The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-24 00:00:00

Ityl FOURTH ANNIVEHAAIII OF TOR GLOUCE.STERSIIIRE MISSIONARY SOCIETY. (1 t Throttle, n num mmer.ttes meeting was held in the Toon-hall. Cheltenham, to receive tiw Report of the Cotuinitter, and adopt nicasteres for the future prosperity of the Institution. Oit the motion of the Rev. Mr. Bishop, of Gloucester, thst "Obadiah I' Wailten, E.q. do take the Chair," tieing unanimously carried, Mr. Wathen, as Chaim , in. addressed the meeting in a most iiigentroas 41141 applicable speech. lame iii ii ic that the important office brd nit dr Num .1 'person rtiore capable of sustaining it. Ile lieu adverted to the 10.10411011 of the Society and traced its pru„,•.re.s ap to the present period. " It arose ." said he, " like the small cloud seen by St. Paul, till bigger than a mates hand, but which hal now spread all et rr the sky, and was pouring down the slsowris of blesseduesa all over the vertu." He then recapitulated wane of the happy conseiptences that had heed effected by the exertions of the Missionaries; and requested the key. John 'larder, uf !Wont, to read to the Meeting the progress that had been 1111.1 P since the last 11.• port of the Committee, which Moister time done, the Chairmen called neon the Rev. newly. who In a siwerit of much *Wail pinuteell out the great stud important advaillaars whey.' had been achieved over nneivii:zesi regions ; anti proprised the first Resolution, winch w•s %reunited to a very autinated speech sly the Rev. Mr. EJlitis, and car t ten Inneutsesuitady• Th e Rev. W. l'Hunee now rose, and proposed the se rum' Ille•atantiJll. It had, he said, been uojecteil to the pistil and objeet °film Missionary Society, that mail should be eiaiitszed before lie was Ciosstmaizid: but this point lie was try MO weans a'h h sg to coneede. and ;opposed noimailverting upon it al she Cheltenham t.hapel iii the tiering. As WO evidence, howeve r,ul . the fusotty ut each as.assertior, he dwelt cousideranly opera the sapid po hrem of civilisation amongst tile Hottentots after they ad first raperienced the benefit and the efficacy of Gine %eel truth. I have heat meth 1.1 disintriested denypenise have goodness 1101 101 Id 011/11 make, bat for the pleasme shads the lose of it imparts. We love thine, not 110 much tin - its own love. Races as fur the pleasure that the perception of that loveliest*, kindles in the heart.-Such •• disintet rated be. &evidence" is at brit but nu aibiabie selfishness-and of hat selfishness 1 impeach )on, Mr. C 11.11101411, Allil I tin dela nos Meetiim ; neither will I asyseif stand acquitted .1 it. I whit, Si,. reser the least of benevolence is lurid, 'lbe .1 tllical Nl•re it only to piek ap the c be furl 1.11 1•5!e. .I , d 1105 is • st . lllNillitss tt inch 1 Ii 11•1 me)/ never le sufte•red to abate! In %WSW' 4i übnrr t-Iv, II y o u •111111ACI hOu f a. tea, Own fie Itill4l , i ; but uI Ille 4rillsinclie of benevolence, it von All lit hie( wa 00111 'eve,, shirt: five ttili4lo-:lerAioar, ere age 1011, /oat all hea , mil, Ii VI .11 ds arc st•beil-11114.1 slut e, • alt/1 bites /ire is loiris-f :-( Lung 41111 roWiaurd Ali pidliae.l--1 be en, or the sock iy hire euiiii•ati II our Anemone so the Cl 1111/011 (il.ll - the Vii ii madness of iim .. I' ll ,. K t ,. lspeaksr hien must ably contrasted the purpuses else effects Of the Slisstuttary Society with Isle el.suialiog at - 411 of the Criosedes. and 1101 duly viudivateel the Sucicl) 11 001 the alaliclralusis 01 ail uppuswills, but placed i:s chal sec tee is the most c‘allell 1101111 01 VICW. 11 was the masiiii of lag greatest e•pl•lu Calf 10 COOlO 11011110 S d '.le. %%title amain reliballifit to du." In the same shin:erns let us all anise w the prop.igatiou el this great and godlike came, sad coital not dense while awl utiaa rem sans la do!