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No. 9. Vol. 111. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY XATHJIN S. S. BEMAjY £ CO. wwww The Terms of “ The Missionary” are Three Jloilars a year if paid in advance, or within sixty rfiays froth the time of subscribing; or Three Dol lar!- ami Fifty Cents at the end of the year. No Sudscriptiou will he received fora short er time than one year, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Advertwemknts will be inserted, by the square, at 62 1-2 cents for the first insertion ; and for every subsequent insertion 43 3-4 cents. Those who furnish standing advertisements for the year, shall be entitled to a deduction of one quartet of the amount from the above rates. All Communication.t mid Letters relating to the Office, will be directed to N. S. P. Beuian ii Cos. and whether enclosing money’ or not, must come POST PAID: Should any neglect to do this they will be charged with the postage. 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Rev. Hugh Quin. ATHENS, Clarke, B. B. Peck. MADISON. Morgan, Miius Nestit. L fNE O LNTON.Lin rof a. Peter Lamar,Esq. PM. SPAR TA.NBUH.GII, S.C. J.Brannon,Esq. PM. MILLEpGEVfLLE, Leonard Perkins. F. LBEIITON, George Inskeep, Esq. P M. DUB lAN, Laurens, W. B. Coleman, Esq. PM. LOUISVILLE^feff'n, John Bostwick,Esq.PM. M.ILLORYSVILLE, Wilkes, Asa Hearing, Esq. P M. J’A YNESBCRO', Samuel Sturges, Esq. PM. LAURENS, S. C. Archibald ‘Young, Esq. if RIG HTSBO R.O', Q. L. C. Franklin, Esq. MONTICELLO, Greene D. Brantley, Esa. PM. London, May 28s BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY. On Sal or Jay one of the most numerous and respectable meetings which we have lbr a long time seen, was held at the great room of the Thatched House Tavern, for ihe purpose of considering the propriety of founding “ A .Society for the Moral and In tellectual improvement of the Native In habitants of British India.” At 12 o’clock the Right- Hon. J. C. Vil liers, M. P. took the chair. On his right sat the Earl of Ciare, Teignmouth, Lord Dnnaljy, Lord Gambler, Sir James Macin •tosh, M. P.. Sir Wm. Burroughs, and sever al gentlemen who filled official situations in India. On his left sat the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, Lord Gosford, Mr. Wilherforce, Ib,o Right Hon. J. Sullivan, Amiral Sir J. iv-umarez, Mr. Fowell Buxton, M. P., and several Directors of the East India Compa ny. The room was crowded to excess. Several Ladies graced the meeting with their presence. * The Right Hon. J. C. Viiliers, on taking the chair, opened to the meeting the great object for the promotion of which they were now convened, lie adverted to the great necessity which existed for their’ di recting the publick attention to India, in the hope ofultimately establishing moral principles among the Hindoos who were -entrusted to the Brit charge. Mr Harrison, in an able speech, strongly .pointed out the necessity of establishing an institution upon Ibis basis. It could, of course, only he promoted by the force of reason and the gradual removal of the na tive prejudices. Sir James Macintosh then projrosed, in a luminous speech, the Ist resolution for es tablishing this society. He said that the relative connexion of the native nations in India wilh the British government was the liiostremarkalile which iiad ever existed between ihe conquering and the conquered. Hitherto the Indian people had only known the greatness of England by the formidable and overwhelming appearance of her fleets and armies fir their control and govern ment.—England had now to teach them a different lesson, one which must produce a great moral operation, namely, the dispen sation of her great resources, for their ed ucation and benefit, flowing I'roiß channels they neversaw, and from benefactors who could never witness their gratitude. (Ap plause.) This great act would practically tench them to believe in the existence of exulted virtues, from the knowledge of which they were previously debarred by the corruption of their morals and force of the despotism under which they were rear ed. In the existing state ofsociety in India, it was impossible to commence the great work of reformation by a course of reli gious education. The prejudices and hab its of the natives forbade that course ; but the great work of education, tending to civilization and moral habits, might still go THE MISSIONAR Y. on, and the eventual result of the destruc- 1 tion of superstition be equally certain. Ihe change in the Hindoo character could only be accomplished by the force of reason and persuasion, and must therefore be the ivork of time. Nothing could aid more the progress of such a work, than the introduc iion among them of those arts and sciences which tend to the utility and embellishment of civilized life. Some imputations had been cast upon what was represented to be the imprudent zeal of missionaries. Now he must say from his own experience in India, he had seen nothing to countenance these imputations. He believed their la bours to be well directed, an.d that the state of native society afforded them a wide ueld to move in.