Hats, shoes, cord, mats, and baskets are also manufactured. Waggon-makers (who are also smiths) and carpenters seldom want employ; but the most lucrative occupations are those of sawyers, wood-cutters, and bark-choppers. The settlement has had to contend with many local disadvantages. The Missionaries were, however, encouraged by the success of their labours. In 1816, they baptized 143 Adults; in 1817, there were but 15. The School containing upward of 300 Children, was in a favourable state. A new Church is building. The Settlement has 45 well-cultivated gardens.

Mr. Latrobe has placed the natural disadvantages of this situation in a strong light. He makes no doubt, however, but that Dr. Vanderkemp had reasons for his choice, which would have exhibited to the mind of a candid inquirer the truly sincere and religious motives by which he was actuated.

The Church, built by Dr. Vanderkemp, is a monument of the peculiarity of his taste. Mr. Latrobe thus describes it-The Church consists of two buildings, placed together nearly in a right angle. The inner walls meet; the outer are connected by a wall, elliptical in its form. In the middle of this junction, the Minister's seat and desk are placed: thus he may be seen and heard by the whole audience, though the men and women, who sit separate, cannot see one another.

With reference to the disdvantages of this Settlement, the Directors remark--We hope that this Station, the external appearance of which has excited so much censure, is now in an improving state. The spot, indeed, was ill chosen, and labours under great disadvantages: but the spiritual benefits received by many persons have far exceeded, in real importance, all its external defects.

In 1817, the state of the Settlement was as follows--Baptized, 15 Adults and 34 Children; excommunicated, 15; received again, 6; marriages, 24; births, 45; deaths, 16; added to the Settlement, by permission of the Government, 34.

Theopolis--About 600 miles E. from Cape Town.-1814.-J. G. Ullbricht, G. Baker.-This Settlement, being but two miles, from the sea, and near rivers and a wood, has many advantages for a comfortable subsistence. Much land is cultivated. The cattle are increased. There are upward of 80 gardens each of about an acre. The Caffres occasionally plunder.

Many have been brought to the knowledge of the Lord. The Communicants are 87 ;-39 men, and 48 women. An Auxiliary Missionary Society produced, in the year, about 157.

Kat Revier-In Caffraria, a country to the Eastward of the Colony, beyond the Great Fish River, 700 miles from Cape Town. -Kat Revier (Cat River) is 200 miles N. E. of Bethelsdorp.1816.-Joseph Williams, Missionary, and Jan Tzatzoo, a Native, son of a Caffre Chief, settled here, and were well received. The

principal Chief, King T'Geika, professed to be convinced of his sinful state, and desirous of receiving the Gospel. A house was built, a garden formed, and ground enclosed for corn. About 100 Caffres attended Public Worship, with much seriousness. The number at the Settlement was 138. When the Governor visited Caffraria, and expressed a hope that T'Geika would protect the Missionaries in case of war, he answered evasively and sarcastically, "It is shameful for the Caffres to steal and murder, now they have got God's Word."-"This T'Geika," says Mr. Messer, "is a particularly deep and politic barbarian king."

Jan Tzatzoo left Mr. Williams, and went to Theopolis; and, about the 24th of August, of last year, it pleased God to call Mr. Williams from his labours. His situation has been arduous, There is reason to hope that the Mission will be encouraged and assisted by the Colonial Government. The prevalence of the Gospel among the Caffres would give security to the Borderers, and prevent the lamentable depredations and murders which have taken place. Mr. John Brownlee and Mr. Tayler will probably be fixed in this Station.

Hephzibah-In the Bushmen's Country, North of the Colonyformerly called Rhinoster Fountain.-1816.-W. F. Corner, Missionary, and J. Goeyman, Native, were ordered to leave the Station; but the Governor permitted Mr. Moffat and Mr. Kitchman to proceed thither.-See Bethelsdorp.

