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The Battle of Armageddon; or, Final Triumph of the Protestant Canse. Is.

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Forty Sermons on Doctrinal and Practical Subjects; selected from the Works of the Rev. Doctor Samuel Clarke; for the Use of Families; to which is prefixed some Account of his Life. By the Rev. Samuel Clapham, Svo. 9s. boards.

Further Evidences of the Existence of the Deity; intended as a humble Supple ment to Archdeacou Paley's Theology. By George Clarke.

The beneficial Effects of Christianity on the temporal Concerns of Mankind. Proved from History and from Facts. By Bielby Bishop of London.

Two Sermons on Justification by Faith, and the Witness of the Spirit; preached in the Methodist Chapel, Rochdale, by Joseph Cooke. 9d.

An affectionate Address to the Parishioners of Blackburn, on the Institution and Observance of the Sabbath; by Thomas Starkie, Vicar of Blackburn. 1s.

Instructions and Consolations to the Aged, the Sick, and Dying; extracted from the Works of Richard Baxter. Being a Sequel to the Rev. Adam Clarke's Abridgment of his Christian Directory. By S. Palmer, 25.

Thornton Abbey; a Series of Letters on Religious Subjects. With a recommendatory Preface. By Mr. A. Fuller. 3 vols. 12mo. 12s. boards.

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Memoirs of that original and eccentric Genius, the late George Morland, including an Account of his Works. By W. Collins. Embellished with a striking likeness, engraved by Mr. Ward. 5s.

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The Carnatic Question considered, in a Letter to a Member of Parliament. 2s. 6d.

Speech of the Hon. J. Randolph, in the General Congress of America, on the Nonimportation Bill. 2s. 6d.

Memoir concerning the Commercial Re lations of the United States with England. By Citizen Talleyrand. Read at the National Institute, the 15th Germinal, in the Year 5. To which is added, an Essay upon the Advantages to be derived from New Colonies, in the existing Circumstances. 2s.

The Stranger in Ireland; or Travels in that Country during the last Autumn and Winter. By John Carr, Esq. Illustrated with sixteen Views by Medland. 21. 2s.

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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

TAE second report of the Committee of this beneficent institution being published, we are enabled to lay before our readers a summary of its proceedings during the last year.

Great exertions have been made to give it publicity and promote its success, and the advantage of these exertions is manifested in the rapid increase of the Society's funds, by the donations both of individuals and congregations, and by the enlargement of the list of its members.

The example of the Society, as was stated in the report of last year, had extended its influence to the Continent, and has, as now appears, produced there very beneficial effects.

The Nuremberg Bible Society, which owed its origin to the British Society, has printed a German Protestant edition of the New Testament which is sold at the low price of five pence each copy; the use of standing types having enabled the Society to supply New Testaments at this easy rate, It was afterwards proposed to print a complete copy of the Old and New Testament by standing types, and in an improved form; but although the expense was estimated only at £.1000, it was found difficult to collect so large a sum, in consequence of the calamities in which Germany had been involved. The Committee resolved to assist the Nuremberg Society by a farther donation of £.200. This has enabled them to proceed to the execution of their proposal, only substituting for the standing types the Stereotype, by which considerably more than 300,000 copies may be printed without renewing the plates. A supply of cheap Bibles will thus be afforded to the poor protestants of Germany, probably for some years to come.

The expectation held out in the report of last year, of establishing a Bible Society at Berlin has been realized. It is under the direction of persons of rank, and his Prussian Majesty has not only signified his approbation of it, but has assisted the funds by a donation. In the Prospectus of this institution, its formation is expressly ascribed to the example and aid of the Society in England; and its objects are declared to be the gratuitous distribution to the Prussian poor, or the sale at very low

prices, of Bibles and Testaments, and the printing of a new edition of the Bohemian Scriptures. Another £.100 has been re mitted to aid this last object, and a farther donation of the same amount is promised to the Berlin Society, in the event of their undertaking to print an edition of the Polish Bible. These transactions were previous to the rupture between this country and Prussia.