—ln his judicial situation in India, he had had many opportunities of witnessing the want of moral effect in the superstition, miscalled religion, of the na tive inhabitants. He had with pain observ ed the total want of truth in their evi dence. Indeed, to such a degree was this immorality carried, that Sir YV. Jones, not withstanding his generous partiality towards the people, among whom his pursuits were so well calculated to inspire him with re gard, had himself been compelled judicious ly to admit its existence to a great degree —to a degree, indeed, which made it diffi cult for a judge to say, after he had decid ed a cause among them, whether that decision were founded upon the unalterable basis of truth. (Hear.) It was this disre gard of truth among the Hindoos which made him declare that system of opinion, called religion, among the natives of India, had no moral use at all. (Hear, hear.) So far from being an aid, it was rather an obstacle to the magistrate : it enforced no duty in life, nor promoted any act of moral intelligence. (Hear, hear.) A system of education had, however, sprung up in In dia, which, with the concurrence of the natives, was well calculated to promote (he greatest eventual benefits.—(n Bombay (irom a letter he had seen) the education of the native children was going on so pros perously, that it ivas hoped all the children of a population not fewer than 2 or 300,000 in amount, would soon possess the rudi ments of necessary knowledge. Sir James Macintosh concluded an eloquent speech by moving a resolutiotffor forming the society. Mr. Wilberforce rose to second the reso lution ; but the Rev. Mr. Ward was first called upon to state, from his residence in India, the situa tion of the native population. He describ ed the state of native society in the district of Bengal. He particularly spoke of the state of ignorance in which the females were kept in India, and enforced the bad effect it must have upon the rearing of their families. He also spoke of the re voltingpractice of widows immolating them selves upon the funeral piles of their dead husbands, leaving behind them, utterly regardless, infants of 1,2, and 3 years of age, and sometimes even suckling ones, which were, in open outrage to the com punctions of nature, torn “by the mother from her bosom, while she flung herself to expire in the ftfimes. In this” state of moral depravity were fifty millions of fe males under British dominion. How could (hey then be moral, when Ihe very gods of their idolatry were pereonificatory of vice ? —-when their very priests were leaders in crime ?—when the very scenes of their temples could not he mentioned in a Chris tian community? Had not Providence, he would ask, consigned the population of 100 millions to Great Britian, that she might redeem them from this immoral vas salage? England was under an awful re sponsibility to lift (his people from (heir vices. (Hear, hear.) After the darkness of a night of ages, the son was now shining upon them; and, under British benevo lence, he hoped it would set in glory. (Hear.) The Rev. Gentleman (hen in stanced the avidily of the natives to obtain education to be such, that the Brahmins offered their temples as school-houses, and themselves as teachers. He had no doubt of complete success from the establishment of this society. Mr. Wilberforce next rose to second Sir James Macintosh’s resolution, and refer red to the speech of the Rev. Mr. Ward, as strikingly showing the necessity of this soci ety, and the facility with which its benevo leut intentions might he realized. To ig norance,the dreadful superstition of the na tives might be traced; and when that was once removed the evils which flowed from it might cease as a natural consequence. The hon. gentleman made an affecting ap peal to the meeting upon the dreadful influ ence of that superstition which tore from the human breast, not only those general prin ciples of moral feeling which reigned so universally, but those very lies of kindred which nature indelibly marked upon the fe male character for the preservation of her own comfort and that of society. [Hear.] Dreadful indeed must be that superstitiou which eradicated from a mother all affec tion for her infant child. [Hear.] To re form such a state of things was their first duty; and the only way in which it cjuld be done was by the introduction amongthem of those habits which tended to humanize society. It often happened, that in promo ting measures of general utility, a statesman GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.— Jesvs Christ. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CQ. GA.) MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1821. had to admit others which were of a mixed character—that, with the good to the many, he had to see some evil inflicted upon the few. But, here ivas co snch drawback from the general joy : here was nothing but what conduced, in the most harmonizirg manner, to the inevitable good of the whole. The path was smooth and delightful, fron. beginning to end, and the hand of Provi dence pointed it out as the dut/ which was prescribed to England, by the overruling power who had committed so nany millions of human beings to her charge., [Hear, hear.] —-He concluded by seconding the mo tion, which, as well as the svcceedmg ones, were carried unanimously. The Bishop of Gloucester, in proposing the resolution for constituting the society, took also a feeling renew of the state ofso ciety in India, and the bpunden duty prescri bed to England of extending to that vast empire the moral bleaings she herself en joyed. Lord Teignmouth, in seconding the mo tion, described the state of moral depravity in which he had found the natives of India. More than fifty years ago, when he first went out to India, hi remembered a re quest made by a natiie in his service, that he should write to a friend of his in another part of the country, t> send him a particu lar stone, out of which he wanted to make a God! [Hear, hear.] He was glad to hear of the recent relaxation in the prejudices of the natives, and the aid they were now likely to give for thy purposes of educa tion. Sir William Burr&ughs alluded to his ex perience for many years while supreme judge of the Court atCalculta. He did not remember a single native case of impor tance in which the perjury at both sides was not shocking to the feelings.—He corroborated the statement that the natives were relaxing in their prejudices. Mr. Benjamin Shaw spoke warmly of the necessity of disseminating civilized habits in the East. He had heard that in a part of Sumatra they iattened their children, to prepare them for sale as human food. Mr. John Thornhill, an East India direc tor, the Earl of Clare, Sir James Saumarez, the Right Hon. John Sullivan, and several other gentlemen, successively proposed resolutions, which they merely accompani ed by a concurring remark. AFRICAN INSTITUTION. London, March 29. Yesterday a meeting was convened at Freemason’s Tavern, of the friends and sup porters of this institution. The Duke of Gloucester filled the chair; and we observ ed Lord Compton, Mr. W. Wilberforce, jun. and others to be present. The object of the meeting was to receive the annual re port of the Directors of the institution. The chair was taken at about 1 o’clock, by his Royal Highness; and !\lr. Harrison, the secretary, proceeded to read the report, which was of very considerable length. It commenced by deeply lamenting, that not withstanding the abolition of the African slave trade by almost every other power, yet that the inhuman traffick was carried on to an incredible extent under the French flag. It proceeded to detail some facts rel ative to the ill treatment received by some of the poor wretches, who were thus torn from the bosoms of their families, and refer red to a French medical pamphlet recently published in Paris, in which an account is given of the Rodeur, a French vessel, em ployed in this traffick, having brought to Guadaloupe a cargo of slaves, all of whom, together with the crew and captain of the ship, excepting one seaman, were at tacked with the opthalmia,and became blind. The slaves were brought on deck for fresh air, only being allowed half a wine-glass full of water per day, and many of them threw themselves into the sea, locked i* each other’s arms. Some were hanged, and oth ers punished severely, to prevent it, but it had no effect; and the slaves were there fore kept below. The whole of the slaves and crew of another ship had gone blind from the disease ; and the ship was left to the mercy of the winds, without any power to direct it. The Rodeur saw its situation, but being themselves nearly in the same condition, were unable to afford relief. The ship has not since been heard of. An other French vessel, the Jeune Estella, al so a trader in human flesh, was boarded by an English brig, the Tartar, and after a long search, two female slaves were found stow ed in a hogshead, in the last stage of suffo cation. Before reaching the Jeune Estella, the captain of the Tartar had seen a num ber of casks floating in the sea, which he now imagined to be also filled with slaves; having gone too far to the leeward, he was unable again to find the casks. The report then continued to observe upon the attempts ■which had been made by England Si some other powers to put a stop to this inhuman trade, and concluded by alluding to the pros perous state of Sierra Leone at the present moment. In 1820, the population was 12, 521, beiDg an increase of 2,956 since 1818 ; and of these, 2,097, were educating in the schools. Mr. YVm. YVilberforce, jun. Lord Comp ton, Sir YV. Johnstone, and others, shortly spoke, and the directors of last year were re-elected, with the addition of some new members. Thanks having been voted to the Royal Chairman, the meeting was dissolved. From the London Evang. Mag. May, 1821. SOME ACCOUNT OF POMARE, KING OF OTAHEITE. The present Pomare, is not the same visited by Captain Wilson, but his son, who wa9 then called Otoo, as his father