The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-06 00:00:00

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''This atrocity of feeling, unheard-of before in the
British Empire, has been greatly encouraged by a por- '
tton of the Colonial -press, especially by the Sydney He-
rald, the paper in most extensive circulation in New
'South Wa;es ; the Aborigines being systematically
spoken of in that paper in the most contemptuous terms,
and described as ' 'make) s," black brutes,' &c.,
and the policy of getting rid of them in the
most summary manner, strongly though insidiously
rroommended. The Herald, lam sorry to add, is the
principal -Tory paper of the Colony, and is patronised
by a large number of tae wealthy colonial stockholders,
v. hose interests, forsooth, it thus professes to uphold.
The individual who at present writes for that paper is
an emancipated convict from Dubin, whom I succeeded
about four years ago, at the risk of, an action for libel,
xi getting dismissed from the editorship of the Sydney
Gazette, by a series of article's published in another
journal which I had established myself (for moral and
educational and not political purposes), in which I had
pointed out to the C'oionial public the enormity and die-
gracele (Ammeter of a state of things which would per-
mit such a person to occupy sa highly important and
retpoosible an office. My exertions on that occasion
store ipplauded by the Sydney Herald, because it
witted' the politics of that paper to represent the Colo-
eV Vhtg Government of the day as the patrons of the
!owe& ?refs ; but na sooner was the purpose of the
townent• served, than the dismissed emancipated con-
vict editor was taken into the pay of the Herald to write
Il about ' monkeys' and ' black brutes,' for the infor-
mation and amusement, of those sheep and cattle hold-
erei of the colour, whose assumed interest it was to have
' *woe ' monkeys' and ' black brutes' shot or poisoned
by their convict servants."
The Missionaries sent out by the Church Mis-
sionary Society are treated with as little ceremc.my or
1 mercy. " I am confident, my Lord (he says), it would
be impossible to find a parallel in the history of any
Protesvaut mission since the Reformation, to the
amount of inefficiency and moral worthlessness which
ttrat record presents.—(This record is a manuscript
account, drawn up from unquestionable authority,
of every Missionary that set foot on New Zealand
up to 1824.) Indeed, Divine Providence appears
to have frowned upon the New Zealand Mission
all along, and blighting and blasting from Heaven
seem to have rested upon it even till now. 'The
first head of it was dismissed for adultery ; .the
second for drunkenness ; and the third (so lattely
'as the year 1836) for a crime still more enormous
than either." In a note the author gives the initials
of one of the parties, and by a quotation from Virgil
leaves no doubt about the alleged crime for which
he was dismissed. We see from a statement published
in the Christian Spectator, that the amount sub-
' scribed last year by the British nation in aid of the
Church Missionary Society is 72,0311., and if this
ralst sum is expended, as a portion of it appears to
be in New Zealand (or rather was, for he admits
there is some improvement), not in propagating
the Gospel, or humanizing the natives, but in en-
couraging licentiousness, and in promoting the sel-
fish interests of the Missionaries, the Society may
he regarded as a curse rather than a blessing. But
the Doctor does not rest satisfied with general at-
tacks on the Society and its agents, he points out
what they have done and what they are doing,
gives the names, the lands they have acquired, and
the ruinous effects which the system has produced
on thq unfortunate natives.
" "iny is it," he asks, " that the Christian religion,
, as exhibited in the teaching of the Missionaries of the
Church Missionary Society, has hitherto taken so
slight a hold—for such is unquestionably the fact—on
the hearts and affections of the NeW Zealanders ; for
while the baptised natives do not exceed two hundred
. ampoid
tlipact;
even among
there are frequent instances of
the ministers of'ntolaneg
1
for the success ofGospel
&charge the duties of
4 StitintiOUSly, it is neverthelessr
theirare in no respect responsi-
blethel ministry, provided they
undeniable,
do not engage in their work •
*Pry of albsi, and the extension owfittil:
reeavour to 'serve God and a
thsni ? Why, my Lord, although
office honestly and con-
mon;hat if they
a single eye to tile
e Kingdom of Christ,
' .t 4. undoubtedly issue in disc
failure be chargeable entirely u
their efforts
poPnPt7intrnerit, and their
hemselvesef.aseNotowthle
),!, meprehend, my Lord, that this is exactl theo
tlat want
To w Zealand Vission, and the true source
• 0.1 success wha has hitherto peen experienced
Missionaries, and is so generally complained of byi the
i3laid. For instead o.' coefinine themselves with' thethe
Xstaterestedness that became their office to the con-
scientious ucientious discharge of their important duties, as the.
professed disciples of ' Him who, though rich, for our
sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might
be rich,' the Missionaries of the Church Missionary so.
eisissy in,New Zealand, utterly incredible as it may appeal
in Dili:land, have actually been the principals in the
grand conspiracy of the European inhabitants of the is-
• land to rob and plunder the natives of their land !"
And in a few pages further on, he adds I :
" I was, unfortunately, usable, my Lord,
exactly the real extent of the land possesrsel, d
' toor ascertaincloim ed,
1 en the ground of alleged purchases from the natives, by
tele Church MiQsionaries and their sons in New Zsa-
:and, either in English acres orsquare miles (the latter
is the usual mode of computation in the island); but
your.. Lordship will be able to tonal some idea on the
)ret, when I state, on the authority of several intel-
:gent persons residing onile spot
with the Society, that if the vaivable, and unconnected
bye
' timber grow-I
liDg on the land so claimed, or possessed, were to be I