strate to the church the indispensable necessity of expiation. As all her sacrifices were unacceptable without faith, she was taught that they had no worth in themselves for taking away sin. As the faith required, was that which looked forward to the sacrifice of " the Prince of Life," she was also instructed in the necessity of an atonement of infinite value. "We have at the same time a wonderful display of the grace of God. This might be illustrated in a variety of respects. Let one suffice at present: He often informed his worshippers, that he had no delight in the sacrifices of slain beasts. When his design in appointing them was overlooked, he expressed his detestation at these very sacrifices which he had himself required. Yet, for about 4000 years, he accepted these, granting pardon and eternal life to all who offered them in faith. He bestowed all new covenant blessings on his people, according to the nature of the dispensation, on the credit of that real atonement which was to be made in the end of ages. The sacrifice of Christ, as it was necessary for the actual purchase of redemption, was also necessary for the vindication of the essential justice of God. Hence it is said, that God hath set forth his Son" to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood; to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare at this time his righteousness, that he might be just" to the claims of his own adorable perfections, and yet "the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." Vol. ii. 347-369. Much praise is due to the author for the remarks he has made on Sacred History; but especially for the application of it to the purpose of illustrating the capital doctrines of the Bible. Equal merit is due to him when he appears as the defender of revelation. The doctrine of the late Dr. Geddes, with respect to the destruction of the Canaanites, has received a solid refutation (vol. ii. 183-193) whilst his false represen tations are happily exposed. The style and method are, upon the whole, neat, perspicuous, and suited to the subject; and we doubt not but this work will be read with pleasure and improvement by candidates for the gospel - ministry, who are solicitous of Biblical information, and indeed by all who seek an increasing acquaintance with the Bible. Prefixed to the first volume, are two excellent dissertations. The first on the authenticity of the history contained in the Pentateuch of Moses and the book of Joshua; -the second, Proving that the books ascribed to Moses were actually written by him, and that he wrote them by divine inspiration. We should not be sorry to see a third executed with equal ability by the same hand, illustrating and defending the Mosaic economy. 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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. A LONG and interesting official Letter has been just received from Ota❤ heite, which we have the pleasure to subjoin; by which our readers will be happy to learn, that the Missionaries, though "in deaths oft," are still preserved, and have begun to preach the gospel in the Otaheitan Janguage. Several private Letters are also come to hand; but our limits confine us to an extract from one only in the present Number. OTAHEITE. Letter from the Misssionaries there. Missionary Residence, Mattavai, Otaheite, July 8, 1802. Honoured Fathers and Brethren, THE Nautilus, Capt. Simpson, anchored in our port the 26th of June: she is bound to Qwhyce for pork, for the coJony of New South Wales; which is not only suffering for want of provisions, but is also in some danger of a mutiny among the convicts. At Owhyee, we understand, certain vessels are sure to be met with at this season, from the north-west coast of Amerca, bound to China; at which last place, By the time they arrive, others are on the point of sailing for Europe. We are informed, by Captains Bishop and Simpson, that the conveyance of letters through this channel, is as safe as can be expected, from the casualties of the sea and the length of the voyage: we, therefore, embrace the opportunity of communicating to you some necessary intelligence concerning singular events that have lately occurred in Otaheite, cheerfully resigning to the will of God your receiving or non-receiving this our epistle. As the loss of our journal would be of more importance than a letter, we think it best to transmit that in the same manner we did our former, through the medium of Governor King. About eight days after the date of our last (Jan. 8, 1802) a small armed colonial brig, called the Norfolk, arrived from Port Jackson, dispatched by the Governor; and on the same se.vice as his Majesty's ship Porpoise. By the Norfolk, brother Shelley and wife joined us; and a natu ralist came to make his abode sometime on the island. Brother Shelley delivered us certain letters from England, by favour of Messrs Bass and Bishop, of the Venus; which he met with at Fort Jackson. To those we cannot now speak particularly. A week after the Norfolk, the Venus. anchored in Mattavai Bay. Capt. Bishop and six men remained here to procure and salt pork for the colony also; while Capt. Bass proceeded on to Owhyee, to do the like there; and, at the end of four months, to return and take on board Capt. B. & c. In the latter end of March a great meeting was held in Attahooroo district (the long expected one taken notice of in some of our former letters and journals); at which Otoo, after formally