RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That it is proper to caution the Members of the Society and the Readers of its Reports, not to consider the publication of the said Narrative as giving in any degree the authority of the Society for the truth of the facts related; or as amounting to an admission, on the belief of the Society or of this Committee, that Cannibalism is a practice which really exists in Africa-that, on the other hand, this Resolution is not to be considered as imputing to the Author of the Narrative any intention to mislead, it being

evident that he was, in one instance at least, deceived by the terrors of his own imagination; and it being thought by some Members, who disbelieve his statements, that they may all be resolved into misinformation, and the workings of a mind which appears to have been susceptible of terrific impressions in a more than ordinary degree.

Dismission of Missionaries to the Medi

terranean and India.

A Special Meeting of the Committee was held, on the 7th of March, John Herbert Harington, Esq. in the Chair, on occasion of the return of the Rev. W. Jowett to the Mediterranean, and the departure of several Missionaries to India.

The Rev. William Sawyer, having been under preparation a considerable time for Holy Orders, was admitted thereto by the Archbishop of York, and served a Curacy in that Diocese. He has been appointed, with the Rev. Jacob Maisch and the Rev. Theophilus Reichardt, two of the Missionaries who came from Bâsle (see p. 359 of our last

sion.

The Instructions of the Committee having been delivered by the Secretary, Mr. Jowett, Mr. Sawyer, and Mr. Maisch severally replied.

The Rev. W. Dealtry, Rector of Clapham, then delivered an Address to the Missionaries, which he had prepared at the request of the Committee; and they were commended, in prayer, by the Assistant Secrctary, to the mercy and blessing of their Heavenly Master.

Mrs. Jowett and Mrs. Sawyer were present, and were noticed in Mr. Dealtry's Address, in a manner both instructive and encouraging.

The Instructions, Replies, and Address will be printed in the Appendix to the next Report of the Society.

Return of the Rev. W. Jowett to Malta.

On Monday, the 11th of March, Jowett and their three Children, on Mr. Jowett left London, with Mrs. his return to the Mediterranean. He has in his company two Young Ladies, daughters of Mr. Lee, the British Consul at Alexandria, who manifested to Mr. Jowett the utmost courtesy and hospitality in his visits to Egypt. Mr. Jowett was happy, therefore, in the opportunity of taking his Daughters under his care, on their return from receiving their education in this country.

Mr. Jowett returns by way of France; and was to be accompanied as far as Paris by T. P. Platt, Esq. Fellow of Trinity College, "Cambridge; who has entered zealously into the objects of the Bible and Church Missionary Societies with reference to Abyssinia, and proceeds to Paris in furtherance of those objects.

On Mr. Jowett's arrival at Marseilles, he has undertaken, at the request of the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, if circumstances will allow it, to visit the Bible Societies in that part of France.

From the time of Mr. Jowett's arrival in the Mediterranean in the year 1815, to his departure on his visit home in the year 1820, he assiduously employed himself in collecting materials, for laying such information before the Society respecting the scene of his labours, as might serve both to stimulate and direct its future exertions.

The communications from him which have been already made public, have awakened great interest in the revival of those Ancient Churches, through which we our selves received the Lively Oracles of God; not only for their own sake, but with the hope of their becoming efficient Labourers, in the conversion of Mahomedans and Heathens.

Besides these communications, a large collection of materials has been accumulated, no part of which has been laid before the Society. From all these, Mr. Jowett has prepared a Volume, which cannot fail, with the Divine Blessing, of greatly strengthening and extending the interest already taken in this Mission. After a survey of the state of the Latin, Greek, Coptic, and Abyssinian Christians, and of the Jews and Mahomedans, Measures are suggested for extending the influence of Christianity among all these bodies; and the Volume concludes with Remarks in furtherance of the great objects of the Mission.

Mr. Faden has supplied two Maps, illustrative of the Volume-one, of the Countries bordering on the Mediterranean; and the other, of those bordering on the Red Sea.

This Work is in the press, and will appear about the end of next month.

Anniversary of the Clapham Association.

The Annual Meeting of this Association took place, on Wednesday Evening, the 20th of March, in the

March, 1822.

