The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-03 00:00:00

F A I It S.

Extract from -the Report of the Committee of the Society for
the Improceroent of Prison Discipline and for the Reforma-
tion of Joet bile Offenders.

All fAcilities to conceal anti foster guilt are ini-
quitous, and it is high time we should awake from
our day dreams. and utterly extirpate all nurseries
for dept avitv and retreats for vice. Whilst flashhouses
are miitormly and daily adding to the catalogue of
eriniinals,• the fairs in the neighbourhood of the
Metropolis. afford occasionally a oper"Rbunclant
supply. Entire immediate vicinity vtf London there
are no less. than 82 fair-days in the space of seven
mouths. Every specks of debauchery and profligacy
is here encouraged and promoted— gambling,
drunkenness, and seduction, and :all the train of
vices necessarily concomitant with unrestrained
I:centiousuess. These fairs are a general rendez-
vous for all the 111031 infamous characters, and
furnish a plentiful harvest for swindlers, pick-
pockets, anti all who prey upon the community.—
It is difficult to conceive what beneficial end can
he answered by their continuance ; as a mart
for the idle of merchandise they are not re•
quired ; neither are they calculated to serve such a
purpose, nor are they, in tact, at all instruments'
in promoting trade. We know, by experience,
that they disturb the peace of the Community,
Occasion great trouble to the Magistrates, and
fill the public offices with complaints. of riots
anti depredations. There seems to exist no good
reason for their further continuance. All the
efforts of the magistracy to repress the licen-
tiousness which always prevails have been utterly
unsuccessful, and the mi•chief at present arising
from them can only be effectually prevented by an
entire abolition.

Gann/ FRUIT IN ‘VINTRR.--.Let cherries, straw-
berries, raspberries, plums, peaches, ur any other
succulent fruit whatever, he put into a vessel,
somewhat like that used by common confectioners
for freezing ice creams, around which put salt
and ice, exactly as they do : the fruit will soon be
frozen, when it should be curried to the ice house,
and placed in a hole dug out in the centre of the
ice, and over the top of the hole a quantity of
powdered charcoal should be placed, secured by
ft common watch-coat blanket. When the winter
season arrives, the containing vessel msy be
opened, and the fruit
,taken out in its frozen
stale ; then place it in cold water to thaw, and it
will be found as delicious AS when first gathered.
When salt and ice, in the manner employed by
confectioners in general, shall be found inadequate
to freeze some frni;s hard enough, the mixture
for producing an intense cold, as spoken of. by
CHAPTAL, the celebrated chemist, of 884, salt-
petre, and glauber salts, will effectually freeze it
very hard.

Yesterday afternoon a waterman, not more than
20 years of age, named Thomas Young, plying
on the Surrey side of Waterloo Bridge, was hired
by a Gentleman to row him over to she opposite
side. He rowed him within ten yards of the
stairs, when he was seized with a fit ; he drop-
ped his oars, and fell over the side of the
boat into the water. The Gentleman called for
assistance, and a number of watermen immediate.
ly hastened to the spot. The young man had
sunk before they arrived. .Drags were procured,
anti the body was starched for, but was not found.
On Monday night, a valuable bay mare, the
property of HITNIPHHEY HOWARTH, Esq. M.P
toe Eversbam, was stolen -out of A ground adjoin-
ing the premises of Mr. Jonst HanatsoN, et
Banstrad, in Sarrey. The stables of Air. Halm-
tioN were broken open at' the same rime, and a
bridle, saddle, snaftlie, bit, &v, carried ulf.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

