pliance with the laws, must be Portuguese, but the Portuguese captain, at the same time that he must be instructed by the pretended owner to appear for him on all occasions in protecting the ship and property, must also be instructed, not to interfere with the navigation of the ship, except at your request; and he must be put entirely under your orders. As you shall have to grant a bill of sale for the brig, when she is apparently sold, you must be very cautious to take a counter bill of sale; and again as collateral security, a bottomry bond on the vessel for 10,000 dollars, with a power of attorney from the ham owner to you, to sell and dispose of her in any manner you shall think proper. I would wish you, besides, to take a very strong declaration in writing, witnessed by Sealy, Roach, and Toole, that the sale made by you is merely fictitious; that the cargo and her earnings are bona fide your property; which declaration must be couched so as to be a perfect quit claim from him and his heirs for ever. The next thing I have to recommend to you, is to conduct this business with every possible caution and secrecy, and to prevent as much as possible the knowledge of it to reach either our consul or ambassador, as they might perhaps write home on the subject, and even any of the American captains, who may happen to be there at the same time with you. You must therefore appear very cool and indifferent in the business, to let nothing transpire of your future plan, and act as if you were only thinking of returning home. After you have made your brig a Portuguese you will have to take in a cargo fit for the coast, and proceed there with every possible despatch. I enclose you a memorandum of the articles which I think will answer best for the trade, to which memorandum I have added a few observations to regulate you for the articles that you could not find, and which might be replaced by others. To this list, however, I do not wish by any means to confine you; I leave it, on the contrary, to you to improve it or curtail it, according to the information which you will be able to collect, as that trade is much followed at Bahia. Negroes are often very plenty there; and if they can be bought at from eighty dolars to one hundred dollars, I would just as well end the v yage there, and give up the trip to Africa. The difference in the price would, in my opinion, be more than compensated by the time and risk saved thereby."

"It now remains for me to direct how you are to do with your people after you have sold the brig. The very first thing is to discharge all the people, paying their wages, and making the best terms possible with them in writing; as by the laws of the country the owner is obliged to find them a passage home, and wages till they arrive. It is very essential that none of your people, except those who are to stay with you, should have the least suspicion of your future plan: I would recommend, therefore, that before you enter on any of your transactions, you would see these people out of the country, that they cannot come and talk here of what you have done. I would rather lose some little time, nor would I mind some little expense to get rid of them cleverly. The ship's log book should afterwards be kept in Portuguese: no English writing touching the voyage, should be on board: the fewer entries in the log-b ok the better, to be done under your eyes. She should have no colors but Portuguese on board; your present flag thrown away when the brig is sold, and all the papers sent back (under cover) to me: your register, however, you had better bring back yourself. "Wishing you a prosperous voyage, I am dear Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) "FRANCIS DEPAU." p. 108-110.

We have omitted such parts of the letter as related to funds. The celebrated parliamentary orator, C. J. Fox, in a debate on the great European conflict, ridicules the mild and softening terms, which had been used to disguise the true nature of war, by supposing, that a villain, when about to perpetrate a burglary and murder, should resolve to do it with moderation. We have before us a fine specimen of the same kind of perversion of good words. A wealthy individual, (for such is certainly the appearance, as he opened on abundant credit for his captain, at Philadelphia, Boston and Liverpool.) being about to enter upon a certain speculation, says it is "of a very delicate nature," and requires "the greatest prudence and discretion." Delicacy is an

amiable attribute, and prudence and discretion are Christian virtues. Let us see how they are to be exemplified in the case before us. The planner of the voyage wishes to bring a cargo from the coast;" cargo, not of coffee or sugar, ivory or bees-wax, but of human beings, bought of those who had no right to sell them, and carried into hopeless bondage. To accomplish this object, it was necessary to take Portuguese colors,-to make a sham sale,-to take a man of seraw for a captain, to be able to prove that the sale was fictitious, and to be sufficiently on the watch against any possible unfaithfulness of the pres tended owner. The whole business must be kept a profound secret from the sailors, who should leave the brig at Bahia, from American captains, and from every body, but those who were necessarily acquainted with it. How many lies, frauds, and perjuries would be necessary to carry this plan into effect, so far as to enter upon the slave-voyage, does not appear. Doubtless they were numerous; and were practised with all possible delicacy.'