In the last report mention was made of the anxiety manifested by some Roman Catholics in Germany to procure the Scriptures, and that the Committee had agreed to distribute among them at the expense of the Society 1000 copies of the Protestant New Testament. This donation has been

thankfully accepted. A Bible Society has also been established at Ratisbon, supported by Roman Catholics, for the express purpose of circulating the New Testament among their own poor, thousands of whom have never had an opportunity of reading the Scriptures. The translation employed by them is said by competent judges to be unexceptionable.

A sum of twenty pounds has been remitted to Dr. Knapp, of Halle, in Saxony, for the purpose of supplying the poor in Gallicia, who are in great want of the Scriptures, with Bibles from the Bible Institu tion which has been established at Halle for more than a century.

To the Bible Society at Basle, £.100 has been sent for the purpose of purchasing French Protestant Bibles, to be sold or distributed among the Swiss and French poor, at the discretion of the Basle Society,

It having appeared that a great want of Bibles prevails in Esthonia, Finland, and Sweden, the Committee resolved to grant a donation of £.150, to promote the circu lation of the Scriptures in those parts, as soon as a Bible Society shall have been established there.

With a view to supplying the French and Spanish prisoners of war in this coun try with the Scriptures, a contract has been entered into for a stereotype edition of the French Bible; and in the mean time £.100 has been expended in distributing French Testaments among them; and 2000 copies of the New Testament have been ordered to be printed in the Spanish language, with 1000 extra copies of the Gospel of St. Matthew only. The bounty of the Com

mittee has been gratefully acknowledged by the prisoners and a farther supply has been solicited.

The Committee have directed 1000 Ger man Bibles and 2000 German Testaments to be procured for the accommodation of the natives of Germany residing in England.

The edition of the Gospel of St. John, translated into the Mohawk language, by Teyoninhokarawen, a chief of that nation, and printed at the expense of the Society, reached Montreal at the close of last year. The Indian interpreters have declared the translation to be very correct. The Committee have furnished a respect able clergyman in Ireland with 1000 Testaments for distribution among the Roman Catholics of that country, and they have agreed to furnish the Association at Dublin for promoting the knowledge of the Christian religion, with Bibles and Testaments on the same advantageous terms on which they themselves procure them from the University. It clearly appears that Bibles "may be circulated among the Roman Catholics with little difficulty; a Society has been formed for that express purpose; and the admission of them into schools has been recommended even by a Roman Catholic Bishop.

The zealous exertions of the friends of the institution in Scotland have been continued with unremitted activity and great success. In this good work the Presbyteries of Glasgow and Edinburgh have signalized themselves. And the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland have signified their willingness to unite their cordial efforts with those of the British and Foreign Bible Society. From the information obtained by the Committee, there remained no room to doubt, that although the Society in Scotland were about to publish an edition of 20,000 Gaelic Bibles, a great want of Gaelic Bibles would still necessarily prevail. By this consideration, independently of the claim which arose from the liberality of the contributions received from Scotland, the Committee were led to determine on printing forthwith another edition of the Gaelic Scriptures of 20,000 copies.

To the Island of Jersey, where the Scriptures in the French language, the common language of the island, were become very scarce, the Committee have directed 300 copies of the French Testament to be sent for distribution.

The publication of the proposed edition of the Welch Scriptures has hitherto been

delayed, notwithstanding the anxiety of the Committee to fulfil the just expectations of the people of that principality, chiefly by impediments connected with the mechanical process of Stereotype printing. The Welch New Testament has however bren at length completed, and the whole Bible, it is hoped, will in no long time be ready for distribution. Twenty thousand copies of the entire Bible, and ten thousand more of the New Testament in 12mo will be printed.

In Bengal a commencement has been made in translating the Scriptures into Chinese. In March 1805, the translation of the book of Genesis and the Gospel of St. Matthew was in a state of forwardness, and some chapters of each had been printed. And under the auspices of the college at Fort William, the Scriptures are in the course of translation into all the languages of Oriental India*.

