the boys. The Chiefs have confessed that wicked men perpetrated these cruel acts.

In truth, the Society's Missionaries on this coast have long encountered, and are still called to encounter, difficulties from the climate, from the habits of the natives, and from the machinations of evil men, which seem unequalled in any other part of the great Missionary Field; and which loudly call on the Members of the Society, and on the Christian World at large, for their sympathy and their prayers.......! Yet they are not discouraged; nor is the Society which they serve discouraged. These great labours of Christian Charity are gradually earning their res ward. Nearly 200 children are now maintained and educated in the different Settlements. At Bashia, Mr. Renner and Mr. Wilhelm are erecting a Churchg and Mr. Wenzel is building another at Canoffee. At Yongroo, Mr. Nyländer is enlarging his school, and proceeding vigorously in the preparation of elementary books to teach the Bulloms their own tongue. The Gospel of St. Matthew will soon be forwarded to the Society to be printed. It will be the first book of the Word of God which has ever appeared in the native languages of this coast. At Gambier (the new Settlement of the Society), Mr. and Mrs. Klein are established with the prospect of a large school.

Return of Mr. Peter Hartwig to the Service of the

Mr. Peter Hartwig, who left: England, in 1804, as one of the Society's first Missionaries to Africa, but has been for several years from under its protection, has professed sorrow and contrition for his past conduct. Mrs. Hartwig, who left Africa in 1806 for:

the restoration of her health in England, has been hitherto deterred from returning thither by the habits and conduct of her husband. She is now, however, encouraged to return, and will take her passage by a vessel about to sail for Sierra Leone.

While the Society's Missionaries were delayed and impeded in the acquisition of Susoo, by the necessary instruction of the native children in English, Mr. Hartwig, in his wanderings, had acquired a good knowledge of that tongue; and, being competently acquainted with the Original Scriptures, he has been settled at Gambier, in the capacity of Interpreter of Susoo and Translator of the Scriptures. The Committee have confirmed this appointment, and have sent out instructions to him to prepare elementary books and the New Testament in Susoo, with all convenient dispatch. In this capacity he will be entitled to the salary of a Missionary, so long as he shall conduct himself well; but the Committee have declined receiving him into the relation of a Missionary, until, by a course of consistent conduct, he shall have re-established his character in Africa. They cannot, however, but hope and pray that a recollection of his past errors, and of that occasion of reproach which has been given by them throughout the coast, will redouble his vigilance, and stimulate him to improve to the highest purpose that knowledge of Susoo which he has acquired.

Missionaries proceeding to Africa.

The Society has determined, in dependence on Divine Aid, to continue, in the face of difficulties either felt or apprehended, its efforts for the good of Western Africa. The Wilding, Captain James Gibson, will sail in a few weeks for Sierra Leone.

The

Rev. Messrs. Schulze and Sperrhacken will proceed in her as Missionaries. They will be accompanied by Mr. Robert Hughes and his wife, who go out as Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress under the Society: and by Jellorrum Harrison, a young African, son of a Chief in the vicinity of the Society's Settlements,` who, after passing several years at Karass, in Georgia, is about to return, attached to the Missions of the Society. Mrs. Hartwig will take her passage on board this vessel. A considerable investment of stores will be sent for the supply of the Settlements.

INDIA-COROMANDEL COAST.

Schools of the late Rev. Dr. John.

IN our First Volume, pp. 298 to 301, we stated the reception of the Schools of the late Dr. John under the care of the Church Missionary Society. We have now some important details to lay before our readers, respecting the state and progress of those ́establishments.

The Rev. T. T. Thomason writes to the Secretary from Calcutta, under date of December 7, 1813:

I send herewith the copy of a letter from the Rev. A, Caemerer, successor to the late excellent Dr. John, giving a pleasing and very satisfactory account of the Schools in Tanjore.