-I nu. Warm of os•tory came so au • e vpectedly upon sat, that we lament estre melt' we are nest •.ese to immesh a better report suit.f Tire Resolution was evciiiirtiAl le. the Rev. Julio Bruen. 4 U. atm Witt, Sect el.ll 10 11111 London Society, at the reqrsest of the Chairman, mitered into a detail of the general progress at the Missionaries' knout A. and tioitio. 1 -sled their various slaloms and appoittlutrata. The Rev. Mr. WALTER prespussil the 'Laird Resolution, which was seconded by the key, H. Williams. 'l * be 1 sin MS 11, aunts iiiiiiiiii the Third Resolution, then to; soelared to iiir niceties Cites. Paillips,%ssi. The 11•Iiit •i; tills CelebialSil 11114101 was received with the warmest • a. - eleintitions, • which {infest some Mammals, eluting the most eatahli sad ilallelhig Mr. 1 • :111.1.1PS came Itorwaid auJ flint add J the Chairinatei--"Sir, after the etiquette's wilt which so many .1..P11C1111:11 lease giat.tie.l 41141 444:111ghied Ohl% MUSS Ireprel4- e•e assembly, and alley the 1011104 10•11114,1 soleness of our of them, I feel .11.110 st asha,ued of ht rug acceuesi to the • of Gondolier hy praposissa tile Ursula:toe 1 shall have uu 1141110WS to sill/01.1, 1 •110111.1 Sir es ea the few suumems' noises iiiii obis* 1 11.1.411 to 111. s v.e 11,1•0 this Nieeitrig, 4111 1 lot heti law 1 two mu light onbi..er usy.rif as iissale a strattget , did 1 did Mal !set 1141 the sllll . lrel noise , 114 all 111th wee stria so ..1 Manly, aael gives ter me INesrAl .0901111iirr the tliiiil• 01 • Mollie.' a..J a tek...alobt Ai a lone Ike this, perhaps, w;sr,i toe Is abroad, .1011 We At 'mist and the ,his. lbeil ul4atiliewy, .11 laelitiirra UDC 1 - 1. 1•41411 10 .40140 liplie4lll the ill• 14.11 i, 1111.1 Mita:, Cyril bs bit inurlyrdem, the sincerity ill Jos •iltgoakea.--(lireat St hen the 11.11 re oiv siee 1 / 1 .1a11401.) Wes 11010;1--1116 , 111001111 y VI I • uttaiu -the p.. vs ty it its J:sciples-the atirahlea ut its 4 :.•4114.411- , lllClOlllllly a% ay it 'as servos - eel, nut may over t•.clnularJ workl, t u t which your Missions are how e .1 enitioa tiVrr liar iiinisap, inibmiej re_ I sawia Me a till presence of 111. Godhead 'to itoing is es thou aDi k hare dour ill Tile the pi epithet , . tie superstitious al nun (Milli, ese asi ise rims aginit•l II ; it had no SAurti nor at. ploy -1.11 10111•41A1 w 44 111 rags-irs art •tle• were lon • hslierusen- lib iii•y.led to...y.4ra'. Silvan and uuednralrd • -at. nadir Alit • 11146.6V1-1 • 1000.! %Oda a dungeon -its ears nly shailom a closets ut tilos us! I% JAI y et, 1011. 1, WSW-00AI 10%11%, prosecuted spirit- •ud adt•la at sat fit•• 111 1 -11 1%01 1 Will 110. Ilisocra ill the 114.1; 114 Itrialtlt ; 40,1 140/1•61/601 545 Ise/ peasarits 6 I.iii .'es ailed doisn ased einsaip 4.w• WWI islet/ conqueror. Ibis sounratile pm trail Of ill. - in s,iie solid sett air. sautes • falsity was hailed with Ihr iiiii of ) If the, he not fur work of the 1./imilly, aka I y iambi to lac aeon,. anion iiii of Stir Atheist. I see otrihsd Anne- 1 -re nu Governiurin beluo ; and I relit m) t4ISKIifSWe ins a . l wiliP/1141 00111 10 Ito fiateruit, anis vor n mai time pi ishes Hot, .o, ereis a Iwo l 1.. u, cu..- t. de to Mhos aue WS me WWII. 111 " eltristiaii fait a, 1 arrest I ••1 apoii to crodace, fessisi oisituus ,it do rills, so pule - skeystvies sat prat - twin . cede ut • lid a w.f.. sabtiatkos • oaceptiou - THE NATIONAL REGISTER. more simple in Its means-more Mimi," and more powerful in 114 opera liu ; a n d, if he callUtil 0..10, I lava sa) UP him, Oh ! in tip name of sou ono darling policy, bleb nal its guide from youth, its shield from manhood, and its crutch from age'.-(Great applatiso.