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LITERATURE.

BIBLICAL RESEARCHES and TRAVELS in RUSSIA;
including a• Tour in the Crimea, and the passage of the Cau-
casus, &c. By E. lIENDICKSON, I vol. Brio. 182.6.

This work will be read with much interest by all
friends to the diffusion of Christian knowledge, and
the circulation of the Scriptures ; it contains the nar-
rative of a journey performed by the Author hi the
years 1821 and 22, in company with his friend Dr.
Paterson, and in part, with Mr. Serof, Assistant
Secretary to the Russian Bible Soeiety. The excur-
sion extended through a large portion of the Southern
and. Eastern Governments of the Russian Empire.

The character of the work differs from that of an
ordinary tour; to the description of scenery, Manners,
&c. but a very secondary place is assigned. The
main object of the Tour was of a religious nature, and
it was designed to advance the interests of the Bible
Society ; so that to the detail of the state and pro-
ceedings of that, and other kindred institutions, the
main portion of the Work is devoted. The Reader
is presented with the results of the Author's enquiries
into the condition and operations of these institutions
throughout all the great extent of territory which he
traversed ; he has paid-particular attention to collect-
inginforrnStion as to all the versions of the Holy
Scriptures. which appeared in these regions, and has
accumulated a large enumeration and description of
them. He is very, sanguine .in his expectations of the
success which is to attend the exertions of the
,Rus-
sian Bible Society; and in discussing the prospects of
the Missionary among the half-barbarous Heathen or
Maliometan tribes, whose territory'
,borders on, or is