sumoriarttr. AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.
[From " The vsidre Chronicle, Aug. ca.]
The Seventh Arireibersi.y of the a, ire
Auxiliary Bible Soeiet y gas held in the (7 Ad-
1141i on WeAtt. play ; and we scarcely Ter wit-
nessed there on any occasion, to nom..rous,- so
respectable, and so interesting an s • sernbly,- 'sari i-
cularly of females. The Rev. At. It•teac.rn Cor-
bett, President of the Inslitistion, petted the
business of the day in 1011,1 ilig adoress,
which was beard with deep interest.
Before I proceed to move that the able and sa-
tisfactory Report we have jost heard read be
printed, I cannot but advert to that port ot it s; t
re'cords the Sermons recently preauhed at St.
Chad's Church, in tltis town, tot the benefit of
this Institution. You hove heard that the sons
then collected was gr eater than had h en before
received by its upon any similar oceaston, and
drat the preachers- w ere Mr. S.amitel Lee soul Mr.
Langley. Of Mr. Langley, it would t,r itieecor-
outs in rite to .say mulch at this time, for he is pre-
sent ; but his merits are well know to us as one
of the Secretsries ot this Society—one of those
Gentleman to whose zealous affection for this
cause, and to whose grat tatting labours MAI, we
arc very deeply indebted. But M. Lee ,is not
present, and at the-mention of his name_ l may
well say, as the Roman Historian did at the men-
tion of the names of Cato and of l Cesar.." (M-
-aim yes obtulerat silentio pueterire non- felt 'cowl-
hart." But Igo timber, I out only think it
would he wrong in..ine-to p'ass over its site .ce the
name of Mr. Lee, thus brought betrne us,. but I
gladly seize the opp,rtnnity of expressing my ad-
nriration at the rare (+dews-with which he is en-
dowed : and unable as lan) to do justice. either
to the powers of • his mind or the goodness of his
disposition ; incomeettnt as I feel ta!,. self to
point out either, the extent of his leaf wog or
toe piety of its Application ; yt t so difficult
is it to act from motives entirely disinterested,
that I may be suspected of speaking with some
bias upon this subject w hen I announce Mr.
Lee as a Ilal ye of the parish wherein I was
horn, and wherein I have conrititted to teside ;
and it might he supposed, from this ctrcum-
stance, that I
was early acquainted with the pin-
mise of so tieh aultstrvest ; that I was familiar
with the progress of .such unlooked-for eruali-
lion. Bust the fact, is quite. otherwise. The
only education Mr. Ixt V, rived among its was
that of se village 'Wool; 'evfiere nOthing more was
taught !Fran reading, And as it ; awl
he lift this school at 12 years of age to learn the
trade of a carpenter and builder, tinder his inge-
foosis aud tesneetable relative, Mr. Aldermail Lee,
of this town : and it was not till years after this
that he conceived the idea of acquiring foreign
languages ; and then it was with such singleness
of heart that he pursued his object, that he nei-
ther sought nor accepted opportunities of corn-
miinicaring it ; and it was tint till alter an inter-
val of six years, Rita then by chance, that I found
out that he had in that 'space taught hiniselt to
read and to write iu Latin, in Greek. and in He-
brew : he had tartgl:l himself the Chalice, the Sys
rite, and the Sainarit,..n latigtroges--and, all this
unaided by any instructor; tinciteered by any li-
let y companion ; iminfinenced by rhe hope either
of profit or of platse. And here let me pose at
this very singular feature in the pot trait I am en-
deavouring to delineate: for where shall we meet
with a devotion to letters so solitary or so pure
I know, indeed, that issuances are tint unfrequent
where the mind has arisen superior to its origi-
nal destination, or where eminence has been at-
tained under circumstances adverse and unt;ounnr..
able. Bat we more generally find that d tostado-
lion has been laid; and that those who have
distinguished themselves as scholars have gone
through the regular rontine of classical education,
or have been assisted by masters of supetior
abi-
lity. Such was the case with Mr. James Ci ichron,
of Clunie, in Scotland, better it/town by the [Nine
of" the Al Crichton," in the lis: of whose
tutors the find the name even of Buchanan. And
having introduced the nrentioo of this extraordi-
nary perso,;, this " Pliconix of Literature," as lie
is designated by one of his Biographers, I would
willingly rim some parallel between him awl Mr.-
Lee : for though comparisons ate justly saiu to be
odious, yet it I take my example flout the 16th
century, 1 shall scarcely he sectored of shoring
against the spirit of this wholesome proverbonore
especially as my object is merely that of elucida-
tioo nor is it necessary for my purpose to endea-
vour to depreciate the pottegyries of Sir Thomas
Urquhart, or of the authorities he quotes, by TLC
more sober criticism of Dr. Kippis; for 1 know
not that the warmest ndtriiiers the Admirable
Crichton have advanced any thing concerning
him, a few hyperbolical expressions excepted,
that is superior uo what Mr. Lee either has done,
or may well be supposed capable of doing, it he
thought right and fit so to do. Mr. Crichrou,
then, was the son of rgentletnart of andel)t fami-
ly and hereditary tos;tbiff, aunt therefore We may
presume, that, in addition to the living Resistance
1 have mentioned, lie Was amply supplied with
the usual helps and incitements to learning, and
that at an age %Alien the mind is most ductile and
open to such pursuits : whilst, on the other hand,
we find Mr. Lee oppressed with the cores and la-
hours of life ; without any living
.assistant what-
soever ;—wilhotat the stimulus either of hope or
of fear ; seeking concealment 'other than the
smile of approbation, and very scantily
with the necessary materials : for Mr. Lee's ciao.
ings at this tittle were barely sufficient to the
poorest nosiotenance, yet he spared fro-ft' this pit-
tance to purchase such a grammar as crushd be
tact with upon the book-stalls of this town ; and
when he had read thrtoicli a volume procured in a
similar Kummer, he as forced to pay it axey
again, as part of the owe of the nem ououls I,e
wished to purr-base. Here then is a s 11.1 e ok
difficulties surmounted by Mr. Lee, st hich Mr,
Crichton had not to combat. Again, it is said
that Mr. Crichton's learning, however stupen-
dous, was not at goiter! by the sacrifice of any of
those pleasures its which youth usually indulges,
or by the omission of any of those occomplish-
ments in which it becomes a gentleman to excel.
Now, so far as this marks out the interruptions
give!' to Mr. Criclitou's severer studies, ne shall
find those of Mr. Lee at least equally brcisen in

