nal evidence, Dr. M. must have known who the writer was, as certainly as if he had affixed his name to it. This will, it is hoped, satisfy Mr. Foster, that Mr. I. neither "wrote in the dark," nor wishes to "remain in the dark!" We presume "KENT" will be the next hero! It were, surely, a pity, that all these interesting disclosures should be on one side ! Agreeably to our intimation, in our last Number, we shall now enter on a more complete and comprehensive view of the principal features of this painful controversy than was at that time practicable: we are now in possession of the whole of the necessary evidence; the first production in the list constituting the one part, the other three, with some additions, "the other part." This investigation will embrace two distinct subjects of inquiry, in both which the Committce are more or less implicated: viz.-the relation which subsisted, but which is now dissolved, between the Baptist Missionary Society and its senior missionaries at Serampore: and the points at issue between the latter and the junior missionaries, principally at Calcutta. To the first of these we shall direct the attention of our readers in the present Number; reserving for the next the consideration of the second topic of inquiry, and such concluding observations as the subject may suggest. make ourselves their responsible agents. But that we made ourselves responsible to them for the funds we might originate ourselves, or surrendered to them the least of truth, as the east is from the west."-Stateour proper right in them, is as far from ment, p. 31. On the other hand, the following extracts from the pamphlets before us, from the Periodical Accounts, and from some letters not hitherto in circulation, shew that such a connection did exist: Aug. 5, 1794, Mr. Carey writes to the Society "I now inform you, brethren, that I can subsist without any further assistance from you. It will be my glory and joy nevertheless, to stand in the same near relation to with you, as if I needed your continued supyou, and to maintain the same correspondence plies.' -P. A. Vol. I. p. 90. April 25, 1796, Mr. Thomas writes to the Society "We are both very thankful for the resolution of the Society in our behalf, in case we should request them to supsalary, whilst yet poor, not with the least ply us again with money. We resigned our idea of becoming independent of the Society, but to enable it to extend its benevolent exertions in other parts of the world."Ibid p. 302. Fuller- advised by you, for receiving assistance from On the one hand, it is maintained by Dr. Marshman and his associates, not only that there does not, but that there never did, exist between the Society and its elder missionaries such a con-bution to the Society."-Ibid. nection, as that the latter should be accountable to the former for the application of any funds except those sent from England, or subject, in the management of the mission, to the interference of the Committee at home. Dec. 1796, he says to the same friend, "What we do shall be done as a contri "Great pains (says Dr.M.) have been taken to represent us as having, in every thing, made ourselves subordinate agents to our brethren at home, as having surrendered to them all right to the product of our labour, and made ourselves responsible to them for its entire application. For the application of whatever sums they sent us, we did, of course, he states as an objection— "I have engaged in an indigo concern, with the design of providing for the mission, to relinquish which would be a loss of 5001." MS. Letter. Sept. 1797, Mr. Fuller writes to Mr. Carey "For the sake of ease and order in paying and receiving monies, it is the desire of the Society that you should be considered as their treasurer in India. All our remittances will be to you. Keep a regular account of debtor and creditor with us, and send it us every February or March, which will arrive in July or August. Whatever donations you give, set yourself down debtor, and receive the donations of others. MS. Letter. Dec. 1799, Dr. Carey, in anticipating possible objections to a plan of Mr. Ward's, for investing in government securities at Calcutta, the sum of 3000l. to meet the expences of the Mission, says "You might also fear that it would be taking the reins too much out of the Society's hands, and that however well you may be satisfied at present with the conduct of your missionaries, some unhappy circumstance may arise which may cause you to repent putting the purse into the hands of the missionaries. This however would not be the case; the treasurer in India is not the missionaries but the society's treasurer, and consequently must be responsible to them.' 66 "In February of the same year (1800,) I have Dr. Carey writes to Mr. Fuller: been much distressed because of the great expense to which we shall necessarily subject our dear brethren iu England, especially as it will so far exceed their calculations. Yet I really think it to be impossible to pay more attention to economy than we do, for all our brethren and sisters are of one heart in this respect. We have bought a house for 6000 rupees, which is not more than the amount of about four years rent for houses. Our regular expences, including servants for the printing, will be 400 rupees per month, or 4800 a year. To answer