of Mr. Thomsen, who has already received an ample recompense for his kindness, in the emancipation of some of them from the still more cruel slavery of sin.

Mr. Fleming arrived at this station from Madras, on the 29th February, 1820, and the arrival of Mr. Huttmann from Batavia, where he arrived on the 13th of June, was daily expected. Mr. James Humphreys, from the Seminary at Gosport, sailed for this station on the 9th of March last.

Anglo-Chinese College.

The buildings of this important institution were in such a state of forwardness, as to admit of Dr. Milne occupying his apartments therein. Three Chinese youth had begun to attend lessons in the College, who are designed to act as native teachers or schoolmasters, in subserviency to the great object of this Society.

Considering the close connexion of the Anglo-Chinese College with the Society's operations east of the Ganges, the Directors have placed at the disposal of the Committee of Management" the sum of 550l., to be applied to those departments of the College which shall have a decided bearing on missionary objects.

During the past year steps have been taken with a view to interest the public at home in the object of the College, for the purpose of obtaining contributions in aid thereof. The total amount hitherto received is 4591. 18s.

PULO PENANG ;

OR, PRINCE OF WALES'S ISLAND. The progress of this infant mission affords much encouragement, and a considerable sphere of usefulness appears to be opening before the brethren.

There are three Malay schools, and one Chinese school. Into all the former, the Scriptures and religious tracts have been introduced; one of them is under the management of a Mahommedan, who formerly taught the Koran. One of the female Missionaries superintends a female Malay school.

Religious services have been esta

blished in the Malay and Chinese languages, and the brethren purpose commencing an English service on the Sabbath.

A house and compound has been purchased for the use of the mission, and legally secured to the Society.

The brethren continue to enjoy the sanction and encouragement of the Government, who have granted a piece of land for the use of the mission, and given permission to erect a printing office, for the purpose of diffusing religious and useful knowledge in the island. The brethren were about to print elementary books in English and Malay, and in English and Chinese, which were in a state of preparation for that purpose.

With a view to identify a portion of the natives with the mission, they have established a "Christian Asylum for Orphans," who, they trust, will form in future the "bones and sinews of the mission." They have in contemplation other benevolent and useful Institutions -such as a "Samaritan Society," a "Native Dispensary," and a " Dorcas Society."

The brethren here have established a library in connexion with the mission.

Mr. Medhurst arrived at Penang in September last, and purposes labouring chiefly among the Chinese on the southern part of the island, where the population is very considerable.

JAVA.

The Directors lament to state, that a few months after Mr. Slater's arrival at Batavia, (1819,) his house was unhappily burnt down, and his Chinese books, including many copies of the New Testament, and various articles of furniture, were consumed in the flames. This calamity, however, was much alleviated by the kind attentions of friends, but particularly by those of the family of Mr. M'Quoird, who hospitably received Mr. and Mrs. Slater into their house.

A piece of ground has since been purchased for the use of the mission, situated at a short distance from Bata

via, in the midst of a very populous neighbourhood. Here, by the aid of subscriptions from friends on the spot, he has been enabled to build a convenient dwelling-house, capable of accommodating, besides his own family, two or three more Missionaries. He has also erected, on the same premises, for heathen children, a school, which is conducted on the British system, and has subsequently opened another school in the town of Batavia, which he purposes to occupy two or three times a week as a reading room, for the benefit of the more inquisitive of the adult population.

Mr. Slater avails himself of opportunities of distributing tracts on board the Chinese junks, and has forwarded quantities of Chinese and Malay tracts, school-books, &c. to Mr. Kam, at Amboyna, and also to Bencoolen, for distribution by the Baptist brethren there.

The increased labours of the mission have induced Mr. Slater to request, that another Missionary may be sent out to his assistance. The Directors have adopted measures with this view.

SINCAPORE.

The health of Mr. Milton has very materially improved since his residence at Sincapore; and he has been able to pursue the labours of the Mission without interruption. He has commenced two schools; a Chinese and Malay. A spot of land has been selected for the use of the mission, in conformity to the grant of Sir Stamford Raffles. The Resident, Colonel Farquhar, continues to show much kindness to Mr. Milton, and speaks in very favourable terms of his application and diligence.

ΑΜΒΟΥΝΑ.

Mr. Kam has performed another journey among the Moluccas, during which, he distributed about 3000 copies of the Malay New Testament, with which he had been supplied by the British and Foreign Bible Society; since which, the inhabitants of one of the islands, (Nasalout,) in consequence of reading the Scriptures, had destroyed a great number of their idols.

Mr. Kam's church had lately (Au gust 1820,) been joined by two Javans, baptized as converts from paganism, and by two Amboynese, who all attend the adult school, or seminary, in Mr. Kam's house.

Mr. Kam's Printing Office was finished, and he had printed 3000 copies of a Malay Catechism, which his people were very anxious to receive. Four of the native Christians were capable of managing the press. His compositor, pro tempore, was a Dutch soldier, whom the Commander of the troops kindly allowed to be constantly employed in the office.