Two editions of the English New Testa ment, (8vo. and 12mo.) printed by stereotype, under the direction of the University of Cambridge, have been printed for the Society, and members may now obtain copies of them on applying to the Depositary, 19, Little Moorfields. A large edition of the complete Bible is in the presst.

An Association has been formed in Lon don, (we noticed it in a former number) for contributing to the fund of the British and Foreign Bible Society, by small monthly subscriptions.

The different denominations of Christians at Birmingham have united their efforts in order to procure subscriptions for the institution, and a large contribution has been the fruit of their zeal.

In closing the report, the Committee wish to guard the friends of the Society against relaxing their exertions to procure contributions to its funds, under an idea that they are sufficiently ample. -The completion of the various works already resolved on, will require large disbursements: The extent to which the Scriptures are circulated will materially depend on the moderation of the price at which they can be sold: and the reduction of price must be regulated by a regard to the Society's

*We understand that a donation of £.1000 has since been voted by the committee in aid of this grand design.

+ Bibles and Testaments are purchased by the Society at the wholesale price, from which, in selling them to members, there is a deduction made of 20 per cent.

funds.

It would be highly desirable that the price could be so reduced as to suit the eircunstances of the lower classes. In short, there is no limit to the beneficial operations of the institution both at home and abroad, but what its funds may prescribe. Much, it is admitted, has been done towards accomplishing the Society's object; but that object must be regarded as imperfectly accomplished whilst any nations remain to whom the blessings of the Holy Scriptures have not yet been conveyed. "And what object," the Comraittee observe in conclusion, " can be more important; what more worthy the united eñorts of all Christians? If the Scriptures contain the doctrines of salvation; and if there be thousands and tens of thousands, even among those professing the religion of Christ, and capable of reading the sacred records in which it is contained, who are yet prevented by poverty or other eircumstances from possessing them, an institution, the sole object of which is to supply these wants, can stand in need of no recommendation. Such an object will sufficiently account for the deep interest which the Bible Society has excited in the United Kingdom, and authorizes the fairest hopes that it will continue to receive the ́support of the friends of revealed religion. When we reflect on the alarming and affictive dispensations of Provide pee which have visited foreign nations, whilst we have been blessed with an exemption fi om them, gratitude to the great Disposer of events in every possible way is more than a common duty; and in endeavouring to promote his honour by the diffusion of the Holy Scriptures, we discharge but a small part of those solemn obligations which his siu gular fayour so peculiarly imposes on us.. What effects may flow from the most s accessful labours of the Society, is not within the limits of human foresight: Paul in ay plant, Apollos may water, but it is God: Jone who giveth the increase. But we may be allowed to entertain a reasonable expectation, that the seed of the word will not be sown in vain; and that amongst the numbers to whom it will be conveyed by the Society, many will receive it with joy, and cultivate it with profit; and that the beneficial effects of the institution to generations yet unborn."

will extend

In our next number we prope to insert a few extracts from the interesting appendix which is annexed to the above report.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
The last accounts from the Cape state,

that Dr. Vanderkemp and his brother Missionaries had become objects of suspicion and jealousy to the Dutch Government, which had been induced, by the representation of the Boors to regard them as attached to the English interest, and likely therefore to employ their influence with the natives improperly, and to reject all their applications to return to their congregation at Bethelsdorp, or to be permitted to con tinue their mission in any other part of the Colony. The Missionaries feared that they would be under the necessity of entirely abandoning the Colony, when the English expedition arrived, and the Cape became once more subject to this country. Three days after Sir David Baird had taken possession of Cape Town, he sent for Dr. Vanderkemp to consult with him how he might best dispose of the Hottentot prisoners of war. The Doctor hoped that he should find an opportunity of recommending the mission to the Governor's protection, and of obtaining permission to return to Bethelsdorp, particularly as his friend Van Ryneveld, a man well affected to the cause of religion, had been nominated to an important situation. M. Kicherer has been ap pointed by Sir James Baird to the living of Graff Reinet. He accepted the appointment, on condition of being allowed still to superintend the mission at Zak River.

