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Aug. 26. The Rev. David Bowen, of Llanelli, was ordained (as an assistant to the Rev. D. Davies) to the pastoral office over the Particular Baptist Church at Velin Voel, in Carmarthenshire. Mr. Davies introduced the service, and offered the ordination-prayer; Mr. Watkins, of Carmarthen, gave the charge from Mat. xxiv. 45; Mr. Lewis, of Carmarthen, addressed the people from 1 Cor. xvi. 10; and Mr. Harris, Swansea, preached from 1 Cor. xiii. 13, and concluded with prayer.

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Aug. 27th. Mr. W. Farmer was ordained to the pastoral care the Independent Church assembling in George's Street Chapel, Leeds. Mr. Parsons opened the service, and delivered the introductory discourse, &c.; Mr. Moorhouse, of Huddersfield, engaged in the ordination-prayer; Mr. Bruce, of Wakefield, delivered the charge; and Mr. Cockin, of Halifax, addressed the people.

Sept. 16. The Associated Ministers of Essex held their Half-yearly Meeting at Mr. Drake's, in Newport. Mr. Cavalier, of Stanted, preached from Luke x. 16. The devotional services were conducted by Messrs. Davison, of Rochford; Thornton, of Billericay; and Smith, of Brentwood. On the preceding evening, Mr. Chaplin, of Stortford, began with prayer; and Mr. Stevenson, of Castle Heddingham, preached from John xiv. 1, 2, and concluded with prayer. The Spring Meeting is to be held at Mr. Merchant's, Layer Bretton, in May next.

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Sept. 25. A new chapel was opened at Northwich, Cheshire. Mr. Fletcher, of Blackburn, and Mr. Ralph, of Liverpool, preached in the morning: the former from Isa. Ix. 7; and the latter from Col. ii. 13, 14, 15. In the evening, Mr. Browning, of Macclesfield, preached from John v. 3. The congregations were large, and the services very refreshing. The minister and congregation at Northwich embrace this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging their obligations to all who have contributed to the erection of this place ef worship; in which they can now

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comfortably meet together, after hava ing been under the necessity of worshipping, for some years past, in a chapel from which they were sometimes driven by the flood, and in which was, at all times, unsafe to assemble. Sept. 30. The Associated Ministers of Cornwall, met at St. Agnes. Mr. Davey began the morning service with prayer, &c.; Mr. Moore, of Mevagissey, preached from 2 Cor. v. 14. The Lord's Supper was afterwards administered. Mr. R. Cope, of Launceston, preached in the afternoon, from Num. xxiii. 10. In the evening, the congregation assembled in the Methodist chapel, which had been kindly granted, when Mr. Angier prayed; and a double lecture was preached by Mr. Wildbore, of Penryn, from 2 Cor. vi. 1.; and Mr. Cope, from Isa. xxvii. 13. Mess. Baron, Davey, and M'All closed the solemn exercises of the day with fervent prayer.

Sept. 30. Mr. J. Hammond (late student at Rotherham) was ordained to the pastoral office over the Independent church at Handsworth, near Birmingham. Mr. Richards, of Stourbridge, began the service with reading and prayer; Mr. Brook, of Tutbury, delivered the introductory discourse and asked the questions; Mr. Grove, of Walsall, offered the crdinationprayer; Mr. Brewer, of Birmingham, delivered the charge from Acts xx. 24; Mr. Bennet, of Birmingham, offered the general prayer; Mr. Thorpe, of Bristol, addressed the people, from Deut. i. g8; and Mr. Hudson, of West Bromwich, concluded with prayer. — This chapel, which had been shut up for almost two years, was re-opened, April 16, 1805, by Mr. Brewer in the morning, and Mr. Evans, of Foleshill, in the afternoon: the neighbouring ministers engaging in different parts of the service. Prior to this, it was the property of an individual, who, with a view to public benefit, has given it into the hands of trustees.

Oct. 1. Messrs. J. B. Innes, of Crediton, and T. W. Windeatt, of Totness, in Devonshire, were set apart to the pastoral office with prayer and imposition of hands at Totness. Mr. J. Crook, of Charmouth, began with prayer and reading the Scriptures; Mr. Allen, of Exeter, delivered the introductory discourse; Mr. Sloatt, of Ashburton, asked the questions and received the confession of faith; Mr. Jones, of Plymouth Dock, offered the ordination - prayer; Mr. Winton, of Exmouth, gave the charge from Col

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Iv. 17; Mr. R. Crook, of Newton, engaged in the intercessory prayer; Mr. W.Rooker, of Tavistock, addressed the people from 2 Chron. Xxx. 22, first clause; and Mr. Garret, of Bucktastleigh, closed with prayer. In the evening, Mr. Allen preached from Jude xxiv. 25. The congregations were numerous, and much of the divine pre sence enjoyed.