this we have given notes to several persons, on the house of Pinhorn & Co. viz.' (Here be specifies the persons and amount to each, and adds,) We have in drawing so great sums exceeded the powers given to us, but I trust we shall be excused when you are inform In January 1800, he addresses Dr. Ryland, thus: 'I shudder at the heavy expenses to which we shall necessarily subject our brethren in England, and can only say they are unavoidable.' He mentions parti-ed,' &c. culars of expenditure amounting to about 1300 rupees, and adds, besides our support which I think cannot come under 7501. a year. ་ A letter signed by Carey, Fountain, Marshman, and Ward, addressed to the society, in January 1800, contains the following paragraphs: "On a very attentive survey of the expences we must be at merely to preserve existence, we are convinced that it is impossible to live for less than 500l. a year, even if we have no rent to pay; but here the rent of houses is a very heavy article, and would amount to nearly 120 rupees per month for us all. We have therefore on mature deliberation determined to purchase a house. Accordingly we have purchased a large one, with nearly two acres of land, for 6000 rupees; the hall of which is large enough for a commodious chapel. Here with very little additional expence there will be room for all our families, and from hence may the gospel issue and pervade all India. We have paid down 2000 rupees of the purchase money out of the money brought out in dollars; for the other 4000 we are to pay 12 per cent. interest till we can get money from you to discharge it.' - At any rate, however, a pretty large and immediate assistance,' (is necessary) that we may pay our debts and exist. We intend to teach a school and make what we can of our press. Our present exigencies stand thus: "Of the same date is the following joint communication to the society, ou the same subject, from Messrs. Carey, Fountain, Marshman, and Ward : "We account it a most sacred duty to study the strictest economy, and are also about to open a boarding school for our own common support.. meanwhile we hope to keep our eye steadily on the great object of our mission, making it wholly a public concern, that no idea of private emolument may pollute the mind of any of us, and intending to procure an usher as soon as is meet, that the attention and time of no one of us may be absorbed thereby. "The house we shall buy in your name, nominating ourselves trustees in behalf of the Society. The advantages of having a settlement your own property in Serampore, are much greater than perhaps you imagine. Here you have it your own in perpetuum, but this is the case in few other places in India.' "In April 1891, Dr. Carey writes,' We are waiting with considerable anxiety to hear whether our dear Society approve or not of the steps we have taken in purchasing the mission house, keeping an English school for our support, &c. &c. of all which we have given them an account. The purchase was a heavy expense, but will be far cheaper and more convenient than hiring houses; and as the whole Bible (Old and New Testament) will be printed for nearly the sum which it was supposed it would require to print the Testament alone, I hope our dear friends will be able to answer the bills drawn this | the dollars by the Carmarthen. These dolyear.' "In December 1801, the brethren Carey, Marshman, and Ward, write thus: At the beginning of the year we owed 4000 rupees which we borrowed of a friend when we ...... purchased our house... At this time lars will be applied to the paying Mr. Udney, and Captain Wickes (who is now here), and to the purchasing a burying-ground, which we needed very much. This assistance lays us under new obligations both to God and to you." "Mr. Fuller, in December 1804, writing to his friend Mr. Sutcliff upon this subject, observes: Our property there, (Serampore) is estimated at 47081. 15s.' There can be little doubt, therefore, that Mr. Fuller viewed every thing as pertaining to the society, and thus be used the word 'our' as equivalent to mission' and ' society;' expressions which we have noticed already. "Additional property was purchased in 1805. The following paragraph will shew the purposes for which it was designed, and on whom the payment devolved. It is taken from a letter bearing the signatures of Carey, Marshman, Ward, Biss, Moore, Rowe, and Felix Carey; and is dated August 6, 1805: bought the adjoining ground and buildings on the other side of our first premises. This purchase has involved us in an additional debt of 14,000 rupees, which Mr. Maylin, whose name will occur bereafter, has lent us at 10 per cent. We hope you have received the letters in which we requested dollars to this amount, and that no delay will attend the sending out of this sum. It has given us pain to put you to this expence, but we have done it with a sincere desire for the success of the great work in which we are engaged.' "Dr. Carey, writing on the same subject "The school under the care of brother in the following month, January 1802, am- and sister Marshman, is increasingly flourishplifies some of the foregoing particulars: ing. In the hope of still further increasing With this you will receive the account cur- it, as well as of engaging in any new employrent for the past year, and will