demanding, and being denied, forcibly took from the natives of that land a billet of wood, which these poor Heathens call their Great God; and which has been the occasion of a great rebellion, and much bloodshed. At the time of the meeting in Attahooroo, a gale of wind from the N. N.W. prevailed, that occasioned the loss of the Norfolk she being forced on shore on the beach, a little to the southward of the British house. By the dispensation of Providence, seventeen more of our countrymen were unexpectedly brought to sojourn with us in Mattavai. Only the hull of the Norfolk is lost; her crew, guns, stores, cargo, &c. were safely landed. A few days after this event, Oroo, Pomarre, &c. who were in Papparra district, in their way to Towteera, in Tyaraboo, where they were going to celebrate some heathenish rites, and deposit the idol that they had plundered the Attakoorooans of, sent is word that we should be upon our guard, for there was a probability of our being attacked by the Attahootooans. But ten days had elapsed, from the time of our receiving this intelligence, when the Attahoorovans did, in a powerful body, break into the adjoining district of Fwhaa*; killed some diseased persons that were not able to make their escape, plundered and burnt the houses of the inhabitants, and pursued their conquest into Oparre, where also they expeiled the natives and fired a few dwellings; which done, they withdrew to their own land. The fugitives of Fwhaa and Oparre took refuge near our habitą Or Tettahah. fion. The report was, that we likewise were to be assaulted, our persons destroyed, and property plundered. Capt. House, of the Norfolk, and Capt. Bishop (to whom, under God, we are indebted for our preser vation) exerted themselves much upon the occasion. Four small brass cannon, saved from the Norfolk, were planted in the most advantageous manner then judged; all the seamen and brethren that could, or could not, handle a musquet, were imme. diately embodied, as far as the musquets would go, and taught so much the use of arms as to be able to load and fire, &c.; guards were posted; and every precaution taken against a surprize. In a few days more, a party, consisting of 2 or 300 men, with their wives and children, arrived from Eimeo, being sent for by Pomarre, to come and fight the Attahoorooans. They formed their encamp. ment in the bay, where the long-house, called Nannoo (now burnt) stood. Here they were reinforced by those of Fwhaa, Oparre, Mattavai, and sundries, that came from i omarre. The Attahoorooans met them, fought them, and drove them to the foot of One Tree Hill. All now was confusion and fear among the natives: they asserted that their god fought for the rebels, and that they were irresistible. All around appeared confident that the Englishmen should next feel the weight of their arm, whom they would rush upon at once, and overpower with numbers. Capt. Bishop, and a strong party of mus queteers, on the day of action, had taken possession of the western pass, on the top of the hill, in order to resist the rebels, should they prevail over the king's friends, and atterapt to enter this district. How ever, instead of that, they dispatched a messenger with the following terms : 1. They offered the Englishmen the peace (or government) of the districts of Mattavai, Oparre, and Fwhaa. 2. If refused, they demanded a passage through Mattavai, to go to the eastward. 3. If denied, that they would fight their way. Our path of duty was plain. To have admitted them into Mattavai, would have been the certain destruction of many help less persons, who had already been com pelled to fly for their lives, and who had placed themselves under the shadow of our wings for protection. To engage in war with them, was what all were averse to. We besitated not in acceding to the first proposal. The Attahoorooans ratified the treaty, and retired to their own territories. Whether or no they would really have ventured to attack us, if the first term had been refused, and the second denied, we cannot tell; but we think we may be sure of, this, that if at this crisis, only the Society The beaten party that surrounded us, filled our cars with repeated assurances, that the rebels only meant to deceive us; and that their real design was to lull us into a security, that they might obtain a more easy conquest over us: so that we were kept in continual anxiety, and sometimes so alarmed, that we were obliged to sleep upon our arms all night; and, at others, to rise suddenly from our beds and prepare for action, as if the foe were already at the door. Nor were the refugees less harrassed; for what awakened our fears, kept theirs awake: terrified with the apprehensions of the invaders approach (whom they deemed unconquerable) they stole off by degrees in their canoes, &c. to the eastward. The greater part of the Limeoans, with their families, had fled for shelter to the small island that stands in Nannoo Bay, where the foe, who had no canoes, could not follow them. There they remained, fear bound, several days after the Attahoorooans had evacuated Oparre, not daring to move, and sending to the Englishmen to go down and escort them up to Mattavai: which, however, was not considered as expedient to be done." Intelligence of what had transpired we sent off to Pomarte, who remained at Towteera, busily employed in the mysteries of jects in sacrifice to his god; so infatuated Satan, and shedding the blood of his subwith his abominable superstition, that