The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-01 00:00:00

TEE WEST INDIES.

NYTTING Of TOSS iNNANITANTS Of TOIL CITY Of ZING-
ATO% (JAMAICA) TO Lowsitifil OF THE NEST alAire Or
lilt:TU(0 ADDITIONAL PLACES Of PUBLIC woasote.
From the Jamaica Carafe.'
?avant to the requisition.of his Honour the Mayor, a Meeting
wee beki aCthe Court-house, on Wedresday. for the purpose of!
inning a fund by public subscription, to be appropriated to the,
enninar of one nr more new places of uninniy, under the govern.
mart of the Episcopal establishment.
At about eleven o'clock, the Hon. Joseph Barnes being called to
the dur,
The Bishop addressed the Meeting, which wan numerous and
NI/respectaide. Hie Lordship .puke at Nome considerable
. He stated that it had devolved on him. in the discharge of
the important duties which his Sovereign hail intrusted in hint, to
"ooze !equines imp the moral sad religious wants of the
nen& of this extensive end important Colony, and to pen.
PIC goalures of instruction cosnmensumte to their wants. Those ,
'
tunnies had been particularly directed to that part of the impute.
two. oboes coalition had, of late, been an object of especial solien.'
tide to the Executive and the Legialature of England : be alluded
• ales gllVll.Popsilatiou. It was with eery conaiderable gratification,
load Lee Umlaute. that lie waa mailed 4t so early a penal of his
tenantry, as the Ecclesiastical Head of titis Diocese, to bear teen.
✓oof to the circumstance, that since the abolition of the Slave-
Trno great intellectual changes had exhibited themselves In the
Negro blue. Viewing this gondol' in its political aspect. he eon.
aeleted it act which should call forth the attention of all classes of
his fellow.citntans It was entitled to tegani no less from the Dom-
ningial thin Minn the Ecclesiastical °Memo( the State. With the
onsciousnese of this fact, he made a confident appeal to their.
nberalue on this oecadon—a liberality that wu the more demanded
Iran theta. inn Stu uch as the importnut changes in the sec ial and moral
state of the Negro were the moult of those gradual ineatures which had,
men time to time. been adopted by them. asa corresponding disposi.
Doti evinced Itself on the part of the SlarePopulation to render every
ennuis productive of is anticipated benefit. If he were required
to state particularly in whet respects the intellectual change, to
which he ahuded. had manifested inielf, he telt assured that the
experience of every one would yield a ready concurrence in his owe
senclusions—that it was reniarkably demo/nitrated in the decline.
end he hoped rapid extinction, of the popular superstitions nfl
Atilt*. The horrid influence of that ignorance, whose source dif.'
Lased its poisonous stream from their African progenitor*, was!
ilyiag tan: ally. And he doubted rut that a taw years. aided by I
tumbled means of Christian instruction. would produce all those
happy results which had been anticipated by the people of Eng.
land. lie, however, felt himself' bound to declare publicly (and to
him it was a source of heartfelt pleasure, to make this poblie ac-
knowledgr.nent of the sincerity of those sentiments, with which
he had been received b' them on his nest arrival to take upon bias.
*elf the function, of his oilice)—that all his inquiries hail confirmed
him that that the decrease of crime—chat the diminution of all the
elide &thew from a disregard to the obligations of *racial life, (and
they were obligations whose beneficial effects were seen in the rapid
mire:tees now made in the civilized Society of Europe)—were to be
ascribed to thou improved systems of tr.anagement, and to that ex-
terded voiection. which, he was sure, had emanated front their
unconstrained collections on their own interest and their own tau-
rty. He felt fully assured, by his own short 'experience in the
ietumuniiy, that t :!.y would cheerfully redeem the pledges of sup-
port which they had given him in their several addresses: that they
would concede thi propriety of extending their munificence to the
claims which he matte upon them for Christian instruction to the
Negro; that they would fit him and prepare him for extending
Chase opportunities of utility to himself and them ; that they would
see that they did nut render their own meliorating concessions abor-
tive, by withholding themselves from assisting in drawing the Slave
fate • respect for religion and a love of good order ; effects which
were preceptibly operating on the Negro's habits in hie own volun.l
toy relinquishment of the Sunday traffic, and his own desire to'
render the Sabbath a day of rest and of Christian instruction. His
Lordship here read a communication front his Honour the Mayor
of Kinrnon, relative to the tart of this change in the Negro habits
mice the growth of dine and of gradual melioration : not forced
by express legislative enactment, but bring the result of an in-
creased religious feeling on the part of the Negroes themselves.
The advancement of the Negro mind from barbarism to civilize.
tine, said his Lordship, under the benign spitit of Christianity, had
ample testimony borne to it by several Ministers well known to the
community hr. was then addressing : The names of Mr. Trete. Mr.
Sinasby, and others of the Island Clergy, in the Report of the
Society fur promoting the Gomel in Foreign Parts (a report which
his Lordship bad only recently received from England). had added
'night to the conclusions formed by his own experience. The
'lnfusion was so Interesting and so apposite to the purposes of the
meeting, so calculated to stimulate their zeal, ti a. his Lordship said
tin should request permission to read an extract to them. Ile then re.
stoned. Now, said his Lotilehip. that I have (as a necessary part in
the expaaition of an object in calling this Meeting) touched on the
Stilijcct of gradual melioration, I ant tempted to make my unequi.
vocal declaration that it is the only means which experience holds
out as an tfleetual remedy for the moral evils in the condition of
the Slave. All violent measures, or rather measures that have not,
received &corresponding enlargement of reflection in the mind of
the Negro. will infallibly defeat the beneficent object of a bene.
