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of a new house for King Tamatoa, tables were spread, and filled with the natural productions of the island. Around these sat the baptized, on neat sofas, of their own manufacture.-Awnings of native cloth protected them from the sun. At a little distance behind them, the rest of the native inhabitants sat on the ground, according to their ancient custom. When the repast was ended, speeches were delivered by natives, of which the following is the substance :

A native named TEREARUE, stood up and said-" Friends, we are here assembled in unity and love. And why? because the sun has risen upon us, and the darkness has fled away: let us now, therefore, be diligent in the light, and return no more to the work of darkness."

ATIHUTA (a deacon) spoke as follows: -"Brethren and sisters, we have arrived to another new year. Shall we increase or decrease? (i. e. as a church.) If we increase, it will be well; but if we decrease, it will be bad. Through the grace of God we are spared to another year; but let us remember, the tree that does not bear fruit will be cut down. The fruitful tree alone is valued by its Lord."

TUTE said "We are now safe in the net. Let us not attempt to break its meshes, and so get out; for nothing but misery is outside. Let kings, and chiefs, and people, be diligent, that our net be drawn full of fishes."

REHIA stood up and said," Remember what the teacher said a few Sundays since: Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? No, by no means, for the wages of sin is death. He that hath, to him shall be given, and that in abundance: let us, therefore, pray for activity in holiness, that we may cast away every evil custom and abominable thing, and become really holy to the Lord. Let us go forward, my friends, and not back; and run the race, and God will give us a reward."

MANAUA, an old man, then rose, and spoke as follows:-" Friends and brethren, I have only a little speech to say. God says, 'Hearken unto me.' Do we? If we do, it is good indeed; if we do not, why is it? Does God forbid us? No. Does his Spirit? Does his word? No. Do his teachers? No. If we receive not his word, why do we not? Is it because we are forbidden? No. It is our own wicked hearts only that forbid us."

TIMAURII, another deacon, thus addressed those who have not as yet come forward to the Lord:-"Friends, if you wish to do as we do, it is well. Receive then the word of God; learn to read it. Eat not the food alone that perishes, but seek also that which never perishes. Your bodies are clothed and neat, because we are all in one land, and receive equally

these blessings of the Gospel; but you are still separate from us: seek that you may not be thus separated at the last day."

AHURIHо then addressed the same class of persons as follows: "Friends, you are now at the edge; are you nearly in? We are all of the earth, but God can make us all to be of heaven. The word of God will grow and increase. All of us are sinful creatures; there is only one refuge for us, Jesus; there is no other home for this clay. Then return to him, your only true home."

ATIHUTA having sat down rose again, and addressed them as follows:-"Brethren according to Adam's flesh, when will ye be brethren in Christ? Remember, the wages of sin is death. Do not wait until you are good, and think then to come for baptism; that is from the devil; but come as you are, for Christ came to save sinners, and he will make your hearts good. Whom will you choose this day? Christ, or the wages of sin? The door of his church is open; come in."

TIMUARII rose a second time, and said"I will conclude ATIHUTA's speech, by saying, Yes, and the bride says, 'Let him that is athirst come;' and more than that, you all know this, and therefore come."

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Another addressed the church, and observed, "God says, My son, give me thine heart.' Let us, therefore, give him our hearts, and our mouths too. Do not put a lock on your mouths; take it off, and speak for God."

PAPAINA walked forward and said-" My heart, friends, does so rejoice, that I, who am no speaker, must speak; and this is what I say I am most heartily glad to see the king, chiefs, and people, all eating together with our teachers. Do not let us go back again to evil, but go forward to good. Now, behold, I who am no speaker, have spoken, and this is all I have to say. My speech is ended."

MAIORE observed-"So it is with me. Five years have we now met together, and I have not spoken. I have been ashamed to speak; but God has done away that shame; and this is what I have to say: Let us be zealous in that which is right; give the glory to Jesus Christ, for he is the author and finisher of our faith."

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"It is a new year, let us have no more old heathen customs. Such women who in common go about without proper attire, and come here dressed because we are all assembled, let them remember this is not right; God sees them always. It is not suitable to the word of God; it is no sign of their being born again."

TIMAURI." Friends, it is good to speak! let every man speak his speech, and if it is good we will attend to it. We are not commanded by our teachers to say so and so; but we speak what we feel, it is not from the teachers. Behold some, just admitted into the church, they rejoice and speak. Let us all encourage one another, that we may be still improving in all things, especially now we are going to our new city."

KING TAMATOA arose and observed, that he was well pleased with all, both chiefs and people, on account of their diligence and activity; but let not their professions be like the bamboo, which, when lighted, blazes most furiously, but leaves no firebrand nor charcoal behind for future use! Let not their zeal be like it, kindled in a moment, give a great light for a season, and expire, leaving nothing behind!