st ton, and that from causes much more impera-
tive. Mr. L:e had not to balance between teed-
ine and relaxation ; he had to pass from bodily
fatigue to mental exertiou—for he omitted, dur-
ing the six years I have mentioned, none of the
hoi,rs u.nalls, appropriated to manual labour ; he
retired regularly to rest at ten o'clock at night ;
lie suffered during this time from a complaint in
his eyes ; mad of the inadequate leisure. thus left
him, part e• en of that was dedicated to what
may be deemed accomplishment : so that it does
nOt a near that Mr. Crichton either read or re-
membered uThli greater rapidity than Mr. Lee has
done. Awl when \ir. Lee exchanged his trade
for the sitperinrendance of a Charity school, his
hours were not much more at his own disposal.
It was at this time that that well-known and
much respected oriental scholar. Dr. Jonathan
. Scott, one while l'ersian Secretary to Mr. Hast-
ings in India, furnished :it-. Lee with an Arabic
Grammar ; and he had Oleo, for the first time in
b is life, the pleasure of conversing upon the study
in which he was engaged : anti it is to this auspi-
cious eirrumstPnce, improved, as it was, by the
wonderful proficiency of Mr. Lee, on the one
band (for in a few months he was capable of read-
ing, writing, and composing in both Arabic and
Persic), and to the turremittine kindness of Dr.
Siot• on the other, that we may attribute Mr. Lee's
Eubsecrent engagement with the Church Mission-
ary Society, his admission at Queen's College,Carn-
bridge, and his ordination as a Minister of the
'Est.blished CI -rich.* But in aefence of what I
ha.%e ventur,d to assert, I must endeavour to
draw this parallel soult wit it oloser. One of the
Admirable Crichton's historians asks, whether it
does not surpa,s comprobension, that in his 21st
year he should he ntaster of :en different lan-
guagcs, and perfectly well seen in Philosophy,
the Matitetnaties, Theology, the Belles Lettres,
r. tl othtr sciences. Now I will endeavour to
take these Ai!: ti:'"es in the order in which I have
vote,l them, And, Ist, as to Languages—lf
:NIT.. Crichton b,Tati his grammar at six years of
age, a snnposition thy PO means improbable, con-
si Teri:
g Ihe aptness of the scholar, his station in
life. and the nrac,ice of the times, we shall then
find that the hi-di degree or knowledge we hare
stated was acquired in about fourteen years ;
awl it i, now about fourteen years since Mr.
Lee fiis, ,ipened a Id,Atin Grammar, and be has in
that time himself seventeen different lan-
gttatzes• It is further said, that Mr. Crichton
offerol to dispute in the twelve following lan-

Hebrew-2 Syriac-3 Arabic-4 Greek-5 Latin—fi Spa-
rish-7 French-8 Italian-9 English-10 Dutch-11 Fie.
Satvoniaii.
Those Mr. Li r bus taught himself are the fol-