Free School; the Rev. W. Dealtry, Rector, in the Chair. The Report, having been read by the Rev. Joseph Simpson, Motions were made and seconded, respectively-by C. Elliott, Esq., and the Assistant Se-1 cretary of the Society-by Joseph Wilson, Esq., and the Rev. W. Sawyer-by the Rev. G.C.Gorham, and the Rev. Theophilus Reichardt by James Thomas, Esq. from India, and the Rev. Henry Venn.

Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Reichardt are about to proceed to India, as Missionaries of the Society. This circumstance added greatly to the interest of the Meeting.

On Sunday, the 24th, Sermons were preached, at the Church, by the Rev. W. Dealtry and the Rev. Joseph Simpson; and two at the Chapel, by the Rev. W. Borrows. The Collections amounted to 3031. 17s. 3d.; including 105 Guineas, contributed by friends who feel particularly interested in the NorthWest American Mission of the Society, lately established,

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

REPORT FOR 1821.

Such of the Foreign Proceedings detailed in this Report as are connected with the Heathen, are noticed, in their proper places, in the preceding Survey. Besides these, the Society has Missionaries in Ireland, in France, at Gibraltar, in British North-America, and in New South Wales; but these Missions, not being connected with the Heathen, do not fall within the limits of our Work.

State of the Funds.

The Receipts of the Year ending Dec. 31, 1821, were 26,883l. Os. 1 d. ; and the Payments 30,9251. 2s. ld. This deficiency, added to a Balance of 35261. 3s. 10d. due to the Treasurers at the end of 1820, leaves the Society in arrears to the amount of 75681. 5s. 10d.—

a large sum [it is remarked in the Report], which might create some S

that your Committee now look to Glasgow-whose public-spirited and liberal Christian Inhabitants have long been distinguished, for their zealous and steady support of almost every Institution, that has for its object the diffusion of religious truth at home or abroad-as the seat of an Auxiliary Scottish Missionary Society.

Missionary Students, and Want of
Missionaries.

At every Station already occupied, there is an incessant and loud demand for more Labourers; while Missionaries of pre-eminent qualifications are requisite for some of the new fields, which your Committee are anxious to have cultivated, and which appear to be ready unto the harvest.

With the view, accordingly, of providing for these wants, and, by the Divine Blessing, of more fully preparing Labourers for so arduous a work, the plan of the Missionary Seminary, under the immediate superintendence of your Committee, mentioned at the last Anniversary, has since been carried in to effect, with every promise of the desired success. The particular charge of conducting the studies of the Young Men at present in the Seminary, and all of whom have nearly completed their Missionary Education, has been committed to Dr. William Brown, whom particular circumstances have prevented from going out as a Missionary.

But, what are these Four Young Men already training in this Seminary, with even the addition of other Two, whose offers of service have lately been accepted, and of Two more who have expressed an anxiety to be received into the Institution, but on whose cases your Committee have not yet decided-what are these, compared with the wants of the thousands in Tartary, and Caucasus, and Persia, who are still perishing for lack of knowledge, and have none to tell them what they must do to be saved? Your Committee, however, trust

that they will not long have to appeal in vain on this point; but that men, destined and qualified for the work by the Great Husbandman himself, will, if necessary, be even thrust forth by Him into the vineyard.

Committee have the satisfaction to state, that they have been able, during the last six months, to secure a far more numerous attendance on these interesting and all-important exercises, than for many years before: and they earnestly pray that the Spirit of Grace and of Supplications may be more abundantly poured down from on high, not only on the multitudes who assemble on these and similar occasions in Edinburgh and other places, but on Believers and the Churches in general; persuaded that Prayer is to the success of the Christian Ministry, whether at home or abroad, what Aaron and Hur were to Moses, while Israel was fighting against Amalek

not only an essential accompaniment, but at once an absolutely necessary and an effectual aid. If, with every penny, and shilling, and pound, that is cast into your treasury, the Prayer of Faith were lifted up by the benevolent donors, their own souls would be more animated and strengthened in the good work, while double blessings would descend on those for whose everlasting salvation they both contributed and prayed.