Oct. 2. Rev. G. Denner was set apart to the pastoral office, over the newlyraised congregation, at Loddiswell, near Kingsbridge, Devon. Mr. Crook, of Charmouth, began with prayer and reading. Mr. Allen, of Exeter, delivered an introductory discourse.

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Evans, of Ford, asked the questions, &c. and Mr. Winton, of Exmouth, gave the charge, from 2 Tim. iv. 1, 2. Mr. Windeatt, of Totness, engaged in the intercessory prayer. Mr. Crook, of Newton, addressed the people, from 1 Thess. i. 12. Mr. Nicholson, of Kingsbridge, concluded. In the even

ing, Mr. Allen preached, from Acts viii. 5, 8.

Oct. 22. Mr. Gray, assistant to the late Mr. Booth, was ordained Pastor of the Baptist Church, assembling in Liberty-street, Plymouth Dock, late under the care of the Rev. Mr. Steadman, removed to auother part of the Lord's Vineyard. The services of the day were conducted at the commodious Independent House, in this town, with which the church was obligingly accommodated. Mr. Sprague, of Bovey, began by reading the Scriptures, and prayer; Mr. Nicholson, of Kingsbridge, explained the nature of the business, and asked the usual questions; Mr. Giles, of Dartmouth, offered up the ordination prayer, which was accompanied with laying on of hands; Dr. RyJand delivered the charge, from 1 Tim. iv. 6. a good minister of Jesus Christ. As Mr. Birt, pastor of the other Baptist Church, in this town, was from home, Mr. Jones, the minister of the place, complied with the request of the people, and addressed them, from Deut. i. 38. "Encourage him;" and Mr. Rowe, of Redruth, closed by prayer. In the evening, Mr. Gray prayed; Dr. Ryland preached; and Mr. Fernandez, a member of the Baptist Church at Serampore, concluded by prayer. The congregations were numerous and attentive.

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Oct. 22. The Wilts held their half yearly meeting at Melksham, when Mr. Mantell preached in the morning, on the given subject of Christian zeal; Mr. Sibree, in the af

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ternoon, from 2 Cor. iv. 2. ; and Mr. Williams, in the evening, from 1 Thess. i. 5. Mr. Jay preached the preceding evening, from Psal. Ixxiii. 28.; and Mr. Priestley the following morning, from 1 Sam. vii. 12. The next meeting of the Association is appointed to be held at Marshfield, on Easter Wednesday next, Mr. Charles Sloper to preach in the morning, on the subject of Public Worship; and Mr. Stevenson to preach in the afternoon.

Oct. 22. Mr. J. Knight was ordained Pastor over the Particular Baptist Church, at Staughten, in Bedfordshire. Mr. Tipple, of Hail-Weston, began the service of the day, with prayer; Mr. Vorley, of Carlton, delivered an introductory discourse, and asked the usual questions; Mr. Nichols, of Kimbolton, offered up the ordination prayer; Mr. Upton, of London, delivered a charge, from 1 Tim. vi, 11, 12.; Mr. Freeman, of Bedford, addressed the people, from Phil. ii. 29. ; and Mr. Sutch, of Stephington, concluded with prayer; in the evening, Mr. Hall, of Tithlingborough, preached, and Mr. Morrell, of Bedford, engaged in prayer.

Oct. 29. Mr. Ed. Chater was ordained Pastor over the Independent Church, at Kibworth, Leicestershire. Mr. Mitchell, of Leicester, began with prayer and reading; Mr. Toller, of Kettering, delivered the introductory discourse, from the last nine verses of

Numbers xxvii. and asked the usual questions; Mr. Davis, of Wigston, offered the ordination prayer; Mr. Gill, of Harboro', gave the charge, from 2 Timothy ii. 1.; Mr. Whitehead, of Creighton, preached to the people, from 2 Cor. xii. 11.; Mr. Patterson closed the service with prayer. The congregation was very uumerous, and the services interesting.

Nov. 12. Mr. Jas. Kingsmill was ordained Pastor of the Particnlar Baptist Church, at Battle, Sussex. Mr. Fisher, of Lewes, commenced the service with reading and prayer; Bir. ductory discourse, and received Mr. Purday, of Rye, delivered the introK.'s conicssion of faith; Mr. Atwood, of Folkstone, offered the ordina lon prayer, and charged the minister to "Take heed to hunself and to his doc "tripe;" Mr. Purday addressed the church; and Mr. Arrow, of 11 asti, concluded with prayer. A lecture was wood, and on the preceding evening, by preached in the evening," by Mr. AtMr. Arrow.

LONDO N.
Free-School for Jewish Children in
London.

