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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

more simple in Its means-more Mimi," and more powerful
in 114 opera liu ; and, 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 never 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 toe 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 Alissionary) • the 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
philosopher 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 prevented 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 of 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.