Tolent spirit. lie alluded, he said, to measures designed, if he
might use the obectration, to change him, at it were per sallow,
and not with a due regard to the general unfolding of his moral
perceptions. All human experience bears testimony to this mo-
mentous truth. Ile who would scorn its precept is an injudicious
friend of humanity. If we advert only, said the Rev. Prelate, to
the growth of the human body, with whose growth perceive
the intellectual expansion of man to be intimately connected, we
see it arching at maturity by the gradual and simultaneous eaten.
sioa of all its tunctiuns, both mental and cornoreal ; and such it
was In the social habitude of man ; we must teach him habits of
utility; we must instruct him in the advantages which those will
bring about, before we shall rouse his attention to redouble his exer.
nom to attain them. This must be the work of noun Sr. Paul, in il-
lustrating mite gradual progress of religion in the mut, represents, by
a similar figure, the newly admitted Christian. as receiving the bene.
fits of the doctrines of the Holy Faith by differently modified cir-
cumstances 4 the milk first u must accordant to the slow develope.
vent of the economy of animal nature, till we become fitted for
the reception of substantial food by the robust action of the system.
It Is, however, with you, said his Lordship, to accelerate or retard
the operations of this law of our a Kiel as well as animal nature.
He then declared his confidence in their liberality and benevolence.
and concluded by assuring them that feeling that this cause with the
Laity, trout die claims of intercom, was the same as with the
Clergy ; that the propagation of the Gospel was the best means of
securing the integrity of the Colonial Empire, and thin Christia-
nity, by dinlming a conciliatory spirit, was the extending of hap.
pitons to one antfall—be sat down nader the conviction, that as
irixilieries, they would, by their resolutions of that day, be found
powtrful and unwearied, and evince themselves the judicious
friends of the human race.
To a question put to his Lordship relative to it grant of 20,1)001.,
"filch was said by an English official paper (the COnrici) to be
placed la the hands of the Colonial Bishops by the British Govern.
nient, and that fur die erection of Places of Worship—his Lord.
shit) answered that no such sum hail been so deposited ; if it had,
so interesting a fact would not have been withheld from the Meet-
ing. In regard to his instructions, he would avow thus much, that
he was board to report on the want of places of public instructinn
throughout the cruntry generally ; that having from local advan-
tages made himself acquainted with the great and overpowering
clams of Kingston, he had fully remitted that fact in his earliest
10 nolunicatiois to Lord Bathurst. The design,of the report was
to ascertain the extent to which conic such kind of pecuniary aid
as that mentioned in the Caroler would he required from the Ott-
venom*. If as he had reason to believe he might) he should
receive by thiamine pocket any grant far Kingston in particular,
he would communicate it immediately to the Trustees designed to
be appo ate I under the preseut resolutions, that they might extend
the appropriation of the hinds to the erection of another Place of
Worship—for the wants of Kingston would not enable them to
coefiiie then munificence to the resolutions of that day alone. He,
however, uid not expect that any grant would be made until he ri.i
ported on the general deficiencies of the Colony—then of course!
the sum* would be apportioned by hint to the respective wants of!
all parts of the island. Those of Kingston were immediate and
imperative; ft. by a law of the island, or a resolution of the Le-
gislature, it win very recently determined that the Governor should
appoint no Curate on the island fund, until it hail been first shown
by the parish applying, that they were prepared to render his
labours efficient by the previous erection of a separate Plate of'
Worship, that he might exercise his Amnions distinct from those
of the Hector. In the ease of Kingston, the present Citrate could
twit have been appointed at this Drue, but for an accommodation of
the Corporation by the loan of Wohner's Free School as a tempo.
nary Chapel. Thu accommodation, however, could not extend to
any protracted rieriod ; the Chapel, therefore. now designed to be
erected wao rendered imperiously requisite. His Lordship said he
believed that most of the parishes Laboured under the same kind of
disqualification, should a vacancy unit by thedea: h of any of the pre-
sent Curates. It was only by such Meetings se the present, in which
all had opportunities to stare their opinions, and to make their sug-
gesUons, that the weans of the island could be fully known and
tally estimated.
All further questions and discussion related to the sums which
should be inserted In the Resolutions.
These were agreed upon, and sundry Resolutions were then car.
reed without dissent.
Fifteen hundred pounds* were almost immediately entered on
Vie subscription List by the gentlemen present.
Above MON. by subsequent lists.

Yesterday forenoon the Rev. A. Fletcher, of London,
preached " by thrine permirsion" (as he announced in his
1411,) in the old church of North Leith pariah, to &crowded
audience; and in the afternoon' the assemblage appearing
to be more than double what the dwelt would hold, he
adjourned the congregation to Leith Links, where he
• Waled froto an open ouriar. The object of his visit is
to make collections, to enable his faithful adherents to'
build a new chapel for him in London ; but his appealsil
psterday appeared to produce little. To show, however,
that his visit was nut altogether of a selfish nature (he ob-
served) it was his intention, although he had not been
Aired to do so, to preach next Sunday in the same place,
the collections to be appropriated to some of the charities
of Leitb. He preached again in the evening, at half-past
fise.—Fdiebargit Paper of Monday.
Aeolioavo.—At present there are so many houses in
like course of erection here, that the demand for masons is
unprecalsotett; per wea.

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