WILTSHIRE. Death.—March. At Mere, Rev. Rowland W. Howell, son of Rev. R. Howell, Ecclesiastical Preferment.-Rev. J. Hall, Great Bedwin, R. New Chapel.-May 22. The foundation stone of a New Chapel, for the use of the Rev. W. Coombs and his congregation, was laid at Bradford. WORCESTERSHIRE. Death.-May. At the Parsonage house, Elmly, Rev. George Hewett, B.A. R. 32. YORKSHIRE. Deaths.-March, At an advanced age, John Addie, Esq. of Twisleton in Ingleton Fells. This gentleman was a singular character, and retained in his manners an extraordinary degree of the simplicity of primitive times. He was regularly to be seen at fairs and markets, attired in a coarse blue coat, a long-pocketed waistcoat, a Wansleydale wig, huge galligaskins, and shoes of most antique make. This whimsical appearance acquired for him the not inappropriate appellation of Lord Oddie.—Âpril 26. Rev. John Penketh Burée, LL.B. P. C. of Silkstone, W. R.-30. Rev. Robert Knowles, V. of Gisburn in Craven, he was found dead in Stockbeck, near Craven.-May 10. At West Witton, Warsley-dale, N.R. Rev. Jeffrey Wood, P. C.-June, Rev. John Norton, V. of Kittlewell, Yorkshire, and P. C. of Boyton, Cornwall.-26. At Hull, Rev. J. Hawksley, formerly pastor of the Independent Church, assembling in Aldermanbury Postern, London, 36-July 22. At Hislington, near York, Gen. James Coates, one of the oldest generals in the service.-29. Rev. James Griswood, Minister of the Unitarian Baptist Chapel, in New-Dock-Street, Hull, 59. New Chapels.-April 8. A new Baptist Chapel was opened at Chapel-Feld, Bately, near Dewsbury. Preachers, Rev. Messrs. Mann, of Shipley, Jackson, of Hebden-bridge, and Dr. Steadman, of Bradford.-June 27. A neat and commodious Chapel was opened at Keld, near Reeth. Preachers, Rev. Messrs. Ramphler of Fulneck, Mason of Featham, and G. Gollop of Darlington. WALES. Deaths.-April. At Pembroke, Anne Watkins, 103.-At Welshpool, Rev. E. Jones.-May, Rev. Robert Peter, V. of Pellayne, and R. of Sully, Glamorgan, 79.—June 5. Suddenly of an inflammation on the lungs, Rev. George Lewis, D.D. Theological Tutor of the Independent Academy at New-Town, Montgomeryshire, 53.-21. Rev. Thomas Lloyd, curate of Llanrwst, Denbighshire.-July Rev. Patrick Howell, Minister of the Presbyterian Meeting, Swansea. New Chapels.-April 25. A new Chapel called Mount Pisgah, was opened in Gower, Glamorganshire, forming the 6th place of worship in that peninsula, for which its long neglected inhabitants are indebted to the zeal and liberality of Lady Barham. Preachers, on this occasion, Rev. Messrs.Thorp, of Bristol; Peters, of Carmarthen; and Davis, of Bath.-May 15, A neat and commodious place of worship, called the Tabernacle, was opened at Tenby, well known as a watering-place in Pembrokeshire. Preachers, Rev. Messrs. Lloyd, of Henelan; Peter, of Carmarthen; Jones, of Treleach; Warr, of Haverfordwest; Thomas, of Teirscross; and Warlow, of Milford.-June 19 and 20. A new Independent Meeting-House, now called Philadel phia, but formerly Tuhierion, was opened near Llansturn, Glamorganshire. Preachers, Rev. Messrs. Owens, of Swansea; Jones, of Bridgend; Morris, of Tredegar; Moses, of New Inn; Evans, of Godrey-rhôs; and Howel, of Baran. Ordinations.—Jan. 24. Rev. T. Jones, late a Student in the North Wales Academy, over the church and cougregation assembling at Ebenezer Chapel, Newport, Pembrokeshire.-April 3. Rev. John Thomas Jones, late a Student at Abergavenny, over the Particular Baptist Church at Hay, Breconshire.-8. Rev. H. Owens of Swansea, over the church and congregation at Cwmbychan, Glamorganshire. -24. Rev. J. Barfett, late a Student in the Western Academy, Axminster, over the Independent Church in Castle-Street, Swansea.May 22. Rev. D. Jenkins, over the Independent Church at Brychagoed, South Wales. Miscellaneous Intelligence.-A College for the education of those Students for the ministry of the Established Church, whose friends are not in affluence, is about to be erected at Lanpeter in Cardiganshire. The sum of £15,000. 3-per-cents. is already collected, of which his Majesty graciously contributed £1000. sterling. The Bishop of St. David's has long been actively engaged in promoting this laudable object. SCOTLAND. Deaths.--1821. Nov. 12. At the Manse of Ruthven, Rev. George Donaldson, minister of that parish forty-one years, 78.-Dec. At Whitehill New Deer, Rev. John Bunyan, minister of the United Associate congregation.-22. At Tulliallan Manse, Rev. David Simson, 82.-Feb. 2. At Burntisland, Rev. James Wemyss.-4. At Wemyss Castle, General Wemyss, of Wemyss.-15. At Redford, in the parish of Madderley, Rev. James Andrew, of Redford, 67.—17. At Edinburgh, Rev. John Thomson, D.D. minister of the New GreyFriar's church, 79.-March 26. At Auchertoil, near Balmuto in Fifeshire, from a pistol shot received in a duel with James Stuart, Esq. of Dunearne, Sir Alexander Boswell, of Auchinleck, Bart. eldest son of the biographer of Johnson. The cause of this duel was a political song, which appeared in the Glasgow Sentinel of the 26th of December last, reflecting upon Mr. Stuart; which, from the manuscript having been put into his hands by Mr. Borthwick, a former proprietor of the paper, that gentleman ascertained to have been written by Sir Alexander, with whom he had previously lived in habits of intimacy.-May 3. At Eddlestone Manse, Rev.Dr.Patrick Robertson, minister of Eddlestone, in the 74th year of his age, and the 40th of his ministry.