lowin

•
Latin-2 Greet:-3 Hebrew-4 Cbaltlee-3 Syriac-6 Sa-
maritan-7 Arabic-4 Perste-9 1:m(1061:ince-10 French,
11 German-12 Italian-1,l Ethiopic-14 Coptic—l 3 Malay—
Itt tt-17 Bongs e,
and which, if we add the English, included in Mr.
Crick on's list of twelve, it makes eighteen, or an
excess of one•third. As to Philosophy, the term
when it stands by itself is of extensive if not in-
definite meaning. The skill with which Mr.
Crichton disputed with Philosophers, anti upon
Phil,ompltical subjects, is lunch insisted upon, but
the only precise idea given its, is his challenge to
the Uviver•iity of Patina, offering to prove several
evrors ill c.e Philosophy of Aristotle. The ex-
tent of Mr. Lee's reading upon such subjects
ant unacquainted with ; but I happen to know that
durintg• toe six years I have mentioned, he was
convers.on w'th the works of Plato, made trans-
lations in English blank verse front those of Boe-
thing, aitd went through the golden verses hear-
ing the name of Pythagoras : and tho telt the tri-
umph.ot publicity with which Mr. Crichton ex-
bito,,d himself as an iotellectoal gladiator upon
the stage of Europe is contrary to modern man-
ners. ...nit th, very reverse of Mr. Lee's retired
and una,:sunong manners ; yet to skew the same
ecovertibh• genius" in both, I need only mention,
Oar 11l r. Lee was no sooner in Holy Orders than
he accepted invitations to preach to the largest
congregations—that he ascended the pulpit %ebb
the ease and self. possession of one long used to
the station—and that he delivered his discourses
with It. freedom and eloquence equal to that of the
best practical preacher.
In Mathematics we are told Mr. Crichton was
rifectly " well seen," and that he offered to
dispute upon mathematical subjects. Of Mr.
Lee I have something much more definite to re-
late : when he entered at Camb idge lie was un-
acqoatnted with the Mathematics, but in one
fortnight he qualified himself to attend a class
which had gone through several books in Euclid,
and he soon after discovered an error, not indeed
in Euclid, but in a Treatise on Spherical Trigo-
nometry, usually hound up with Simpson's Euclid,
the 14th proposition of which Mr. Lee disproved.
Now as Simpson's edition of Euclid may be
looked upon as a text book at either University ;
as it is the one usually put in the hands of stu-
dents, and to which the lectures of the tutors
apply, it is most wonderful if it mistake should
have been pointed out in such a work, and for the
first time, as it should seetn, by a student of not
many weeks standing in that science. And as
the highest honours are given at Cambridge to
mathematical Farners, Mr. Lee most have anti-
cipated a safe and easy road to those honours.—
But he considered this point, as he does all others,
with that sobriety of mind with which he is so
eminently eifted, and he contented himself with
compettnit knowledge of Mathematics, lest
further attention to that seducing science should
interfere with those studies in which the highest
interests of mankind were concerned, and this
decision speaks volumes as to Mr. Lee's theolo-
Ocal views. Mr. Ctichton, no doubt, was well
read in die school divinity of his day, but I know
tint that nnv of his polemical victories have been
handed down to us ; but of Mr, Lee it may he
said, if he has an ambition, it is to know the
word of God himself, and to im2art that word to
others, though whether he shall he honoured
upon earth. as the instrument of the good he
)s,.s done, or may do, is, I believe, a very infe-
rif)r Consideration with Itim, or tether no consi-

11. The we:triable and benevolent Speaker omitted to men-
th, zeAlous and pet severing patronage which he himself
aiway, irded, and still continues to afford, to Mr. Lee,
and ati ace hherality and Liminess, in conjunction with
Scott, are, we know, constant thee of their -Pupil's grafi-
it IA tle,—(E.diLor