EAST INDIES. Calcutta.

The importance of the Mission in this city increases. During the last year, the brethren have devoted themselves more entirely to the ministry of the Gospel among the heathen. They have established, in Calcutta, and in its vicinity, twenty-one stations, at each of which there is preaching every week. At the Freemasons' Lodge there is English worship twice every Sabbath. From 120 to 140 attend ; and the Church consists of about 30 members, who walk worthy of their holy vocation.

The building of the projected new chapel, to be called "Union Chapel," was (August 1820) in a state of considerable forwardness. 12501. had been paid for the ground. Of the subscriptions about 15001. remained in hand, and 20001, more would be required to finish it.

Mr. Edward Ray, a member of the Mission English church, had been engaged as an assistant. He, and MrHarle, from Chinsurah, reside at TallyGunge, diligently and successfully prosecuting their studies, with a view to labours in an important department of the Calcutta Mission.

The printing-press, which was removed from Chinsurah, had been constantly and usefully employed.

A monthly publication, entitled the "Gospel Magazine," printed in English and Bengalee, has been commen

It is with much pleasure that the Directors state, that a peculiar spirit of affectionate union, and harmonious cooperation, characterises the mission at Calcutta, which, while it forms an admirable example for imitation, affords one of the surest presages of ultimate success. It is with deep sorrow and regret that they record, at the same time, that from the affectionate and harmonious little band, who labour at this station, one during the last year was separated by the stroke of death, who gave more than ordinary promise of zealous and successful exertion as a Missionary. The Directors allude to Mr. John Hampson, who died on the 21st of September last.

Although the health of Mr. Townley has been in a considerable degree reestablished, yet it appears, from the report of his physicians, that it will be necessary, for its preservation, that he should not reside at Calcutta. He purposed, in consequence, to remove in the month of February last to Chinsurah, as his more stated residence, and to devote himself almost entirely to the work of the ministry among the heathen in that vicinity.

In consequence of the decease of Mr. Hampson, and his own projected removal, Mr. Townley solicits the Directors, in the most urgent and importunate manner, to send out more Missionaries.

Mr. William H. Bankhead, appointed to this station, sailed in the Lonach, Captain Pearson, on the 9th of March last, and the Directors have lately determined to send out two more Missionaries to this important field of labour, with as little delay as possible. GHINSURAH.

The health of Mr. Pearson suffered some interruption during the last year, but a short voyage off the sand banks was the means of restoring him to his usual health.

Mr. George Mundy arrived at this station in the spring of last year, and

gence to the study of the language, in which his progress had been such as to encourage a hope that he would speedily be able to address the natives.

The native schools have been reduced to 24, which contain about 2500 scholars; but the improvements which have been made in the economy and management of the schools, and the increased proficiency of the children, are considered as in a great measure compensating for this reduction.

The Scriptures have been introduced into six or seven of the schools, and the brethren hope, that they shall be able gradually to introduce them into the rest.

The Directors have great pleasure in stating, that Mr. Pearson has begun to preach to the natives in Bengalee. During the fine season, it was his custom to go out in the cool of the evening, to different parts of the town, where he addressed large and attentive congregations. He has subsequently adopted the plan of reading the Bible, and conversing with the natives thereon, in connexion with prayer, and an exposition of the Scriptures. A bungalow chapel has been erected without the gates for this object, and it was proposed to erect another within the town.

Numerous tracts are put into circulation, and scarcely a day passes without many applications for them at the mission house. The brethren had latterly sent copies of the Gospel Magazine, published at Calcutta, to between two and three hundred of the more respectable natives of Chinsurah and its vicinity, and intended pursuing the same plan monthly. It is understood that the magazines are very generally read, and a Hindoo gentleman, resident in the neighbourhood, had sent his servant with the money, and requested, that a copy might be sent to him every month.

Various useful school-books in Bengalee, &c. had been printed at the Chinsurah press, and Mr. Pearson had compiled an English and Bengalee

grammar, for the use of the adult natives, who are desirous to learn English, as well as for use in his projected English school, of which 1000 copies were ordered to be printed for the "Calcutta School Book Society." BENARES.

Mr. and Mrs. Adam arrived with Mr. Mundy safe at Calcutta, in the spring of last year. Here they continued for some time making preparations for their long journey to the place of their ultimate destination. During this period Mr. Adam obtained much useful information from several respectable individuals, but particularly from the Rev. Mr. Corrie, who had formerly resided at Benares.

Mr. and Mrs. Adam left Calcutta on the 24th of June, and arrived at Benares on the 6th of August. During their passage of about 900 miles up the Ganges, they had frequent opportunities of distributing tracts among the natives, of which they constantly availed themselves.

Subsequently to his arrival at Benares, Mr. Adam had devoted himself chiefly to the study of the Hindoostanee. On Sabbath and Wednesday evenings he addresses, in English, a company of artillerymen, who assemble in his house.

