Methodists. On each of these denominations judicious and candid remarks are offered as also on the Independents, especially in the north. Some notice is likewise taken of that new system which is known by the name of Marked Sepa ration. Our limits (too scanty for our numerous objects and correspondents) will not allow us, at present however; to give even an abstract of those observations and proposals which are offered by the Deputation; but which are exceedingly valuable, not only to the Society, but to the religious world at large. We must refer our readers to the publication itself, which is well written, handsomely printed, and sold very cheap, for the benefit of the Society. A perusal of this Tract cannot fail to excite the sympathy of every serious Christian; and, we trust, it will eventually add a great number of Names to the List of Subscribers. Hints on the Education of Children. By J. Fawcett, A. M. Price 3d MR. Fawcett is well known to the religious public by several useful productions, which have been noticed in this work. We are glad to see his pen resumed, especially on the present interesting subject, which we conceive he is well qualified to discuss. This treatise is founded on that admirable maxim (Prov. xxii. 6.) "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he This ge 4. will not depart from it." These particulars must appear of great importance to every pious parent; and we most cordially recommend this brief and cheap pamphlet to such persons; and more particularly to those who have not money to purchase, nor leisure to read, larger works. LITERARY NOTICES. The Ramayuna of Valmeki, vol. I. translated by the Missionaries Carey and Marshman, from the Original Sanscrit, is in the press. - As is also a new edition of Mather's Essays to do Good. The Tenth and last Volume of Bishop Hall's Works will be ready in the course of January; when also will be published, Separate Editions of that Prelate's valuable Contemplations; and also of his Practical and Devotional Works. SELECT LIST OF RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS. The Incarnation of the Son of God. By the Rev. J. Meldrum, of Hatherlowe. 2 vols. 8vo, 128. Styles's Essay on the Stage, with an Appendix, in Answer to the Annual Review (to be had separately) Remains of H. K. White, with his Life, by R. Southey, 2 vol. 8vo, 14s Popery irreconcileable with Christianity, is. Address to Protestant Dissenters, recommending sitting to sing, 6d. Utile Dulci: a Collection of Moral and Religious Anecdotes, on a Pack of Conversation Cards, 1s 6d Booth's Essay on the Kingdom of Christ. Third edit. 2s. Henry's Bible, by Messrs. Burder and Hughes. Part 8. Henry's Miscellaneous Works. Part 2. Animadversions on "An Admonitory Epistle to the Rev. R. Hil!." By J. Ball, 8vo, 1s. * There is no 12mo edition of Mr. Shrubs le's Pilgrim, as mentioned in our November Magazine. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Extract of a Letter from a Friend at Copenhagen, dated Oct. 5, 1807. It is impossible for me to describe what we have suffered during the bombardment. Bombs flying thick as hail, crushing men, women, and children under their immense weight; or, by their explosion, dealing destruction to all around entering by the front of the house, and carrying every thing before them; or forcing their way by the roof through four or five floors down to the cellar, into which the inhabitants, half-dead with fear, had retired for safety; and there, bursting in the midst of them, killing some and wounding others; while, at the same time, their combustible contents set fire to the house; which, if not extinguished immediately, burnt with a terrible violence. Window glass, bricks and tiles, and even the stones of the pavement, were flying about. Some persons were killed on the spot, others lay groaning with their wounds, dying, or calling upon their neighbours to carry them to the hospitals. Women were heard screaming on account of the loss of their husbands or children, and children for their parents. The devouring flame threatening every house, and compelling the inhabitants to escape for their lives in wild confusion and despair. Such was the dreadful scene we have witnessed. We are daily hearing of people who, worn out with fatigue, threw themselves down on their beds, to rise no more. Many who hid themselves in the cellars, are supposed to have been burnt alive, or buried in the ruins. Some bled to death, having none to asgist them: but time would fail to give even an outline of the distress of this unhappy city. Suffice it to say, that perhaps 20,000 persons have been driven from their habitations, and many thousands have lost their all. Such are the miseries of war! Send peace in our time, O Lord! Present State of the Orphan Ilouse at Halle, in Saxony. The wonderful appearance of Divine Providence in the first establishment of this useful institution, under Professor Franck, was such as to interest all who have read an account of it in its welfare; and many have anxiously wished to know whether it is still continued. A correspondent in Scotland, particularly, wishes information on this head. For his