Griqua Town-North of the Colony-about 700 miles N. E. of Cape Town-near the Great Orange River.-1802.-William Anderson, Henry Helm, P. Berend, J. Hendrick, P. David, Piet Sabba, Natives.-The Missionaries have laboured, at this remote Station, with great success, for many years; and, at times, amidst great difficulties. It has been, of late, in favourable circumstances. A revival has taken place, chiefly among the females. An Auxiliary Missionary Society has been established: the people, having no money, contributed cattle and elephants' teeth. Attendance on Public Worship was good: the hearers had increased.

New Lattakoo-North of the Colony, on the Kroomans' River, a little South of Lattakoo, which is between 7 and 8 degrees North of the latitude of the Cape.-1817.-Robert Hamilton.-Mateebe, the King of Lattakoo, and part of his people, removed, with the Missionaries, to this spot, and built a town which has been named New Lattakoo. There are encouraging appearances at this Station. The Missionaries were in the full confidence of the King and his Chiefs. Many of the Bootsuannas daily attend the preaching of the Gospel: some seem impressed by the Word. A Church, 40 feet by 15, was begun on the 16th of February.

In the neighbouring parts, there is an open field among the Corannas. With the Bushmen there was peace all around; and, at two places among them, Native Teachers were employed. At

Malapeetze, Cupido labours; and Makoon, who earnestly wishes for a Missionary, visits Cupido for religious instruction.

Bethesda-North of the Colony-about 700 miles from Cape Town-on the North side of the Great River.-1808.-Christopher Sass.

Mr. Sass judged it expedient to remove his Station to the north side of the Great River, where he finds a number of Bushmen, who are very desirous of a Christian Teacher. Many instances of the power of Divine Grace have been discovered.

Jerusalem-Formerly called Africaner's Kraal; and, afterward, Peace Mountain-beyond the Colony, about 550 miles North of Cape Town.-1815.-E. Ebner, Robert Moffat.

Mr. Moffat lately joined Mr. Ebner. It was intended to remove to a more eligible situation, further north, and more in the midst of Africaner's people.

Prospects were favourable. About 400 attended Worship. Forty persons, Converts and their Children, had been baptized; and 40 couple married. The Converts walk consistently. The School prospers. Civilization and cultivation advance,

Bethany Formerly called Klip Fountain-North of the Colony -55 miles North of the Great River.-H. Schmelen, J. Kitchingman, J. Marquard. Mr. Kitchingman has lately joined his brethren. No recent accounts of the state of the Settlement have been received.

Tulbagh Drosdy-About 40 miles North from Cape Town.Ariel Vos, Cornelius Kramer, John Taylor.-The School and Congregation at Tulbagh appear to be in a flourishing state; and the fruits of Mr. Vos's labours are visible in the lives of many. Mr. Vos preaches also at places in the vicinity. At Bosjesveld, also, Mr. Kramer has laboured with success.

Mauritius-Or, Isle of France-an Island, East of Madagascar, inhabited by French Colonists, but belonging to Great Britain, 1814.-John Le Brun.

Mr. Le Brun has a Chapel, which contains about 300 persons, and is well filled. He has a School of about 90 Boys. In the midst of a depraved state of morals, a great change has been wrought in some. There are 25 Communicants.

Madagascar-An immense Island, lying off the Eastern Coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean, in a partial state of civilization, and said to contain 4,000,000 inhabitants.-Thomas Bevan, David Jones. These Missionaries, who were educated in Wales and afterwards studied at Gosport, reached Mauritius on the 9th of July. Governor Farquhar being now in this country, they applied to the Acting Governor; who discouraged their proceeding to Madagascar, chiefly on account of the Slave Trade, in which almost all the Europeans engage, notwithstanding the Treaty entered into with the King of Ova. They ventured, however, to proceed to their destination, and arrived in safety; but

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it was uncertain whether they would be able to continue; the litical relations, which had subsisted between the King of Ova and the Governor of Mauritius, having ceased.

A Station, called Grace Hill, formerly Thornberg, and sometimes Vanderwalt's Fountain, in the country of the wild Bushmen, about 500 miles from Cape Town, which was formed in 1814, has been, for the present, suspended. The Missionary, Erasmus Smit, is at Bethelsdorp. The Station is likely to be resumed, on the arrival of the Deputation at the Cape.

