18. Anne Baldwin, (Barque,) H. Crawford, from Liverpool 12th November. Passengers.-H. E. Pearson, 18th Regiment, E. F. Kinobbs, R. N., James Anderson, Esqs., T. E. Thompson, Esq. 27. Fattle Salam, Nacoda, for Judda. 39. Bland, for Liverpool. Passengers.-Mrs. Thomas, His Highness Prince Jameh Ood Deen, Dr. Thomas, Superintending Surgeon, A. Murray, Esq. M. D., Captain McNab, H. M. 3rd Buffs, Lieutenant Stubbs, 49th N. I., W. B. Mosley, Esq. 10th Light Cavalry, W. Turner, Esq., J. Findlay, Esq., J. Humphreys, Esq. and six children. FEB. 1. Golden Fleece, for Liverpool. 6. Corsair, (Brig,) E. Cook, for Penang and Singapore. 8. Triton, Captain Pouvereau, for Bordeaux. Charles Stuart, (Schooner,) for Rangoon. Frank, (Bark,) E. Seabright, for China. 13. Duke of Northumberland, Pope, for London. Passengers.-Mrs. Brightman, Mrs. Anley, Mrs. Hessing, Capt. T. T. Harington, John Brightman, Esq., J. A. Hessing, Esq., Lieutenants Hatham, Griffin, Martin, and Andrews, H. Brown, Esq. 3 Misses Anleys, 1 Miss Brightman, 2 Misses Hessings, 2 Misses Dows, 1 Miss Perry, 3 Masters Anley, 2 Masters Brightman, 1 Master Warde, 1 Master Perry, and 2 Masters Bruce. 15. Euphrates, Hannay, for Liverpool. Passengers.-Lady Colquhoun, Mrs. Home, Sir Robert Colquhoun, Major Home, Captain Home, Mr. William Storm, and Master Colvin. 19. Coldstream, P. H. Burt, for China. Allalevie, G. Andrée, for Bombay. Indien, (French,) A. Morin, for Havre de Grace. Passengers.-Mrs. Col. Hawthorn, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. Bridgeman, Lieut.-Col. Hawthorn, H. C. S., Rev. H. Fisher, Capt. Elliot, Assistant Adjutant General, K. T., J. Carey, Esq., Ladler, Esq., Dr. McLellan, Dr. Taylor, Lieut. Bridgeman, H. C. Artillery, Lieut. Bolton, H. M. S., Miss Haw thorn, Miss Fisher, Miss Cox, two Misses Lloyds, Master Fisher, Master Lloyd, and four Masters Cox. MAR. 3. Fanny, J. Sherriff, for Mauritius. Sm. Francisco de Paula, J. F. de Sena, for China. 5. Childe Harold, J. R. Lancaster, for London. Passengers.-Mrs. Lancaster, Mrs. Brightman and Infant, Henry Bright. man, Esq. Captain Sutherland, 38th Regiment. 7. Donna Carmelita, C. Edwards, for Mauritius. 8. Zenobia, J. F. Owen, for Cape of Good Hope and London. Esq. Passengers.-Col. Galloway, Capt. Knyvett, W. W. Bird, Esq. and J. Melville, 10. Thetis, (Barque,) C. C. Clark, for China. 15. Orient, T. White, for London viâ St. Helena. Passengers.-Lady Harrington, Mrs. Vetch, 2 Misses Pringle, Mrs. White, Colonel Dennie, C. B., H. M. 13th, Major Mountain, H. M. 26th, Majors Vetch and Pringle, B. N. I., Capt. Ross, H. M. 58th Regt., Capt. Fell, Lieut. Murray, R. N., Mr. Mitché, Assistant Surgeon, Mr. Burkinyoung. 18. Fergus, for Greenock. Passengers.-Mr. and Mrs. Tweedie, and Misses Mary and Benjamina Tweedie. Passengers.-Mrs. Udny, Mrs. Tulloh, Misses Tulloh, Jane Tulloh, and Helen Tulloh, Mr. Tulloh, Mrs. Nunn, Master Daunt, two Masters Lightfoot. Meteorological Register, kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the Month of February, 1835. Minimum Temperature observed at Sunrise. Maximum Pressure observed at 9h, 50m. Observations made at Wind. Direction. 1234567H96 W. N. E E N. N. E. 30,158 53,3 51,852, CM.,240 64,868, 61,8 N. E.,190 65,4 75, 70,2 N. E.,140 67,478,573,4 N. w., 126 68,178, 73,8 10 ,010,71,169,769, ,034 70,6 68,5 69,2 ,870 72,770,770,3 26 27 ,848 74, 72,472, 28 82, 75,8 N.bE.,840 78,8 86, 81,2 s. w.,826 79,486,380.7 W. THE CALCUTTA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER. May, 1835. L-Brief Memoir of the Rev. Joseph Kam, Missionary in the Moluccas. To the Editors of the Calcutta Christian Observer. DEAR SIRS, I have lately received from Holland intelligence of the demise of that faithful Missionary, the Rev. Joseph Kam of Amboyna, together with a short sketch of his life, published in the Dutch language by the Netherlands Bible Society. Supposing the same might prove interesting to your readers, I beg to hand you for the OBSERVER an English translation of it, to which I have added a few particulars, with which I became acquainted during a residence of a year and a half with the brother of the deceased at Rotterdam. I am, Your's, &c. &c. L. Calcutta, 13th April, 1835.J (Translated from the Dutch.) JOSEPH KAM was born in 1769 at Bois-le-Duc, a fortified city of Dutch Brabant, of parents belonging to the respectable middling class of society, his father being proprietor of an extensive leather manufactory, and standing in high esteem among his fellow-townsmen. Both his parents were exemplary Christians, and whilst they spared neither pains nor expense to give their children a liberal education, had especially at heart their religious and moral improvement. The Lord blessed their pious efforts with complete success; for one of their two sons, Samuel, became a very able divine, and a most useful minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, and filled during several years the important office of theological tutor in the college of the Netherlands Missionary Society near Rotterdam. The subject of this Memoir also, who was brought up in his father's profession, early gave proofs that the prayers and instructions of his pa rents had not been vain; when but a youth he became a decidedly converted character, and by his consistent and amiable deportment gained the love and esteem of all his acquaintance. H H Joseph Kam, on account of his father's business, had occasion frequently to visit the extensive Moravian