gratification, and that of the public in general, the following account has been obtained from the Rev. Mr. Steinkopff, Minister of the Lutheran Chapel, in the Savoy, London, in a letter to the Editor. "It affords me sincere satisfaction to be able to inform your Christian friends in Scotland, that Franck's excellent institution in Halle, has been preserved and supported from its first foundation to this very time. God has always at the right season raised up new benefactors; and the present King of Prussia, when he visited the Orphan House, about five or six years ago, was truly astonished at the extent of the buildings; and so struck with what he heard of its excellent founder, that he made it an annual present of 4090 rix-doliars (or about 10007.) The number of children supported in the Orphan-House, amounted, before the late war, to about 1200; and by the peculiarly kind providence of God, one of its chief inspectors is become a truly pious and devoled character, though he had been formerly a Socinian. His name is Knapp, Doctor of Divinity, from whom I have received a letter, dated the 11th of May, 1807; from which I will give you the following extract: "As you will be desirous to know the fate I met with during the late awful events in my native country, I can inform you, to the praise and glory of God, that I never before experienced the blessed effects of the Gospel in such a degree as at this very period; my mind being kept in a state of inward peace and tranquillity, and filled with divine consolations in the midst of our outward troubles and afflictions. Though I had to take my share in them, yet I have learnt to consider them as real gain for my inner man; and feel constrained to say with Chrysostom, "Blessed be God for all things that happen.' For this I know, that nothing can happen without him; and whatever he may either do or permit, will always have a good termination. "The first week following the 17th of October was the most afflictive both for our town and myself. In the absence of my colleague, I was left alone to take care of Franck's Institutions, which were peculiarly threatened about this time; but I experienced, more than ever, that Christ's strength is made perfect in weakness; for it was he alone who enabled me, not only to comfort others with those consolations which had been afforded to me, but even to stand before the Emperor Napoleon, and to plead the cause of the Orphan House with considerable effect. "True, our faith is still tried, and our patience exercised: but " patience worketh experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed." Thro' the mercy of God, Franck's Institutions are still continued, but on a very limited scale; which deeply grieves me at a time when the number of the needy and truly distressed persons is greater than ever. The funds of the Institutions have been almost exhausted by the unhappy consequences of the war: our debts, which we have been under the necessity of making, for paying our share in the requisitions of the enemy, are increasing; and, should the war continue, there is no pros pect before human eyes of their being able to hold it out any longer. But of this confidence I will not suffer myself to be robbed, that the eye of the Lord is upon them for good, and that his help will ap pear at the right time." Thus far the interesting letter of Dr. Knapp, which you may communicate to your friends; and also insert in the Evangelical Magazine, if you should think it proper, as many benevolent Englishmen · seem to take peculiar interest in the preservation of Dr. Franck's excellent Institutions. MISSIONARY COLLECTIONS, &c. Perth Society, for Propagating the Gospel among Heathen and For the Conversion of the Jews For the Missions to Africa 3 0 0 3 0 0 600 A Friend, Parish of Nielson, by the Rev. Mr. Ewing, for the A Friend, Parish of Stewartson, by the Rev. Mr. Ewing, for Rev. Mr. Humphreys and Congregation, Hammersmith HOME INTELLIGENCE. Dreadful Murder At Hoddesdon, in Hertfordshire. THE following are the particulars occurred on the night of Tuesday, Oct. 20: Mr. G. Boreham, a respectable farmer of Hoddesdon, had four daughters,, one of them the of that dreadful catastrophe which wife of Mr. Warner, of Jewin Street, London; the other three single. Mrs Warner had been on a visit to her parents several days. On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Hommerston, a neighbour, went to Mr. Boreham's to spend the evening; and while she was sitting with Mr. and Mrs. Bore ham and their four daughters, about nine o'clock, they heard a noise ju a back-yard. Mrs. Hommerston got up, opened the back-door, and went to see who was there; when Thomas Simmonds, late a servant to Mr. Boreham, struck her a violent blow on the back part of her neck with a penknife, and afterwards stabbed her in two other places. She then returned into, and ran through the sitting-room which she had just left, as far as the porch; and sat down there on the bench, being quite exhausted from the loss of blood. The villain then rushed into the sittingroom, with his knife open, and stabbed Mrs. Warner in the neck, and divided the left carotid