had al so,before he succeeded to the sovereignty. The elder Pomare was removed by the sudden stroke of death, Sept. 3, 1803, when the government devolved upon the present king, who irom that time has appeared more friendly to the missionaries and their cause, than Irom some former circumstanc es had been expected. Before this event, he had for some considerable time resided at Eimeo ; but on his return to Otaheite, he took his residence near the mission-house at Matavia. In one or other of the apart ments of the brethren he would frequently spend nearly the tvhole of the day, amusing himself with writing, in which he had then (1806) made considerable progress. His behaviour was now very kind, and even generous towards the brethren ; but hith erto he shelved no inclination to embrace Christianity, or even to receive any reli gious instruction whatsoever; and when the subject was introduced, either in con versation or in writing, he artfully contriv ed to put it off. In the month of August, 1806, Pomare lost his first Queen, Tetua. In the following year, he wrote his first letter to the directors, dated Janury, 1807, from which it appears that his prejudices against Chistianity were in some measure abated; at least, that a degree of convic tion was produced on his mind. This let -1 ter, which was composed entirely by him self, began thus; “ 1 wish you every bles -1 sing, friends, in your residence in your j. country, with success in teaching this bad land, this foolish land, this land which is ’ ignorant of good; this land that knoweth not the true God, this regardless land. ■ Friends I wish you health and prosperity; > may 1 also live, and may Jehovah save us. ’ In 1808, Pomare was involved in war • with a party of his subjects, who attempted • to deprive him of his authority. On this occasion, the houses, gardens, Sic. of the Missionaries were destroyed ; and they as well as Pomare, were compelled to flee from Otaheite to the neighbouring Islands. In the following year, as there seemed no I prospect of the king regaining his authority, - all the brethren, except Messrs. Hayward and Nott, repaired to New South (Vales, ■ whence, however, five of them returned in • 1811, at the earnest request of Pomare, r whose authority was then re-established. ■ The king now discovered towards the Mis sionaries an increasing partiality, and ap i peared happy only when in their company. i In July, 1812, he declared to them his con i viction of (he truth of Christianity, and his t determination, in future, to worship Jeho vah. He also expressed deep repentance i on account of his past wickedness, cast, i away his idols,* endeavoured to persuade i his relations to embrace the Christian re i ligion, and proposed to the Missionaries to ■ build, without delay, a place of worship for the true God. 1 In theyear 1814, the number of the na tives (inclnding some of the chiefs,) who had renounced idolatry, and professedly embraced Christianity, amounted to fifty ; and from this time the number rapidly in . creased, until, in the following year, it amounted to about 500. Some of the idol atrous chiefs of Otaheite, exasperated at the progress of the new religion, formed the horrid design of destroying the Chris tians, root and branch ; but, providentially, the latter receiving timely information thereof, took refuge in Eimeo. In this island, Pomare then (July 1815) resided; and, at length, having ascertained that there was no hostility on the part of the chiefs against him, he went over to Otaheite, taking the refugees under his protection. On the 19th ofNovember, however, while engaged in pnblick worship, the Christians were furiously assaulted, 6y the idolaters, and an obstinate engagement ensued, in which Potnare obtained a complete victory. The unexampled lenity and clemency with which the King treated the conquered and their families, on this occasion, produced the most favourable effect on the minds of the idolaters, who unanimously resolved to embrace Christianity, and trust their gods no longer. The King was now, by univer * The log of wood which formed the body of the great god Oro, which had so often occasioned wars in Otaheite, was set up in the King’s kitchen to hang baskets of food upon : a most despicable use, according to the ideas of the Otaheiteans. His family idols, in 1816, he delivered to the Missionaries, accompanied by a letter, in which he thus expresses himself“ Friends, may you be saved by Jehovah, and Jesus Christ, our Sa viour. This is my speech to you my friends; 1 wish you to send those idols to Britain, for the Missionary Society, that Jhey may know the likeness of the gods that Tahiti worshipped. If yon think proper, you may burn them pll in the fire ; or if you like, send them to your country, for the inspection of the people of Europe, that they may satisfy their curiosity, and know Tahi ti’s foolish gods !” The Missionaries concluded to send them to England, and they are now rfe porilrd in thf Sfcie!y*g -VujMtm. Price, \ $3,50 pr-ann. or,> ’ ( $3,00 in advance. > sal consent, restored