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fincere convert.) His Excellency alfo gave them fome materials towards erecting the building, which we expect will be finished in the month of November, when the Rev. Meffrs. Johnfon and Marfden have promised to open it. We have alfo recommenced the Sunday evening lecture in Parramatta, which is well attended; and likewife opened a place for preaching at Toon Tabbe, where we have about an hundred hearers. These favourable appearances, we hope, will not be " like the morning cloud or early dew," but prove the dawn of a bright and glorious gofpel-day to thefe poor bewildered fouls, who are lying as outcafts in a forlorn condition: but at prefent we cannot communicate any further information refpecting them that would prove fatisfactory, but fhall feize the earliest (and every) opportunity of tranfmitting fuch accounts as relate to the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom, in this colony of Corinthian degeneracy.

Permit us to add, that it gave us no small fatisfaction to hear of your unremitted exertions in the Miffionary bufinefs, the fuccefs of which we have much at heart. By the Hillsborough tranfport, which arrived here a few days fince, we learnt, that four Miffionaries were brought out in her to the Cape, and that the Duff was on her paffage to the South Seas, with thirty men, befides women and children. We hope the Captain is delegated with fufficient power to form an organized body at Otaheite, and that he will leave fuch a number as may be deemed adequate for the protection of the women, and the establishment of a permanent miffion, otherwise we fear the attempt will prove fruitlefs. We were in great hopes that the fhip Duff would have touched here on her paffage out, but as in all probability fhe will call at the Friendly Islands, which are about three weeks fail from this place, we expect a vifit from her, as no doubt we have many letters on board from our friends, of whofe welfare. we are very anxious to hear. The Reliance, armed fhip, being expected to fail direct for Europe in about three months, we hope to be able to fend you, by

her, more important inforination. In the mean time, we fubfcribe ourselves, your unworthy brethren, fellow-labourers, and fervants in the Lord,

JAMES FLEET COVER,
WILLIAM HENRY.

ROWLAND HASSELL.

P. S. We are forry to add, that on the fecond of July last, brother Samuel Clode was inhumanly murdered in the dwelling-houfe of one Thomas Jones, at the brick-kilns, near Sidney, a little before fun-fet. The faid Jones was a foldier, and being a townsman of bro ther Clode's, he had given him fome pecuniary affistance, and was defired to call that evening for payment, when the faid Jones, inftead of paying him, beat out his brains with an axe, and afterwards concealed the body in a faw-pit, which being difcovered the next morning, and blood and brains traced along the path to the house of the faid Jones, he, and his wife, and one Elbury, were taken up as accomplices in the murder; and, to the honour of the Governor, a criminal court was appointed the next day, at which they were tried and found guilty, and executed the Saturday following. The conduct of brother Clode, fince his arrival in this colony, has been fuch as may be faid to adorn his profeffion (the writers wifh they could fay the fame of all the other brethren who came into the colony with him): his death is regretted by all who knew him. The Governor and feveral officers followed his corpfe to the grave, as a teftimony of their refpect. A tomb is about to be erected over him.

From the Edinburgh Missionary Magazine for April, 1800,

SOME time ago a number of African children were brought to England for education. We are happy now to ftate the following particulars refpecting them.There are, in all, 24 children; 21 boys and 3 girls. The girls are under the care, and at the fole expenfe of a refpect

able lady; and while pains are taken to impart to them religious knowledge, they are inftructed in all those domestic duties and fervices, which are likely to conduce in making them good wives and mothers, and useful also in promoting civilization, when they return to their native country. Little good, it is very properly judged, is likely to be done by the exclufive education of males. It is therefore propofed, that the number of girls fhould be confiderably increased.

The boys are at prefent at Clapham, and are under the tuition of a Mr. Greades, who, while his wife con ducts all the domeftic engagements, acts the double part of a teacher and a parent. Both Mr. Greades and his wife feem extremely well qualified for the parts they have to perform. The inftructions imparted to the children are viewed as fubfervient to the great end of training them for their Saviour's fervice, In addition to the ordinary branches of school education, it is proposed to enlarge their minds by various forts of general information, to be conveyed to them as much as poffible by actual obfervation, and by exciting in them a habit of reflecting on all they fee and hear, and connecting it with general principles, fuch as the bleffings of religion, the advantages of civilization, the baneful effects of fuperftition, &c. rifing thence to the wifdom and goodnefs of the Creator, and to the excellency and fuitableness of that revelation which he has made to man. Some knowledge, alfo, of the ftructure of the earth and of the heavens, and of the nature of the more common phenomena in the phyfical world, it is alfo proposed to give them; together with "found practical views of diftributive juftice and focial polity! They will alfo, it is likely, be made acquainted with farming and gardening; and each of them with fome particular branch of bufinefs or handicraft.

From the Edinburgh Chriftian Magazine for July, 1800. It is with extreme regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. Peter Greig, Miffionary from the Edin- .

burgh Society to the Foulahs in Africa. His eminent piety was known by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Of his zeal for the falvation of the heathen; no other proof is neceffary than this, that during the greater part of the time fince he went to Africa, he refided among the natives, and perfevered in his work, without any affociate in his labours, without the benefit of a Christian friend with whom to converse, and deftitute of most of those conveniences to which Europeans are accustomed. It appears that he has at length died a martyr in the caufe; for a letter lately arrived from Sierra Leone contains the melancholy information, that he was murdered by the Foulahs. No particulars respecting the time or circumftances of his death have yet reached us.

Letters have lately been received from the Baptift Miffionaries in India. We have not room to infert any of them; but the following fhort extract of a letter from Mr. Carey contains the fubftance of the intelligence which they bring :-" We lament that feveral who did run well are now hindered; we have faint hopes of a few, and pretty ftrong hopes of one or two; but if I fay more, it muft either be a dull recital of our journeying to fome place or another to preach the gofpel, or fomething else relating to ourselves, of which I ought to be the last to fpeak. I therefore fhall only fay, that our fphere of action is enlarged; that we have frequent opportunities of preaching to our own countrymen, as well as to the natives; that a school which was begun fome years ago for the children of the poor, is in a very flourishing ftate; and that a tranflation of a great part of the Bible is accomplished, and I hope the whole will be accomplished in another year. I blefs God for what is done, and mourn that nothing more is accomplished."

THE

New-York Miffionary Magazine,

AND

Repofitory of Religious Intelligence.

The NORTHERN MISSIONARY SOCIETY in the State of NEW-YORK.

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HE Society met in Salem, on the first Thursday of September, 1800, when their annual Sermon was preached in the Affociate Reformed Church, by the Rev. Jonas Coe, from Isaiah xlix. 6. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayeft be my falvation to the end of the earth. The Society, having been conftituted with prayer, by the Rev. John Warford, Prefident pro tem. proceeded to tranfact their ordinary bufinefs.

A letter from the Secretary of the New-York Misfionary Society, requesting this Society to define," in what manner, and to what extent, co-operation by misfions is defired," was read, when the following plan was propofed, and unanimoufly adopted :-That if more candidates for miffions fhould make application to the Society in New-York than they found it expedient to employ, or had means to fupport, the fame might be recommended to this Society; and, on the other hand, fhould the Miffionaries here exceed the means of fupport, the fame might be recommended to the other Society, with the privilege of mutually deriving fuch pecuniary aid as may comport with previous engagements.

Alfo read a letter from the Chiefs and Warriors of the Oneida Indians, which, perhaps, it may be neither unpleafing nor unprofitable for the public to perufe, VOL. I. No. 6. A

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