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    the presidency at' Madras , and * sincere fri £ bd to missionaries . He departed tbU life in April , 1808 . * ¥ r i&igapata 7 n- In this settlement , ' thfe brethren Cran and Des Granges *' are = making progress in translating the are- making progress in translating the

    Evangelists into the Telinga language , and are printing and circulating short catechisms and other tracts . In these labours ^ they have been assisted by Araudarayer , a Bandida Bramin , a convert to Christianity , who has a perfect knowledge of the Telinga . They have

    continued to preach in the Fort , to the liuropeaas ^ every Lord ' s day ; and to superintend and assist in the instruction of large schools , which they had raised for the native children ; in which laudable undertaking , they were supported and assisted by the subscriptions and donations of our aiHuent countrymen , and countenanced by the government .

    At Tinevelly— brother Ringekaube *' has'wandered > in pursuit of his mission } more than the directors approve , who have instructed him to " become more stationary /' Neg&p&tam —a populous place , has a Dutch , church , to which , the directors

    -say , ** oar "worthy and beloved friend Vos / 1 having been invited by the society , has been appointed by the governor at Madras- The city contains seventeen oTeat , and sixty-eight small , pagodas , and five Mahometan mosques ; besides twto Roman Catholic and two Protestant churches : •* the Romans are five times

    more " numerous than the Protestants . ' A cloud of discouragement hangs over the mission at S « r ^ * . —~ Dr . Taylor , the society * s missionary , wearied as should seem in the service , has accepted ,

    without the consent of his brethren , and without . consulting the directors , a situation under government , as a medical professor He professes to have done this to serve the mission : but the

    society do not , apparently , thank him for this * service . They say that his conduct has ( deterred an accepted missionary from going out to this settlement , who has been further so much discouraged by this event as to relinquish their service .

    A declaration , not called for , that the directors c | o not wish or intend to insinuate any thing against Dr . Taylor ' s * moral and reli & ious principles , " would almost raise a suspicion that these are really called in question . ^ Thfee * brethren" have been lately devoted to missionary service in India .

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    Two of them , Messr ^ . Pritchm ziSA Brain , are intended for the Birman Enapire i- and the other , Mr . Hafrds ; lor Seringapatam , Messrs . Gordon and Lee , now in America , are to proceed and join themselves to * the brethren at Madras

    and Vizagapatam . * Ceylon— is a scene of preparation rather than of action . The missionaries here are Messrs . Errhardt , Read and Palm ; Palm and his wife are situated near Jaffnapatnam ; his studies have- been chiefl ydirected to the Tamoul or Malabar

    language , , in "which he appears to have made considerate proficiency , being assisted greafly ^ lly the scriptures , long " since printed in that language . One missionary , Morrison , is in China - —studying tf this almost unknown

    language . " From the insight he has already got in it , he pronounces that the difficulties of acquiring it are by no means insuperable . He has been helped forward by a native Chinese , professing * the Reman religion * an < d has met with friendly aid from the European and American gcxitleme ^ engaged in commerce .

    * ' Mr . Weisenger , a promising young " man , has been sent from the Seminary at Gosport to the island of Malta ;—where he is to reside for a time , in order to improve himself in the knowledge of the modern Greek language and of the

    Italian , with an ultimate view of proceeding to the Greek islands , and also to the continent , to circulate the modern Greek Testament among the inhabitants . * The Ts ' ew Testament , in modem G : eek , is printing by the British ' andt JForei ^ n Bible Societv .

    In AMERICA , —Mr . Fidgeon is at JRestigouche t near the bay of \ fAaUur , in JSfe * zu BrunsivicJs i labouring , it is said , ** npt without sticcess . Missionary efforts seem to have succeeded better in the WEST INDIES than elsewhere .

    , Mr , Elliot has been at Tobago ^* about - a year . He has preached at many different estates , and also in the town of ; Scarborough . " The negroes , m genera ^ hav e discove re d the grcsate ^ t rcadi * ness to receive instruction , both from preaching and catechising . " The mission at Dtmarara—has floi * - rished under Mr . Wray . Mr . Post , an opulent planter , lias been a great -friend to the missioni . he first proposed , and has since , liberally' supported it . , " ^ f ., . said to haye / biceii at the expence ^ in to *" half / of tfic cause ^ df religion ^ * a W »; > s ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/48/