ginning to fail. Mr. Jacobi's death had left him without a successor; and if none were appointed, especially considering the insufficient establishment of country priests, the more distant Christian flocks might be dispersed, and not reclaimed. It is true Mr. Kolhoff would exert himself to the utmost; but no man could be equal to such a charge, considering that the congregations are spread through a district, extending more than two hundred miles. The bishop, therefore, suggested that a new missionary be engaged, as soon as possible; and that Mr. Kolhoff be allowed to employ three native priests, in addition to those already on the establishment.

The bishop having had an interview with the rajah of Tanjore, his highness had assured him, that while the Society sent out such men as Mr. Swartz and Mr. Kolhoff, their missionaries should never want his protection.

The solicitude expressed by the Missionaries, for an additional appointment of the assistants in their Missions, denominated native or country priests, has led the Society to agree that if two or three natives shall be found fit to be invested with that office, and shall receive ordination according to the ritual of the Lutheran Church, the customary allowances shall be made to them.

The Society express with pain, that no satisfactory tidings have yet reached them, of suitable persons to be united with their missionaries in India, in a work that has been long carried on, and, through the blessing of God, has confessedly been productive of much good. The Lutheran churches in Germany, and in Denmark, and particularly the sources there, whence used to issue a supply of well-educated and zealous missionaries, in consequence of the calamitous occurrences that befel those countries during the revolutionary wars, have experienced so much evil, as to unhinge their powers of action, and to occasion difficulties, where none used to be experienced. Correspondence, however, is still entertained with the reputable professors of Halle, in Saxony, and a hope is encouraged of the arrival of two Missionaries, for the Society's establishments in India.

The Report concludes with mentioning the intention of the bishop to have the Book of Common Prayer translated into the Cingalese dialect. A competent

person had been selected to make the translation free of expense.

LONDON ASSOCIATION, IN AID OF THE MISSIONS OF THE UNITED BRETHREN.

An Association with the above title has been formed, under the management of a president, treasurer, two secretaries, and a committee, which shall consist of all clergymen and other ministers who are members of the association, together with twelve lay members, to be chosen out of the members of the association; but any of the members to be at liberty to attend the ordinary meetings of the committee. A subscription of one guinea per annum, or a weekly collection of sixpence, shall constitute a member; and a donation of ten guineas and upwards, or a congregational collection of twenty guineas, shall constitute a life-member. The whole of the funds obtained (after deducting incidental expenses) shall be remitted to the conductors of the missions of the United Brethren. Every member of the Association will receive the periodical accounts of the missions.

The following is a part of the address of the Committee:

"As early as the year 1732 the Brethren's first mission was established: this has multiplied into nine and twenty settlements, in which above one hundred and fifty missionaries are employed. In Greenland and Labrador; among the hordes of the Delawares, and other native Indians in North America; the Hottentots of Africa; the Negroes in the West Indies, and on the continent of South America; it has pleased the Almighty to give them ability to labour in preaching the Gospel, and to crown their endeavours with success.

"These extensive missions have been supported by voluntary contributions from their own body, and with some aid from other Christians. But their resources begin to fail-their congregations always few, and in general poor, (those on the Continent being further impoverished, and their settlements almost ruined, owing to their situation in the very seat of war,) have not been able to contribute as formerly to their support. Their collections have in consequence fallen, of late, so short of their expenditure, that they are upwards of five thousand pounds in debt: and owing to this circumstance, they are not only

prevented enlarging their plans, and embracing the opportunities now offerred them of extending their exertions, but have reason to apprehend that they must contract their present sphere of operation. In short, this favoured mission must fall into decay, unless Christians of other denominations are inclined by Him, who has all hearts at his disposal, to come forward to its aid."

The Committee of the London Association earnestly solicit the co-operation of their Christian brethren of all denominations. Subscriptions and donations of the smallest amount will be thankfully received by J. W. Warren, Esq., President, 4, Powis-place, Queensquare; the Rev. John Bull, 16, Southampton-place, Euston-square; Rev. W. Gurney, 22, Cecil-street, Strand; Rev. Dr. Steinkopff, Savoy, Strand; Rev. Dr. Nicoll, Hans place, Sloane-street; Rev. J. Leifchild, Hornton-street, Kensington; J. G. Lockett, Esq., 64, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square; W. M. Forster, Esq., 32, Gower-street; W. B. Hudson, Esq., 27, Haymarket; J. Christian, Esq., Wigmore-street; J. Symmons, Esq., 1, Burton Crescent; H. C. Christian, Esq., 10, Strand; T. Johns, Esq., General Post Office, Lombard-street; R. King, Esq., Arabellarow, Pimlico; W. Leach, Esq., 1, Northplace, Hampstead-road; Messrs. Stephensons, Remmington, and Co, Bankers, 69, Lombard-street; and Messrs. Morland, Ransom, and Co., Bankers, 56, Pall Mall.

HAYTI.