-Thieugh the light I follow may lead tile astray, still I think it is a light from Heaven ! The good, and lgreat. and wise, arc my companions-my delightful hope is luarniless, if not holy, and wake ms not to a disupputntment, allied: in your tooth of annihilation, I shall not taste herenfier ! To propagate the sacred creel-to teach the ignuraittto cartels the poor-to illume this world with the splendours of the neat to make men happy you have never seen-and redeem millions, you can never kiiiiwa-you have sent your hallowed Miss ttttttttttt thrward ; and n ever did an holier ision rise, titan that tit tins 4:eh:wild, glorious embassy. (Applatise4 the band of willing exiles bidding farewell, perhaps for ever, to their native country-foregoing houst, and friends, and luxury to tempt the savage sea, or men none savage than the raging cle an:a-to dare the polar tempest, and the tropic lire, and oaten doomed by the forteit of their lives to give their precepts a proof and an expiation-Ctoplauseo-lt is mine delnihutil to read over their reports, and sac the blessed product of their Labours. They leave no clinic unvisited, no peril tmencounteted. In the South Sea Islands they round their population almost eradicated by the murders of idolatry. •It Was God Almighty,' says the Royal Convert of Otalteite. • who sent your mission nv time reisunder of my people." Ido not wish to s! sock your Christian Cars with tag cruelties than winch you hnee reticent:el these islands. Will you believe it, tint May have been educated in such cannibal I..nueity, as to excavate the earth, sad form au oven of burning stones, iito which they literalty threw their hiving infants, and gorged their infernal appetites with the flesh! you believe i:, Mat th‘y thought inur.:ve grateful to the Gat mercy !--and the blood of hi. mauves as tie Lest libatioa ! In nine u, these islands these abominations are estinet--infailticide is aboashed-tneir prisoners sue cache gad--buciely is now ce mented by the hand of brotheratiod. +son the a,:varssa that streamed with human gore, and blazed with hunieu utiettoin now ecoo the song of peace and the sweet strains of piety. lit India, too, where Providence, for special purposes. permit► these hide insular specks to hold abure one iiundrn, indiums in sub jection-a phenomena scarcely to be pareUeled in history-the spell of Brahma is dui:solving-the chains of Caste arc falling otf tlie wheels of Jugheinaut are scarce ernangstinsd-the horrid custom of self. into iolation is daily ilisappettinig-mud t o e sucreti stream of Jordan mingles a ith the Gao,,es.-(grad applause).- Leen the rude soldier. mid tile din °farms, amid the license or the camp. • makes' (sass your Alission ar y ) • t h e Poole the inmate tit I his knapsack, lid the companion of his pillow—Such has been the success of your 31issionariss in that country, that omit of your own Judges has publicly avowed, that those who hti India some years ago. can form no just estimate of what now violas there. 'funs troth these lands to that of Africa, a name I now can mention without horror. In sixteen of their towns and many of their islands. Sc see the sun tit' clantianity arising, and as It rises, the whole specirad train of superstition v.inisiiing inw an.- Agriculture and civilization are busy in the Desert, and the pour Hottentot, kneeling at the altar, :moires his God to remember nut the Slave Trade.-tApplauset.-11 any thing, Sir, evuld add • to the satisfaction that I feel, it is time cunNouuancsa that know ledge and 'cliristianity are advancing hand in hand, and that wherever I see your .Missionaries journeying. I see seliools rising up, as it were. the landmark of their piugreas. And who can tell what the consequets es of this m. , y be in after ages? 1% nu can teal whether those remote regions I, lay not, !termite!, beeline the rivals of European improvement? Whe shall place a bar upon the lough= denvnl flow the Almighty r Woo shall say titatt the future poet shall not fa-dilate the wilds, sod that um philosoph e r and toe statesman shall not repose together beneath ihe sit:Wows of the palm trees? 