel themselves called on to make an appeal to the benevolence of individuals and congregations for aid, in this case of peculiar distress."

Any contribution transmitted to the Rev. Win. Moon, Union Street, Deptford, or to Mr. G. Smallfield, Printer, to the Deacons of the Society for the Hackney, will be immediately forwarded purposes above-stated.

Nov. 23, at her house in Hackney, the late Wm. Jesser, Esq., of that place. MARY MYRTILLA JESSER, daughter of This respectable lady survived but a few weeks her mother, (see p. 553,) to whom she was tenderly attached.

INTELLIGENCE.

DOMESTIC,

RELIGIOUS.

Moral Philosophy, in the University of Edinburgh. This appointment was rehemently resisted, and has occasioned

Re-opening of the Presbyterian Meet- great dissatisfaction in Scotland.

ing-House, Evesham.

On the 10th instant was re-opened the Presbyterian Meeting-House at Evesham, Worcestershire, after being shut up for two months, in order to add a gallery, and to alter and improve the whole of the interior. The minister, Mr. Davis, preached on the occasion to a full congregation, on the Nature and Importance of Public Worship. The expense of the alterations and improvements was very considerable, as the seats are made to rise gradually on an inclined floor, (which is a great advantage,) but justice and gratitude require it to be recorded, that the whole was generously paid by one individual. May such liberality become more

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Pastoral Jubilee.—A beautiful piece of sculpture has been erected in St. John's Church, Manchester, to commemorate the 50th year of the incumbency, [not surely the "incumbrancy," as the Monthly Magazine reports!] of the Rev. JoN CLOWES, M. A., the present Rector. It consists of a tablet of white marble, containing ten figures in basso relievo, admirably executed by Mr. Flaxman, and is placed over the Rector's seat. The venerable Rector is represented in the act of instructing a most interesting groupe of children, who are accompanied by their parents and grandsire, to signify the three generations who have attended Mr. Clowes' ministry. Behind the rector stands a guardian angel, bearing a palmbranch, expressive of the Divine protection, Such a memorial as this, is, perhaps, without a parallel. Mr. Clowes is the principal writer, of the present day, on behalf of the doctrines of Swedenborgh.

Mr. PILLANS, Rector of the High School, has been appointed Professor of Humanity in the University of Edinburgh. The Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, (that is, a majority of them,) on the 19th of July, appointed JOHN WILSON, Esq., advocate, to be Professor of

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(From the Traveller.)

SUFFOLK COUNTY SESSIONS.

Held at Bury St. Edmunds, October 23, before T. S. Gooch, Esq., and a Beach of Magistrates.

Considerable interest was excited at these sessions, by the trial of Mr. Francis Twight, a farmer, for repeating in open church, at Whepstead, in this county, (after the blessing implored for the King,)

and God bless the Queen too." For this exclamation he was summoned by the reverend vicar of the parish, Mr. Image, before the magistrates, and convicted in the penalty of £20, which refusing to pay, he was ordered to be committed to prison until the ensuing sessions, or find bail; the latter, however, he declined, though pressed so to do, not only by the most respectable inha

bitants of the parish, who offered to become bail, but by the magistrates themselves. A jury, after several challenges, were sworn: the clerk then read over the indictment, containing no less than eight counts, which charged that the defendant Twight, on the 17th of September last, in the parish church of Whepstead," willingly, and of purpose, maliciously and contemptuously did interrupt and disturb the congregation there assembled." When the defendant was asked in common form whether he pleaded guilty or not guilty, no little consternation pervaded the court and auditors, to hear him reply "guilty." Mr. Cooper, one of his counsel, immediately arose, and said that the defendant certainly laboured under a misapprehension, and Twight added, he said the words, but pleaded guilty to them as "no crime."

Mr. Storks then addressed the jury:"After a very anxious attention to this case, and a firm persuasion in my own mind, from the finding of the grand jury, as to its result, I yield myself reluctantly to the wishes of my client, who has felt it his duty not to have permitted in his church, that which would not have been permitted in another-an attempt to disturb a Christian congregation. He has felt for the infatuation of the defeudant, and is satisfied with the punishment of the defendant, who has thought proper to lay (lie) in gaol ever since the 27th of September last, which he trusts will be an example to him and to all others. I say," continued the learned gentleman, "that my client, impelled by this Christian spirit of charity, wishes to put an end to this case, and to leave it at this stage of the proceedings, by not producing any evidence. If my learned friends choose to accept this offer, I shall set myself down; but if it be not accepted, I shall discharge my duty as a zealous advocate in prosecuting this case, and I have no doubt as to its result."