We have received the following interesting intelligence relative to the business of instruction at Hayti, which is proceeding with great vigour. National seminaries have been formed at Cape Henry, Port de Paix, Sans Souci, and Gonaives, which, by the last accounts, contained 420 scholars, and the first of which has furnished monitors to all the rest. Another school is about to be opened at St. Mares, and a new school-room is erecting at Sans Souci, to contain 1000 scholars. Besides these national schools, in which instruction is gratuitous, and which are wholly

founded and maintained by King Henry, the town of Cape Henry is filled with small elementary schools for the poorer classes, who cannot as yet be all accommodated in the national schools, where the children are taught, at a very moderate rate, to read, write, and cipher. Indeed, all the inhabitants are obliged, under a penalty, to send their children to school as soon as they attain a sufficient age. One of the scholars in the national school at Cape Henry, a son of Baron Ferrier, has formed a little elementary school at his father's house, where a room has been allotted to him, in which he instructs several of his young companions in the intervals between school hours.

At the national school room at Cape Henry, Divine Service is performed according to the forms of the Church of England every Sunday morning, by Mr. Gulliver, the teacher, or one of the strangers resident at the Cape. The congregation of the boys is respectable. The strangers occasionally attend, especially the ladies of the family of an American merchant, who are, in general, very regular. A chaplain of the Church of England would be a very desirable acquisition.*

*We are happy to learn, that thi want has been already anticipated, a Clergyman of the Church of England having sailed for Cape Henry, the capital of Christophe's kingdom, in the course of last week.-Now we are on this subject we may just add, that the commerce of Hayti appears to be carried on with considerable activity. We have seen an official statement of it for the first seven months of the present year. The number of foreign vessels entered during that time, chiefly Americans and English, was 107, and their burden 12,009 tons. We understand too, that this sovereign has refused the use of his ports to the privateers under the different South American flags, considering the insurgent governments as not yet sufficiently legitimate to be recognised.

In closing our last Number, we felt strongly disposed to congratulate our readers on the completion (October 25) of another year of à reign, second in interest and importance, to none in the records of this long-favoured country. It is true, the annual recurrence of a state day can seldom be considered as calling for particular notice in a miscellany like ours; but we thought that the circumstance of bis Majesty's having at length arrived at that epoch of his reign which constitutes him the oldest monarch this country ever possessed, furnished a fit occasion to pause and look back, both upon the blessings and the afflicting dispensations of so important a period of our own, and of human history. The particular point, however, which we especially intended to bring for ward to our readers was the great moral and religious improvement which has taken place during the reign of the present sovereign. Beginning with the throne itself, we should have paid our heart-felt tribute of gratitude to God, and of respect to our venerated monarch, for that conspicuous example of personal and domestic virtue, of political integrity, and, as we trust, of true piety, which, for more than half a century, has adorned and added new lustre to the British throne.

Pursuing our remarks from the sovereign himself to those who have been appointed to conduct the affairs of the nation, we might have taken occasion to show the progressive improvement of the general moral character of our public measures and policy. The legal abolition of the Slave Trade, the measures adopted for facilitating the introduction of Christianity into India, the public attention paid to the health and comfort of the poor,

(we wish we could add the erection of new churches for their accommodation,) the disinterested and Christian arrangements which distinguished the late general peace, with similar topics, would have afforded ample scope for applause and gratitude.

If from these we adverted to our church and the present character of the clergy, we need scarcely say how clear and decided an improvement we should have had occasion to notice during the latter part of the present reign; an improvement, doubtless, affected incidentally, in no slight degree, by the personal character and conduct of the king. The state of our prisons, hospitals, &c. and of our charitable institutions, both religious and civil, would have added considerably to the strength of the argument. If, for instance, we contemplate the improvement, and still greater promises of improvement, in the morals of the community, by means of the new system of national education, which it is one of the greatest blessings of the present reign to have witnessed, we could not have forgotten that his majesty was among the earliest and best patrons of that benevolent scheme. If we further contemplated the success of the various societies for distributing religious information among the people, especially of that society which has for its sole and exclusive object, the circulation of the Word of God, we could not have forgotten that the very book which our revered sovereign most loved and studied himself, and most ardently wished every child in his dominions to be able to read, was -the Bible. In short, the more we contemplated, either in the upper ranks of society or amongst the people at large, the present increased, and, as we trust, increasing,

attention to religion, to purity of doctrine and holiness of life, to disinterested charity both at home and abroad, to missionary exertions for the heathen, with every other scheme worthy of a great, a generous, and a Christian nation, the more should we have felt humble gratitude to God for the favourable changes produced in the public manners and opinions during the present reign.

It is true that we could have extracted much, very much, of an opposite kind; it is true that we have seen enough, and far more than enough, of civil and religious broils, of disasters at home and abroad, and of what must be painful and appalling to us as men, as citizens, as Christians;-yet amidst all, nothing could have prevented our cherishing the pleasing idea, that even with so great drawbacks, very much remained to excite our gratitude; and still further, that the great national benefits to which we have generally adverted, were connected in no dubious manner with the personal character of the monarch.