included within, the Russian dominions'; he displays
.
much, discretion, and a sober dispassionate judgment,
onited with the must fervent zeal for the cause, of
Christianity. We extract the following
ir assages,
descriptive of the exertions made for the di usunt of
the Gospel at Astr.d. tan
" It was with feelings of no ordinary interest that the author
entered the gates, of Astrakhan. For nearly three years his atten..
tion had been directed to that town, as the centre of an important
sphere of Biblical operations ; his furniture and library had been
forwarded from St. Petersburgh the preceding summer, and corn-
modions rooms in the Mission-house had been kindly allotted for
his residence, He was, therefore, naturally anxious to turn his
temporary stay in the place to the beat possible account, by in-
vestigating the state and character of its iuliabitante, and the fa-
cilities which might be presented for the attainment of his 'object;
by 'the connections established between them and the inhabitants
of different parts of Asia; but he hid not been snore than two or
three days in the tows, when he was again attacked with the
ague, from which he was but just convalescent. With the ex-
ception of 'a visit, which, in company with his fellow-traveller,
and their mutual friend, Mr. Mitchell, he paid to the vineyard
of the Archbishop, whither they were conveyed, after dining with
his Grace, he scarcely left the walls of the Mission-house during
he period of his stay
" The subjects which principally engaged our attention, were
ltose relating to the translation and cir,nlation of the Scriptures
Ln the Turkish and Persic languages.•
" Excepting the Turkish New Testament, published by Sea•
man, its 1666, and certain parts of the same reprinted at Halle
about the beginning of last century, no other portions of the Sa-
cred Volume made their appearance in that language, till the ex-
ertions of. the Scottish Missionaries at karass ware brought to
bear- ors-ther impotent ,:object:' of slitfusiugi the light of Pti'itte
Truth among the deluded followers of Mobansmed. Thee* exer-
tions were commenced by Mr. Henry Brunton, who having pre-
viously spent some time in the west of Africa, had acquired a
knowledge of the Arabic, and was thereby, to a certain extent,
prepared for the field which he was afterwards sent 'to cultivate,
in the vicinity of the Caucasus. He had only been two years at
ICaress, when his knowledge of the Turkish was so matured, an
warrant his undertaking a translation of the' New Testament into
that language. In executing this work., Mr. B. received consi-
derable assistance from the version of Seaman, which may, indeed,
be said to form the ground-work of his translation ; but be had
his eye constantly on the Greek Text, and diligently conducted
the English, German, and such other translations as were scow
Bible in the peculiar circumstances in which he was placed.
44 It is impossible to take into consideration the next to insuper-
able difficuties with which the translator and his brethren had tt
contend, without feeling convinced, that, as it originated in the
suggestions of that Divine Agent who worketh inwardly in his
servants, directing theta to the suitable application of their ta-
lents, so it was accomplished by the special aid of his grace, in
order to form the basis of a series of operations, which are, no
doubt, destined one day to eradicate the noxious weeds of Mo-
hammedan growth, and supply their place the trees of
righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that lie may be glori-
fied.' The place at which he was stationed, the character of the
surrounding tribes, the unsettled state of public affairs, the dis-
tance to which the Missionaries wen removed from the neceeluttY
materials of typographical labour, the embarrassments in which
they were frequently involved, and the limited and continually in-
terrupted intervals of time, which could be devoted to the work,
all tend to excite our admiration of the manner of its execution.
The houses erected in the colony were by no means of a substan•
tial or comfortable nature ; and the printing-office in particular
was so superficially constructed, that during the frost in winter
a trough of water, used for wetting the paper, though placed close
to the stove, froze into a solid mass in the course of twenty-four
hours, and all the iron-work of the press was white with frost.
The cold prevented the ink from spreading properly, owing to
whirl), and similar causes, the execution of the press-work was
yeti indifferent. Being often alarmed by the Tcherkessians, the
Missionaries were obliged to secure the types by interring them.
Add to this, that the workmen were continually changing, so that
they never rose higher titan learners; and it may safely be affirmed,
that there never was an edition of the New Testament, or of any
other book, carried through the press under such a tuultitude of
untoward circumstances. The invaluable Missionary, Mr. Mtn
Mitchell, who conducted the printing, after adverting to these
difficultly,' adds, clt is wonderful that we were able to emit:WWl
it at all: Let us giie the praisi to God, who in his adorable
to gboratnhcrloiuogfhth7e:oitttlies; Mission was eom-
Pmillent‘ ce Adesacd
anoticed
Irl al ek shove,dhaua
ni in the year 181 h. It consisted at first of
Messrs. Dickson and Mitchell, with their families; but was after-
wardsaugmented by the arrival of Messrs. Glen, Ross, Macpher-
son; and Selbie. Their field of a Ourlay partly among the
labour
Tartars residing in the suburbs, or in the villages, in the vicinity
liu
resumingt Ii ey
r tort
of the town, and
Astrakhan for the purposes of trade.
partly among the iT
receptionhe
with from the Tartars was far from encouraging. . Boinetimes
they found few of the inhabitants at home ; at others, those whom
they did meet would scarcely listen to them. Sometimisi they
But on the utmost utmost rudeness, and ordered them away. ,
treated their message with mockery and scorn; _hooted
other them with
"siolis, thetened with considerable attention ; and some, who
Visited Mr. Dickson,l.l
the doctrine and precepts of the New Testament, though they still
appeared as firm as ever in their belief of the doctrines and pre-
" Their labours am gthe
accoired a etty extensive acquaintance with
pre-
cepts of the Koran.*
much more promisi Qll--
• of the noble Persian,
ng ; and the caaversion
Alexander Kazetn 11 has Itended to stiniulate them to
Persians seemed, I,lnfours.t nine time,every
sincere friend
persevering exertions that people.delight learn that;. according
to the most recent pe to
i
attachment to Christ,'
and
dntaohat convert remain
inst ,' 4'
progress the
know-
ledge and 'experience of divine making
rapid
" The house ptmuset_ nie thitgs.
by tfw Scottish Missionary Society,
and occupied by E.; ,
"a-rloltr issituated on the west side of
of the
Gosmonlggreat
the grand square,:
comparison, ,t lebest'
and beyond
e

• Bruwifa History of the Propagation of Chriatianity.--X°l
p, 621.

