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tion, brought eleven-pence; when one of the Committee, understanding it was her all, gently remonstrated with her on giving the whole, to which she replied, 'it cannot be given in a better cause?

"One poor woman on being applied to, burst into tears, at the same time exclaim ing-'Ab, madam! I well know what it is to be an orphan; and though I am very poor, I hope that you will accept my sixpence. I would give more were it in my power? Another poor woman, expecting to receive a shilling as the fruit of her labour, proposed sending it to the Committee, who, finding it was designed for the support of her family, could not consent to receive it from her; she then insisted upon their taking threepence, which was all she had.

i "Mr. Reynolds added, that these were but specimens of the anecdotes which might have been mentioned; and that the whole strongly proved that the poorer classes of society felt themselves gratified in be. ing permitted to join in the benevolence of their country in relief of the miseries in Germany."

We will close this long account with an extract from the Sixth Report of the Com mittee.

"The confidence with which the Committee, for relieving the Distress in Germany and other parts of the Continent, has been honoured by the British Public, is entitled to its warmest acknowledgments. In proportion to the magnitude of the trust reposed in it, the Committee feels anxious for its due fulfilment, and that the liberal benefactors may be satisfied that their donations have been faithfully and wisely distributed. In the second Report, issued by the Committee, they gave a copy of the in structions to the committees of distribution. These instructions appear to have been strictly attended to, and the distributors have fulfilled their trust with high honour to themselves, having spared no pains to acquire the most minute information of the situation of the numerous applicants, to whom they have apportioned relief, with discrimination calculated to produce the greatest advantage to the sufferers. To the husbandman, they have supplied wherewith to till and sow his fields; to the me. chanic, tools to resume his industry. The tables of distribution, given in the Report, may serve as specimens of the immense

pains taken by these worthy continental cooperators in the noble work of charity The London Committee respectfully offers its congratulations to the benevolent donors in the United Kingdom, on this addition to the pleasure which they doubtless received, while bestowing their bounty; in that it has been rendered so efficient the rescue of thousands from despair, restoring them to those exertions which revived hope instantly inspired, and to the prospects of future happiness, in the actual possession of means, which, but a few months since, they had scarcely hoped to realize The Committee respectfully solicits a continuance of the aid of British Ladies. There is need of the utmost amount which can be raised The misery is vast and the suffer. ers multitudinous: and the largest aggre. gate of charity will do little more than bare. ly relieve and encourage.. -The exertions of Ladies on the Continent, not excepting those in the highest ranks, are unremitting They see the misery around them, and they are the active and willing hands of British contributors, and peculiarly know how to make the most of every part of their boun. ty, adapting the gift with condescending kindness to meet the wants and sooth the sorrows of the afflicted.-From all quarters of Germany the warmest expressions of thankfulness evidence heartfelt grati tude; but the confidence in British ability, and a corresponding hope in its proved willingness to impart aid, has led to such unreserved disclosures of wretchedness, as shew the large donations of this country to be still inadequate to the accumulated" distress-They prove, indeed, that their principal trust reposes upon England.""

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"The means used by the Society have been effectual, through the Divine Blessing, in convincing of the above truth more than forty adult Jews, who have been admitted into the Christian church by baptism.

"Schools containing eighty-nine children of Jewish parents are supported by the Society; and the children are educated in the principles of the Christian faith.

"A translation of the New Testament into Hebrew for the use of the Jews has been undertaken, and is in a state of forwardness. The Gospel of St. Matthew is published, and that of St. Mark is in the press.

"A large Episcopal Chapel has been erected at Bethnal Green for the Jews; the Society having previously purchased the lease of another Chapel in Spitalfields.

"A Printing office and Basket-manufactory have been established to give employment to the Jews who are deprived of their means of subsistence on account of their attending Christian places of worship.

"The extent of these undertakings has, however, been greater than the funds of the Society would admit of, and it has in consequence for some time past been in great need of pecuniary assistance.

"Hitherto the Society has been conduct. ed without an exclusive regard to any of the particular forms in which Christianity is professed by British Protestants. One great branch of it was modelled upon the principles of the Church of England. Another branch, at the Jew's Chapel in Spitalfields, was conducted on a plan by which the services of Dissenting Ministers of various denominations were rendered availa ble for the great ends of the Institution. The object of the Committee in these ar rangements was to unite Christians of various s communions in the great work of evangelizing the Jews.

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found practical difficulties of considerable magnitude, arising chiefly from different views in matters of church order and discip pline.

"At a meeting of the Dissenting Subscribers of the Society who reside in London and its vicinity, held on the 14th of February, 1815, the difficulties arising both from the pecuniary state of the Institution, and also from the cause above mentioned, were taken into consideration; and the Dissenters, actuated by a principle of the most disinterested zeal, and under an impression that the welfare of the Institution would be best promoted by leaving it in the hands of their brethren of the Established Church, came to the determination of withdrawing from the management. The Resolutions passed on this occasion were expressed in a manner most conciliatory, and with a catholic spirit of liberality which does much honour to the respectable Dissenting Ministers, and Gentlemen composing the Meeting.