A pause here ensued. No answer was made by 'defendant's counsel, when the chairman said, as no evidence is brought forward, the jury must find an acquittal, and they instantly returned a verdict of Not guilty. The chairman observed, "You ought to be very much obliged," when Twight said loudly, "I do not feel so at all," or "I do not thank you for it" (we could not exactly catch the expression. General applause, upon hearing the verdict, immediately ensued, when the chairman, with great warmth, desired the constables to take the offenders into custody, and if they did not do their duty he would do his by apprehending the first man guilty of such behaviour.

A correspondent of The Huntingdon Gazette observes, that the friends of

Twight are sorry the case was not proceeded in, as they firmly relied on a triumphal acquittal; for it was with great difficulty the grand jury could find a bill. The result has given great satisfaction to every friend of civil and religious liberty in this neighbourhood; for the charitable conduct of this reverend divine, in instituting these proceedings, is universally condemned by all parties. A subscription is set on foot, confining it to the sum of 1s. each, to defray the expenses of the trial, and the subscriptions flow in freely. The defendant only laughed at the proffered mercy, and he intends instituting proceedings against the reverend vicar.

FOREIGN.

FRANCE.

of the Chamber of Deputies, on Friday The Two Religions.--During the sitting the 22d June, the state of the clergy in France was made the subject of discussion. The estimates for the Established Clergy of the Church of Rome amounts to 22,600,000 francs, (£941,000,) which was granted by the Chamber. The Minister of the Interior then demanded the sum of 60,000 francs (£2,500) for the Protestant Clergy, and further required, that the estimate should be augmented to the sum of 60,000 francs (£2,500) for the repair of Protestant Churches. He stated that "the Protestant religion is or ganized in fifty departments of France : it is celebrated in 200 churches or places of worship, the greater part of which are in want of repair. There are many places where, for want of churches, the service of religion is celebrated in the open air." This estimate was granted without the slightest opposition.

The Protestants of France propose to publish a collection of Portraits, &c., entitled Musée des Protestans Célèbres, &c. "Museum of celebrated Protestants who have appeared from the commencement of the Reformation to the present day." The work will consist of lithographic portraits of the earliest Reformers, and others distinguished by their rank, their talents and their sufferings, with short memoirs of their lives; and it is proposed to extend this collection to about 150 portraits. It will be published at the Protestant Library in the Place du Louvre.

Two warriors of the Revolution, Marshals KELLERMAN, Duke of Valmy, and LEFEBVRE, Duke of Dantsic, are lately deceased. Kellerman's heart is to be buried at his own request at Valmy, the scene

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"In 1818, a subject of Russia was condemned to death for forging Banknotes, and had his punishment commuted into hard labour for life by the Emperor. While suffering this sentence, he was again guilty of the same crime, condemned again to death, and again had his life spared by Alexander, who ordered him to be kept confined for life in a fortress, under strict guard."— Hambro' paper.

The consecration of a place of worship, recently built for the German Protestant Church at Moscow, took place on the 11th of September, 1819. The ceremony was conducted by the pastors Garing and Dommes.

CHINA.

A Brussels paper of November 6, states that the Chinese government has prohibited the importation of opium into its dominions. The same jealous and persecuting government is also said to have ordered Father AMIOT, the only missionary who was still at Pekin, to quit China; and to have inhumanly strangled at Canton, an old French priest of great age, who had secretly inhabited China for a great number of years.