Mr. Adam was compiling a "Life of Christ" for the use of the natives, in which he designs to contrast the dignity and purity of our Lord's character with the opposite qualities, as found in the Hindoo mythology.

Considering the uncertainty of life, and the great importance of Benares, in a missionary point of view, Mr. Adam urges the Directors to send out another Missionary to that station.

On this subject Mr. Adam observes as follows: "The city of Benares, as a Missionary station, stands pre-eminently important. Its fancied and far-famed sanctity, its venerated antiquity; its being considered, in the estimation of the natives, as the seat of Brahminical learning and purity, and the great multitudes who inhabit, and, on certain

festivals, frequent it, seem to point it out as the citadel of the powers of darkness. When once it surrenders to the armies of the living God, and the Christian Missionary, standing among its forsaken temples, can proclaim, "Benares the great is fallen, is fallen, is fallen;" we may reasonably expect, that the march of Christianity will be rapid indeed.

VIZAGAPATAM.

It is with feelings of deep lamentation and regret, that the Directors report the decease of the Society's very valuable Missionary, Mr. Edward Pritchett, who was removed from this mortal scene, after only a few days illness, on the 13th of last June. He was a strong man, and had suffered comparatively little from the climate. After superintending the printing of his Teloogoo translation of the New Testament at Madras, he returned with his family to Vizagapatam in the spring of last year. He had advanced more than half way in his translation of the Old Testament into the same language, when a mysterious visitation suddenly arrested him in the midst of his useful labours.

The brethren, Messrs. Gordon and Dawson, were proceeding in their Missionary labours; but the strength of Mr. Gordon has suffered some diminution from the effects of the climate. MADRAS.

Of the state of the free schools at this station, no accounts have been received during the past year. In the English schools, of which there are four, the Scriptures are regularly read, and Dr. Watts's Catechisms committed to memory, and apparently with good effect. The native schools have been increased to 15, into four of which the Scriptures and religious tracts have been introduced, and it is hoped, that this example will be followed in all the others.

The new chapel at Persewankum was opened on Christmas day, 1819. It is respectably and numerously attended, especially in the evenings. In the

church at Black Town there are 24 members, of whose piety the brethren entertain no doubt. Apavoo has the charge of a Tamul congregation, and it was expected that Mr. Nicholson, would commence preaching to the natives before the close of the last year.

The collections at the anniversary of the Madras Auxiliary Missionary Society, had exceeded those of the preceding year.

An Auxiliary Bible Society was established at Madras in the spring of 1820, and Mr. Nicholson appointed one of the Secretaries.

The general state of things at this Presidency, with regard to objects connected with the diffusion of knowledge, and especially that of Christianity, is rapidly improving. The prejudices of the natives are evidently on the decline, and even the Brahmins themselves are becoming more and more indifferent to their ancient superstitions. It also appears, that many among the Musselmans entertain less confidence than formerly in the authority of the Arabian impostor.

BELLARY.

Mr. Hands, after superintending the printing of the Gospels, in the Canara, at Madras, returned to Bellary, where he arrived safe on the 30th of June, and found much reason to be satisfied with the state of the mission, and the manner in which Mr. Reeve had discharged the increased labours which had devolved upon him.

The number of native schools at this station is increased to 15, and that of the boys under instruction to about 600. The Canara Gospels, and the Teloogoo New Testaments, together with printed catechisms, had been introduced into the schools, where, in general they have been well received. The brethren rejoice in the expectation, that many thousands of heathen children at Bellary and in its vicinity, will now be made acquainted with the Scriptures from their tenderest age. The number of children supported and educated in the

Bellary charity school, is 40, besides six supported entirely by the mission.

Numerous copies of portions of the sacred Scriptures, and religious tracts, in the native languages, are very extensively distributed. During a period of about six months, the brethren had disposed of books to the amount of 60l. A religious book was formerly a rare sight in that part of India; the people had no relish for such things; but now they are sought after, and seized with the greatest avidity.

The brethren preach in English on Sabbath mornings and evenings, and on Wednesday evenings. In consequence of the English Chaplain having been obliged to leave Bellary on account of ill health, the brethren had supplied his place in the Episcopalian church, where, on the Sabbath, they preach to crowded congregations. Mr. Reeve preaches also at the General Hospital, and distributes tracts. Services in the Canara and Tamul are regularly held for the benefit of the natives. In the latter service, Mr. Abraham, a member of the church at Bellary, renders considerable aid. Anundarayer, the native teacher, continues to be very useful, and in addressing the people, speaks with much propriety.

The contributions to the Auxiliary Societies for the last year were as follow:

Mr. Howell has been received into the mission at Bellary, and has rendered much assistance in the superintendence of the schools. On the arrival of Mr. Hiram Chambers, who was sent out from the Seminary at Gosport in October last, and is appointed to this station, he will probably take a higher department in the mission, as he possesses a familiar acquaintance with no less than four of the native languages.

Mr. Joseph Taylor with the approbation of his brethren in the Peninsula, had removed to Belgaum, accompanied