derstion at all. His exertions in this behalf are
more than 1 can trust my memory with, but I
have taken some pains to procure a note of them
(and which time Archdeacon then read as fol.
lows) :
t. The Syriac New Testament, edited by Mr. Lee, and pub-
lished, is not a continuation of that begun by Dr. Buchanan,
but an entire new work, for which Mr. Lee collated thrur
ancient Syrian MSS., the Syrian Commentary of Syrius, and
the exts of Ridley, Jones, and Welstein.
'2. An e4iition of the Malav New Testament, from the notch
edition of 1738: and the Old Testament is now in the press.
S. An enlarged and corrected edition of Mr. Martyn's
Hindustanee Prayer-Bmrk, in conjunction with Mr. Currie.
4. A Tract. translated into Persian and Arabic, and
printed, entitled "The Way of Truth and Life," for the use
of Mahometans.
5. A Malay Tract for the London Missionary Society; and
some Tracts in Hindustance, fur the Society for instructing
the Lascars.
6. A Tract in Arabic, on the New System of Education,
written by Dr. Bell, and first translated by Michael Sabag for
Bacon de Sacy, oriental interpieter to the King of France.
7. Dr. Scott having ti instated the Service for Christmas-
day from the Prayer-Book of the Church of England into
Persic, Mr. Lee has added to it the rest of the Limuses.
8. Mr. Lee has under hand a new translatiwn of the Old
Testament. into Persian, in conjunction with Mirza Khaleel.
9. Mr. Lee is printing an Hindostaner New Testament.
10. He is preparing for au Ethiopic Bible and other Works.
I I. Mr. Lee has moreover mad, a new fount of letter fur
Hindostanee and Persian printing ; anti a new fOunt for an
edition of tht—SFriac Old Testament, anti for which he has
collated nine ancient MSS: and one ancient Commentary.—
Some of these were collated for the London Polyglot ; hut
Mr. Lee Inuks upon those collations both as incorrect nod de-
-116,,nt. He hopes to restore many omissions both in the
Lots on and Paris Polyglots.
The Archdeacon proceeded to observe, that the
next article was time Belles Lettres. Much had
been said of the facility with which Mr. Crichton
composed in verse and prose, of his extemporary
recitations, and that be had written a Comedy,
many of the clitracrers in Which he enacted in his
own person. I‘Then I first had the pleasure of:con-
versing with Mr. Lee upon books, I foond he had
read the Latin Poets usually introduced into
schools, as Ovid, Vireil, Horace, &c.; that he
had lead part of the Odyssey, as well as the Iliad
of Homer, some of the Greek tninor Poets, atom
some of the Plays of Sophocles. lieore we part
eel I lent him the Memoirs of that interesting aod
extraordinary young man, Isla. Kitts. White, then
lately printed. Mr. Lee returner) it to me very
shortly, with a Latin Poem in praise of Kiel
White, a Dialogue in Greek on time Christian
and t Pious Effusion io Hebrew—all com-
piled by himself when, as 1 believe, he had not
any accession to books, for he was during the
time upon permanent duty at Ludlow, as a mem-
ber of the South Local Militia for this county ;
and I believe the first prose composition of any
length Mr. Lee turned his attention to, was time
History of the Syrian-Churches in India, a me-
moir of which woeld do credit tti the pen uf any
historian. High comumendatioos are given to Mr.
Crichton's skill in fencing, dancing, singing, mu-
sic, and drawing. To sonic of these we may have
no immediate parallel to produce on the part of
Mr. Lee ; but it should be observed, that the
skill, the nearness, and the ingenuity of Mr. Lee's
mechanical performances evince the same quick-
;mesa of eye, and the same steadiness of hand,
that must have been the ground-work of Mr.
Crichton's gayer achievements. As to music,
Mr. Lee's powers are not problematical—he
taught himself to play upon the flute from an ac-
cidental circumstance, with almost intuitive rea-
diness ; and when the Shrewsbury Volunteers
there raised, he qualified himself with equal
readiness to he one of their military band. All
Ibis time he was a member of a Ringing Society,
and gave private Lectures in Gothic Architecture.
But if Mr. Lee is thus great in what he posses-
ses, he is not less great in what he does not pos-
sess. If he appears inferior to no one in extent
or variety of genius, he is without any of those
eccentricities with which genius is so often eon-
comitant.—When Mr. Crichton gave a public
challenge to disputation to the Literati of Pars,
to one of his advertisements stuck up on ,he Sor-
bonne, the following pasquinade was added :
If any one wants to see this monster of perfec-
tion., let them inquire at the Tavern or the Stews;'
but the whole of Mr. Lee's lite has been sober,
moral, and consistent. He bears his faculties
twist meekly. The resources of his mind are (in-
apparent till called forth. He sought not po-
lished society, but he mingled in it when invited,
without effort and without embarrassment ; and
without losing any of his humility, he sustains
his place in it with ease and independence. Mr.
Lee's learning is without any tincture of pedant
try ; and his religion is as far front enthusiasm
on the one hand, as it is front lakewarmuness on
the other. Let us bless God then that such ta-
lents are so directed—Let us bless God that they
are directed in aim especial manner to the interests
of the Bible Society ; arid, perhaps, after all, time
grandeur and the simplicity so apparent in the
plan of the Bible Society are the two adjuncts
that best exemplify the mind thus devoted to its
service. Having trespassed so much on your
time with reference to one article in the Report,
is a reason, if there were no other, why I should
not now advert to any other topic. We have
much, I trust, to hear and learn in the course of
the usual proceedings of the (lay; and,-moreover,
we
.are this day honoured with the presence of
two gentlemen as ambassadors from time Parent.
Society; Mr. Davies, one while Chaplain to the
East India Company at Bombay, and Mr. Stevens,
a member of the London Committee, a gentle-
man who has given up much of his time, talents,
and ability, to the furtherance of this good work
from its commencement, and from both of whom
we may expect much interesting information,
both foreign and domestic.
Alter the motion of Thanks to the Vice-Pre-
sidents, time Rev. E. BATHER, A. M. delivered a
most persuasive appeal, and concluded by expres-
sing his hope that every Member of the Bible
Society would evince his agreement with the doe-
nines of the Bible, by practising its precepts.,
The Rev. Mr. Cox (of Brignorth), in a very
interesting speech, adverted to the state of Rus-
sia, from whence he had recently returned. That
immense Empire, which contained a population
of about 45,000,000, including 100,000 Clergy,
was not, some time ago, possessed of more than
30,000 copies of the Scriptures ; and at this day
not a single copy of the modern Russian Scrip-
tures was to be met with. It may be truly said,
that darkness covered the earth, and gross dark•
ness the eyes of the people.—Mr. C. emunerated
the munificent gift of 5001, per annum, by the
Emperor of Russia, to the Bible Societies at re•

