the especial purpose of supplying suitable articles of clothing to the Female Negroes in the West-African and West-Indian Missions of the Society. There are also about a hundred friends, who have added during the year by individual collections nearly 900l. to the funds,— and the total of whose collections, from the commencement of their exertions, has been nearly 35007. The receipts of the twenty-second year are nearly 33,000l., being an increase of 20007. on the last. The sum expended has about equalled the income. Various additions have also been made, during the year, to the number of missionaries and students. Missions. To the eight missions of the Society which had been for some time formed, a ninth is now added, among the Indians of North-West America. On these missions we shall briefly touch, in the order in which they stand in the Report, beginning with Africa, and passing by the Mediterranean, India, Ceylon, and Australasia, to America. West-Africa Mission.-The extension of the government of Sierra Leone has opened a wide field for the Society's exertions; besides which, every year adds to the importance of the colony of Sierra Leone, and to the prospect of its becoming an efficient means of intercourse with the interior of the continent. In compliance with the pressing demands in this quarter, the Committee have been preparing a considerable number of missionaries; keeping, however, in view that in all parts of the heathen world, and especially in the more ungenial climates, the increase of native labourers is an object of main importance. Some additional native teachers have been added to those alreadyemployed by the Society in Sierra Leone. Very considerable accessions have been made to the liberated Negroes under the Society's care. Several hundreds of these eman cipated Slaves have been recently associated with their countrymen at Regent's Town, Gloucester, &c. and are partaking with them in all the blessings of Christian instruc. tion. In addition to the affecting particulars recorded in our Number for December on this subject, we quote the following passage. "A similar scene took place on the arrival, at Gloucester, of another company of newly liberated Slaves. When I got them all out of Freetown, on their way to Gloucester, I reviewed them; and soon found that I had not brought men enough with me, to help these poor afflicted people up the hill. Happily, a man, while they were passing, after liberation, through the Court of the Mixed Commission, had run up to Gloucester to fetch more people to carry the sick home. Ignorant of what the man had done, I went on slowly with them, almost despairing of getting them up: but I had not gone far from the foot of the hill, before I was met by great numbers, who, as they came up, took upon their backs those who were unable to walk; and when I was half way up, I saw almost the whole of them carried by those whom we had met on the road. It struck me very much, particularly when I compared this affecting scene with some which I had formerly beheld. The Negroes then in the colony would sometimes slip out to see if any of their respective countrymen were among the newly-arrived: if not, they would take little or no notice of the unhappy sufferers: but now, they sympathize with their distressed fellow-creatures, in a manner the most striking. When we reached home, I ordered victuals to be prepared for the new people; but, before this could be done, food came in from every quarter. The women, and part of our school girls, who had cooked it, did not stop to ask, Who is of my country?'-but the men and women who were nearest to them were In reference to the growing regard of the colonists to the mission, Mr. Johnson writes refreshed. The people were quite eager to receive them, and make them comfortable in their houses. Among the rest was a woman, one of the communicants, who took one of the newly-arrived women under her care. She was asked by Mrs. During what she wanted to do with the new woman. She said, 'Ma'am, that now almost two years since me come this country. My countrywoman take me: she do me good: she tell me of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that same they do to me that time, me want to do same to this woman.'" How severe is the reproach which this sympathy of converted Africans casts on their oppressors, who are an opprobrium to the Christian name! For such is the dreadful effect of familiarity with the Slave Trade in brutalizing the mind, that numbers of these people were so injured by the treatment which they met with on board the slavevessels, that no care or tenderness could recover them: they sank into the grave in the midst of their countrymen, rescued too late from the hands of the barbarians who must one day answer for their blood. Mr. Johnson writes "I regret to say, that we have lost many of our people. The poor creatures were so much reduced, from being packed close on board the vessel, that we have lost nearly 50 out of 238; and I believe this mortality has been exceeded in other places." There are some features of this cruelty, which are traced with horror by the Missionaries. "Among the number of victims received by us at Regent's Town, were two women, who, becoming pregnant by two White men, slavedealers, were sold by these men as soon as they discovered the - situation of the women, These women suffered so much on board the slave vessel, that they were both delivered, soon after their arrival, of still-born Mulatto children, and both the women died !" "The gentlemen in Freetown are now so fully convinced of the success produced by the preaching of the Gospel, that they publicly confess, that, above all other institutions, ours has proved the most beneficial to the children of Africa. They have inspected the settlements in the mountains; and have been surprised on witnessing the order, industry, and piety of our people; and acknowledge that the Gospel is the only efficient means of civilizing the heathen. Several have desired me to call on them for their contributions