'faros may be visionary, but surely, in a moral point of view the advantages of education are not visionary. -(A conunued burst of applause followed tins pas. sage, and in its amour inipetletl the connexion and progress of our I report, nod p revente d us from sietailnig Koine most moellent re &milks on the advantages of the cultivation of the human mind.) These, Sit-time propagation of toe Gospel-the advancement or science and o f industry-the peifection of the arts-the :Infusion of knirwledge-the happiness of mankind here and hereafter- thine are the bles ed objects of your AI issionaries. and amp/teed with uise , all human ambition sinks into toe dust:— the ensanguiroxl ciusriot of the conqueror pauses--the sceptre falls trual to imperial grasp-the blossom withers even ism the patriot's Larland. but dents like these require no paiiegyric-in the runts of that der friend whose name can never time-kill nos allusion to his latu,nted friend. Curran, Mr. Phillips's reeling* were e.idently much affssaul They are recoruesi w toe heart from wsence they sprung, and in the hour of adverse vicissitude, if ever it should amve, sweet will be Lie odour of astir memory, and precious the balm of their cilsolation.' " Dub,: I sit ilueni, Sir, 1 toast take the liberty of saying. that the principal objection which I have heard raised agnoist your Institution is with me the principid motive of ray admiration allude, Sir, to the uitfusive prunapies on which it is founded. I have seem too "melt, Sir, of *edit, Gigq,y-tu. a titan, I ab• hoe it-.s a Chrisiian, I bluish at it-it is tiot only negrailing to the religion that employs even the shadow of intolerance, but it is an iniptuas dmponons its time Government that countenances it. These nee ni). opinions, and I will nut suppress them. Oar rehgion has its various denominations, List toey are all strug gling to the same 'mansion, though by different avenues, and when I meet them on their way—l rare suit whether they be Protestant or P.esbyteria +, Din_inei or Latholte, I know them as Christians, and I will embrace titan, as lay In-Loren.-IThis noble and liberal sentiment was received anti the wannest torsi of heartfelt sympathy and delight.] I hail, then, the foundation such a Society as oils-I hail it, in many respects. as an happy omen--11 hail it AD all augury of unit day when the thigh' bow of Christiani:y, skeninensing in tile 'leavens and encompasing use earth, shall iuclude the children of every chine and colour benmui time arch of its promise and the glory of its protection.- Sir, I Malik this mieetiog for the more taan mitutesy with which it has received me, and I feel great pleasure in posturing tins ilesolutiun for tse.e adoption." Alver Mr. Phillips sat down the cheering continued for some time. BRITISH SYSTEM OP 11DUCATIO.V. EXTRACT or A LLTTIR EROJI PHILADELPHIA. With us the system is ever, day gaining friends; it has shamy excited the happiest infiutnce upon the murals and con ditions of the objects of its care sume of the sections witers the popuirtion was most irregular and deprreed, aid whets LII -I:44libC, We could not soon expect to witness et • idences of retor 'nation, we act: w discover the most distinguished a me lioration in the roralition of the cultism, as well as their parents. In short, I shall be greatly disappointed and utsceived, ii it be not ultimately proved, that the univoasal oducatiton awe indigent is the weans which Divine Goodness regards with especial savour, rs conducing hi the welfare of his