tersburgh end Moscow, and the protection he af-
forded to some Missionaries who were going to
pithlist, OA tidings of peace to the inhabitants of
the dreary regions of Siberia.—A cylindrical
printing-press had lately been invented at Saint
Petersburgh, capable of working off 1,000 sheets
on each side per hour. This machine the Rev.
Geotlemau compared to the fabled wheel of for-
time, and which, he trusted, would be the means
of diffusing to the population of that immense
Empire the riches of the Gospel of Salvation.
R. A. SLANEY, Esq., in a veil affecting and
animated manner, contrasted the state of moral
and religious knowledge in Scotland with that in
the kingdom of Naples, and in those parts of
Italy which he had lately visited. Scotland was
just and religious, loyal and brave. Naples was
dishonest and ignorant, cruel and cowardly ; so
much so, that pstroles of 8 or I() men were em-
ployed every mile between Naples and Rome (the
greatest thoroughfare of the kingdom) to protect
travellers. The present season of peace was pe-
culiarly llropitions to the prosecuting of the ob-
jects of this Society. During the din of war, the
passions generated by the triumph of victory, or
the bitterness of defeat, were ill calculated to
foster the benevolent feelings of the heart ; but
the arm which had been bared for slaughter, is
now employed in the more peaceful •tlierations of
domestic industry. One result of the war is very
favourable—namely, the abolition of monastic
establishments through a erect partici!) of Eu-
rope ; and it therefore should be the endeavour
of the Society to poor the light of religion into
diat mental darkness whicn had hitherto cat
such a gloom over the faculties and energies ot
man. Mr. 61-oley then adverted to the example
set by the lamented Pfilleths Charlore, sn oroa-
tricot to the better portion of our species, whom
every young wo c an would wish to claim as a
sister, end e s c y a4ed one as a datightet. The
nest present wmeli she could give to those within
the spikere of her infl 'owe was a Bible, msureti
that 4lie nil,' spirit of the Gospel would not fail
to soften then hearts and amend their I'ves. Mt.
S. concluded by observing, that the interest of
the Society is the interest of the Church of Christ,
and its cause the cause of God and the eterisal
welfare of mankind.

The Rev. Mr. LANGLEY, in returning thanks
alter the 6th Resolution hail been moped, regret-
ted the absence of the Rev. Mr. Lee, to whom,
and not to himself, were the thanks due for the
Collection made in his parish. It often happened
that a cypher derived importance from its situa-
lion—so it was with himself. Yet he trusted ,he
should long continue a zealous though an bumble
supporter of this great cause.
The Rev. Mr. KING, of Wellington, on the
motion of thanks to the Branch Societies, re-
marked, that the deficiency in the past year's
subscriptions, in his vicinity, was attributable to
the decline of trade and want of employment.
ROBERT STEPHEN, Esq. one of the Deputies
front the Parent Society, instanced the moralising
influence of the Society ; and stated that such was
the urgency :or supporting it, that, with all its
past success, it would require GOO years to Flipply
the want of Bibles event among those nations
which profess Christianity.
The Rev. HENRY DAVIES, from Bombay, de-
tailed many horrible and cruel superstitious in the
British settlements in India. Ytt such was the
ardour of the natives to obtain Bibles, that the
Arminian Merchants could obtain full 'nice for
them.