-14. At Aberdeen, Rev. Charles Mc. Hardy, minister of Craithie and Braemar, in his 76th year of his age, and 53d of his ministry.-June. At Aberdeen, James Brechin, 102. He enjoyed good health and the use of his faculties until within a week of his decease. At Glasgow, Sarah Mc. Intosh, 106. Her husband, who was in the interest of the Pretender, fled to Ireland soon after the battle of Culloden. His wife returned to her native country about two years ago. She lost her sight some time since, but retained her mental faculties to the last. She had an excellent recollection of the events of her youth, and it was the chief solace of her latter days to talk of the Pretender, and to detail the devotion, the bravery, the sufferings, and hair-breadth escapes, of her clansmen and acquaintance during the troublesome period of the Rebellion. She had 12 children, 42 grandchildren, and 36 great grandchildren.-At Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Rev. James Milne, 79.-At Portobello, Sir John Macgreggor Murry, Bart. of Lenwick Castle, Perthshire.-7. In New-street, Edinburgh, Rev. William Dun, minister of the Canongate Chapel. Ecclesiastical Preferment.-Rev. J. Sinclair, St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel, Carruther's-Close, Edinburgh. New Chapel.-Jan. 20. A large and commodious Chapel at Peterhead, lately occupied by the Anti-Burghers, was re-opened for public worship in the Independent connection, when three discourses were preached by the Rev. J. Robertson, of Crichie Old Dean. IRELAND. Deaths.—April 8. Aged 126, Mr. Thadey Doorley a respectable farmer, residing near the hill of Allen, county of Kildare. He retained his faculties to the last moment, and was able to take any sort of field amusement within the last 6 months of his life. He was married about 19 years ago, at the age of 107, to a woman of 31.-May, Rev. Joseph Sandys, R. of Feddoun, county of Limerick, and author of “A Sermon on the Importance of an Early Acquaintance with the Scrip→ tures," 8vo. 1812.-Rev. Thomas Crawford, master of the endowed School at Lismore.-24. In Cork, the Right Hon. John de Courcy. 26th Lord Kingsale, Baron Courcy of Courcy, and Baron of Ringmore. His Lordship succeeded his father John, the 25th Baron, March 3, 1776; married Oct. 31, 1763, Susan, daughter of Conway Blennerhassett, of Castle-Conway, county of Kerry, Esq, and by her (who died, Dec. 13, 1809,) had issue, five sons and five daughters, six of whom survive him. His Lordship is succeeded by his second, but eldest surviving son, the Hon. and Rev. Thomas de Courcy, now 27th Lord Kingsale.-July, Rev. T. Radcliffe, R. of Ardmore, county of Antrim.-On St. Patrick's-hill, Cork,John Melvin Barry, M.D. author of "An account of the Nature and Effects of Cow-pox," Cork, 8vo. 1800. — Rev. John Lowry, R. of Donoghmore, Queen's county.-Aug. 11. Suddenly by falling from his horse in a fit of apoplexy, whilst riding in the Phoenix-Park, Dublin, Lieut. Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty, G.C.B. Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, and Colonel of the 78th Regt. of Foot. This gallant officer twice received the thanks of both houses of parliament, the first time for the capture by assault of Monte Video; the second, for the reduction of Java, on both which occasions he commanded the British troops. Ecclesiastical Preferments.-Right Rev. Lord John George De-laPoer Beresford, Archbishop of Dublin, Archbishopric of Armagh, and Primacy of all Ireland.-Right Rev. Dr. Magee, Bishop of Raphoe, Archbishopric of Dublin.-Rev. Richard Lawrence, D.C.L. Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, Archbishopric of Cashel.-Very Rev. Archdeacon Bisset, Bishopric of Raphoe. Ordination.-Dec. 20. Rev. Mr. Killings, to the work of the Ministry, in Zion Chapel, Mallow. 472 SUMMARY OF MISSIONARY PROCEEDINGS. The SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS has despatched an agent to Cape Town, where he found the national system of education greatly degenerated in the Free School. This however, he had the satisfaction to restore, and to witness a great increase in the scholars and their improvement. At the village of Wynsbery, eight miles distant, where several christian families were destitute of public worship, a chapel is erected, in which the new missionary officiates, and where he intends to establish a school. The college of the society at Calcutta will be opened at the close of the present year, with every prospect of brilliant success. Ten theological, and ten lay scholarships have been founded for native and European youths; and to make the grounds of the college more complete, a liberal individual, Charles Theophilus Metcalf, Esq. has transferred to it a piece of ground adjoining to that originally granted by government. In such a country as the East Indies, the chief scene of their labours, we cannot expect but that the BAPTIST MISSIONARIES must meet with much disappointment, mingled with their success. On the Doogapore station, they have been for two years casting their bread upon the waters, and are but just beginning to find a small portion of it after many days. One convert only has as yet been added there to the church of the living God; but he is promising. Inquiry has however been excited in others, especially a Hindoo of some property, who has been induced, by one of the Tracts of the London Missionary Society, to pay a visit to the station of the brethren, to learn more of the way of