hę durst not stir a step towards checking the rebellion, which was growing stronger and stronger every day. The rebels took advantage of his folly, and executed what in this country may very well be termed a bold and daring plan. Having expeditiously finished certain religious ceremonies over the dead bodica they had taken in the last action, and be ing joined by the districts of Papaira, Puppe, Ooreede *, and Pappe-are, they crossed the isthmus, marched up to Towteera, and attacked Pomarce and all his force. This was done with so much se crecy and alertness, that Pomarre had but just time to collect his scattered people together, and prepare for their recept Or Wvergede. On the king's side were about forty mus quets and a swivel; the rebels had about fourteen. In point of men, it is thought that the superiority was on the king's part also. In the evening the two par ties met; a slight skirmish ensued, in which, it is said by some, that the rebels received a check; but in a night-assault they made, they killed a great chief, relation and friend of Pomarre. This threw the king's forces into confusion: with the utmost precipitation they took to their canoes, fied, and left the rebels masters of Tvaraboo. Pomarre, with his routed army, bore down for Mattavai. Capt. Bishop received him and his son under arms, as a token, of respect. The Chief, and all his family's countenances were strongly marked with fear and dejection: he talked some. thing of flying directly to Eimeo; but when he saw what we had done and were doing in fortifying our new house for selfdefence, he appeared to take heart a little, and seemed to begin to hope that all was not yet lost. Thus the kind Providence that had so graciously wrought for our protection, took under its saving wings these poor Heathens. May the day soon come when many of them shall know him who is the Saviour of all men! Expecting that now the rebels would certainly pursue their success (which was the general opinion of all Pon arre's adherents) we laboured to make ourselves as strong as possible, that when they should appear, we might have no cause to reproach ourselves with self-confidence and neglect of necessary means for preservation, from a savage enemy never provoked by us, and whose only aim in warring against us must be for the sake of shedding blood and plunder. With We cut down all the bread-fruit, cocoanut trees, &c. (amounting to some score) which we conceived would be favourable for them, from behind, to annoy us with their musquets and slings. the trees we formed a strong fallisade round the lower apartments of our new house; to which the whole of the Society was retired, as also Capts. House and Bishop, with their property, and sunday seamen. While the veranda, that runs the length of the front of the building, was barricadoed; as likewise the upper apartments, with chests, bedding, bales of natives cloth, &c. so as to be in genera! musquet-ball proof. Before this, the four small cannon had been removed from their former situations, and planted in two upper-end rooms, where they commanded an extensive range;-the small-arms were distributed in the other apartments. But the rebels were mercifully kept at a distance from us. They remained sometime ravaging Tyaraboo, and then returned to their own lands. Prior to their return, Pomarre took the advantage of their absence, and sent a strong party to fall, in the dead of night, upon the men, women, and children that they had left at home. This enterprize succeeded; and, in two or three hours, near 200 of them, it is reported, were slain. This, instead of intimidating the rebels, inflamed them the more. They professed their determination to be the utter extirpation of the present governors; and we fear much slaughter will be the result of this dreadful commotion. After the rebels had exercised their bar barity sometime in Tyaraboo, they remarched back to their lands; being has tened thereunto by the unpleasing accounts of the destruction of several of their families. Word was continually coming to Pomarre that his focs were approaching. One day it was said, that they were coming up through Fwhaa and Oparre; another day, that they were crossing the isthmus, coming down from the eastward, joined also by the Tyarabooans; while presently after, it was confidently asserted that they had divided their forces, and were coming both ways at once. Pomarre knew not what to do: he caused some works to be thrown up on the west side of One Tree Hill; which would greatly assise in keeping off an enemy on that side: and he made a few faint attempts, by going down to the Nannoo, to draw the Attanoorooans to an engagement. At last the Nautilus arrived; which appeared to give new life to the king's friends. Pomarre soon prevailed with Captain Simpson, through the mediation of Captain Bishop, to grant him a boat manned and armed, to accompany him to Attahooroo, where he was very desirous of going, to offer up to his god, which the rebels had retaken in Tyaraboo, some exceedingly valuable, as he thought, presents. He went with his fleet and the Nautilus's boat. The Attahoorooans, who were assembled on the beach, seemed to wait for an attack; but made nore. They contented themselves with keeping Pomarre out of the Morai, and obliged him to make his oblation on the sea-beach, at some distance off. As the rebels committed no act of violence, Pomarre (who is rolled up in superstition) would not permit any hostilitics to be commenced