The Rev. JoHN RICHARDS spoke nearly as fol-
lows ;
Mr. Paestneser,—Were I not persuaded that the friends of
the Bible Society consider tbe Instit mien) of sufficient magni-
tude and importance ton warrant every exertion in its service,
an apobsgy would be necessary for obtruding myself on the
patience of this respectable assembly. I can scarcely hope,
however, atter the very impressive and luminous addresses
which we have heard, to otter any thing which can interest
the attention of this meeting; yet I cannot resist the impulse
to advauce a few sentiments expressive of the high veneration
in which I hold an Institution worthy of the consecration of
all our energies to its service. " She [lath done what she
could," was athrined of one, whose name is hasded down to
us, with marks of divine -approbation ; and if I may but be
employed as a hewer of wood and drawer of water in the
erection of that stupendous edifice, whose turrets already
mingle with the skies, and whose magnificence and spit-11Juni
shed tr sacred radiance all around it, I shuttld consider it one
of the most gratifying circumstances of my life.
What design more grand or important could have been
conceived, than that of raising myriads of the human kind
from the lowest state of wretchedness and moral degradation
to the enjoyment of the highest passible glory and felicity ?
Yet this is the design of the Bible Society. Os what means
could have been devised so adLoirably adapted to accomplish
this important object, as the' free extensive circulation of the
Holy Scriptures, the sublimity of whose precepts, the purity
of whose principles, and the force of whose motives, can
/lever he sufficiently admired or valued!
When we reflect on the moral state of the world in general,
the hot rid superstitions, the detested rites, the inhuman sa-
crifices which degrade so many millions of our species, is it
nut sufficient to awake all our energies, and call forth our
tenderest charities to their assistance? The Bible Society,
then, is justly entitled to our highest admiration and warmest
support, as it is intended to illumine the benighted regions of
the earth with the light of revelation ; to rectify the disorders
of the human heart, and to possess the mind with those pure
anti refined delights, which it is the province of the Bible,
only, to impart.
The identity which we trace between the Bible and the
Bible Society is, in many respects, so striking, that we think
we cannot be an enemy to the one, without being inimical to
the other : and shall the Christian he opposed to his Bible—
that invaluable treasury, whence he derives all his present
hopes and future prospects ? Is it the province of the Bible to
inculcate the exercise of pure and fervent charity? a firm re-
liance on the Almighty in the active and unwearied discharge
of duty? a patient endurance of the taunts and invectives of
the thoughtless and irreligious ? a retiring and unostentatious
carriage in the performance of benevolent purposes? and a
resolution of all the good which is effected by human instru-
mentality into the good-will and favour of Heaven ?
All these important objects we hare seen recognized in
the principles and proceedings of the Bible Society, and they
are strikingly exemplified at the present important period, in
the astonishing revolutions which it is effecting, on the
theatre of the globe, in the moral and spiritual conditions
of mankind.
This Society is of incalculable advantage to those who
unite in its support. It gives birth to and fosters sentiments
and feelings which at once elevate, dignify, and refine the
mind. And here I must observe, that the hearty concur-
rence of Christians of different denominations has greatly
facilitated its operations and contributed to its present pros=
perity. Its tracing this institution from its earliest com-
mencement to the present period, I have been struck with ad-
miration at the spirit of candour, unanimity, and benevolence,
which has marked every step of its progress. Having found
a centre of union, we behold Churchmen and Dissenters for-
getting; for a time, their little differences of opinion, like
Jacob and Esau after their long estrangement, cordially unite
and exchange every expression of fraternal affection. We hail
the union as declarative of a liberality of sentiment and ex-
pansion of soul worthy of time cause in which they are em-
barked ; and it is the sincere wish of our hearts, that no-
thing may occur to damp their ardour or wither their ener-
gies.
We have witnessed its utility in the surprising influence
which it has had in exciting the cordial "o-operation of those
who were for observing a state of neutrality. A spirit of in-
quiry has been excited : mud inquiry is eves friendly to truth.

