all the way from Grand Cape Mount, about 80 miles, down to Cape Montserado to be baptized, having heard that here was a people who believed in Christ, and practised baptism." We give the following extract from Mr. Carey's letter: "After preaching in the morning, I baptized the native man John, and after preaching in the afternoon we had the honour to break bread in the house of God, with our newly arrived brethren from America and our newly baptized brother: and I need not tell you it was a day of joy and gladness. The church made up a contribution, and neatly dressed our heathen brother John, and gave him an excellent suit of clothes, and gave him 14 bars,* and sent him home on Monday, and he went on his way rejoicing; we also gave him three Bibles and two Hymn Books. *A Bar is equal to seventy-five cents. "Dear brother, tell the Board* to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might, for the work is going on here, and prospers in his hands; that the Sunday School promises to be a great and everlasting blessing to Africa; and that on the next Lord's day there will be a discourse delivered on the subject of missions, with a view to get on foot, if possible, a regular school for the instruction of native children; and tell them that they have my grateful acknowledgments for the liberal appropriations they have made, which have been duly and well applied by brother Lewis. I send to you several curiosities, for the benefit of the Board of the African Missionary Society." *The Board of the Richmond African Missionary Society, of which the writer was a distinguished member, from the time of its formation until he wont to Africa. SUMMARY. THE SLAVE TRADE, &c. We have just concluded, says of that perusal upon our judgthe London Times, the painful || ment-(for of its effects upon our task of reading through a corres-feelings we will not speak,)-is, pondence on the Slave Trade, that after all the labours of this recently published by order of the country, and of its most virtuous House of Commons. The result and distinguished citizens, for abolishing the above unnatural that wars are perpetually insti gated for the supply of slaves, who are furnished in such abundance, that the price to the slavemerchant, varies only from half a dollar to between two and three The ship MINERVA, of 270 tons, had a passport from the Emperor of Brazil, for 675 slaves, a little more than one-third of a ton for each! and unholy traffic, we have gone thus far we have washed the blood from our own consciences, we have withdrawn from the dreadful partnership, and have set an upright and humane exam-dollars a piece. ple to mankind; but we have not What then, becomes of the bediminished by one jot the mass of ings thus wrested almost out of human suffering. The slave trade the keeping of their Maker? flourishes with as much horrible They are crammed, (we might activity as at any former period.say potted) into the hold of a vesEngland is clear of the pollution,sel, where space is assigned to it is certain; but somebody must them, (and be it remembered for have nerves to declare the melan-a voyage across the Atlantic) in choly and mortifying truth-from the following proportions :-which all Englishmen of all parties are too ready, if not to with hold their belief, at least to turn aside their attention-that the amount of African misery has not been reduced a single particle: The brig CERQUEIRA, of 304 If the flag of England be no long-tons, was licensed for 761 slaves: er employed to cover this abomi- The schooner AROLA, 108 tons, nation, there is scarcely another 270 slaves! such is an art of potflag in Europe, or, with the ex-ting negroes for use. Well may ception of the United States, out the villains who engage in this of Europe, by which it is not traffic calculate, that one cargo masked from the researches of in four escaping, constitutes a our men-of-war, or shielded from profitable trade, when the prime their forcible interference. France, cost of what according to their Spain, Portugal, Holland, and odious jargon, is termed "ebony," Brazil, all have been, and are ap-averages little more than a dollar parently to this hour, disgraced each "log" (human body,) and by the subserviency of their na- brings at the Havana between tional colours to the avarice of two and three hundred. dealers in Negro blood, and by the atrocious diligence of their subjects in the work of desolation throughout Africa. The evidence Denham and Lieutenant Clapbefore us is not to be questioned,perton, survivers of the expedi◄ Interior of Africa.-Major tion fitted out for the interior of Africa, in 1821, by the way of Tripoli and Fezzan, arrived in Paris on the 21st of May, on their return to England. The results of this perilous attempt are said to be of the greatest importance, both with regard to settling many interesting points in the geography of that hitherto imperfectly known continent, and the state of civilization in which they found the natives of several populous kingdoms, inhabiting walled towns and cities, actually si tuated where the present maps of Africa represent immense deserts. All their papers and collections have arrived in safety. Mungo Park-An English paper states, that Lieutenant Clap perton, who has recently returned from a tour in the interior of Africa, had the good fortune to discover the Journal, or part of the Journal, kept by Mungo Park, when he last attempted to visit the source of the Niger. A relic so interesting, will be regarded with no common anxiety. Anniversaries in Liberia.Three anniversaries are celebrated by the Colonists in Liberia:-1. The Fourth of July, the birth-day of the Independence of the world. 