actxountable beings, through the inartimentstaty atiemut the blessed principles of Citristiunity will las Wartioßti. a rcudeaed permanent 111 the marts of To act the humblest pan in so great and good a work, who would not be solicitous?" EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MALTA. I hope by the next I write I And! be able to inform you that a sehuoi un tue iiritiAlt system i, established at 'lalta. I have written r., toe &victory ut tile School Society at Flounce. for the leootos, which am trwnlwt uinto Italian, without whieh I should he at a lugs. Ido not couut • ti situompttutot continue as they have li: o ktia, we,itall , meved toJn. in..ahit.unat of V4l,:tta are anxious rot only fur a boye. but alto tut 4 ii/IL4 . x. :1:01; nu 1 I ..!an 0,;,-Ire you, *Lot OCT. - --•- - - - school is •ery nincli wanted in this city. if one ws4 opened ca pable of containing sou girls, it would soon be tilled.' I TA L Y. " There are two schools at Nice, one at Rome. one at Naples. and two at Florence, where society is thrilled for extending tile system throUghtlyt Tuscany." OBISRVATIONS ON TIM NORWICH DEC/. .1. RATION. It la ant a little extraordinary that the Norwich Delius ration, on the subject of the proceedings at Manehestri. sl Id have beets so largely signed 3 and stencil by men of J *ruse, and relit...lion. one purl ofit is , ind ee d , unexceptionable fur est ry thinkitig person most mei ve in the opiniuri, Ilivi 'mu assemblies of miedoeited peept e tie very w adapts,' ileltherittimi on imestivils connected a iii, lase , murals, or polities that smelt assetti. blies are, its other te•peci., greatly to be deprecated, that the attempts attach certain individuals appear to be 'noting, to insld IMO the dis of the Ma IT owlets., ditiusis and biasplienimis motions, are, its the highest de gree wur,lsy of repsobselicn. But let me enip.tre of my fellow-eititent, whether there Is Allis :ICI .1 any real of the viulebee We,,, I:, its the tell, of August, took place at Alastrlie•ter, twid ei the sweet 1111 l of the magistrates; or of the 1 . 1141111i1 Wlllell 1 hat violence hos wilt e been comitetianced by Will higher authority ? It is ickiv , wledged that some of the facts, eonnerted with that lid day, sir not at pi e'en. ceriviidy known. The stmenteitts columned in the public pi I'Mv hose vim led (leccordit4 to file ll 1111114•41 bias of file a• t o ' , wise of the • - particulass of the case. But alas, hu e niece is isseertitioett ! 11 is assertainid 11141 an armed body of Cavalry whirled the assembled mroltitible. It is asi eilained that these neer- Calms eilitau.soldiers, enable a Wee use of their sabres. it is ascertained thst men mid women at re alike the victims of their indiscriminate ern liy. It is ascertained that seer rat individuals hut their lives , and that a large number of persons were a, vEruly wounded. It it ascertained that. EsiAlishisten Maimed their hands in the blood of Loglis.i mess. 11 Is owerbsined that the Secretary of Stale for 11* Home pronghorns, in time name and on benaV of the Pilate Regent, addressed a public letter of thanks to the officers sew #il miles oldie Manchester Vrountury, by ulnae this slaughter had hive so ably effected ! It is in atingle, whether the Riot Act had, or had nut been read. It is in divide, whether smile sit the multitude were, or were not awned with sticks, and others with stones. It no in dispels, aliether any prover.a ion had, or had ind been received by the Yeomanry, to fore they oalnlcueal their boteltery. lint a ill ai.y one tie bold coungli to assert that the reading' of the Hoot Act (a read ing *bully issitottiole to the people, alllll 1101 called for by the circusustasices if the cuse)--thits insulting language— Mat even sticks 41111 slonrs—etlua bled 4 reasonable