A COMMITTEE of the Directors of the Missionary Society, which superintends the attempts now made for the conversion of the Jews, design shortly to open a Free-School, for the instruction of the children of that people; and have circulated the following notice:

"The Posterity of Abraham are respectfully informed, That a FreeSchool, for the instruction of their children, both male and female, will be opened under the patronage of a Society of Christians, at No. 5, Raven Row, Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, on Monday, the 5th of January, 1807.

"Applications for admission to be made before the opening of the school, at the school-house, on Tuesday Mornings, from Ten to One o'clock; and after that time, every day (Sundays excepted) during the school-hours.

"Grown-up females, who wish for instruction, may receive it from ladies, who will attend every day (Sundays excepted) to superintend the girls school, from the hours of Ten to Oue 'clock."

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when, not to give suspicion to England,
Russia, and Turkey, they separated;
and were instructed to meet secretly
again at Marseilles, where they have
been negociating, deliberating, and
importuning contributions on their sec-
taries ever since, always in hope of
returning to the Land of Promise,·
a hope which Bonaparte and Talley-
rand still keep up; and which has
converted many of the Jews in the
States of Barbary to proselytes of re-
volutionary politics, and adherents to
The rab-
revolutionary government.
bin (from whom the author had this
intelligence) assured me, that he
had been the Secretary to this Com-
mittee until the summer of 182, when
he resigned to accompany Sebastiani on
his mission to Egypt and Syria. He
seemed not to repose much confidence
in Bonaparte's assurances, nor desire
to become a subject of a King of Je-
rusalem.

THE author of a work lately published, entitled, "The Belgian TravelJer," affirms, that in the spring of 1798, when Bonaparte was preparing for his expedition into Egypt, French emissaries visited the richest and principal Jews in Holland, Italy, Germany, and England; and offered, for certain sums of money, to re-establish the Jewish nation in Palestine, and to fortify and garrison Jerusalem in the name of, and for a king of the Jews, selected by themselves. It was even hinted, that if their choice fell on Bonaparte, he had no objection to circumcision, or to abrogate (renounce) Christianity. According to these proposals, a large sum was subscribed, collected, and presented to Bonaparte. A committee of wise (not very wise) and wealthy Jews were organized, and permitted to sit and deliberate at Paris. An Address to all the Jews in Europe was already printed, inviting them to prepare with their families and treasures to sail for when the repulse the Holy Land, which he experienced from Sir Sidney, Smith, before St. Jean d'Aer, prevented the publication. The Members of this Committee continued, however, still at Paris until the peace of Amiens,

We are far from taking upon us to vouch for the truth of this relation: yet the Council of Jews lately called at Paris, seems to give no little plausibility to it.

Extract of a Letter from Dr. Daddridge to Mr. Pearsall, of Taunton.

[See Gent. Mag. vol. xx. p. 313.] "THERE was a German, who laid hinself out for the conversion of the Jews, lately in London, one of the most surprizing linguists in the world. He formed a resolution, when but five years old, of learning the languages in use among the Jews, without any reason that could be assigned; so that the pure Hebrew, the Rabbinical, the Lingua Judaica, which differs from both, and almost all the modern languages of the then European natious, were as familiar to him as his own native tongue. With this furniture, and with great knowledge of God and love to Christ, and zeal for the salvation of souls, he had spent twelve of the thirty-six years of his life in preaching Christ in the synagogues, in the most apostolic maaner; warning the Jews of their eamity to God, of their misery, as rejected of the only hope that re by him, mains for them, by returning to their own Messiah, and by seeking from him righteousness and life, and placing their souls under the sprinkling of the blood of that great sacrifice. God blessed his labours in many places: in Germany, Poland, Holland, Lithua nia, Hungary, and other parts through which he had travelled, more than souls owed their conversion to his mi

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histry; many of whom expressed their
great concern to bring others of their
Brethren to the knowledge of that great
and blessed Redeemer; and beseeched
him to instruct their children, that they
might preach Christ also."

Dr. Doddridge said, that he heard
One of his sermons, as he repeated it in
Latin; and that he could not hear it
withont many tears; and that he told
him, that sermon converted a Rabbi,
who was master of a synagogue.

On Sunday, Oct. 12, the Rev. Basil
Woodd introduced, in a sermon on Pro-
vidence, at Bentinck Chapel, St. Mary-
le-bone, the following quotation from the
Edinburgh Missionary Society's Report
of the Karass Mission: "When the state
of the funds put it out of the power of
the Missionaries to redeem any more
of the native youths, the providence of
God, in a very extraordinary manuer,
sent them, free of expence, from a dis-
tant part of Tartary, above forty chil-
dren to be educated in the Christian
faith. They are of a tribe of Kirg-
hisian Tartars, of both sexes, and from
In their
five to fifteen years of age.
native country, they were, to human
appearance, placed beyond the reach
of the means of grace; but He who
says, "I will bring my sons from far,
and my daughters from the ends of the
earth," compelled the tribe, under the
pressure of famine, to offer their chil-
dren to the Emperor of Russia, as the
price of bread; and induced his coun-
sellors to present a portion of them to
the Missionaries at Karass to be edu
cated, under their eye, in the Christian
religion. "O the depth of the riches,
both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God! How unsearchable are his judg-
ments, and his ways past finding out!"