thereby seement which may help the mission, we have that our Lord has abundantly prospered us in temporal things, so that we have the prospect of a sufficiency, by our own labour, to supply the wants of the mission, even though it should be very considerably enlarged. Our present premises were too small, and had already occasioned a great expence in erecting additional buildings, and we were in some anxiety to know where to make more enlargements, when a honse adjoining to our premises, with 134 bighas of land belonging to it, was offered to us for 10,000 rupees. The dollars brought out by Mr. Short, with some money which we borrowed for the purpose, enabled us to purchase it: so that the Society have now two of the best houses in Serampore. We have made ourselves trustees for the Baptist Society in England, in both these purchases.' "Thus, also, the brethren, Carey, Marshman, Ward, Chamberlain, and Felix Carey, say in a united letter in August 1803: The Lord has given two good houses, with extensive premises, to the mission.' The word Mission, it is evident, must have been used in this last quotation, synonimously with the term Society in those which have preceded it. At the close of this letter is an account of receipts and expenditure; and another of debts and property, including house, print ing stock, library, &c., leaving a balance in favour of the mission of more than 16,000 rupees. "One month after the date of this, Dr. Carey writes to Mr. Fuller as follows: Yours by the Admiral Gardiner was duly received, with the books, &c. and since that, "At the close of this year, the state of account transmitted from Serampore shews a balance in favour of the mission of above 57,000 rupees; mentions 18,515 rupees as received from England in the year; and values the premises at above 37,000 rupees, and the other property at above 25,000.”— Vindication, pp. 14—18. "I am very unwilling (says Mr. Dyer), to recur again to this question, and had really supposed that the extracts from the Periodical Accounts, and correspondence, inserted in the Appendix to our report for 1827, would have precluded the necessity of doing so; but, as both Mr. Foster and Dr. Marshman have laboured to make it appear that all the assertions, so constantly made on this subject, were merely the result of an affectionate carelessness'-that they could not, of course, be understood' by Fuller and his companions, as implying that any surrender had actually been made,' since such an interpretation would have appeared to them contrary to common honesty,'-I must trespass on the reader's patience while I enable him to compare these singular representa- | nearly five years ago. This is wholly detions with the fact. "1. I have before me a printed copy of Regulations for the use of the out-stations, agreed up on at a meeting of the brethren at Serampore, October 7, 1805,' which contains the following paragraph :—‹ The buildings and property of every kind at each station are to be considered not as belonging to the individuals at the stations, but as missionary property, belonging to the Society in England, and under the management of the brethren at Serampore; so that nothing of this kind can be sold or alienated without the consent of the latter.' "2. A similar printed paper (without date), indorsed by Mr. Fuller, Letter addressed to the Junior Brethren,' enacts as follows: "Every missionary station to have the disposal of any surplus arising from their labours, after they have supported themselves, for missionary purposes alone; that is, either to enlarge the mission under their care, or remit it to the Society, observing, however, the fundamental rules on which the mission is founded. "The fundamental rules of the mission, are equality of labour and private supplies, the prohibition of private trade, and the esteeming of all property at each station (pri- | vate allowance excepted) the property of the Society, sacred to God and the missionary cause. As long as these rules are observed at a station, so long we shall think it our duty to continue in union with that station but no longer.' voted to the support of missionary brethren at various stations, such as Mr. F. Carey, at Rangoon, Messrs. Chamberlain and Peacock at Agra; not a farthing of it is ever spent at Serampore.' "We are merely agents for the Society in England, to whom we send a debtor and creditor accompt of its expenditure.'........ The third and only fund from which we can take a rupee to repair our loss, is that which belongs to the station at Serampore, which arises from Mr. Carey's salary, the profits of the school, and any little sum which may arise from the printing office, to which indeed we do not look as a source of gain, sufficiently happy in making it an instrument to diffuse abroad the light of revelation. From this are drawn the expenses of the numerous families at Serampore.' Whether the sum required to replace it [the printing office] be 70,000 or 60,000 [rupees] it must come from the same quarter as before, or from the goodness of our friends.' It "Dr. Marshman to Dr. Ryland, May 8, 1812. We shall not feel at ease till we hear from you after you have the news. is the first shock that we principally fear; for when you come to weigh things you will find that your affairs are not in a desperate situation.” Nor are you