excuse for bloodshed and oweearre It is p wsible that there inny have esi-ted some eireurti stances of ii pallivting mom r. It is right that these cir . curustanees should be kouisii—it is right also to is Won't the language of final rood anon, until they have beets V141111'14 Imo. lie demand of the people utiglit Holdout,. truly to be for ingt,iry—for innesligalion—for trial. Not withstanding floe many dreadful tarts Which have been as. tamed, I am of 1/pllll4ll that this should have been floe Leading, perhaps the only object of the meeting lately Mill its St. Andiess's 11411. but the charge of pi 'Judgment, which tutors the pstoripal point in the Declaration, is nevertheiess eats rm. ly absurd and fora very plain sea son, 'moiety, that geese is no trial attar say pending. Au outrage. which appears to tie of the nowt atrocious Lim!, has Men ronainilled. Nobody denies the fart. Mi ll i l ters have jut mil) appr.red but applauded that us 1111 l ge. The people complain of u. 'they do Hut fillUlly mititleson, bxt they arraign and lewdly arraign, the Alagisto isles of Mau cheater, and the %Boasters of the Crowe. The Des lora lion wisely intOrnis us that " the case which its% °lves the cliarectessallti conduct of these gentlemen, may be cons-idered as in a course of trialr—This as eutittly false. The case, I repeal, is not ill a course of trial. The ques tion whether limit and his associates be guilty or not ;;idly of sedition. has absolutely no connect anti the mane intition. The conduct of the 11 lagistralts and of the Monomers, is ender so (oatmeal whatever, bid the liniment of public opinion. Let these geullemen then be ensigns t—they ought to be arraigned—onsilispnted facts re quit e it ;let theist, by SUllle int atm or other, be bs.ieght to r Intl betose their consitry,. Let " inquiry" 4sid Ins vestigatt..se” be the demand of every Englishman, mail inquiry and ins estiplion shall have actually have !alert place; and when float great 'Avec( plush! have been • fleet ed, it will then he the time -sues for Winos and for 'FORUM, to Aeettuce, if they are not compelled to CONDEMN. I am, *re. /7-QUITAS. The following extract front The Democratic Press a Philadelphia Paper, of the 10th November 1818, 'hews that hydrophobia from the Fox is very com mon in North America :-- Peterelinr c h Norruuer 3 HYDROPHOBIA AMONG THE FOXES. ' We have seen several gentlemen from the Northern Neck, who state that the hydroplitibia exists at present among the foxes. In tile county of Northumberland. upwards of forty persons have been kitten who have been Sent to the stone. A most remarkable circumstance attends the iiialedy, when 1,, that t e afflicted animal in place or avoiding the human species immediately makes towards them, and even enters houses in the middk of the day...-. We :lase seen one gentleman, who states, that a fox en eled a house yard in his presence, notwithstanding there were Several dogs ; and that tile dogs, in place of attacking the (mime!, intuit:. dieuety retired, exhilming great signs of tear. On another (gra. bi4lll. a fox made towards a boy who wes walking along the roads the. latte? to avoid him leaped into a waggon wh.ch was pawaud. but the tin pursued and bit i) i 11l in sebtrel placea--Al tab injury has likewise been done to the cattle ; and we are Mile-Heal that the greatest uneasiness exists among the inhabitants; oa amount of the singular and extraordinary malady." An extract of a letter from Trinidad, received at Jamaica, mentions a shucking attempt to, murder his Excellency the Governor of that Island by two mem who approached in disguise the window of the room where be was sitting with his Lady, and fired a blunderbuss at thew, loaded with twelve balls. Th, Governor and Lady were both wound‘d, but neither dangerously.