rum apud Lacedæmonios MagistratuMr. RENN DICKSON HAMPDEN, B. A. of Oriel College. English Essay—A Comparative Estimate of the English Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries-Mr. RICHARD BURDON, B. A. Fellow of Oriel College. Latin Verse-Germanicus Cæsar Varo Legionibusque suprema solvit-Mr. W. A. Hammond, undergraduate Commoner of Christ Church.Sir R. Newdigate's Prize: English Verse-Niobe: Mr. J. L. Adolphus, under-graduate Scholar of St. John's, Great additional facilities have of late been afforded by the Trustees of the British Mu* seum, to persons wishing to visit that noble Institution. 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Sir William Stanley's Garland, containing his twenty-one years Travels through most Parts of the World, and his safe Return to Latham Hall. 8vo. and 4to. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. MISSION TO THE SOUTH SEAS. THE Directors of the London Missionary Society have received a letter from the Missionaries at Eimeo, near Otaheite, dated Oct. 21, 1812. They had been driven from these islands by the wars which had occurred among the natives; but had recently returned, to the number of seven men and seven women, besides some children. Three of the women had recently died, and their loss seemed to be severely felt. One of their number, who had gone to Port Jackson to be married, had returned with his wife, a fortnight before, bringing a kind letter from Governor M'Quarrie, who had shewed himself a real friend to the Mission, and also from the Rev. Mr. Marsden, who had treated him with great affection, and had manifested an ardent zeal to serve the interests of the Mission. At the recommendation of these excellent men, they had commenced building a vessel for their accommodation. Their missionary labours had hitherto been confined to the neighbourhood of their residence: they had formed a school which was attended by 20 scholars, and they hoped the number would soon increase. Divine service was performed every Sunday in the native language; CHRIST. OBSERV, No. 150. preaching in the forenoon, and catechising in the afternoon; but it was thinly attended. Several individuals are stated to have greatly benefited by their instructions. Among the rest, king Pomarie appears to have been influenced by them to offer himself a candidate for baptism, declaring it to be his fixed purpose to devote himself to God. He gave the Missionaries to understand, that this resolution was the result of long and increasing conviction of the truth and excellency of the religion of Christ. He had endeavoured to persuade the two prin cipal chiefs in the island to take the same step: but they told him, he might do as he pleased: they would cleave to ORO, which he observed was cleaving to Satan, adding. that if no one else would embrace the Gospel, he would, as he desired to be happy after death, and to be saved in the judg ment of the great day. The state of his affairs calling him from Eimeo to Otaheite, Pomarre carried on a correspondence thence with the Missionaries. The original letters of Pomarre, in his own hand-writing, have been transmitted to Eugland, and a transla. tion of them has been made. We can find room for only a few very brief extracts. Speaking of the troubles in which he was 3.F involved, he observes," My affliction is great; but if I can only obtain God's fa Your before I die, I shall count myself well off. But, O! should I die with my sins unpardoned, it will be ill indeed with me. O may my sins be pardoned, and my soul saved through Jesus Christ And may Jehovah regard me before I die! and then I shall rejoice, because I have obtained the favour of Jehovah." The following is an abstract of the Report :— Thirty-two adult persons of the Jewish persuasion have embraced the Christian faith, and have been baptized under the pa tronage of this institution. Again: "The affairs of Taheite are pretty well settled; the chiefs having sent professions of subjection; but how this will continue is uncertain. However, at present all is well. "I continue to pray to God without ceasing. Regardless of other things, I am concerned only that my soul may be saved by Jesus Christ! It is my earnest desire that I may become one of Jehovah's people; and that God may turn away his anger from me, which I deserve for my wickedness, my ignorance of himself, and my accumulated crimes! "If God were pleased to create all mankind anew, then they would be good. This is my earnest desire, that God would enable me from my heart to love that which is good, and to abhor that which is evil; and that I may be saved by Jesus Christ. My dear friends, write to me, that I may know your minds. Inform me also of the news from Por Jackson; and whether King George is alive or dead. "May Jehovah and Jesus Christ our Saviour bless you!" LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOT Schools have been opened for the children of Jewish parents. The number of both sexes admitted, from the commencement of the Society in 1809, amounts to 126; of whom there have been placed out to business, and apprenticed, 15;-withdrawn by their parents, 15;-dismissed, 5;—dead, 8; remain in the school, 84. Four Jewish youths are under the care and gratuitous tuition of the Rev. Thomas Fry, one of the Secretaries, with a view to their education for the Christian ministry. For the employment of Jews who, in consequence of their conversion to Christianity, or discovering an inclination to inquire int its evidences and principles, have been cast off by their connexions, and deprived of their former means of subsistence A