Messrs. Threlkeld and Williams afterwards each addressed the people.

The day was spent much to the satisfac. tion of all. The number of tables covered with food of various descriptions was about four hundred.

MISSION COLLEGE IN CEYLON. The publick are aware that the Board, at the late annual meeting, approved of the establishment of a College in Ceylon, under the care of the American Missionaries, as soon as satisfactory arrangements can be made for the commencement of such an institution. It is not int ded to make an appeal to the publick generally, in behalf of this particular object, lest it should divert from the general treasury of the Board those contributions, which are indispensable to the support of existing objects. But there are many individuals, scattered throughout our country, who could easily spare one, two, three, or five hundred dollars each, without diminishing their other donations. Will not these in dividuals seriously consider the nature of this claim upon their liberality, and the example of the unknown friend, who has generously offered five thousand dollars whenever ten thousand dollars shall have been received for this purpose. If twenty persons would give five hundred dollars. each, or forty persons two hundred and fifty dollars each, the sum is raised, and the founding of a seminary for the benefit of millions is secured. Whatever may be paid for this object, will be kept in a productive state, and separate from the gene

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ral funds of the Board, till it shall be applied to the purpose, for which it was intended.-Missionary Herald for December.

BRISTOL.

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of this Society* was held on September 18th, and several successive days. The following Clergymen and Ministers advocated the cause the Rev. Messrs. Dampier, Day, Cooper, Parsons, Jay, Griffin, and Stratten. A singular coincidence was observed in the strain of several of the discourses. For soothing commendations of past exertions, were substituted expressions of lamentation and regret, that so little had been done by us as Christians, answerable to the claims of God, and the necessities of the heathen. The appeals grounded on this view of the case were solemn and successful. The collections at most of the places surpassed those of former years, and at some very considerably. The Committee had suggested the propriety of collecting from seat to seat, instead of the usual confused manner, at the doors, on the close of the service; and the suggestion was most readily and cordially acceded to by every congregation.

The publick meeting, at which Charles Pinney, Esq. presided, was unusually interesting. Another meeting was held at the same time, in consequence of the crowd; and a holy, uniting, and animating influence pervaded the assemblies, which it is presumed will never, by many, be wholly forgotten. It appeared from the Report, that several new Branch Societies had been formed in the course of the past year, and that others are upon the eve of formation. Thus the energies yet untried of this vast city and neighbourhood are about to be put in requisition for the great-the benevolent design of evange lizing mankind. The collections amounted to 9117. 16s. 6d.-Evangelical Magazine for November.

DEATH OF THE REV. DR. BOGUE.

It is with feelings of deep regret that we stop the press to announce the decease of the Rev. Dr. Bogue, D. D., the venerable Tutor of the Society's Missionary Seminary at Gosport. The mournful event took place at Brighton, whither the Dr. had gone to attend the Anniversary of "the Sussex Auxiliary Missionary Socie. ty;" he was seized with spasms after having engaged in the publick worship of God, on Tuesday evening the 18th ult. and the violence, and repetition of the attacks, at length terminated his earthly course, on Tuesday morning, October 25, 1825.-Evangelical Magazine for Nov.

* Auxiliary Missionary Society.

The Treasurer of the Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church acknowledges the receipt of the following sums for their Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. during the month of December last, viz.

Of Mr. Joseph P. Engles, the annual collection in the Eighth Presbyterian
Church, for the Contingent fund

$25 78

Of Rev. Stephen Saunders, of South-Salem, West-Chester, Co. N. Y.-being his subscription on Rev. Isaac W. Platt's paper for ditto

10 00

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Of ditto collected by him in the bounds of the Synod of New York, for the
Synods of New York and New Jersey Professorship

53 00

Of Eliphalet Wickes Esq., a donation from Mr. Othniel Smith, of Jamaica,
Long Island, for the same Professorship

50 00

Of Alexander Henry Esq. in full of his last subscription, for the Synod of
Philadelphia Professorship

600 00

Of Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander, the subscription of Mr. James Wood, lately a Student of the Seminary, for the Theosophian Scholarship to be endowed by the Class who finished their course last September

100 00

Total

$838 78

View of Publick Affairs.

EUROPE.