, .
house in Astrakhan. It was built by a Greek, and disposed of
by him to the Society, on the most advantageous terms. The
ground and. first floors are occupied by the Missionaries, and the
third-:supplies room for the domestic chapel and school. In the
former of these, public worhip is held every Lord's day, and all
the members of the missionary family assemble in it for worship
every evening daring the week. Sever! of the childegn had made
considerable progress in.the Persic and Tartar languages, and some
specimens that they showed us of Persic caligraphy were exceed-
ingly beautiful.
" Tt is certainly cause of deep regret, that the Directors of the
Edinburgh Missionary Society should have come to the determi-
nation of partially, if not entirely, abandoning Astrakhan as a
Missionary station. Their want of success has been eery dis-
couraging ; but if certain causes, which have hung as ft dead
weight en their missions in Russia, could be effectually removed,
and more vigorous measures brought into operation, there are,
perhaps, few places which present greater facilities for missionary
labour than that town. Of this the Basle Society seem, in some
measure to be aware, and are sending out labourers into that
quarter. May their efforts be crowned with an abundant
blessing !"

From the LONDON GAZETTE, AUG. 18.

At the Court at St. James's, the 27th of July, 1926 : preikettt,

the King's Most ExCellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act, passed in the sixth year of the reign of
His present Majesty, entitled " An Act to regulate the trade of the
British possessions altraad,” after tecitiog,jhat, "by the law of
navigation, foreign ships are permitted to import into any of the
British possessions abroad, from the countries to which they be-
long,- goods the produce of those conntries,,and to export goods
from sulh possessions to be carried to any foreign country what-
ever ;" and that " it is expedient that such permission should be
subject to certain conditions," it is. enacted, " that the privi-
leges thereby granted to foreign ships shall be limited to the ships
Of those countries which, having colonial possessions, shall grant
the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British
ships; or which, not having colonial possessions, shall place the
commerce and navigation of this country, and of its possessions
abroad, upon the footing of the moat favoured nation, unless
His Majesty by his order In Council shall, in any case, deem
it expedient to grant the whole or any of such privileges to the
ships of any foreign country, although the conditions afore-
said shall not in all respects be fulfilled by such foreign
country ;" and whereas, the conditions mentioned and ,referred

to in the said Act of Parliament, have not in all respects been
fulfilled by the Government of the United States of America, and
therefore the privilegeS so granted as aforesaid by the law of
Navigation to foreign ships, cannot lawfully be, exercised or
enjoyed by the ships of the United States aforesaid, unless his
Majesty,,by his order in Council, shall. grant the whole or any
of such privileges- to the ships of the United States aforesaid :
and whereas, his Majesty doth deem it expedient to grant to the
ships of the said United State* such of the said privileges as are
hereinafter-mentioned ; his Majesty cloth therefore, with the ad-
vice of his Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities in him vested by the said Act of Parlia-
ment, declare and grant that it is and shall he lawful for the ships
of the United Statas aforesaid to . import into any of the.firitish
possessions abroad, from the said United States, goods the pro-
duce of the United States aforesaid, and not enumerated in the

table of prohibitions and restrictions in the said Act contained,
and to.export goods from !Mob British possessions abroad to be
carried to any foreign country whatever, provided always that such
goods so imported shall be subject and liable to the payment of
the citifies imposed and made payable under and by virtue of the

said Act of Parliament; provided also, that his Majesty doth
further, with the advice aforesaid, declare that the privileges so
granted as aforesaid to the ships of the said United States, so far
as respects the British po4essions in the West Indies, and on the
continent of South America, and so far as respect' the Bahama
Islands, and the Bermuda or Somerbilands, and so far as respects his