against them, though the opportunity appeared favourable. Having finished his prayers, he re-embarked with all his people, highly pleased that he had performed so great a service, and returned to Mattavai. Autecedent to his arrival, Captain Bishop, who row thought that Pomsrte's mam object in soliciting a party from the Nautilus, was to proceed immediately against his rebellous subjects, and to endeavour to subdue them to obedience, was disappointed at the boat's return without effecting any thing: he therefore requested a meeting of the Society, at which were present also Capt. House and, Mr. Lewin the naturalist. He proposed, that since Pomarre would not attack the rebels, and as they have frequently (so it is declared by those arround us) threateaed the destruction of the English, the English should, with the assistance of Pomarre's masquetry, go and attack them. Capt. H. declined engaging with his men in the matter, it being contrary to his orders from Gov. King, to take any decided part in the affairs of the country. Mr. Lewin assented, could a sufficient party be formed for the enterprize. The Society reasoned some time upon the subject, and concluded with observing, that they did not see it their path of duty to embark in such an undertaking; and recommended, that, as thro' Pomarre's absence we did not know what his designs were, we should wait his return. Two days after Pomarre arrived, and renewed his solicitations with Captains Bishop, and Simpson, for men and arms, to assist him in quelling the existing rebellion. Capt. B. desired another meeting; which was attended as before; the sub. ject of actively engaging in the present commotions was resumed. Capt. B. now informed the Society, that he did not wish for them to take part in the business, against their inclination; he only requested to know, if it would not be for the Society's interest, that there should be pace-and whether it would not be for the interest of the Society, that he should go and act against the rebels. The sense of the Society was taken singly upon the subject, when only one negative was found, who objected, through a scruple of Conscience. Some arguments were now used by Capt. B. w th Capt. H. to induce him to permit his met. (who only waited his consent) to be employed in the service. Cast. H. agreed, if the Society would incenify him to Governor King, for a breach of orders. This the Society acceded to. Capt. B. drew up a certificate for the purpose, and the assenting members sigued it. Aracoro0. Preparations were now made for the ar. By 13, P. M. the whole armament was embarked, and on their way to The number, of Europeans w Capt. Bishop, was 19 men, well ariel, a boat with the first mate and four mer fo the Nautils, a four pounder and all Pomarie's forces. Brother Eider attended as surgeon. 0:00 and the young prince of Tvaraboo remained hole, with a few cervants. On Monday, July 5th, Capt. Bishop, brother Elder, and part of the Europeans, returned. By Capt. B. various expresses already received, were confirmed; the substance of which was as follows: was The fleet landed in Attahooroo on Saturday, July 3d, at eleven A. M. a small puty of the rebels saw their approach, and retir.d. The enemy was withdrawn to their strong holds, which, on reconnoiter. ing, were found to be, if not wholly impregnable, yet the storming of them must be attended with great loss. Capt. B. and men would have made the attempt; but Pomarre and men could not be brought to venture on so desperate an action. Seve ral shot were fired, which in general fell harmless. One of Pumarre's men wounded in the chin and throat, by a bail from the enemy; though they fired but few musquets, owing perhaps to their scantiness of ammunition; stones they slung in abundance, and rolled down some from a great height, of several hundred pounds weight. On the following morn ing, a party of Papparra people, marching to join the rebels, was intercepted by a party of the royalists. The leader of the party (who was a great warrior) and his wife (a woman of a very goodly appearance) were slain; the rest made their escape, and got safe to the strong holds. The bodies of the man and his wife were treated in a most inhuman manner. The rest of the day passed without any particular occurrence, till evening, when Capt. B. wearied with the inactivity, irresolution, and want of subordination, that pervaded Pomarre's camp, had actually re-embarked his men, to return to Mattavai. Pomarre also, who thought it not safe to remain there without the Englishmen, was re-enbarking his people with all possible speed. The embarkation was nearly completed, and most of the canoes were moving off, when an unexpected event took place, which gave a new turn to affairs. A young man who has been with the Society some years, and who had taken to himself the name of To-morrow-Morn ing, had shewn a most active and courageous spirit, and performed such feats of bravery, as astonished our countrymen, and excited the admiration of his own. This young man at the time of embarking, was up with one more, at the enemy's entrenchments, braving them to appear and fight, and firing at them, as he saw opportunity. At this season a heavy a shower of rain came from the mountains. The rebels, perhaps, deeming this favourable time, se zed, as they thought, the golden moment, and, in great numbers rushed out, armed with musquets, spears, club, and slings, and chaced To-morrowMorning and the other down to the feet; |