2d. The 17th of May, the day when the confederated Kings ceded to them the lands they occupy. Sd. The day when they triumphed over those who had determined on their extirpation. AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. Important Auxiliary Institutions have recently been formed at Charlottesville, and in Fluvanna County, Virginia. A highly respectable Auxiliary Colonization Society, was organized on the Fourth of July, in King William County, Virginia. Fifty-nine persons were recorded as members of the Society, in the course of the day. The Constitution provides that the annual || of the African cause, and formed meeting of the Society, shall be themselves into a Society for this on the Fourth of July, in each object. year, and it is proposed to aid the funds of the Society, by taking up a public collection on that day. The Students at Hampden Sydney College, have evinced much zeal and resolution in aid From the Trenton Federalist. "We were highly gratified with being present at the first an had been active, and that success was likely to crown their efforts. nual meeting of the New Jersey it appeared that the managers Colonization Society, held in Princeton, on the 11th instant. The Rev. Dr. Miller read the 60th chapter of Isaiah, after which Robert F. Stockton, Esq. presi-equal justice to the speaker and dent of the Society, congratulated the society, on whose behalf, and the friends of the colonization at whose request, it was deliver scheme in a neat and impressive address. The report of the Board of Managers, read by the Reverend Geo. S. Woodhull, presented a clear and concise view of the operations of the Society, during the past year. From the report, The eloquent and forcible address of L. Q. C. Elmer, Esq. did ed. The objects of the institution were further explained and enforced by Rev. Dr. Green, of Philadelphia, Dr. Taylor, of NewBrunswick, Peter D. Vroom, Esq. of Somerville, James S. Green and Samuel J. Bayard, Esqrs. of Princeton. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS. From a gentleman in Prince Repository, might be procured, if circumstances would admit my leaving home; I however hope several have sent on from Virginia and other parts, as they said they would, when I informed them of the work being published. I find that information is in a manner, all that is wanting to encourage the work for which your paper is intended, that it should move with a firmness not to be shaken, and it does really appear to me that the salvation of this country de "There is an Auxiliary Societypends on it." at Hampden Sidney College;- From a gentleman in Indiantown, great interest is felt for the cause there." South Carolina. "Enclosed you will find twen From a gentleman in Jamestown, ty dollars for the Colonization North Carolina. "I have no doubt, but a number of subscribers to the African Society-this donation I make on to-day, as the most desirable method of commemorating the in dependence of my country, and From a gentleman in Chapel Hill, so well be said heretofore, and if it be true, it is time for the friends of this great and glorious cause, to commence movements in those parts of our country, where to have begun sooner would probably have answered but little purpose. It is a cause which must grow upon the mind and affections of the "I cannot but think that the American people. I hope the time history of the Society, is now is not distant, when there will sufficiently extensive to be pre-be so general an expression of the sented to any portion of the comState Legislatures in its favour, munity, with a weight and ascen- that Congress may feel authodency likely to reconcile opposi-rized, if not imperiously urged, tion, excite interest, animate to apply the resources of the friends, and unite numbers in its treasury, and of mental and phyfavour. This perhaps could not sical strength in its favour." FOR THE PUBLIC. colour, of good character, and industrious habits, to whom a passage shall be given in the next vessel which shall be despatched Liberia. OFFICE OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY, Resolved, That it is expedient to despatch a vessel, with emigrants and merchandise for the use of the Colony, from Norfolk, on or before the first day of September next. Resolved, That all Auxiliary Societies be requested, by public notice, to transmit their funds directly to the Treasurer of the parent Institution, (Richard Smith, Esq. of this city,) unless otherwise specially authorized by the Board of Managers. Resolved, That any Society, congregation, or individual, con- Resolved, That the Auxiliary tributing to the funds of this So-Societies be respectfully invited ciety, a sum not less than ten dol- to send DELEGATES to the next lars, shall have the privilege of annual meeting of the Society. nominating some free person of It will be perceived, that the Managers of the Colonization Society, are preparing to despatch a vessel with emigrants and supplies to LIBERIA. This vessel should sail early in September. The several Auxiliary Societies, and all clergymen and others, who have donations in hand for this Institution, are respectfully and earnestly requested to transmit them immediately to RICHARD SMITH, Esqг. Washing ton, TREASURER of the Board. Communications for the Repository, and subscrip tions for the same, as well as ALL LETTERS of general interest to the Society, should be directed to R, R. Gurley, the Resident Agent. |