settlement of Zeist near Utrecht. Having there heard and seen much that had a reference to Missions, a strong desire arose in his mind to devote himself to the ministry of the gospel among the perishing heathen. He even offered himself as a Missionary to the Moravian Society, whose rules however, it seems, did not permit them to employ him. It was therefore with inexpressible delight he heard of the establishment, in 1797, of the Netherlands Missionary Society, through the instrumentality of the celebrated Dr. Vander Kemp. He at once determined, with the sanction of his parents, to offer his services to the directors; but his father's death, which happened shortly after, rendered it imperative on him, for his aged mother's sake, to continue at home and take charge of his father's manufactory. After his mother's demise, his former wish revived; but his surviving relations were of opinion, that owing to his age, which was already somewhat advanced, and various family reasons, he was no longer a fit subject for Missionary enterprize. He therefore at first yielded to their advice, and resolved to relinquish all further thoughts of becoming a Missionary. The Lord, however, whose thoughts are not as our thoughts, and whose ways are not as our ways, had determined it otherwise. An amiable wife, whom Kam had married a few years before, and a daughter who had been the fruit of their union, died within a few months of each other. Kam thought he saw in these trying dispensations, and the severing of the ties which had detained him in his native land, the finger of Providence pointing him to go and carry the tidings of salvation to the heathen world; and the very friends, who had first dissuaded him from the undertaking, now coincided in his opinion. He therefore delayed no longer, and in 1808, offered his services to the Netherlands Missionary Society, who cheerfully accepted of them. Kam was then about thirty-nine years of age. He removed to Rotterdam to commence a course of theological study preparatory to the great work he had in view: but his patience was to be put to a severe test ere he could enter on his labours; for when, having been thought by the directors sufficiently qualified for his office, he hoped to have been able to embark immediately for Java, the French authorities interfered, and peremptorily denied him permission to proceed to a colony occupied by the British, except under such a condition as neither he nor the directors could think of accepting. In consequence it was afterwards even found necessary, as his personal liberty was in danger from a suspicious government, that he should leave Rotterdam. He therefore retired to Zeist, and found a secure and agreeable abode among his old friends the Moravians. There he prosecuted his studies, and met with an excellent opportunity of learning the practical part of a pastor's duty in a neighbouring parish then without a regular minister, where he often preached, visited the sick, catechised the children, &c. These exercises proved of great use to him in his subsequent Missionary career. After having resided at Zeist till the year 1812, and no opening presenting itself for leaving Holland by sea, he, in company with two other Missionaries who had meanwhile been received by the Netherlands Society, Messrs. Supper and Bruckner, left the Moravian settlement in the disguise of travelling mechanics, and succeeded in passing the frontiers, and reaching Hamburgh unmolested. Not finding it practicable from this port to proceed to England, they were constrained to go on to Christiana in Norway, and from thence embarked for London. The directors of the Netherlands Missionary Society, apprehensive that the circumstance of Holland being then under French rule, would render it impossible for them to carry on Missionary operations with effect in the Eastern islands, which were in the possession of Britain, made over, by mutual agreement, their three Missionaries to the London Missionary Society. They were accordingly ordained in London, and took their departure for Java in 1813. On their arrival at Batavia, they separated: Mr. Supper having been appointed to that capital, Mr. Bruckner to Samarang, and Joseph Kam to the Moluccas. Subsequent to this arrangement, which pleased Kam exceedingly, as he hoped in the Spice islands to be brought more immediately in contact with the heathen, he continued some time at Madura and Soerabaya, with a view to render himself master of the Malay before he took charge of his station. At length, having attained a competent knowledge of that language, he entered upon his work, after eight years of patient waiting and preparation. Kam fixed his residence at Amboyna. The Netherlands Government, which had in the interim resumed possession of the Eastern Archipelago, desired him to take the pastoral charge of the European Church and congregation on that island. To this he reluctantly agreed, but the drawing of his heart continued towards the natives. He re-established the Native Church which for more than twenty years had been destitute of a pastor, and did every thing in his power to revive the dying flame of religious feeling among those long-neglected Neophytes. Shortly after, however, Kam was to his great satisfaction, relieved from the charge of the European congregation, by the appointment to it of a clergyman sent out for the purpose from Holland. He then turned his whole attention and efforts to the natives. |