to the Society. At the head of these is his Excellency the Governor." Another gentlemen, Captain Tanney, writes: "I visited the colony in the year 1817. My stay among the recaptured Negroes in the moun tains then was very short, but sufficient to ascertain that they were involved in heathen darkness and barbarity. Having again visited them in December 1821, I am able, in some measure, to estimate the great change since the former period, both in a moral and religious point of view, through the exertions of your missionaries, and the blessing of Almighty God upon their labours, without which all would have been ineffectual. It has been asserted by those interested in that inhuman traffic, the Slave Trade, that the Africans were born to slavery; that their intellects being weak, they are unable to comprehend the sublime truths of the Christian dispensation; and that, consequently, an attempt to civilize them would be vain. If such conclusions can be drawn from their present condition, it is because the necessary means have been withheld from them: their capacities have never been cultivated; the sublime truths of Christianity have never been preached to them: facts now prove, that, when they have enjoyed such privileges, they neither want abilities to understand nor inclination to receive them. Hundreds now in the mountains of Sierra Leone have become monuments of that Divine Grace which knows no difference between Jew or Gentile, bond or free, colour or clime." In reference to Freetown, now containing with its suburbs a population of nearly 5000 persons, the Chief Justice states, that "the Lord's-day is more decorously kept than it is in most other places. The shops are all shut: there is no such thing as buying and selling. The Christian part of the people attend worship at the places which they have respectively chosen; and all the congregations are alike remarkable for uniform and respectful attention." At Regent's Town, the attendance at daily morning and evening prayers had greatly increased; from 700 to 1000 being usually present. Upwards of 100 adults were baptized in the course of last year. The strictest watch is kept over candidates for baptism, by the communicants, that their consistency of character may be ascertained before they are admitted to that holy sacrament. During the past year, the Committee have received the testimony of several persons not connected with the Society, which entirely corroborates the foregoing representations. Thus Mr. Ephraim Bacon, an agent of the American Government and Colonization Society, who visited Regent's Town and the other towns of liberated Negroes, draws a striking picture of the Christian Africans assembled at early worship, at six o'clock on Sunday morning: "With a hundred copies of the holy Bible spread open before their black faces, and their eyes fixed intently on the words of the lesson which their godly pastor was reading;" adding "At six o'clock in the evening, the people were seen at the distant parts of the town, leaving their homes, and retracing their steps toward the house of God. There we again united in praising that God who hath wrought such wonderful things even among the moun. tains of Sierra Leone, where the praises of Jehovah resound, not only from his holy sanctuary, but from the humblest mud-walled cottagefrom the tongues of those children of Africa who have been taken by the avaricious slave-trader, dragged from parents, separated from brother and sister, and perhaps from wife or husband, bound in chains, hurried on board the slave-ship, crowded in a space not exceeding their length and breadth, nor even allowed to breathe the vital air !” Mr. Johnson's report of the state of the people, is highly satisfactory. He remarks, for example: "I am happy to observe that many of the first that were converted have now become established in the faith. Nothing seems to move them. They say little perhaps will work a whole day, and speak not ten words; but the few words which they speak will have great weight. These, I may truly say, are my crown of rejoicing, and encourage me to persevere. When they were first brought to the knowledge of Christ, they staggered and fell; but, by degrees, they learned to walk. Wild fanatical emotions haveentirely ceased, as well among old as young.' The Christian Institution prospers. Captain Tanney says of it; "I rejoice that your Society has established a seminary for pious youths, to prepare them for the ministry: it now contains eighteen, who will, in a few years, be ably qualified. They express an ardent desire to be sent to their countrymen. Much good may be expected from this Institution." One of the youths, Miles Atkinson, has departed in the faith of Christ, after giving the most satisfactory evidences of true humility of spirit, confidence in his Saviour, and consistency of character. Mediterranean Mission. — Dr. Naudi has been employed on the translation into Italian of an English commentary on the Scriptures; and Giuseppe Cannolo is proceeding in the translating of the Bible into Maltese. The Gospel of St. John, in Maltese and English, has been printed in this country; and copies sent to Malta for distribution. On the subject of this mission, so increasingly interesting to all who desire the repairing of those desolations which have spread over the ancient Christian churches, the Committee refer the members to Mr. Jowett's "Christian Researches in the Mediterranean." This valuable volume has put the Committee in possession of materials, which will enable them with greater precision to choose their future path, and by which the minds of British Christians may be excited to survey with increasing interest the varied tribes and nations connected with these internal seas. We hope, in our Number for January, 1823, to review the work at some length, and shall therefore pass it over for the present. Mr. Jowett's account of the Greeks, and especi ally of their colleges at Haivali and Scio, which he visited in 1818, will be read with melancholy feelings, when it is