But though these and similar sentiments occurred to us in closing our last Number, we postponed indulging in them till we had the satisfaction of announcing, as we fully hoped and expected to have done in our present Number, an event to which the Nation looked forward with much interest-and which was to add a fourth generation to the three then living of the royal house, and to perpetuate, as we hoped, in the person of the great grandchild, the virtues which we had so long loved and revered in our aged monarch. Alas! (our hearts sink and our hands tremble while we write it,) two generations of the royal line are cut off at a stroke :-THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE IS NO MORE her infant lies lifeless beside her: the buoyant hopes and eager anticipations of a loyal and affectionate nation have perished; and to sigh for the past

and forbode for the future, to mingle our tears, as we unfeignedly do, with those of our readers, and possibly to suggest a few monitory remarks on the awful and afflicting visitation, is all that we have it in our power to perform. Never, since the commencement of our public career, has it been our unhappy lot to record an event which has excited such fixed and painful interest; never before have we seen the hearts of the nation so "bowed as the heart of one man.' Wherever we turn our eyes we meet with lamentations, and weeping, and wo. The national loss is almost forgotten in private grief; every family seems to have lost an endeared relative or friend; the sun has gone down at noon; and scarcely could the public anguish have been more intense, or the appearance of it more visible, if it were literally as it is virtually true that "in every house there is one dead." Three weeks have elapsed since the mournful tidings reached our ears; and we hoped before this to have been able to have composed our minds to the calm consideration of the subject, and to have viewed it in its momentous bearings and results;—but the more we survey it, the more it increases in painful, and perhaps fearful, interest. What may be its ultimate effects upon the country, He only, who appointed it for reasons as wise as they are inscrutable, and, doubtless, as merciful as they are wise, can unfold!

Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta, whose affecting and untimely death it is our melancholy duty to record, was born at Carlton House, January 7, 1796. Her earliest years were spent under the domestic tuition of her Royal Mother; after which her education was confided to the Bishop of Exeter (now Salisbury.) On her being taken from the pa rental superintendance, the lady de Clifford was selected for her instructress, who, on the advance

ment of her royal pupil to maturity, was succeeded by the duchess dowager of Leeds.

Her Royal Highness's progress in her various studies is stated to bave been highly respectable, particularly in that most important department to a young princesshistory, especially that of her own country. The principles of the Christian Religion and an attachment for the Established Church, were early instilled into her mind; and to complete the course of education, so auspiciously commenced, the more elegant and refined accomplishments of her age and sex were not neglected. Her Royal Highness appears to have been a skilful musician; but one of her chief delights was the study of the poets and standard writers in her own language. She is said to have exhibited none of the vanity of exterior ornament; and neither before nor after her marriage to have affected any thing beyond the plainest dress and decoration that became her situation. In a word, she is described, on all bands, as sensible, accomplished, and modest, as peculiarly correct in her general deportment, and as chiefly indicating her high birth, not so much by the refined polish of fashjonable life, as by a lofty and generous sense of the duties which her elevated rank demanded.

Thus lovely and engaging, this illustrious princess arrived at the period of life in which her marriage, as presumptive heiress to the crown of these realms, became an object of the utmost interest to the nation. It is well known that the prince of Orange, who was almost a native of this country, (having come hither when an infant,) was destined to be her husband. For this purpose he was educated at the University of Oxford, and taught from early youth to consider himself as the intended husband of the princess. Her Royal Highness was in the constant habit of meeting him at Carlton House. In a word, the

match was openly proposed to her by her father. It is not necessary to dwell upon the circumstances of her firm and steady refusal. Always doing justice to the character, the courage, and amiable qualities of this prince, she resolved not to receive him as a husband; and her resolution remained unalterable. Among the reasons assigned for this refusal, her reluctance to residing in a foreign country, has been mentioned as having peculiar weight upon her mind.

Her first introduction to the Prince of Cobourg was in the summer of 1814, when the allied sovereigns of Europe visited this country upon the occasion of the general peace. The consequences of that meeting are well known. She was highly pleased with bis address and manners: a more familiar intercourse improved these first impressions into a warmer sentiment, and affection succeeded to esteem. The Duke of York, who first observed this growing attachment, communicated it to the prince regent, and a formal proposal was soon made through his royal highness to Prince Cobourg himself. It is unnecessary to dwell any longer upon this subject. Her marriage took place on May 2, 1816. His serene highness was requested to accept the rank and title of a British dukedom: the extinct dukedom of Kendal was to be revived for his acceptance. is supposed to have refused it, with the entire concurrence of the Princess, from a desire to avoid the embarrassments which might eventually arise from his taking any part in political affairs. Both concurred in the preference of a country life; and Claremont, the place assigned and purchased for their residence, was daily adorned by their taste in landscape gardening and rural improvement.

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Thus have we rapidly traced this virtuous and amiable princess to the commencement of a union almost unprecedented in the annals