Majesty's settlements in the island of Newfoundland, and the
several islands belonging to and dependent on those settlements,
shall absolutely, cease and determine upon and him' the let day of
December, which will be in this present year ltnd ; provided
also, and his Majesty doth further, with the advice aforesaid,. de-
elate, that the privileges SO granted as aforesaid to the ships of the
said. United States, so far as respects the British poseeseions on the
western coast of Africa, shall absolutely cease and determine upon
and front the said Ist day of December, 1826: provided also, and
his Majesty, with the advice aforesaid, doth further declare, that
the privileges so granted as aforuaid to the ships of the said United
States, so far as respects the colony of the Cape of good Hope,
and the islands, settlements, and territories belonging thereto, and
dependent thereupon, and so far as respects the island of Mauritius,
anti the 'several islands and territories belonging thereto, 'or de-
pendant thereupon, end so for as respects the island of Ceylon,
and the several 'islands and territories belonging thereto, and
dependent thereupon, shall absolutely cease and determine
upon and from the let day 'of March, which will be in
the year 1827 ; provided also, and his Majesty doth further
with the advice aforesaid, declare that the privileges so
granted as aforesaid to the ships of the said United States,
so far as respects his Majesty's settlements in the island of
New Holland, and the several islands and territories belonging
thereto, and dependent thereupon, and so far as respects the island
of V:et Dieman's Land, and the several islands and territories be-1
longing thereto, and dependent thereupon, shall absolutely cease
and determine upon and from the let day of May, which will he
in the said year 1827: provided ,also, that nothing iu this present
order contained, extends, or shall be construed to extend, to in-
fringe or interfere with the convention of commerce anti naviga-
tion, concluded between his late Majesty King George the Third
and the United States of America, bearing date the Sd day °Only,
1815 ; or the further' convention of commerce and navigation,
concludedletween his said late Majesty anti
the United States of
America, bearing date the tOth day of October, 1818 ; or to
prevent ships of" the said United State" from importing into
or from export-
any of the British possessions in Europe,
ing front such British possessions in Europe, any gOods which
under or by virtue of the said couvettions, or either of them,l
or of the several Acts of Parliament Wade for carrying such
conventions into effect, can or may lawfully be imported
into or exported from such British possessions- in Europe
iu the ships of the said United States, • Anti whereas, by
a certain Act of Parliament, passed-in the fourth year of the
reign of his present, blajeety, entitled " An Act to authorize
exported in foreign vessels,
His Majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the duties
coeurtgai):stdeforielnir ytesedseelsr from pilotage," it is, among
and
ld
;dor aetettafpk;
other things, enacted, " that it shall and may he hateful to and for
!his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, or by
his Majesty's order or orders in Council, whenever it shall be
deemed expedient, to levy and charge any additional duty or duties
of customs, or to withhold the payment of any drawbacks, boun-
ties, or allowances, upon any goods, wares, or rnerehaediee im-
ported into or exported front the United Kingdom, or imparted
into or exported from any of his Majesty's domiuione, in vessels
belonging to any foreign country in which higher duties shall have
been levied, or smaller drawbacla, bounties, or allowances granted
upon goods, wares, or merchandise when imported into or exported
from such foreign country in British vessels, than are levied or
granted upon similar goods, st-ares, and mereltantliee,when imported
or exported in vessels of such country ;" and it is thereby provided
" that such additional or countervailing duties so to be imposed,
and drawbacks, bounties, or allowances so to htewithheld as afore-
said, shall not be of greater amount than May be deemed fairly
to Countervail the difference of duty, drawback, bounty, or
allowance paid, or granted on goods,
wares, or merchandise
imported into or exported from such foreign couutry in British
vessels, snore or lesi than the duties, drawbscks, bounties,
eywa„,t, there charge,' or granted upon similar goods, wares, or
merchandise imported into or exported from such foreign or al
country
in vessels of such country;", and whereas by an Act of Parliament,
passed in the fifth year' of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled
" An Act to indemnify an persona concerned ioadvising, issuing,
for regulating the ton-
onragaeetoifnfititilitnideser a
on certain
eertaio orilr in
foreign Cveounsiels,oil
anti
to
amend
an
Attsor
the last session of Parliament, for authorizing Hi* Majesty, under
certain circumstancee, to regulate the duties and drawbacks on goods
imported or exported in any foreign vessels," it is, among other
thing's enacted, "-that it Alai and may be lawful to and for Hie
Majesty,. by anti with the advice of His Privy Ciniccil, or by Hie
Meteety's order or 'orders iu Council, to be publielted front time to
time in the London Gazette (whenever it shall be deemed expe
dient), to leyyramuchi4.p, any additional in' tototterysiline duty. of
. .