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

Report of a Committee for promoting African Instruction.

At pp. 332 and 333 of our Volume for 1820, our Readers will have seen a Proposal, by some Members of the Society of Friends, in behalf of the Jaloofs of Western Africa. A Fund was, in consequence, raised; and was entrusted to the care of a Committee consisting of the following members of that body-W. Allen, Peter Bedford, Edward Carroll, Robert Forster, Luke Howard, Thomas Newman, Evan Rees, and John Sanderson.

the Proposal just mentioned, we In bringing before our Readers expressed our satisfaction on witnessing the anxiety of Members of this Community, to co-operate with other Christians, in every way consistent with their religious principles, for the Conversion of the Heathen: and we have great pleasute in recording the names of those

Friends, well-known and justly respected throughout their own body, who stand forward as a security to the whole Society, for the faithful application of whatever Fands may be entrusted to them, in pursuit of the objects of supreme importance, so admirably stated and urged in this Report:

The present publication is offered to the notice of the Society of Friends, by a Committee, to whom was confided the management of a small fund, raised by Members of that Society, for the purpose of promoting AFRICAN INSTRUCTION: an object, which, superior as it is in INTRINSIC importance, even to the vindication of the personal rights of that oppressed people, may be admitted by us, who feel interested in their wel fare, to have, at least, an equal claim upon our attention.

It will be in the recollection of many Friends, that, about the close of the year 1819, this subject was brought forward in London, by our friend Hannah Kilham of Sheffield; whose mind had been for some years under an impression of duty to employ her talents in this way, for the benefit of these untutored members of the human family; and that a subscription was soon afterwards set on foot, to defray the necessary expenses of educating, or teaching, some Young Africans, under her superintendence. Her views extend not merely to the personal instruction of individuals, but to the forming of an Institution for cultivating some of the unwritten languages of Africa: for reducing them to grammatical principles -composing elementary books-translating portions of the Scriptures; and diffusing them, by the instrumentality of the Natives and through the medium of School-teaching, among their country

men.

For these purposes, and with the concurrence of several friends, who agreed to act as a Committee, Hannah Kilham took under her care, in the Third Month 1829, Two African Youths as pupils. The one, named Sandanee, is from Goree; the other, Mahmadee, from the banks of the Gambia. Both of them speak the Jaloof (or Waloof) Language: in which our friend herself has since become, by continued applicason, a considerable proficient; and is

now employing the knowledge which she has acquired, in the formation of elementary lessons, for the purposes of teaching and translation. These pupils have conducted themselves with propriety: applying diligently to their learning; and evincing qualities of mind, in respect both of talent and disposition, which may be deemed altogether encouraging at the commencement of a labour so arduous and uncertain, as is that of imparting instruction to those, whose infancy and early youth have been passed in almost total ig

norance.

The next step in the prosecution of these endeavours presented greater difficulty. The work of forming Teachers, on this side the water, was necessarily connected with prospective measures, as to the best mode of employing them (when they should be deemed fit for employment) among their countrymen; and a direct intercourse with the Natives, especially with some of their Chiefs, began to appear desirable, both for this object, and for the purpose of completing the necessary elementary books in the Jaloof Language.

Thus circumstanced, the Committee received an unexpected offer from William Singleton, of Loxley, near Sheffield, (under whose care the two Africans had been for some time receiving their English Instruction,) to proceed to Africa, on such service as the Committee might think fit to assign to him, in furtherance of the ge neral object; which, it appears, had by this time deeply interested his mind. The Committee having made such inquiries as the case suggested, and deliberately considered his proposals, after a personal conference accepted his aid for the present occasion. He was instructed to visit, and open a friendly intercourse with, the Chiefs of the Jaloof Nation; to engage, with their own consent, and that of their friends or parents, two more pupils of that nation; and to employ his leisure time in collecting information on the state of the country, the Natives, and their language: he was left at liberty to return by way of Sierra Leone, in order to have a view of the improvements going on among the Natives attached to that Settlement.

William Singleton sailed toward the end of 1820; and returned, in good health, after a visit to the Gambia and