GREAT BRITAIN.-From Britain we have received no intelligence of much general interest, in the course of the last month. Measures are actively pursued by the government, to secure the advantages of trade, and to the greatest extent, with all the republicks of South America; and with the dominions of Don Pedro, the emperor of Brazil. With this latter potentate, a formal treaty has been formed; and we also see it announced, that copies of a treaty, between England and the Republick of Colombia, were formally exchanged at London, on the 7th of November. An article has likewise appeared in a publick paper, stating that Britain had taken the island of Cuba under her protection-This, however, has not been confirmed. Britain has already established a friendly intercourse with Mexico, Guatimala, and Colombia, the three republicks exactly, which most wish, and with the most reason, to see Cuba emancipated from the Spanish yoke; and from which an expedition was not long since stated to be in prepa ration, for the invasion of that island. The object of Britain-her very idol-is lucrative commerce, and she will not designedly interfere with this, by any of her measures; and will therefore not offend her new friends, unless she can have for it a full equivalent. Perhaps she may find this in securing Cuba to Spain-If so, she will probably do it.

FRANCE.--All is quiet in France. It is perceived by her merchants, that their country has lost a great advantage, by suffering the British to make almost a monopoly of the commerce of the late possessions of Spain and Portugal, on the American continent. They are also fully aware that the cause of this is no other, than that France is a party to the Holy Alliance; and this alliance, we doubt not, they execrate in their hearts. But they cannot speak freely. Chateaubriand says as much as he dares say; but the government feels too secure to regard much, either his suggestions or the wishes of the merchants.

SPAIN.-Mr. Zea, the late prime minister of Spain, is succeeded in that high station, if such a station can be in Spain, by the Duke del Infantado--This is the very man for whose elevation the Ultra Royalists have been clamorous, as knowing that his views coincided exactly with their own. Accordingly we find, that arrests and banishments are increased, and that they chiefly fall on the most zealous royalists! Such is the infatuation and ignorance prevalent in Spain, that it appears to be believed that a cer

tain bishop in Mexico had been nominated Viceroy of that country, and was there actually holding two large provinces in the most loyal subjection to king Ferdinand-It would seem that an awful crisis, in the affairs of this degraded country, cannot be far distant.

GREECE. We have little that is new to report in regard to Greece. It is alas! not new, that the most unhappy divisions exist among the inhabitants, and especially among the leading men, of this interesting country. These divisions, and the interference of the Holy Alliance, direct or indirect, open or concealed, have long been, and still are, the sources of all our fears, in regard to the final triumph of the Grecian cause. If they were united and true to themselves, and were led on by a Grecian Washington or Bolivar, and if their enemies had no foreign aid, secret or ostensible, we have no doubt they would soon drive the Turks, not only out of their own territories, but, if they so pleased, out of Europe too. As it is, our hopes and fears are mingled--We perceive that a report is in circulation, (derived however from an Austrian vessel from Alexandria, and therefore suspicious,) that a large reinforcement is on its way, to join the Egyptian army in Greece-"consisting of 120 sail of frigates, fireships, and transports, with 30,000 troops"-and that this expedition sailed from Alexandria on the first of October. If this information is correct, we hope that the Greek naval force, which has always been well conducted, will meet this formidable flotilla of barbarians, before they reach the place of their destination.

RUSSIA. There is no confirmation of the report that Russia had commenced hostile operations against the Ottoman Porte. Possibly such operations have been prevented, by what we find stated in the National Gazette of the 3d inst.-"The Sublime Porte, in compliance with the wishes of Russia, reduced on the 17th October, the number of Turkish troops in Moldavia and Wallachia, and restored the local governments to their former privileges." The recent controversy of Russia with the Porte has related to these provinces. It appears that she has obtained her object. We have little doubt that she is preparing the way, for an easy march of her troops to Constantinople.

ASIA.

Nothing new has reached us from Asia, since our last statement, except some details in relation to the war with the Burmese-which go to show, that the whole of the western and northern parts of the Burman empire, are likely soon to be subject to British domination. This war, we perceive is not popular in Britain; at least with the religious part of the community. The Christian Observer has always appeared to dislike it; and in a late number of that work we find a remark, the purport of which is, that there are no perceptible advantages to be derived from the conquest of the Burmese, that can compensate for the expense of the war, if no regard were had to the more serious consideration of the dreadful waste of human life that it has occasioned.

AFRICA.

By a late arrival from Gibraltar, we learn that a famine now prevails on a part of the Barbary coast, to such a degree that some of the wretched inhabitants drop down dead in the streets-This is particularly stated to be the case at Tangier. A subscription had been opened at Gibraltar for their relief.

AMERICA.

Within the last month we have received intelligence of much importance from our sister republicks in the southern part of our continent.