duties of tonnage upon or in respect, of any vessels which shall O-
W any of the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, or in any of His Majesty's dominions, and which shall be-
long to any foreign country iu which any duties of tonnage shall
have been or shall be levied upon or in yespect of British vessels
entering the ports of such country ; higher or greater than are
levied or granted upon or in respect of the vessels of such coun-
try ; and it is thereby provided, that such additional or counter-
vailing tonnage duties, so to be levied and charged as aforesaid,
shall not be of greater amount than may be deemed fairly to
countervail the difference of duty paid in such foreign coun-
try upon or in respect of the tonnage of British vessels mare
than the duty there charged or granted upon, or in respect of
the vessels of such country ;" and whereas British vessels en-
tering the ports of the United States aforesaid from the ports of
his Majesty's possessions in America or the West Indies, with ,car-
goes consisting of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said
possessions, are charged with a duty of one dollar per ton, for tan-
nage duties and light money, and a discriminating duty of ten per
cent. is charged upon the cargoes of such vessels, tamhich vessels
of the United States, and cargoes of the same description, enter-
ing the. ports of the United States from the ports of his Ma-
jesty's. said pinsessione, are not .subject His Majesty, by
virtue of the powers vested in him by the said Acts of Parlia-
ment, passed in the fourth and filth years of his Majesty's
reign, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, is pleated
to order, and it is hereby ordered, that there shall be charged
on all vessels of the United States which shall enter any of
the forts of his Majesty's possessions on the continent of North
America, with articles; of the growth, production, or manufacture
of the said Stites, or which, until the said let.day of December,
1826, shall enter with any such articles any of the ports of his 11ta-
jesty's possiesions in the West Indies or South America, or in the
Bahama Islands, or in the Bermuda or Smiler Islands, a duty of
4s. Sd. sterling for each and every tun burden of such vessels,
equal, as nearly as may be, to 94 cents of the money of the United
States, and being the difference between the tonnage duty pay sible
by vessels of the United State*, and British vessels entering any of
the ports of the said United States, from any ports of his Ma-
jesty's dominions in America or the West Indies ; and further,i, an
addition of 10 per cent. upon the duties set forth in the said ;act
of Parliament, passed as aforesaid in the 6th year of his Majesty's
reign, on any of the articles therein enumerated, which may be
imported into his Majesty's said possessions on the continent{ of
North Anierica, in any vessel of the said United States, or-which,
until the said Ist day of December, 18.26, may be imported Into
his Majesty's said possessions in the West Indies or South Ante-
rice, or into the Bahama Islands, or into the Bermuda or Sotner
' Rhoda, in any such vessel of thtepid States : such duties tot be
levied, collected, and applied in the saute manner and to the sante
purposes as the duties levied untier the authority of the said tuft of
the 6th year of his Majesty's reign.
And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his
Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions Ite,sein
accordingly. C. C. GREVILLB.

Lord Chamberkill's Office, Aug. 16, 1826.
The Kiug has been pleased to appoint Robert Fielding Fitz.
herbeit, Erg. Clerk of the Cheque of his Majesty's Guard
Yeomen of the Guard.

Foreign Oflief!, August 18. •
The King has been pleated to approve of Mr. John George
Behrendt, as Consul in London for the Free City of Frankfort.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
.1. D. Browne, Walthamstow,. Essex, surgeon.
0. Bridge, Marple, Chester, cotton-manufacturer.
T. Andrews and T. R. Andrews, Tavistock-place, St. Palmas
coal-merchants.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
J. Till, I:lasinghall-street, woollen-draper.
11. Burrell, jun. Wakefield, Yorkshire, merchant
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
S. Ballin, Wotton-under-edge, silversmith.
B A NKRUPTS.