without ground for both gratitude and encouragement relative to your means in this country. True, we have nothing to boast of here, and indeed nothing beyond what is necessary for carryBut this is a great £5000 "3. When, in 1807, a proposal was madeing on the work of God. to the Serampore brethren, by Dr. Buchanan, deal. Your property at this moment in to unite in a scheme for forming a British India is worth not less than ten thousand Propaganda,' they declined it, an ong other pounds, which the following list will shew: reasons, for this,' The press, and the premi- "Premises at Serampore, worth at ses on which the missionaries reside, did not least...... belong to the missionaries, but to the Society. To alienate them, therefore, without their consent, appeared to the missionaries a deed replete with ingratitude, injustice, and fraud.'” | -Letter, pp. 52, 53. Property in the printing office remain- ... 1500 Mr. Grant's Legacy left to the sup- Money in the chapel, lent by us time after time, in order to rear and N. B. This now runs at interest, and Money in band belonging to the Out- 1000 2000, 1500 Carried forward £13500 Brought forward £13500 | Serampore and other places in India, is of a Property in the Mission House at ..... 500 500 ..... 100 Property at Digah, near Patna.. In various works in the press and 100 3000 Full £20,000 sterling instead of ten, not a farthing of which belongs to us, but all to you for the work of God. I do not include the various editions of the scriptures lying by us for distribution. These belong to neither us nor you, but to the church of God and the religious public, for whom we are stewards.' &c.-Vindication, p. 19, 21. "But (asks Mr. Dyer) did the upright men' to whom these casual expressions' were addressed, take such an advantage of their brethren as to infer that they really meant what they said? "1. Mr. Fuller, writing to the Rev. John Owen, Secretary of the Bible Society, April 23, 1808, remarks, in reference to Dr. Buchanan's Propaganda Scheme, I need not say that the missionaries could not accede to it, for if there had been no other objection, it would have been alienating 5000l. of which they were only trustees.' | very considerable amount, not less than £10,000; and the annual charge of conducting the mission is, on the average, not less than £8000."-Letter, p. 54. We might also, were there not already a superabundance of evidence, refer to the petition from the society to the legislature, inserted in our Magazine for May 1813; in which the same principle is distinctly recognized. And yet we are to be told, in the face 1200 of all this, that the missionaries purchased the premises at Serampore "from £20400 the product of their own labour!" That is to say, as it is now explained, that though they were purchased in the name of the Society, and principally with the dollars, &c. sent from England, and with bills on the Society's agents, yet subsequently the missionaries repaid the sums thus advanced! Very sagacious, truly! But who authorized the repayment? who accepted it? We know what would be thought in England, if the acting managers of a concern were to apply their resources to tangible property, and the supplies furnished by the sleeping partners to daily expences, and then claim the said tangible property! Or if, though the whole concern were in the first instance indebted to the advances of the latter, the former should, on becoming rich, return the amount, and say, "Gentlemen, we can do without you now; and as your money has all been absorbed in current expenditure, there is not a pice — (we beg pardon, but the word is so familiar!) there is not a stick belonging to you, remaining; for though it cannot be denied that the premises and the stock were originally purchased with your money, yet we have applied much more of our own property in your service, and, consequently, we are now perfectly independent." We think, on such a statement as this, the most inveterate sleeper would become wide awake, and indignantly reply "But who authorized all this? We were never consulted! It seems, instead of treating us as partners, you have used us as tools!" 2. Iu a brief statement of the Baptist Mission,' dated Kettering, July 27, 1812, signed Andrew Fuller, Secretary, and circulated by thousands through the kingdom, it is stated, the annual expenditure of this mission, at home and abroad, exclusive of the translations, amounts at present to five or six thousand pounds. It has not cost the public, however, upon an average, during the twenty years of its continuance, more than two thousand per annum; and out of this there are buildings and other accommodations for the mission, to the value of six or eight thousand pounds, which remain the property of the society.' "3. A memorial presented about the same time to the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval, signed on behalf of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, by Andrew Fuller, John Sutcliff, and James Hinton, varies a little in stating the amount. To form and sustain an establishment adequate to the purposes above stated (i. e. translations, schools, and preachers), the society bas necessarily incurred a very heavy expence. The value of their property, now at There is one circumstance which, perhaps, more than any other, shows how |