(To be Continued.)

BAPTIST MISSION.

Extract of a Letter from the Junior Brethren, dated

Calcutta, July 22, 1318.

THE events which have occurred, since we despatched our last quarterly letter, together with the season of the year, lead us at this time to address you rather earlier than we should otherwise have done.

In the Bengalee department we first mention schools; in which, indeed, at the date of our last letter, we hoped to have increased our exertions to a greater extent than we have yet been able to realize. This hope was confirmed by the request of a benevolent gentleman, possessed of considerable influence in Calcutta, that we would draw up a memorial, stating the advantages that result from schools, the opportunities presented in this city for their increase, and our desire to receive that support which was necessary to enable us to engage more extensively in them. Although no effect has yet been produced by this memorial, our expectations from this quarter are by no means relinquished. It is our desire to enter pretty fully into exertions of this kind, which we shall do with the greatest confidence, as Mr. Penny's intimate acquaintance with Mr. Lancaster's system will enable us to apply, in the most efficient manner, the money with which we may be entrusted; while he and Mr. Pearce are desirous of devoting to this object the whole of the time which remains from their other engagements. The necessity for increased exertions in this department will appear when it is known that, besides the two schools which we reported in our last communication, two new ones in populous parts of the city, for which we have taken ground for, and are building houses, and one school under the superintendence of the brethren at Serampore, no other means of this kind are at present employed in connexion with the propagation of Christianity amongst the inhabitants of Calcutta.

We would wish to give to native schools the importance that belongs to them, and consider them as furnishing important aid in missionary work, by communicating much useful knowledge, and by preventing the implantation, or at least checking the

growth of those prejudices and dangerous errors, which operate so powerfully against the reception of the gospel. We ought, however, to look upon their aid as entirely subordinate, and never to forget that the preaching of the gospel is the means appointed by the Head of the church for the extension of his kingdom, and that which he has always honoured with the greatest success. In this part of missionary labour we are happy to say, that we have been enabled of late considerably to extend our efforts in the Bengalee. In two places of worship, the gospel is regularly preached once, and sometimes twice a week. Another, somewhat larger, which is in a state of considerable forwardness, we expect to occupy in the course of a fortnight; and as soon as ground, in eligible situations, can be obtained, we shall commence building three others. These, with our present number, will be quite sufficient to employ us, and to lead to such arrangements as will enable one, or another, to be amongst the Bengalees every day. Besides these daily services amongst the natives in Calcutta, Mr. E. Carey proposes, when the rains have ceased, to commence an annual itinerancy of two or three months continuance, through the province of Bengal, in different directions; during which, with the assistance of a native convert, he will embrace every oppor tunity of sowing the seed of the word of life, with the hope that it may produce a hundred fold.

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With respect to the success that has attended our labours amongst the natives, we cannot say much. The husbandman must first labour before he be partaker of the fruit; and we consider that a course of steady and persevering effort is necessary before any effectual impression can be made on this people. gives us, however, great pleasure to witness the spirit of hearing which has been excited, and the increasing attention which is given to the preaching of the gospel; so that in either of our places of worship we can always obtain a congregation of 50 or 60, generally upwards of 100, and sometimes approaching to 150 people; who, in most instances, listen with considerable attention, although in others there is a strong disposition to cavil and object. They generally afford, during the time they remain present, as serious an appearance as most English congregations. During the period of one service of two or three hours continuance, we have perhaps three perfectly different congregations, who are successively addressed by two, three, or four preachers. We have not, however, been entirely without encouragement. A man who regularly attends the Bengalee preaching, has called upon us, accompanied by a woman with whom he had been living in an illicit connexion; his mind seemed to have received serious impressions, and both requested that they might be united in a lawful manner. In that part of the city where our brother Sebukram lives, there are also several inquirers, of whom we hope well, although we are unable, from an imperfect acquaint