is my joy. Thus God hath blessed our short sojourn together, and the end will be an eter nal song of glory to his redeeming love."

This year the number of Mr. Buchanan's correspondents was increased by the return of Major Sandys to Europe; a gentleman to whom affliction had come with a precious blessing, and to whom Mr. Buchanan and his friend Mr. Brown had been peculiarly useful, in the course of their valuable public ministrations. In the following letter to this interesting individual, whose name frequently occurs in the original memoir, (of which we cannot hope to preserve more than a very imperfect sketch,) his correspondent mentions the arrival of Mrs. Buchanan at Calcutta:

"Your letter from St. Helena I have just received by Mrs. Buchanan, who arrived there the day after you sailed. Mary is much improved in health, and greatly matured in spiritual knowledge, strength and grace, which is the chief theme of my happiness. Her missing you was a keen disappointment at the moment; but she soon reflected that God had ordered it for wise and

gracious purposes, and then she submitted. She opened your letters to me while she was at Major Greentree's. These letters astonished her beyond measure. She thought you had yet been a man of the world, (for she had not heard that your affliction had been sanctified to you;) but behold she found you to be a child of God, your understanding illuminated with knowledge, and your heart expanded with love, hope, joy, zeal, and all the charities. She lamented that she had no Christian near her, to whom she might, in pious confidence, communicate these happy news. So she disburdened her heart by writing a letter to me. I was rejoiced to find by your letters, that the gospel is still glorious in your view, and that the world and its vanities had not obscured the heavenly vision.May this happy state be ever yours without alloy or reverse, but such as may be necessary to confirm, and strengthen, and perfect you in the inner man.

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In the summer of 1803, Mr. Buchanan, anxious for the civilization and moral improvement of the heathen, whom he saw

daily perishing for lack of knowledge, and whom he saw, besides, confided by divine providence, doubtless for high, moral, and religious purposes, to the care of Great Britain, wrote letters to the heads of the universities at home, containing proposals-1st, "For the best essay in English prose, on the best means of extending the blessings of civilization and true religion among the sixty millions inhabitants of Hindostan, subject to British authority," in each University, viz. Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrew's, Aberdeen, and Trinity College, Dublin; 100l. was the offered prize. 2d, "For the best Latin ode on Collegium Bengalense," 251.; and 3d, the same sum for a Greek ode. The sum of 50l. each, for the best Latin and Greek poems, was offered to the successful candidates at each of the public schools, viz. Eton, Westminster, Winchester, and the Charter-house schools. In all, no less than 1650l. was thus appropriated by Mr. Buchanan to this high purpose: a gift almost as large as the benevolence which prompted it.

In the beginning of the year 1804, we find many notices in the original memoir of the College of Fort-William, its annual disputations, and the speech of Marquis Wellesley, as he closed the proceedings of the day. In the course of this year, Mr. Buchanan thus writes of the college and of himself, in a letter to Major Sandys:

"We are much the same in church, and state, and college, as when you left us; only, in respect to myself, my various labours have increased, are increasing, and, I fear, will not be diminished. I am literally left alone in many matters of a public nature, particularly in a battle now fighting, the worst I have yet had, with Mussulman and Hindoo prejudices, against translations of the Scriptures. Their clamour has assailed the government. W. and Mr. Barlow are neuter; but the old civil servants fan the flame. A folio volume would not detail the particulars; but I trust you will soon hear of the good effect. In the meantime, I am growing infirm in body, and long for more holy employ, than that of hewing wood only for our future sanctuary in

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India. I know that what is doing is useful; but spiritual comforts do not accompany the occupation in the degree I desire, and look forward to, when I have peace from public conflict."

Amidst his various labours, a severe domestic affliction awaited him this year, which came very near his heart. This was the reappearance of alarming symptoms of consumption in Mrs. Buchanan, which made it necessary that they should again part; and she embarked, together with her youngest daughter, for Europe, on the January following. The memoranda of Mr. Buchanan testify with what warmth of affection he again followed her in spirit across the mighty waters. By these, it is said, frequent notices of letters, written to her weekly, and even daily, occur, of which none, however, remain. was about this anxious period that he began to prepare that work, to which India is, doubtless, much indebted, though the results of it were but faintly viewed by Mr. Buchanan himself, viz. “A Memoir on the expediency of an Ecclesiastical Establishment

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