Printing-office has been established, in which considerable encouragement has been received. Several respectable works have been printed in a manner that it is hoped cannot fail of recommending the office to the patronage of all the friends of the Institution. A manufactory of Baskets has lately been commenced, and is already in a promising state. An Asylum has also been opened for the reception and employment of Jewesses. A translation of the New Testament into the Hebrew language is carrying ou. The ING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE Gospel of St. Matthew, after having been re JEWS. The sixth annual meeting of this Society was held on the 6th May, at Freemasons Hall, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the chair. After the report was read, several noblemen and gentlemen powerfully advocated the cause of the Society-among the rest, the Royal Chairman, Lord Calthorpe, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Way, the Hon. and Rev. G. Noel, the Rev. Dr. Randolph, the Rev. Mr. Simeon, the Rev. Mr. Grimshaw, the Rev. Dr. ColIyer, the Rev. W. Way, &c. &c. &c. Our limits will not allow us to give any account of the speeches that were delivered in favour of the institution. The hall was crowded by a respectable assembly of ladies and gentlemen. Sermons had been preached by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Wells, and the Rev. W. Cooper; the collec tions after which amounted to 268, 13s. vised and corrected by several professors in the universities, and many other learned men in different parts of the United King dom, is now completed; and the work is going on with all possible dispatch. Various tracts in several languages are always in readiness for distribution among such Jews as may be inclined to receive them. The Committee have to acknowledge, with great gratitude, the success of some of their tracts presented by Dr. Naudi, of Malta, to Mr. Murtheim, a wealthy mer chant of Tripoli, who by reading them was led to search the Scriptures and ultimately to embrace Christianity, and who is at this time a diligent and laborious missionary on the coast of Barbary; where his general knowledge of the Hebrew, Arabic, modern Greek, and several other languages, qualifies him for very extensive usefulness. A large and commodious building, called the Jews' Chapel, has been opened for several years in Spitalfields, where the Rev. J. S. C. F. Frey statedly delivers lectures addressed to his Jewish brethren. The Society is building a new Episcopal Chapel at Bethnal Green, to be officiated in by Clergymen of the Established Church, which is expected to be ready for opening in May. Lectures to the Jews have been regularly preached at several other places, both in the Established Church and among the Dissenters. On the 1st of every month is published, price 6d, The Jewish Repository, or Monthly Communications respecting the Jews, and the Proceedings of the London Society." This work is particularly recommended to the different Auxiliary and Penny Societies, and to all persons who wish to assist the institution, or to obtain information respecting it. Auxiliary Societies have been instituted in various parts of the United Kingdom; and many tenevolent persons, impressed with the obligations of Christians to seek the conversion of the Jews, have formed, and are now forming, Associations to promote a subscription, in which the poorest disciple of Christ may take a share, by contributing one penny per week, or sixpence per month. The success which has already attended the efforts of this Society, though it may not have equalled their hopes, has certainly been such as affords abundant encouragement to persevere in the work they have begun, and should stimulate Christians at large to contribute ali the assistance in their power to this labour of love, The expenses incurred in prosecuting such designs are unavoidably great; and it must depend on the liberality of the Christian public, with what degree of vigour the Institution shall be carried on. Testaments: that since the commencement of the institution (1785), the Society had issued 386,460 spelling-books, 79,363 Testaments, and 8,139 Bibles, to 4,247 schools, containe ing upwards of 350,000 children. Thirty years have nearly elapsed since the com mencement of this benevolent institution; and notwithstanding its progressive labours during that period, Sunday Schools are still rising up both in the metropolis and throughout the kingdom. The importance and advantage of common education are now ge nerally admitted; and many, who formerly opposed its operation, are now become its zealous advocates. In addition to the welldirected exertions of this Society at home, they have succeeded in establishing Sunday schools at Antigua, Nova Scotia, the Cape of Good Hope, and in the island of Cape Breton in North America, where the moral condition of the rising generation is represented to be most deplorable, and calling aloud for help. In the last annual Report of this Society, very gratifying information was afforded by the establishment of floating Sunday schools on board his Majesty's ships at the Nore and elsewhere: they now report, that they have likewise succeeded in promoting two well-regulated schools, under the superintendance of the surgeon, on board two convict ships, bound for New South Wales, who has written, that the convicts (319 in number), with a few exceptions, behave well; that many of them, by means of the instruction given to them, can now read in the Bible; and that he is inclined to believe they will have reason to bless