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Former letters will have apprized you of the support which we have given to those Schools out of the funds of your Society. We now give 150 Sicca Rupees per month. Your money cannot be laid out in objects more important, or more strictly consonant to the designs of the Society. You see how good the work is; how much it is valued; how many hearts are gladdened; and, above all, how many souls are rescued from ignorance and vice, and brought to a knowledge, at least, of the truth, and to

a correct 'moral conduct. These notices from Mr. Caemerer are so satisfactory, that nothing need be addeď. We have only to water the seed sown with our prayers.

If your Society could afford 5001, per annum instead of 2501. we have abundant demands, and can ensure that the money shall be most profitably spent.. WE ARE, IN SHORT, LIMITED ONLY BY OUR FUNDS. Beloved Corrie beggars himself by his Missionary Expenditure; and our purses here are made very light indeed. If I dared press for more, therefore, I would earnestly intercede with the Society for the above extension of its yearly supply.

It will give our readers pleasure to learn, that, before this letter arrived, the Committee, at a meeting held on the 28th of March, had placed the sum of 1000l. per annum at the disposal of its Corresponding Committee, with a promise of a still larger grant, if it can be equally well applied."

The following are Extracts of the Letter of Mr. Caemerer above referred to. It is addressed to the Rev. Marmaduke Thompson, Chaplain of the Honourable East-India Company at Madras, and is dated Tranquebar, Oct. 22, 1813.

Most deeply do I still feel, and shall ever lament, the heavy loss of my dear Brother Dr. John: nor do I know when our gracious God will grant me a worthy Colleague like him, who has been the strong Pillar of the Mission,

The first Sunday after Dr. John's death, when all our Tamul Congregations and our Country Catechists and Schoolmasters were assembled in our Town Church, I poured out my heart in the words of Israel to his son Joseph, in Genesis xlviij. 21: Behold, I die; but God shall be with you and improved the afflicting event of our venerable Jacob's death to their awakening and instruc tion. I especially admonished all our Catechists and Schoolmasters to increased faithfulness and activity in the discharge of their respective duties.

All our friends, and myself in particular, have read with much interest what you have kindly inserted in the Newspapers to the memory of Dr. John, and I beg you to accept of our united thanks for the same. The remembrance of his excellent and pious character, and of

his indefatigable exertions for being extensively useful in the cause of Christianity, will ever remain fresh in the minds of all his friends in Europe and in India.

Your most animating information respecting the continuance of the support from your respectable Calcutta Friends to Dr. John's Free Schools, has not only interested and rejoiced me, but also a great number of our native people, to whom this intelligence has been of real comfort. I entirely concur in opinion with you, Reverend Sir, that, of all the means of civilizing and evan gelizing this Indian Nation, this is the most simple and powerful. I will do my utmost, by a zealous and conscientious perseverance in the plans of this excellent Founder, with a strict regard to economy, that this beneficial establishment may be carried on, under the Di vine Blessing, with all possible prosperity.

Respecting your inquiry about my opinion on the practicability of extending the Schools in case funds should be provided, and whether it would be desirable to the Natives of high caste to have them extended on the plan of the Mission Schools as to the books used and the lessons to be taught, I hope I shall be able to answer you more fully after a short time, than I can at present. I am sorry that the concerns of the Mission, and also the rainy season, prevent me from visiting our Country Congregations and Schools; by which means I could make myself acquainted with particulars which would interest you and your worthy friends at Calcutta. I am, however, very desirous to do it as soon as circumstances will permit.

Dr. John intended to establish an English School at Mayaveram, on the request of a Head Brahmin there, and I hear it is still desired. Our present Seminarists, who are preparing as English and Tamul Schoolmas ters and Assistants, although their proficiency in the language is sufficient for becoming able Schoolmasters, yet are still under 16 years of age, and could be only made clever Assistants under an able teacher. However, if I can ascertain that an English School at Mayaveram will be regularly attended by 20 or 30 scholars, I will endeavour to establish one within January next.

Our Country Catechists have frequently informed us of the ardent desire of many principal inhabitants at Tirooppalturey to send them an English Schoolmaster which I may be able to do when our funds are increased and also to establish one at Karecal. I have the plea