salvation. At the public services of the missionaries by the way-side, the Bramins frequently attend to revile and dispute; signs not very favourable in their first impression, but from which we expect in time much better things. A more sure word of prophecy induces us to look with confidence to the fulfilment, though it linger long, of the prediction of their shasters,-that the men of no cast, whom they will not listen to but to insult, are destined to destroy the casts and customs of other people. This is all the intelligence which has recently arrived from the East, but from its West India Mission, the Society has received still more encouraging intelligence. At Kingston in Jamaica, seventy-two persons were lately baptized at once, and the Lord's Supper was administered to upwards of sixteen hundred. The new chapel is still well attended, and several Europeans and others afford good reason to hope, that they have there been brought to a serious concern for their eternal interests. The ship which conveyed the missionaries to the new and important station at Honduras bay, has safely arrived at its destination, and intelligence is anxiously expected thence. The LONDON, like the BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY, is making progress amongst the negroes of our West India Islands. At the station of Le Resouveiur in Demerara, 390 persons (272 of them adults) were baptized in the course of the last year, in which 35 members were added to the church; the total number of which, at the beginning of the present year, was 147, and 83 others were then candidates for baptism. Public worship is well attended, and about £100 was collected for its support from the white inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and from the congregation, in the course of the eight months previous to the last account.-In South Africa the zeal of the Missionaries is still rewarded with correspondent success. Mr. Williams, originally sent out by this Society, but labouring some time before his removal among the Caffrees, at the expense of the colonial government, collected together a number of those wild tribes, reduced under his instruction to habits of order and civilization. Since his time their number has considerably increased under the care of his successors, and distant hordes are expressing a wish to be partakers of the same benefits. The head of one of the kraals, lately departed in the faith, having, in all his wanderings, uniformly erected a hut for the worship of the only true God; to whose ministering servants, in this wild and dreary land, he directed his people on his death, to repair, as to their best earthly friend. With his dying injunction they have cheerfully complied, and are now amongst the most orderly members of the settlement.-The important mission in the South Sea Islands seem to have sustained a severe loss in the death of king Pomare, as the agents of the Society, to whom he was long so friendly, are apprehensive of commotions among the chieftains during the long minority of his infant son, whose mother, the queen, wishes to reside with the Missionarics. The inhabitants of Tahite are advancing rapidly in civilization, evincing such an increased attachment to European dress, that cloths and calicoes have become as it were the circulating medium of the island. The deputation sent out by the Society to inspect the state and prospects of the missions in this quarter, arrived safely at Tahite on the 21st of September, and immediately entered with alacrity on that important work, and their reports on the altered state of this lately savage race more than confirms the most flattering accounts which from time to time have reached our shores. They saw Pomare at Eimeo shortly before his death, and were most kindly received by him. The artisans who accompanied them are about to commence their cotton manufactory, which will, we hope, succeed. The chiefs are building their boats in the European form, and with European tools, many of them are cultivating tobacco and sugar, and nearly all manufacturing cocoa-oil. A road, the first attempted in the country, is making on a large scale round the island of Tahite, constructing, and to be completed by persons punished for violations of the new laws; a mode of employing convicts from which we ourselves might learn a useful lesson. At Huaheine, the noble place of worship, a considerable part of which is neatly pewed, when visited by the deputation, was crowded with attentive hearers, of whom the chiefs, and great part of the principal people, were dressed from head to foot in the English fashion. The deputation was most kindly received there by the king, the queen, and chiefs. Further particulars have also arrived of the extraordinary conversion of the island of Rurutu, the leading features of which were given in a former summary, as largely as our limits will permit. Their national idols, which they sent to Raiatea on renouncing idolatry, have been exhibited there, and received with derision by people but a few years since as gross idolaters as themselves. Auuru, the Rurutan chief, providentially driven into Raiatea, to be the honoured instrument of introducing Christianity into his native land, exhibits a most commendable zeal in his vocation, taking the greatest pains to teach his countrymen to read, and going from house to house every night and morning, performing family prayer for them. From this converted island of |