the day when the Sunday School Society was formed. The Society have farther directed their humane attention, in the course of the past year, to both French and American prisoners of war, many of whom have been brought to a state of considerable improvement and good conduct, and to a persuasion, no doubt, that SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPORT AND although they are England's prisoners, Eng ENCOURAGEMENT OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH DOMINIONS. The following has been transmitted to us as the substance of the Report made at the Annual General Meeting of this Society, held at Batson's Coffee-hou-e, Cornhill, on Wednesday,the 13th April last. The Committee reported, that, since the last annual meeting, 264 schools had been added to the Society's list and assistance repeated to 61 other schools formerly established; for which and the new schools before stated, they had distributed 29,075 spelling-books and 4,184 lishmen are nevertheless their friends. In addition to the great increase of labour which the statement above must necessarily have occasioned, the Report of the Committee states also, that they have directed their attention to the education of adults, and that schools for this unlettered class of society are already established both in England and Wales, conducted by persons of mature age, with the most encouraging suc knowledge. The Committee farther reported, that both Wales and Ireland continue their exertions in the good work of Sunday school education. Wales is de scribed as having undergone a general moral cultivation by these means; and that present circumstances encourage them to hope, that, in a few years, Ireland will, through the Divine blessing on the attempts to edu"cate the poor, widely exhibit traces of contentment, industry, and good order, astonishing those who have judged of it merely by those noxious weeds which have sprung up in consequence of her having been so long neglected. After such an exposition of the proceedings and effects of this useful Society, little need be said to enforce its claims to pa tronage and support on the minds of enlightened and benevolent Christians. Pro viding as it does, at an easy expense, and without interruption to their employment or gains, the means of instruction for the lower classes of society, it opens a way for the general diffusion of pseful knowledge, and the maintenance of those industrious habits which contribute so greatly to the vigour, the improvement, and the stability of a country. At present the demands for its aid exceed any thing which has yet been experienced. Its operations are going forward in the greater part of the British dominions, both at home and abroad; aud there is reason to believe, that, if suitably supported, it will penetrate into those parts which remain unenlightened, and supply the poor with the means of understanding and appreciating those Scriptures which, through the blessing of God, may make them wiss unto salvation, VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. VERY soon after our last View of Public Affairs was given to the public it was announced that the Treaty of Peace between Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia on the one hand, and France on the other, had been signed at Paris on the 30th day of May. By this treaty, the kingdom of France is to preserve the integrity of its limits such as they existed at the period of the 1st of January, 1792, with a variety of small rectifications of the boundary line which separates France from Belgium, Germany, and Italy. This line commences between Dunkirk and Nieuport on the north, proceeds thence through the Departments of Jemappe, Sambre and Meuse, Moselle, Sarre, Mont Tonnere, and the Lower Rhine, to the fortress of Landau, and thence to the banks of the Rhine; which river forms the boundary of France and Germany till it reaches Switzerland, when the ridge of Mount Jura becomes the boundary. The tine is continued thence, with slight variations of the ancient limits, to the Mediterra nean between Cagnes and Nice. Between France and Spain the limits are precisely the same which existed before the 1st of January, 1792. Commissaries will be appointed by the several powers to mark clearly and distinctly not merely by a map, but by stakes, the new limits along the whole extent of their course. The naviga tion of the Rhine will be free. The future Congress will employ itself in devising regulatious under which that freedom may be best maintained on that and other rivers forming the boundary of states. Holland to receive an increase of territory; but no person can be sovereign in that country who wears a foreign crown. The States of Germany will be independent, and federally united. Switzerland will be independent. Italy will be composed of sovereign states. Malta and its dependencies will belong to Great Britain. The arsenals and ships of war in ports restored by France shall be divided between France and the country in which they are situated in the proportion of two thirds to the former. This provision will not affect places taken by the allies before the 23d of April, or the ships and arsenal in the Texel. Henceforth Antwerp will be only a commercial port. No individual in any of the caded or restored districts is to be prosecuted or disturbed either in person or pro-perty for his past political attachments or conduct, whatever they may have been. The respective Governments mutually give up their claims on each other for any advance that may have been made since 1792. France, however, will pay to indivi |