"The Resolutions referred to were taken into consideration by the General Committee of the Society, consisting both of mem bers of the Established Church and Dissenters, on the 17th of February, and were discussed with a degree of Christian temper and harmony, which is very seldom witnessed. The Committee finally determined to submit the subject of them to an extraordinary general meeting of the Society, to be held for the purpose on the 28th of February.

"This Meeting having assembled, Thomas Babington, Esq. M. P. in the chair, a Report of the reasons which bad led the Committee to call it was read by the Rev. Mr Hawtrey.

"The Report concluded by recommending the following Resolution for adoption :

"Resolved, That this Meeting is most deeply sensible of, and most cordially and affectionately acknowledges the zeal and liberality with which the efforts of the Society have been aided and supported by Christians of various denominations throughout the United Kingdom from its original foundation. That the present Meeting most deeply regrets the difficulties which have arisen with respect to the union of the members of the Established Church and other Christians, in the management of the Society, in matters of church order and discipline; and also, that the execu. tion of the rules proposed on the 27th

Hoare and Co., Fleet-stree
Morland, and Co., Pall-mall
Hon, David Latouche and Co.,

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ficulty as the Society is now placed in, unity of design, and principle, and opera. tion, is peculiarly and indispensably necessary for its future management. And as the Dissenting Members have, with a spirit most truly conciliatory, offered to leave the management of the institution in the hands of their brethren of the Established Church, this meeting do, with the same spirit of Christian meekness and charity, approve and accept the offer; and the members of it who are of the Established Church most earnestly beseech their Dis-nisters invites and encourages senting Brethren still to favour them with efforts of these bodies to diffu of Divine Truth among the Pag their pecuniary support, and, above all, to aid them with their prayers, that they may hometan subjects of the Crow be enabled, with the blessing of God, to policy will be richly repaid in t extricate the Society from the state of dif- ing strength and security of the ficulty in which it is now placed, and to pursue the great design for which it was instituted with renewed efforts of Christian faith, wisdom, and zeal, to the glory of their common Lord in the salvation of Israel.'

The Rev. Thomas Norton an William Greenwood, two Engl men, have been long destined tion. To them, in conjunctio Rev. Messrs. Schnarre and R addressed the admirable Cha lamented Buchanan. They are ing at Plymouth, to take their p Ceylon, on board the Governm port, the Chapman, Capt. For Majesty's Ministers have very co ingly granted them a free pas have recommended the objects ciety to the protection of the Government.

"The motion, that the above Resolution be adopted, having been put and seconded, the Meeting was addressed by several gentlemen, some of them of the Established Church, and some of them Dissenters, on the subject of the Resolution. The Dissenting Gentlemen expressed their deter mination, though they had withdrawn from the management, still to continue their aid to the institution, both by their influ ence and example; and they thus evinced themselves to be actuated by principles of the most exalted Christian philanthropy and liberality, which we trust will be both felt and imitated in every part of the kingdom. Perhaps the history of the Christian Church presents few examples of a point of so much difficulty and delicacy having been decided with such a happy union of those sentiments which most highly adorn the Christian character. The Sir Alexander Johnston to the Resolution passed unanimously.

The following extract of a lett Secretary from the Chief Justi Island, the Hon. Sir Alexander cannot fail to awaken the most liv that, under such protection, the the Church Missionary Society, a of other Institutions, will be crow abundant success..

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My dear Sir- Columbo, June "No person, I assure you, can sensible than I am of the grea tage which millions of the hum in different parts of the wor sooner or later derive from the e which the Society is making for

"The public is requested to observe, that though the above Resolution places the entire management of the London Society in the hands of the members of the Established Church, the Committee will thankfully receive the contributions of other Christians. They particularly re-pagation of Christianity; and no quest the Dissenting Subscribers through. can be more anxious than I am out the kingdom to continue, and even operate with them by every m increase, their aid, and thus to emulate the my power, in carrying into effect spirit of their brethren in the metropolis. the inhabitants of this island th

volent and sacred object which they have so much at heart.

"In consequence of the resolution which the Society came to while I was in England, I have, ever since my return to the island, been carefully observing the character and conduct of most of the young Cingalese of rank, who were likely to become fit subjects for the education which your Society has so liberally promised to give to any two of them whom I might select; and I am extremely happy to be enabled to inform you, that I have at last discovered two, who, I think, are in every respect deserving of the patronage of the Society.,Their characters are unexceptionable, and their connections give them great influence among the Cingalese inhabitants of the country. They have both attained the age of twenty-one, and have already had that sort of education, as to the English language and the principles of Christianity, which will enable them to comprehend, in a much shorter time, and with much more facility, than persons younger and less educated than themselves could do, any instruction which your Society may think proper to give them.

"The great-grandfather of these young men, Philip Philips Wefayacone, was, owing to his piety and upright character, as well as to his great family influence among the Cingalese, in the year 1744, appointed, by the then Dutch Governor of these settlements, Maha Modliar, or Chief of the whole of the Cingalese inhabitants.