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OTAREITE.

Accounts have been received from the Missionaries at Otaheite, dated July 1805. Little or no effect seems to have attended their labours among the inhabitants, except that many of them had obtained a consider able knowledge of the doctrines of Christianity. The discouragements arising from this source, together with their seclusion from society, and the other unpleasantnesses of their situation, had led them to entertain serious thoughts of leaving the Island. The Island was then in peace, but the natives, it is said, discovered so great an eagerness to procure warlike implements, that they would pay for a musket sixty or seventy times its value. The king, it seems, has applied himself with great assiduity to acquire the English language, and his proficiency has been such, that a short letter, written with his own hand, has been received by the direçtors of the mission. The king and his family are said to have expressed much sorrow at the prospect of the Missionaries quitting the Island, and to have signified their wish that more Missionaries, men, women, and children, might be scut out to them.

NORTH AMERICA.

The Rev. John Sergeant, Missionary to the New Stockbridge Indians, near Oneida, in a letter dated in October last states, that a very pleasing occurrence had lately taken place in that quarter. About a third part of the Oneida tribe of Indians, who had been avowed Pagans, had united themselves to Mr. Serjeant's congregation. The Indians of the Delaware nation likewise, who are numerous, and are considered as the head of the other tribes, "unanimously agreed to accept and take hold with both hands" of the offer made to them of introducing among them "civilization and the Christian religion." They said they were ready to receive both a minister and a schoolmaster. The following extract from Mr. Sergeant's journal cannot fail to be gratifying to our readers.

"JULY 1, 1803. Agreeably to appointment, four of the Oonondago chiefs came to see me, and introduced a conversation in the following manner:

'Father, There is reason of thankfulness that the great, good Spirit has preserved us, that we are able to meet together at this time.

"We will improve this opportunity to let you know further concerning our customs. 'We have agreed to obey the voice of the great, good Spirit, in for ever forsaking the

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Further, it is one article of our faith to be very attentive to parents, and the aged; that it would be impossible for children ever to compensate their parents for their care of them in their infancy.

'We have another article of belief, that it is the will of the great, good Spirit, that man and wife should always live together, and never part only by death.

We wish you to persevere to inculcate upon our children the necessity of a reformation, or we shall be a ruined people.'

"They concluded by desiring me to give them advice how they should persevere in their reformation, which I afterwards did by the assistance of Mr. Parish, the Agent, who speaks their language, and had arrived at my house after they concluded their address. They appeared thankful for all the instruction I gave them."

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

CONTINENTAL INTELLIGENCE. THE King's speech on the occasion of proroguing the Parliament on the 23d inst. removes all doubt with respect to the existence of a negociation with France, for the purpose of restoring peace. "His Majesty," it is observed, "being always anxious for the restoration of peace on just and honourable terms, is engaged in discussions with a view to the accomplishment of that desirable end: their success must depend on a corresponding disposition on the part of the enemy: and, in every respect, his Majesty looks with the fullest confidence to the continuance of that union and public spirit among all ranks of his people which can alone give energy to war, and security to peace." Several indications of a pacific nature had previously appeared.-The Moniteur ceased to isme its philippics against England, and its CHRIST. OESERV. No. 55.

tone became less warlike. The new King of Holland said not one word of England in his long inauguration speech. A decree issued from the Government of France taking off the embargo from Russian vessels, of which, however, there probably were very few if any in the ports of France. -M. d'Oubril, the Russian Envoy, has made his appearance at Paris. The interchange of couriers between this country and France has also been frequent.

What man is there who would not rejoice in the attainment of a secure and lasting peace? We are bound, however, in looking forward to so desirable an event as the termination of the ravages of war is in itself, to weigh well its effect on the relative state of this country and France. From the mouth of the Baltic to the shores of Greece, Bonaparte commands the means of covering the sea with his navies, provided peace leaves him at liberty to use those means. 3 N

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