to the government, in which he has not since been, in the slight est degree, disturbed. Subsequently to this period, Pomare has shown himself, on all occasions, the friend of Christianity, and of the Missionaries; and has joined hand in hand with them, in such measures as appeared likely to pro mote the destruction of idolatry, and the dissemination of the Christian religion among the islanders. He has also taken a great interest in the business of the printing office. On the 10th of June 1817, he came over to Eimeo, on occasion of the first composing for the press ; and, under the direction of the Missionaries, he himself composed the alphabet at the beginning of th 6. Taheitean Spelling-hoc'*, which was the first process of the kind ever performed in his dominions. In the following month, he wrote letters to the Rev. Sam. Marsden, of New South. \\ r ales,& some of the brethren who left the islands in 1809, and settled in that colony. In that to Mr. Marsden, he says, “ Health and prosperity to you, and also to your fam ily ; and the salvation of Jesus Christ, who is the true Saviour, by whom we can be saved. The word of God has taken great root here at Tuheile, and also verily at Rai atoa, and in the other islands; the word of the true God is generally believed; he himself caused his word to take root, and therefore it succeeds in these countries. From ancient times, these coontries were perpetually enveloped in gross darkness, but at this present time they are illuminat ed ; by Jehovah himself the light was com municated, consequently they are enlight ened, and are brought to know and receive the excellent word; the Lord himself gra ciously sent to us his word, therefore it is that we are now instructed. The idols of , these countries are wholly abolished; they are burned in the fire ; also are abolished , the various customs connected with them ; j they are totally cast away by the people. : All this has been effected only by the word ; of God.” On the 6th of December, in the same . year (1817,) a vessel, of about 70 tons bur ’ den, which had been built by the Missiona , ries, was launched at Opcnohu harbour, in j Eimeo. On this occasion Pomare perform s ed the usual ceremonies ; and as he parsed , along, pronounced the words “ laorana 3 Harveis,' 1 (i. e. ‘‘Prosperity be to the Haw , eis.”) It was the particular wish of Po mare, that the vessel should be called after , the late Dr. Haweis, as he had shown him-| self a distinguished friend of the Otaheite- I ans. On the 13th May 1818, a general meet ’ ingoflhe natives was held in Eimeo, wheo it was agreed to form a “ Taheitean Auxil iary Missionary Society,” in aid of the Pa . rent Society in England, of which a very . full account was given in our Magazine for August last. Pomare is about six feet in height, and , proportionably stout, but stoops, and has rather a heavy appearance. He is about forty-five years of age. There is some thing morose in the ordinary aspect of hi* countenance, but this disappears the mo ment he enters into conversation. His voice is soft and agreeable; his address prepossessing; bis manners easy and affa ble and his disposition kind, generous, and forgiving. He spends much of his time in making tours through the different pails of his dominions, accompanied bv numerous attendants. When in his house, he sits on a mat, which is laid over grass, previously spread on the floor. He writes a great number of letters, keeps a journal, and is compiling a vocabulary of his own lan guage. His posture, when writing, is to lie at full length on the ground. He is very inferiour to his father in energy of character; and displays little of his diposi tion to promote improvements, either in the erection of habitations, or in the culti vation of the ground. Pomare has living one daughter (Aimata) by his second Queen, Tarutaria. To his present Queen, Tane, who is the daughter ot'Tapa, King of Railea, and who is his third wife, he ivas married in 1814. DISSENTERS IN ENGLAND. A bill introduced by H. .Brougham, Esq. into the British Parliament at their last ses sions, “ for better providing the means of education for his Majesty’s subjects,” has excited a very strong sensation throughout the kingdom, and especially among the dis senters. We have not seen the Bill, but understand the leading design ofit to be, to throw the whole management of the Na tional School, into the hands of the Estab lishment, and to compel Dissenters to neg lout the education of their children entirely or send them for instruction, where they cannot send them without violating consci entious principles. Incidental evils that are anticipated, should the bill pass into a law, are destruction of the Sabbath School system, and the exclusion of poo.’ females from all means of education. The Dissenters have unquestionably reason to complaip that they are compelled to contribute their proportion towards the support of the national church, while they never attend on its worship, and are at the same time supporting their own The extension ui the same principle, as™