Indeed, the religion of the Bible is so perfectly re:100%1.e;
and carries whit it such itifa,lible marks of the wisdom Wh'tit
framed it, that we are Loh! co say, the more it is exatiiinel.
into, the firmer will be the conviction of its divine origitro
The general interest excited, and the active exertions
friends of this Institittioa, to diffuse the sacred Chime. ltdi
roused from their torpor those who %Vele 1:1 the habit °t
regarding the Bible, who, throwing aside their childish
judices and weak surmises, have been minced to exam.'" it '
sacred 'page for themselves; and the result has been tc
might lit expected; convinced of its truth and importaa"
they now rank amongst the foremost of its advocates. s
The last year's Report of the Parent institution cal 1131".
the most interesting stat cm 'tits, and some of the fiiiesf sPe:t.",;
wens of the force of truth, in all its native djl:.',lllly, 51111111 i
and beauty, which ,ere to he met with i-i either to of
ancient times. Here Troth, unadorned by the Porail„-1
diction, or the graces of eloquence, makes its direct
to the heart, and inspires with warmth and animates ,
rapture every breast, extorting from it the impassioned ,gia
clamation, What bath God wrought ! Nor can I sylllllldl
my persuasion that the reports of the Parent bistitinioa
,co
be a most valuable acquisition to the Christian's iihrarY• a.n a
' these iuteresting sources of information lie arty cepa''. 8,4
rekindle his faded ardour, iiivigmate his languid hopes,
derive every incitemirit to renewed exertion. Witt," ".
fleet on the moral feeling every where excite ',aud theanx"'
solicitude to possess the records of eti.:roal troth in cooneell°o
with the means afforded by Bible Societies, We l'elcielee:
somewhat so peculiar in the character of the times, and
so consonant with the word of God, which re'3o4
to the evangelizing of the world, that, we trust, the Pe!,!,11
is not very far distant when that i..teresting
receive its accomplishmsat—" from the rising of the OD e„s
unto the going down of the same, My flame shill be gr`,4
among the Gentiles; and in evert lace incense shall be olletir3-11
wito My name, and a pure otferin4 : for My name
be great among the heathen, saith the Lout of Ildsts3•lo,4
Wherever this herald of mercy binds her course, and "tij.,
known her gracious designs, every heart gladdens at the
lugs. and hails with !apt ore the heavenly guest. The
juiiiic
scripture .raj
reo wilds and uncultivated deserts, f he wing; begin I°'
with verdure and [doom with fragrance. The star also 3. of
pears again in the east, and directs the many toilli`n!' o
Asia from all the ruins of the fal to Christ, to Irippine'iltea
Heaven. - .t Say not there ate yet four !months al"1 4,1 a
(animals harvest behold sty net,i you, lift up your e)'.4
look on the fields ; far they are white already to harvest. it,
If we may be allowed to measure its future prosVer''Y s
hi
tf
past success, what Sthpendeos-17.:'s-uits are We not
expecting from this laudali, 1(5 SUCCe,, 113..35
exceeded the most sanguin- calculation's, and palatial °;:iitd,
with a sun orm-iimm time Dit nme co-operation. ll'he little C 30
which, but a sieort time •ifice, a
was only the size of 3
‘'''lolel
hand, is rapidlY sdrcading itself over the faCe of the •
heavens ; and the Babel of error and superstition tolt,i3te,
its very base, pertends its owo swiltk-a,,piriachieg ral"'tjeare
thians, anti Nirdes, and Elawites, aid the Ilwellcis in •
joie,
potahria, 111 Judea atio Cappadia_ian, in Pantos,
Ph rygia :AA Pain . Jews and Prosel,tes. Ca et,!s a" erfide
we do hear them SpUdii in their Cangues ee"`i •
works of God. ct
How aalinating the prospect which is operlio'_g'd}t(lP,,,,n,,:iiali
fancy ii.vself entering on the very epoch of 'toe tut"!`f this
teea, and to myself the transcendent a:011c' 11, 00-1
distinguished period, ant overwhelmed with the u1t,011,,, den
templatioa. What •Alajesty and beauty apheae 11•,,, of
'•
scription of the. inspired Bard, who, wrapt loin
futurity, thus desctibes the it ourishing state the rte.iltorth'
er's kingdoni:47"-Ye shall go out with joy, and fiefofth.
With peace; the
,rnountaitis and the hills shall breoSall
before you intalsioging, and all the trees aof the *-I`.l rte
clap their hands," In comparing the hible
present flourt;bitig state, with dint suidinie predicli"nitaa•
hl;
we live in !lie Apocalypse—so striking. is the corrvsl)".l".,
- we trace, Ihit it. operates an almost irresistible coaviettlTotiar
it is now receiving its acconialishraeitt f•-" and-1 suivea,l
angel ity in the midst cf hea'veti, having the everlaltTe'reff
pci to pre acii unto them that dwell oh the earth,all"
natic:t, and and tongue, anti
, people' 1 •
tll.
ionic—tlfe Divine economy is I..,raduall:, unfolding; 30
purposes of heaven mat at itig.
.; ttliP
What are the distractions of earth—the laurels ohta te
the field of Battle—toe renown acquired the bedl44#
even the insignia of Royalty itself, cotopared,%;:td,,lliii.
nour conferred:•on those who are adjitto'ri :01; •
deemer, in the extension of his ,triumphs On
an empty bubble, which lslfregaently burst by the s!,llatio
that inflated it; the laurels soon acitjae-
crowns, trem'alie;;• on the beads of their,posscssor.s°
them octet, ,'-by-the cart's with which t hey :aro fisted;l4.„,oo7'
serabl: meanest of their solkiects. slia4 "th 'rbe
hesl-.••••,:.4 the friends of truth is at imperishatilea-.-
which the) aspire. May this dignity 'i,urs' a 0;01-
After this address, which• was receive
,t 4
much approbation, this most interesting We
dissolved. •
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has been hrotnzlit trout Greenland, and
Newcustle-00011-TVIle. • hrefl.
A whale, weAsutilit_,u 72 feet in lene,^ll,..))'lol di)
lately stranded in Suetii thot.—(furernes _1

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sincerely and deeply lamented, Admiral Sir Robert `-'
Bart. in the 74th year of his age.
near Sheffield, in the County of Yu, k, r 1
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79th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Bland, a Meath° '
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