"The Dutch Government, as the highest mark of respect which they could shew the family of this person, and as the best means of associating with those who professed Christianity on this island all the influence and authority which his relations and connections possessed among his countrymen, had his eldest son, Henricus Philips, educated in Holland, for the church, at the public expense; and, after he had studied at one of the Dutch Universities for seven years, had him ordained and appointed from Holland to officiate as one of the Dutch clergymen at this place. He, besides performing for many years all the duties of his office with great credit to himself and great advantage to his congregation, corrected the then existing Cingalese translations of the four Gospels and of the Acts of the Apostles; and himself, for the first time, translated into Cingalese the rest of the New Testament, and some of the books of the Old.

Christ. Observ. No. 159.

"This person died, leaving three sons; all of whom the Dutch Government, from the same policy which I have already men. tioned, caused to be educated for the church at the public expense: the eldest, at the seminary at Columbo; the second and third, at the University in Holland. The third son died in Holland, after having officiated as a Clergyman in that country for some time. The eldest son died at Columbo, after having officiated for many years as one of the clergymen of the place. The second son, after he had been ordained in Holland, returned to this island in 1790, and died here a few years ago, leaving be hind him the translations which he had made, with great care and trouble, of many of the books of the Old Testament, which have never yet been published, but which I am now endeavouring to collect for publication. Petrus Hermanus Gerardus Philips, one of the two young men whom I have selected, is the eldest son of this gentleman; and John Gerard Pevera Appohamy, the other, is a cousin of his.

"Approving as I do of the policy of the Dutch, in as far as it relates to their mode of propagating Christianity among the natives, and wishing to shew the natives that I thought the same system should be pursued by the English, I anxiously seized the opportunity which the Resolution of the Society afforded me of manifesting my respect for a family which had been distinguished, for the last sixty years, by the number of able and respectable men belonging to it, who had most materially assisted the cause of Christianity among the people of this island; and I accordingly felt great pleasure in being able, from a conviction of the merits of the two young men whom I have mentioned, to select from that family the persons who are to receive so marked an honour as that of being educat ed and ordained under the care and patronage of so distinguished a Society.

"Having mentioned the subject to General Brownrigg, our present Governor, he has agreed, on behalf of Government, to pay the expense of the voyage of the young men to England; and I therefore expect that they will leave this for England either in October or January next.

"I cannot conclude without informing you of my views with respect to that part of your letter to me, in which you suggest that if a Society could be organised in Ceylon, as an auxiliary to your Church

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read with great attention the plan, contained in the first Number of the Missionary Register, of Church Missionary Associations; and intend to propose to such of the persons here as are likely to agree with me upon the subject, to have a Church Missionary Association at Columbo, with subordinate Associations of the same description at Jaffna, Galle, and Trincomalee, which are the principal British stations on this island: and, with the view of procuring

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each of the principal castes should also form, for the same subordinate Associations and, may be fully acquainted with the the plan, I have directed the firs of the Register to be immedia lated into Cingalese, Tamul, D Portuguese, which are the lang are the most generally understoo out these settlements.

"ALEXANDER JOHN

The want of space is the only apology we have to plead for the delay of much It is one teresting intelligence which has reached us during this month. vileges of our own days that the march of Religion is too rapid for wor own to keep pace with is.

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

No month, perhaps, since the commencement of our historical career, has been more prolific of events of high civil and political interest than the present. The metropolis of our own country has on a sudden become the scene of riot, and even of bloodshed; and that of a neighbouring country has witnessed the transfer of its crown from the brow of the lawful sovereign to that of an usurper, without a struggle, nay, without the slightest attempt to resist the progress of this portentous revolution.

Such are the awful changes by which it pleases God to teach us the instability of human things-to baffle the calculations of worldly policy-to convince us that our wisdom is rather to look to present duties than to future contingencies-to instruct us in lessons taught also by our immortal bard

"What thou livest, live well;

And leave the rest to Heaven."

There is certainly a peculiarity in the features of our own times. Heretofore it was chiefly in barbarous states that changes were rapidly accomplished. But now, the same principle of sudden growth or subversion seems to have manifested itself in the oldest and most organised governments. In the midst of domestic peace we find ourselves suddenly in a state of commotion.

We lie down upon our beds with a on the throne of his fathers :-w and find him a fugitive in a stra and his seat filled by the very man been driven from it not a year be who was thought to be for ever st the capacity of disturbing its repos are the calculations of the shor politicians of this world! In less t weeks, the work of the congregat of Europe, and the work also of its gated monarchs and statesmen, is unavailing by a single individual; t exile in his little island, to-mor monarch of France. In such an mind ought surely to sit peculiarly all worldly interests and objects, seek its peace and welfare in Him "the same yesterday, to-day, and fo

But we shall proceed to give a count, first, of our internal distu and secondly of the occurrences in

And, first, as to the Corn Bill. scarcely to be hoped that any bill w spected the staple of life should be ed without exciting some degree of ferment. But when that bill was d to carry into effect a measure, the a tendency of which was to increa actual price of bread; which was protected and arranged by men generally a large interest in the

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