artery. She ran to the fire-place, and then to the front window, where she fell dead. He then flew to Mrs. Boreham, and stabbed her in the hind part of her head, close to the neck, and afterwards in the back part of her left shoulder. She ran from him into the street, calling out, "Murder!" Mr. Boreham's other three daughters escaped. The vilJain then ran out of the sitting room into the back-kitchen, after the maid-servant. Mr. Boreham, who had been looking on during this most horrid transaction, got up (though very lame from a palytic stroke) caught up the poker; and in going after him, was thrown down by the maid, whom the vil lain seized at the same instant, knelt on her body, laid hold of her mouth with his left hand, and was just going to cnt her throat, when she snatched the knife from him. He then fled; and hid himself in a cowshed, where he was soon taken. It appears that the offender had been servant in the family for about two years; but was lately dismissed. While in the family, he paid his addresses to the servant, Elizabeth Harris; but the symptoms of his ferocious temper induced Mrs. B. to dissuade her from having any connexion with him. Mr. James, the surgeon, of Hoddesdon, being called in, found Mrs. Hommerston on the bench in the porch, speechless, but not quite dead: she lived about three minutes; and, on going into the sitting-room, he found Mrs. Warner on her back, under the front window, quite dead; and Mrs. Boreham bleeding. He was at first very doubtfullof her recovery; but there are great hopes she will do well. The evidence before the Coroner being gone through, the jury, without hesitation, gave in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Thomas Simmonds." 66 The villain was immediately conveyed to Hertford gaol; and has, since, confessed to the gaoler, &c. the whole transaction; expressed sorrow for what he had done; and said, he had no previous intention to murder Mrs. Hominerston, 'or any of Mr. Boreham's family, his sole design being against Elizabeth Harris, the servant. At the latter end of October last, two gentlemen, French prisoners, on their parole, took lodgings at Chesterfield. One of them perceiv ed that his strong box had been opened, and property to the amount of a thousand pounds taken out. After much enquiry and examination, it was found that the robbery had been committed by his friend; who, after a clear detection, made a full confession of his guilt. In the mean time he had taken poison, afterwards stabbed himself, and expired. The jury returned a verdict of Self-Murder; and he was buried in a waste piece of ground near the town. What an awful instance of treachery, pride, and infidelity was this! Oct. 21. Maitland Smith was executed at Dumfries, for the robbery and murder of Alex. Williamson, a drover, at Dalquhat, in April last. His behaviour displayed an uncom mon degree of Christian fortitude: he addressed the spectators in a firm tone of voice, acknowledging the justiceof his sentence, and thanking God for his goodness in bringing him at the gangway; that the Bible was a parcel of d- -d lies, and ought to be burned by the common hangman." In consequence of this testimony, the Court agreed that the evidenec of Mr. C. the purser, could not be received; and that his conduct should be represented to the Lords of the Admiralty, which was done accordingly; when Mr. C. was immediately superceded. This decision, we conceive, does honour to the Court-Martial and to the Lords of the Admiralty. The New Rupture Society, Patronized by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, has lately received the liberal donation of 100 Guineas from his Grace the Duke of Bedford; also a munificent transfer of 5007. 3 per cent. consols, with 907. dividends, from John Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Netherclay, in Somersetshire, through the medium of John Heaviside, Esq. for promoting the objects of that Institution. The benefits of this laudable charity are extended to all parts of the kingdom; and the patients in London are attended by W. Blair, Esq. No. 69, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Sawyer, the Collector, No. 20, Great James Street, Bedford Row ; and by Mess. Hoare, Bankers, Fleet Street, the Treasurers. A few Christian friends having taken into consideration the distressing situation of the aged and infirm Christian Poor, who, being past labour, are left without any human means of support, have resolved to institute à Society to be denominated THE AGED PILGRIM'S FRIEND, for the purpose of granting annuities of five guineas each to such aged and infirm persons as “are of the household of Faith," of the age of sixty and upwards, and whose inconie does not exceed five shillings per week. A number of persons have already come forward with subscriptions and donations; and, it is hoped, that this institution will meet with the countenance and support of every real Christian who desires to shew his attachment to his Lord by love to his brethree. The Committee meet the last Menday in every month at No.13, Peartree Street, Goswell Street; where Subscriptions and Donations will be thankfully received. |