It appears that the herculean labour of translating the BIBLE into the CHINESE LANGUAGE has at length been accomplished through the perseverance and ability of Mr. Milne and Dr. Morrison, to whom, under God, the warmest thanks of the Christian world are most justly due. In a letter, dated Canton, Nov. 25, 1819, Dr. Morrison writes thus to the Committee of the Bible Society: "Thus we possess in Chinese, a complete version of all the canonical books of Sacred Scrip

ture. The qualities at which I have aimed in my translations, are fidelity, perspicuity and simplicity; and when the difficulty of the task, the circumstances in which the translation has been placed, and the few helps afforded for a first attempt, are considered, I am sure that every candid man, and the Committee of the Bible Society, will not lay stress on trivial objections. It will be our study to revise the whole, alone and together, and to collate every part with each other, in order to render names of persons and places uniform; and we shall avail ourselves of any criticisms that may reach us from any quarter: and may that gracious Provi dence that has preserved our lives to complete the Translation, yet spare us to revise and print the whole! The light of revelation will, by the mercy of God, illumine this dark and idolatrous land in the appointed season. The printing of the edition of the New Testament, before decided on, is proceeding gradually at Malacca; and it will be necessary to print the edition of the whole Bible, which I now project, at the same place. May the Divine blessing rest on all the members and friends of the Bible Society!"

The Emperor of China has received an "Ode to the Supreme Being," written in Russian by Gabriel Romanowtcht, a Russian poet, which he has caused to be translated into both languages, (the Chinese and the Tartar,) to be written on a piece of rich silk, and suspended in the interior of his palace.

The English newspapers of this day (Dec. 26th) announce the Emperor of China's death, on the authority of letters from Petersburgh.

EAST INDIES.

Consistorial Court at Calcutta-This Court was announced by public advertisement, dated Sept. 8, 1819, under the title of "The Consistory Court within and for the Archdeaconry of Calcutta, in the Diocese of Calcutta." The Bishop's address on opening the Court is a pleasing proof that ecclesiastical authority cannot become oppressive in Hindostan. A great part of the business incident to the Consistory Courts in England, is granted by His Majesty's Charter of Justice to the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta. The Bishop's Court has to look after the clergy; to see that they use the Liturgy, the whole Liturgy, and nothing but the Liturgy; and to superintend the registry of baptisms.

A

GENERAL INDEX

OF

SUBJECTS AND SIGNATURES.

The Names and Signatures of Correspondents are distinguished by Small
Capitals or Italics: as different Correspondents have often adopted the same signature,
some ambiguity in the references will unavoidably arise; but this is an inconvenience
necessarily attached to anonymous communications.

A

A's hymu on the presence of God,
52. On the infinite greatness of
God, ib. On the creation of the
world, ib. His hymn to God, 53,
311. On the efficacy of prayer,
207. His reflections on Saturday
night, 310. His song of the Che-
rubim, 364. His midnight hymu,
ib. On God, 481. On the world
of poetry, ib.

ib. His address to God,
A. B. C. on the fate of a bequest to
a chapel at Allostock, Cheshire,
A. C. on the resurrection illustrated
by similitude, 139. On a debate
on the doctrine of the Trinity,

662

America, on Unitarianism in, 14, 128,
141, 255, 564. Mr. Adams's letter
on emigration to, 158. Public af-
fairs, &c. of, ib. 380, 602, 628.
Law against duelling in, 380, 628,
Letters from the Back Settlements
of, 602,
American literary diplomas, on, 345 694
AMICUS on the right of the magistrate
to punish unbelievers,
Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Greek,
initiation of a Moslemin, from,
Andrews, Mr. Henry, obituary of,
ANON on the punishment of Mr. Car-
lile,

289

His hymu to Jesus,

80

617

245

470

270

397

161

Apology for the Life and Writings
of David Hume,extract from,
Arbitration Societies, on the forma-
tion of,

704

613

366

Academics, on assistance to,

Accommodating divine, an,

Acts iii. 1, examination of,

707

Adams's, Mr., letter on emigration to
America,

158

ADVOCATE FOR A RELIGIOUS COM-

MONWEALTH, AN, on Mr. Belsham's

Three Sermons,

456

Aged and Infirm Protestant Dissent-

ing Ministers' Society, anniversary
of the,

431

36 Aspland's, Mr., letters in the Times,
on,

Assheton's Historical Map of Pales-
tine, or the Holy Land, reviewed, 544
Atonement, on the doctrine of, 425,
Fuller on the,

Attempt to distinguish between ge-
nuine and spurious Christianity,
448, 525. On, 666, 709,
Augsburgh Confession, account of

592

714

Aikin, Mr. Edmund, obituary of,
Ali Bey's Travels, extraets from, 262,
348,
Allostock, Cheshire, fate of a bequest
to a chapel at,

187

the Consistorial Church of the

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350

AUTHENTICITY, &c., THE AUTHOR

OF THE, on the baptismal commis-

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