Our readers will be interested to learn the sequel of the enter prise. The captain arrived on the coast of Africa, and procured a cargo of 275 slaves, of whom a large part were boys and girls. He had with him a slave named Jack White, whom he brought from Charleston, and whom he often and severely flogged. This fellow showed the slaves his back; told them that they would be whipped in like manner; and urged them to rise. We have omitted to speak of the fraud, rapine, and cruelty, which must have taken place in procuring this cargo; the blood, which must have been shed; the murders, which must have been committed; the terror of multitudes, the depopulation of villages, the demoralization of hundreds, who were stimulated by avarice and bad example to sell their brethren into slavery. Let all these things be passed over; and let us follow the captain and his cargo to sea. At first the adults were put in irons. Let the reader think of the horrible cruelty of confining nearly 500 human beings in the hold of a small brig, in irons, with the hatches down, in a rolling sea, and under the heat of the equator. Their irons were at length taken off, the captain probably thinking there was no danger. After they had been to sea 20 days, Jack White opened the hatches, and the slaves rose upon the crew one morning before light. The captain had three muskets and a pair of pistols. He maintained the battle till thirty slaves were killed, among whom was Jack; but supposing that he could not hold out, he betook himself to the boat, with nine others of the crew. There, in the middle of the Atlantic, with two baskets of bread, a piece of ham, nine bottles of porter, as many of wine, and two jars of water, he was at leisure to ruminate on the delicacy' of his undertaking: on the thirty murders which he had committed, and the misery, which he had brought upon so many hundreds of his fellow creatures. Three Portuguese sailors, and the boatswain, still remained on board, in different hiding places. When found by the slaves, they were spared, only in consequence of the suggestion, that they were necessary to navigate the vessel. Poor navigators indeed they were; for after nearly four months they were taken by a vessel from Liverpool.

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Of the 245, who survived the slaughter, 160 died of hunger during their long wandering on the ocean. The survivors were in the most miserable condition that can be conceived. After kind treatment, however, they recovered, were carried to Sierra Leone, had some land presented to them by the government, and went to work to make themselves comfortable. Whether the captain has ever been heard of we do not know.

The cases of the schooner Esperanza, and the brig Lucia, both American vessels under Portuguese colors, are particularly described.

CXXIX. Memoirs of HENRY OBOOKIAH, A native of Owhyhee, and a member of the Foreign Mission School; who died at Cornwall, Con. Feb. 17th, 1818, aged 26 years. New-Haven, 1818. pp. 109.

A Sermon delivered at the funeral of HENRY OBOOKIAH, a native of Owhyhee, » and u member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Con. Feb. 18, 1818. By LYMAN BEECHER, A. M. Pastor of a church in Litchfield. NewHaven. 1818. pp. 34.

The banner of Christ set up. A Sermon, delivered at the inauguration of the Rev. HERMAN DAGGETT, as Principal of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Con. May 6, 1818. By JOSEPH HARVEY, A. M. Pastor of a church in Goshen, Con. New-Haven, 1818. pp. 34.

THIS memoir is a valuable acquisition both to the philanthropist and to the Christian. For the instruction of the one, here are many an imating facts respecting an individual, whose case affords ample encouragement to increasing labors for the civilization of nations yet in the infancy of improvement; or in perfect barbarism. To the other, while the life and example of Obookiah furnish the strongest inducement to double his diligence in the great field of benevolent operations, the sudden removal of this promising young man teaches a needful lesson respecting thé inscrutable mysterics of providence, and enforces the duty of submission to the divine will.

To the believer in Revelation every providential interposition, calmly considered, should be a subject of consolation; even when ourselves are smitten, the soul, chastened and melted under the rod, should maintain a holy acquiescence. When vigorous faith fixes her eye on the dazzling glories of a region of purity, and love, and joy, the present state takes its proper rank, and is seen in its just proportions. The world loses its power to captivate and to deceive; because the standard of action is elevated so far beyond temporal applause or censure, that when the follies of the moment claim attention, the comparison between them and that "better and enduring substance" sinks them to their proper rank, as low, sordid, and unsatisfying. Although the storms in the moral, as well as those of the natural, world, are far from being desirable for their own sake; nevertheless, if peace dwell within, no doubt should be indulged of the returning sunshine, when the face of the now troubled ocean will be smoothed, the jarring elements be hushed to rest, serenity and beauty take the place of apparent d solation."

fleury Obookiah was born in Owhyhee, the principal of the Sandwich Islands, about the year 1792. Of his early childhood nothing is known. Both his parents were slain, when he was about 10 or 12

years of age, in one of those exterminating wars, which the inhabitants of those islands often wage among themselves. While he was attempting to escape, with his little brother on his back, he was overtaken by the enemy, his brother pierced through with a spear, and himself, a prisoner, was taken home to the house of the very man who had murdered his parents. From this man he was released by his uncle, one of the priests of the island, with whom he continued till the time of his departure from his native country. Here he was found by an American Captain trading at the Sandwich islands, by whom he was taken on board, with another of his countrymen, and, sailing by way of China, landed at New York in 1809.

From New York, a short time after his arrival, he went to NewHaven with the captain who brought him out, in whose family he resided some time. Here he attracted the notice of some of the students in Yale College, who taught him and his countryman, Thomas Hopao, to read and write. Besides the many other friends whose sympathies and exertions were directed to his improvement, during his residence at this place, he was made acquainted with that eminently devoted servant of Christ, the late Rev. Samuel J. Mills. A heart overflowing with love to God and to all mankind, needed no arguments to enlist it in behalf of Henry. Mr. M. took his young friend to the house of his father, the Rev. Mr. M. of Torringford, Con, where he lived several months.