J.lkins, Matipt.street, Grosvenor-square, tailor, Aug. 26,
at nine, 29, and Seib 29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioner:.
of Bankrupt*, Bitainghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Parker.
building*, Holborn.
S. L. Levin, Grace's-alley, Wel'close-square, bead-tnerohaut,
Aug. 25, 29, awl Sept. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Com-
missioners. Attorney, Mr. Whittington, Dean-street, Finsbury
square.
G. Otley and H. Byrne, Regent-street, St. James's, tailors,
Aug. 22, at two, Sept. 2 and 29, at one, at the Court of Com.
micsioners. Attoruies, Messrs. Hamilton and Twining, Berwick.
street, Soho.
James Moyes, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, printer, Aug. 22,
29, and Sept. 29, at eleven, at the Court of CourinissiOners.
Attorney, Mr. Tapping, Bartlett's Luildiitgs, Holborn.
11. Duncan, Portsmouth, surgeon and apothecary, Sept. 1, at
eleven, 22, at ten, and 29, at twelve, at the Court of Oommis-
sioners. Attorney, Mr. J. Dalkon, Tank's-court, Chancery-lane.
'l'. Grosley, Wakefield, Yorkshire, currier, Sept. 9, 11, and
29, at eleven, at the Sessions House, Wakefield. Attorniei, Mr.
King, Castle-street, Holborn ; and Mr. Melton, Wakefield.
J. Twigg, Earl's Eaton, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, blanket:ma-
nufacturer anti tuerchant,- August 25, at twelve, at the Seasione-
House, Wakefield, Sept. 23, at ten, at the Mari and Saddle lon,
Dewsbury, and, 29, at eleven, at the Sessions flow, Wakefield,
Yorkshire. Attornies, Messrs. Jacques and Bettye, Coleman-
street; and Messrs. Archer and Creaveo, Osaet, near Wakefield.
. J. Ilene, Gloucester, brick-maker, , August 25, 26, and Sep-
tember 29, at ten, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Gloucester; At.
tornies, Mr. James Coe, Hatton Carden; and Mr. W. Mat-
thews, Gloucester.

E. Dudeney, Brighthelmston, Sussex, builder, Aug. 26, IS, and
September 29, at use, at the New Inn, Brighthelinston. At-
tornies, Mr. Green, Brighthehnstou ; and 'Mr. James Sowton,
Great James street, Bedford-rosy,
C. Stewart, Birchin-lane, Old Broad-street, merchant, Aug.
25, Sept. 5, and 19, at eleven, at the Court of Com Missioners,
Attorniee,. Messrs. Scott and Son, St, Mildred's-court, Poultry.
Lawrance, Park-place, St. datum's-street, tailor and wool•

leu..draper, Aug. 28, at two, 29, and Sept. 29, at ten, at the
Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Tanner, New ihring-
hall-street.

DIVIDENDS.

A. Smith, Lime-street-square, merchant, Aug. 26; at eleven,
at the Court of Commissioners-2R. Jackson, Hirminghatu, corn-
factor, Sept. 9, at twelve, at the Stork Hotel, Birmlnglunn—W.
Scoweroft, Haverfordweet, shopkeeper, Sept. 12, at eleven, at
the Castle Inn, Haverfordweet—l B Storey, Blandfordi Saint
Mary, Dorsetahire, brewer, Sept. 8, at twelve, at the Crown
Hotel, Blaudford Forum—W. Ingelow, sen. and W. IngeloW, jun.
Boston, Lincolnshire, bankers, Sept. 18, 19, and 20, at the Pea-
cock lon, Boston—W. Barnes, Richardby, Cumberland, hay and
straw.narchant,,Sept. 14, at eleven, at the Lion and Lamb Inn,
Carlisle,. J. FJlis, Rat'duffle-place, Oxford-road, butcher, Sept.
12, at the Court of 12olumiNaionere...-.P. Jordan, \Vhitcchepel,
at. the Court of Conunistioners—W.
druggist,Fiou, B:oputt.h9,Saeat *Cl7:flu:her% Threadneedle-street, insurance.'
broker, Sept, 9; at One, at the thurt qcorutnissioners-4: )11cy.
nard, Southwark, Sept. 9, at eleven, • at the Court of Ctinnuie-
sioners.--R. S. Meakall, Basingliall-street, builder, Sept. 12, at
ten, at the Court of Commissioners—T. Marshall, College-hill,
Upper Thames-street; iron and copper merchant, Sept. 12, at ten,
at the Court of Cominiationeni--1. RIMS de Ailed°, Bank-build.
lugs, merchant, Sept. 12, at ten, at the Court of Cotutuiriioners,