The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-05 00:00:00

THE SOCIETY in SCOTLAND for PROPAGATING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,

BEG leave to State to a benevolent Public, that the
Edition of the Old Testament Scriptures in Gaelic,
which with the aid of Charitable Contributions they formerly
caused to be translated and published, is sow nearly ex-
hausted. The demand for this part of the Bible, in the High-
lands .and Islands, where Multitudes, by, means of the $6..
ciery's Schools, have been taught to read the Scriptures in
their own Language, is loud and urgent. In the year 1796,
the Society published an Edition of the New Testament,
consisting of 20,000 copies: It will yield them great satis..
fadion to be enabled also to publish another Edition of the
Old Testament, and trusting to the aid of a generous Publics;
they propose to print it in a neat portable size, to be distri-
buted among their Schools gratis, and to be sold to purchasers
at a very low price. The Objea it's.) important, and so im-
mediately conneded with the interest of Religion, that they
cannot entertain a doubt of its obtaining the SWUM attention
of the benevolent and well-disposed.
If the Funds of the Society were equal to the expence, they
avould never have thought of thus applying for public aid.
Legacies, it is true, of great magnitude, and with great grati-
tude publicly acknowledged, have not many years ago-been
biqueathed to the SOciety. Of the appropriation of the in-
terest of these sums, to the enlargement ot their Establish-
ment, and a much needed increase of Salaries to the Teachers
employed by them, they have:given repeatedly most particu-
lar affounta to t fie 1' bI ic farteKhave tin concealments', ant
orrniterty wi ti, that tire sititeivittiVi§ Whith irons t;trai trf
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time they publish, were to be' read by all who take au inte-
rest in the subjeds of them—the truth is, that they arc re-
strained by their Charter from encroachment upon their
Stock, and. that their annual revenue is stretched to its ut-
most extent, in supporting. their large Establishintnt, they
are therefore totally disabled from meeting the extraordinary
demand which this Work will occasion; to this, it is hoped,
the Public will readily give credit, when they are told, that
the number of Teachers, Catechists, Missionary Ministers,
and Bursars, whoril they maintain, amounts to 317, at the
annual expence of £.3,573 ; that of Scholars attending the
Schools ot the Society, tar the instruction in the first prin-
ciples of Literature and Religion, to 13,694, and of those
who attend their Sehatils for Industry, to 202 e—in all, 4419.
The multitude of people who receive instruction from their
• Missionary Ministers and Catechists, they cannot compute.
The supplying to the Inhabitants of the Highlands and
Islands, the Scriptures, in their own language, and at a small
price, cannot hut appear to every reflecting mind an °Ned
most benevolent and important. To furnish them, gratis,
to so great a number of poor children as are taught at the So-
ciety's Schools, will, it is hoped, be deemed one of the best
direCted of all Charities.
_ , Donations, or Subscriptions, will be received in London by
qharles Grant, Esq. M. P. ; at Messrs. Down, Thornton,
and Co.'s and at Messrs. lefevre, Curries, and Co.'s,
Treasurer or the Corresponcting.lkrard ; and Messrs. Coutts,
and Co. Bankers, in the Strand: In Glasgow, by Messrs.
Scott, Moncriett and Dale. In Edinburgh, by Sir William
Forbes arid Co. Bankers ; and by any ot the Directors, or
principal Officers of the Society. In the other Towns of
Great Britain, it is hnped that the Ministers of the Gospel
will not decline to take upon them this trouble.
By Order of the Society,
JO. KEMP, A.D.
One dente Ministers of Edinburgh, Secretary.

CANAL CUTTING AND BRICK.MAKING,
THE KENNET and AVON CANAL COM.
MITTEE will meet at the Bear Inn, Devizes, in the
County of Wilts, en Friday the xrst January next, to receive
.Proposals; and comma for the forming and completing the
'Canal, between the two Parishes of All-Cannings and Pew.
sey-, being a distance of upwards of five Miles.—Also for the
making of about One Million of Bricks.
03- Plans and Descriptions of the Work may be seen 4 by
applying to Samuel Hadgkillsoll,l24lllcat..
Canal-Office, Devizes, • •
Dec. 28, doz.