At the close of 1810 he went to Andover, at which place he resided some time; thence to Bradford, Ms. to Hollis, N. H. and returned to Torringford in the spring of 1813, and continued there during the summer, and that of the following year, having passed the intervening winter with James Morris, Esq. at Litchfield. In the Autumn of 1814 he was, by his own request, taken under the care of the North Consociation of Litchfield county, who appointed a committee to superintend his education, and report to the Consociation annually. The close of the year 1814, and the,principal part of 1815 was spent with the Rev. Mr. Harvey of Goshen. At the conclusion of the time he lived with Mr. Harvey, he was received under the direction of the Am. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

At the places abovementioned Henry was supported by the benevolent individuals in whose families he dwelt, with occasional assistance from other Christian friends. In the summer season he assisted in agricultural employments, at which he exhibited a quickness of apprehension and dexterity in management, rarely seen in the first attempts of a learner.

We shall give such extracts from this memoir principally from the letters of Obookiah, as may assist the reader in forming an opinion of bis attainments, especially of his knowledge of the Scriptures, his consistent piety, and his strong desire to carry the good news of salvation to his ignorant countrymen.

In the following account of his situation after his parents' death, "his own ideas, and in general, his own language are preserved."

""The same man," says he, "which killed my father and mother took me home to his own house. His wife was an amiable woman, and very kind, and her husband also-Yet on account of killing my parents I did not feel content

ed-After I lived with this man about a year or two, I found one of my Unples, who was a Priest among them; but he knew not who I was-(for I was quite small when he saw me at home with my parents)-He inquired the name of my parents-I told him. As soon as he heard the name of my parents, tears burst out and he weeped bitterly-He wished me not to go back and live with that man which killed my father and mother, but to live with him as long as I live, I told him I must go back and see that man, whether he was willing to give me a release. This was done. I went home, and told the man all what my Uncle had told me.-But the saying seemed to him very unpleasing. As soon as he had heard all what I said to him, he was very tormented with anger, as if he would look me in pieces that moment. He would not let me go, not till he die, or else he take my life away. Not long after this I went and told my Uncle what the man had told me, and he would no more let me go back to the man's house, until the man came after me, then he would converse with him on this subject. After I had lived with my uncle two or three days, the man came to his house, to take me home. But my Uncle told him that I was as his own childthat he would not let me go back and live with him; else if he take me, he should take both of us. Yet the man did say but little, because my uncle was a Priest. But he told my Uncle that if I should live with him he must take kind care of me as what he has done. He told him he would by all means. When all this was done I lived with my Uncle a number of years."

"It was probably during this period and before peace was entirely restored to the island, that an event occurred in which the hand of Providence was strik ingly visible in rescuing Obookiah from a second exposure to a violent and untimely death,

"He, with an Aunt, the only surviving sister of his father, had fallen into the possession of the enemy. On a certain day it came to his knowledge that bis Aunt, and, perhaps himself, was to be put to death. The first opportunity he could find, he attempted to make his escape. And by creeping through a hole into a cellar, and going out on the opposite side, he got away unobserved, and wandered off at a considerable distance from the house in which he had been kept. But it was not long before his Aunt was brought out, by a number of the enemy, and taken to a precipice, from which she was thrown and destroyed. He saw this, and now feeling himself, more than ever, alone; as soon as the enemy had retired, he ran toward the fatal spot, resolved to throw himself over and die with this friend; whom perhaps he now considered as the last individual of his kindred. But he was discovered by one of the chiefs or Head-men of the party, who ordered two men to pursue him and bring him back. He was overtaken just before he reached the precipice and carried back to the quarters of the en emy. By a kind interposition of Providence he was saved for purposes which will appear in the subsequent history.

"At the death of my parents" he says. "I was with them; I saw them killed with a bayonet and with them my little brother, not more than two or three months old. So that I was left alone without father or mother in this wilderness world. Poor boy, thought I within myself, after they were gone, are there any father of mother of mine at home, that I may go and find them at home? No, poor boy am I. And while I was at play with other children-after we had made an end of playing, they return to their parents-but I was returned into tears;-for have no home, neither father nor mother. I was now brought away from my home to a stranger place, and I thought of nothing more but want of father on mother, and to cry day and night."" pp. 6-9.

The first of the two following extracts shows the state of his mind when he first lived with the Rev. Mr. Mills in 1810, and a month or two after; the second describes his religious exercises while at Andover and Bradford Academy in 1811.

""Mrs. M. the wife of the Rev. Mr. M." continues Ohookiah, "was a very amiable woman, and I was treated by her as her own child. She used me kindly and learned me to say the Catechism.

""Many Ministers called on the Rev. Mr. M. and I was known by a great number of Ministers. But on account of my ignorance of the true God, I do not