recollected that these promising establishments have been swept away by the furious torrent which has overwhelmed the Greek Nation, and their able and zealous professors murdered or driven from their country. Recent events have awakened in every humane heart warm sympathy towards these our suffering fellow-Christians, within the sphere of this mission; and we are rejoiced to find that the Committee are determined to use every opportunity which the providence of God may afford them to pour in the instructions and consolations of his holy word among these unhappy sufferers. Calcutta and North-India Mission. The details of this mission are too miscellaneous to allow of an abstract. We must therefore content ourselves with reporting a few individual facts. Large numbers of Scriptural tracts and the Liturgy have been published, and widely circulated in different native languages. In English, besides printing the Society's Quarterly Missionary Intelligence and Report, the press has been employed on works, for sale, or for the use of the schools. The Corresponding Committee had been anxious for a school in Calcutta for native youths, on a regular Christian system. The parent Society had strongly urged them to attempt an establishment of this kind on a large scale, and purposed to send out two ordained missionaries to assist in such an establishment. In consequence of these representations, the Corresponding Committee, finding an estate for sale in a part of the native town suited to the views of the parent Society, ventured to purchase it for the purposes of a Christian Institution. "We shall do all in our power," say the Corresponding Committee," to raise funds here. Such are now the openings of Providence, that it seems not difficult to establish missions in any direction. Our primary object, however, shall be, to strengthen those which we have already established; and this infant institution in Calcutta will, with the Divine blessing, be the nurse of them all." In connexion with this subject, the Committee mention the grant of 5000/. to the Bishop's College, and their vote of 1000l. to the same object, as a contribution from the Society for the year 1822. The particulars have already appeared in our pages. On the subject of schools, Mr. Corrie writes" Our new schools inCalcutta are bringing us acquainted with the native population here. Already a petition, signed by fourteen residents, has been presented, praying us to give them a school. The temporal circumstances of our Committee, I see clearly, procure us a ready access to the natives; and our new institution will, I am sure, be attractive to them. May God give us grace to use our influence to his glory!" Mr. Schmid has translated from the Bengalee a tract "against the prevailing System of Hindoo Idolatry." The author, who is since dead, was Brajamohun Majmoodar, a native of Bengal, and an intimate friend of Rammohun Roy, who revised the translation, and published it at his own expense. This piece has excited much attention in Calcutta. Mr. Jetter says of it "The book is well furnished with replies to all the arguments which the Brahmins bring forward in defence of their idol-worship; and the missionary or Christian friend needs not to add any thing to stop their mouths: he has only to give them the very answer which the author bas supplied, in a most excellent manner, to their sophistries and we hope, that the Eng. lish translation of it will check and silence such Europeans, as are not ashamed, publicly, to palliate the blasphemous and abominable practice of idolatry." Mr. Jetter elsewhere writes: "If I look back to the time when I first arrived at Burdwan, I see a very great change in those people who come more immediately in contact with us. Then, they would hardly touch a book of our holy Scriptures, thinking they should become Christians by doing so; but now they receive the New Testament into the schools, and learn great portions of it by heart. But it is a melancholy fact which we witness, that the people, although they confess the excellent instructions of the New Testament to be most beautiful and good, yet think it not necessary to conform their lives to them, saying, that the way in which they are going will also lead them to heaven." The Corresponding Committee take an encouraging review of the mission. They remark-" Upon the whole, the Committee think they may be allowed to congratulate the friends of the Church Missionary Society on the general aspect of their affairs at this presidency. The word of the Lord does evidently not go forth in vain.” Madras and South-India Mission.-The stage at which the Society's establishments in this country have arrived does not justify expectations of any extraordinary success on the part of its missionaries and coadjutors, in the actual conversion of the heathen. Most of its missionaries are still engaged in the study of the languages of the places where they are stationed. Many of their employments, from which, at an advanced period of their respective missions, important results may ensue, are at present pursued incidentally. The work of education is, in several places, still upon an experimental footing; and is, at most stations, of limited operation. The holy Scriptures have hitherto been circulated only to a small extent, compared with the occasion for them, in any of the languages of the country; and, in many, not at all. Books of Christian instruction, in the vernacular languages, are still rare; and the preparation and publication of them are necessarily of slow and difficult execution; and preaching must be exceedingly restricted in its exercise, till the missionaries shall have become fully acquainted with the languages and characters of the people. Under such circumstances, all that is reasonable to expect, is the diligent performance of the duties of their stations. And in this respect the statements before us are highly honourable and encouraging. We quote, in proof of this, a few particulars relative to the branch of this mission established in Travan |