PERU. It appears, by an arrival at Baltimore from Lima, that on the 1st of October last, the fortress of Callao was still in the hands of the royalists; and although closely blockaded by the Peruvian squadron, it was believed it might still hold out for six months longer. Bolivar is positively stated to be in Upper Peru; and yet an arrival from Pernambuco, at Hartford, Connecticut, has, it is said, brought letters which represent him as having entered the Brazilian territory, probably with a view of exterminating royalty there. We have even a copy of the proclamation which he is said to have issued. These accounts cannot both be true-which is false, time must decide. CENTRAL AMERICA. The Federal Congress of Guatemala, on the 29th of August last, ratified the Constitution which had been formed by a convention of the preceding year. A British Consul has been received here by the President of the Congress, and treated with the greatest respect. It is evident that the British-and who will blame them?-are endeavouring to be beforehand, not only with all the other European powers, but also with the United States, in establishing a friendly intercourse, and commercial arrangements, with the new American republicks.

MEXICO.-The Castle of San Juan de Ulloa has at length capitulated to the Mexican arms; and now not a vestige of the authority of Old Spain remains in that extended republick. The governor, or commander of the garrison, held out till nearly all his men had died by disease and famine-only 75 remained out of 500. Sentinels dropt down and died at their post. The inhabitants of the town on which they had fired, were so affected by their wretched state, as to send them some supplies. The gover nor, it appears, deliberated, at the last, whether he should not blow up the garrison, rather than surrender. He did not, however, adopt this insane alternative. He obtained an honourable capitulation; and he and the small remains of the famished garrison, were sent to the Havana-and there, after all he had done and suffered, he was received with coldness. Such is the reward of even desperate fidelity, under the reign of the beloved Ferdinand.-Great rejoicings have taken place throughout this republick.--Mr. Poinsett, the American Minister, is treated with great distinction.

COLOMBIA. This republick took the lead of all her neighbouring sisters, and she still seems to preserve it, in the establishment of free institutions. She appears, at present, to be in a career of prosperity, to the full as rapid as could reasonably be expected, when we look to the goal from which she started.

BRAZIL.-We have already mentioned the treaty lately made and ratified, between the Emperor of Brazil and his Britannick Majesty. We do not think it necessary to give the details of this treaty-which, in our opinion, is not likely to be of great duration. We hardly believe that Britain will go to war to sustain Don Pedro in his empire; and if not, we think, as we have heretofore thought and said, his reign and his empire will not long endure. If he commences hostilities with the neighbouring republicks, as he probably will, we think that it will terminate, in turning his empire itself into republicks. He has never had the shadow of an equitable claim to the Banda Oriental. It was never a Portuguese, but always a Spanish territory, before the late revolution; and he seized on it, in a time of its necessity, in 1817. In contending for it, the probability is, that a conflict will commence which will end in his defeat, and the revolutionizing of his whole dominions. The northern part of them, have lately been in a state of insurrection-and there, at present, a scarcity prevails, which approaches to a famine. This scarcity is represented as, in a great measure, the effect of drought; but it is doubtless increased by the want of commerce, and probably also, by the se vere measures adopted to suppress the insurrection. Empires and republicks-we repeat a remark that we made nearly two years ago—are not calculated, especially when in a forming state, to be good neighbours. It would be wonderful indeed, if Brazil should remain long under an absolute sovereign, when all its territories join on free and independent republicks.

BUENOS AYRES AND BANDA ORIENTAL.-From these republicks, (for we think we may now reckon Banda Oriental as a republick) information of a very interesting nature has been received, to the 5th of November, by an arrival at New York. It appears, by an official statement of Juan Antonio Lavalleja, the brave partizan officer who commenced the late revolution in the Banda Oriental, that on the 12th of October last, he gained a decisive victory over Colonel Dentos Manuel, commanding 2000 soldiers, selected from the Brazilian cavalry, and composing the only force in that whole region, out of garrison, of which the patriots had any fear. The action, it appears, was desperately contested on both sides, and was decided chiefly with the sabre. The whole of this extended province, or nearly the whole, except the capital, Monte Video, is now in the hands of the Patriots; and we think there is little doubt that they will hold it. But as the emperor of Brazil has a fleet with which the Patriots cannot contend, he may continue for a time to reinforce his garrison in the capital.-War between the emperor and the whole of the confederated states of the Rio de la Plata, seems to be inevitable; unless he shall renounce, which we suppose he is not likely to do, his unfounded claims to the Banda Oriental.-It has given us great pleasure to observe that the House of Representatives of Buenos Ayres has decreed, that "The right of every man to worship his Creator according to his conscience, shall be inviolable."

UNITED STATES.-The message of the President of the United States, at the opening of the present session of Congress, was every thing that we could wish it-extensive in its views, distinct in its details, perspicuous in its statements, dignified in its manner, and chaste and correct in its language. We cannot pretend to give an analysis of this copious and excellent state paper--nor is it necessary; as it has probably been perused by almost all our readers. But there are two features of the message, at which we must glance for a moment. The first is, that there is a due recognition of the dependance of our country for its prosperity, on the protection and benediction

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