Mr. Woodd then mentioned the re-
duced state of the Society's finances;
and that he was desirous of sending a
small present, as a token of Christian
sympathy and regard; and that if any
were disposed to add to it, he should
be very happy to receive their contri-
bution.

We have the pleasure to state, that
in the course of the week following,
Mr. Woodd received donations to the
amount of 511. 108. 6d. A request was
made by the congregation, that the
plates might be held on the follow-
ing Sunday, which produced the sum
of 71-Two Donations for redeeming
Two Tartar Captives, 251. each;
and Two Annual Subscriptions, 41. 4s.
amounting in the whole to the sum of
1761. 12s. 6d.

The Baptist Church, under the pas
toral care of Mr.Sowerby, lately weet-
ing in Pentonville, having taken and
repaired the meeting-house in Maitien
Lane, Battle Bridge, where they for-
merly assembled, the same was opened
for public worship, on Tuesday, Oct.
7; on which occasion three discourses
were delivered: that in the morning
by the Rev. Mr. Martin, of Stone
Street, from 1 Cor. iii. 9:-that ia the
afternoon, by the Rev. Mr. Upton, of
Green Walk, from Exod. xx. 24;
and in the evening, by the Rev. Mr.
Brooksbank, of Haberdashers' Hall,
from Ps. cxxxiii. 3;- Mr. Ivimey, of
The
Eagle Street, assisted in prayer.
church not being able, through the po-
verty of their circumstances, to defrag
the expence, collections were made to
the amount of about 151.

The Association for contributing to the funds of the British and Foreig Bible Society, has been noticed in a former Number. We understand it has in

creased considerably in numbers, and
has been mentioned with much appro-
bation in the last Report of that e-
ciety. Their next Quarterly Meeting
will be held at the Rev. Mr. Gore's
in Barbican, on Monday the 29th day of
this month, at Seven in the evening
when the Rev. Mr. Gore will deliver
an exhortation suited to the objects of
Messrs. Desbois and
the Association.
Wheeler, Gray's Inn Passage, are the
Treasurers to this Association; M
Johnson, No. 4, Northampton Buil
ings, Clerkenwell, the Secretary. Such
an Association appears admirably cal
culated to enable persons in the lower
ranks of life, and those whose previous
contributions render it necessary to
contribute sparingly to a new institu
tion, to yield a mite towards the fur-
therance of a work which all, in every
rank of life, who are concerned for the
glory of God, must feel an equal inte
rest in. We trust that it will continue
to increase, and lead to the formation
of similar Associations, not only in
support of the British and Foreig
Bible Society, but of others, such as
the Missionary Society, whose object
are similar.

RECENT DEATUS.

LATELY at Reading, the Rev. Henry Mead. He was at a friend's hous where he broke a blood-vessel, and died a few days after. We hope to give our readers some particulars of his life.

Also at Abingdon, Nov. 6, after a short illness of a few days, the Rev. Mr. Thresher, pastor of the Indepent aut church in that town.

Rev. J. Arundel and Friends, Whitby

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[The Collections in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Sussex, by the Rev. Mess. Frey, Campbell, Hamilton, and Buck, will appear in the Supplement.]

HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.

We are desired to state, That the sum of 121. together with a Box of Bibles, were received in the Month of July last, for the Use of the above Society, from the Rev. J. Arundel and Friends, Whitby.

List of Lectures, &c. in and near London, for December

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14. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Str. Mr. Collyer; Chapel St. Mr. Burder; Devonshire Sq. Mr. Rowell; Palace Str. Mr. Stollery; Orange Str. Mr. Townsend; Peter St.Mr. Dunn ; Hoxton Chapel, Mr. G. Clayton; Hare Ct. Mr. Newman; Crown Crt. Mr. Gore.

16. Tu. M. Broad St. Mr. Burder. 17. Wed. Ev. Prayer Meeting for the Nation, at Mr. Coxhead's.

18. Th. M. Monthly Meeting (Bapt.) at Mr. Coxhead's, Wild Street, Dr. Rippon to preach. - Foreign Missions, in Connection with Efforts at Home.

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After part of this impression was worked off, we received the afflicting intelligence of the death of the Rev. JAMES MOODY, of Warwick, who departed to dis ernal rest on Saturday, Nov. 22.

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