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MR. KICHERER, THE CELEBRATED MISSIONARY TO SOUTH AFRICA.

THIS distinguished servant of God appears to have been prepared in a peculiar manner for missionary la bours. At an early period of life, he happened to read Cook's Voyages: his mind was then led to contemplate the miserable condition of the human race sitting in the region and shadow of death. His soul longed for their salvation; and he eagerly desired, if possible, to be instrumental to that end, But he had no conception of any means whereby this could be accomplished, nor did he know there was a missionary in the world. For many years, however, the ardent desire of evangelizing the heathen dwelt on his mind. At length, the Missionary Society was formed; when being one afternoon at the house of a friend, a Dutch minister first informed him that British Christians were devising means to send the gospel to the heathen. It is impossible to express the joy afforded him by this intelligence. From this moment Mr. Kicherer exulted in the hope, that he should one day gratify the dearest wish of his heart, in becoming the messenger of Jesus to the benighted world. Application was soon made to the society, and he was accepted as one of their missionaries. Relig. Mon.

On the 30th of May, 1805, the annual general meeting of the Charity Schools in London took place in St. Paul's cathedral. The number of children was upwards of 6000, besides whom 7000 persons were supposed to be present. The spectacle was grand, and highly gratifying to every benevolent mind. A sermon was preached on the occasion by the Bishop of Bristol. Christian Obsero.

We have learned with real satisfaction, that the venerable Bishop of London has interfered to prevent the continuance of those subscription concerts, which have been performed at the houses of different noblemen, to the disgrace of a Christian country, on a Sunday. His Lordship's remonstrances, it is hoped, will be effec. tual, without the necessity of resorting to legal measures. If not, we are assured that he will be deterred by no considerations of rank and influence from pursuing the path of his duty, by suppressing these outrages on public decency, and bringing delinquents to justice. His Lordship has succeeded in preventing the entertainments at the opera from encroaching, as had been the practice, on the Sunday morning. ibid.

Literary Intelligence.

ITALY.

ANOTHER building has been cleared from the ashes which buried the city of Pompeii, in the year of Christ 79. Vases, coins, musical instruments, and several fresco paintings, have been found in good preservation.

At the town of Fiesole, near Florence, a beautiful amphitheatre has been discovered, and the greatest part of it cleared from the rubbish. It is supposed capable of containing at least thirty thousand persons.

MALTA.

A WEEKLY paper, in Italian, has been some time printed at Malta; Vol. I. No. 7. S$

and is actually distributed in the Mediterranean, by the numerous channels of which our naval superiority gives us the command. It is said to be perused with avidity, not only in the Grecian islands, but on the coast of Asia Minor, and in the regencies on the coast of Africa. This is an efficacious means of increasing the importance of our occupation of Malta. The illumination of a free press judiciously directed, may operate powerfully in dissipating the mists of error and deception, which have enveloped the wide horizon of the Mediterranean. The Italian language is the common medium of intercourse round that sea, and this ex

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RUSSIA.

MR. ARTHUR YOUNG is arrived at Petersburgh, on a statistical journey through the Russian empire, in which he purposes to employ twelve months. He has been received with the respect due to his pursuits and his character.

From the last report to the minister of public instruction, it appears that the schools throughout the em pire amount to 494, the teachers to 1425, and the pupils to 33,484. The maintenance of these seminaries amounts to 1,727,732 roubles of 215, 9661. sterling. These seminaries are exclusive of various civil and military academies, as well as of all female schools. Private individuals emulate the government in their benefactions for the promotion of public instruction. Counsellor Sudienkow has given 40,000 roubles for the erection of schools in Little Russia. The nobility of Podolia have contributed 65,000 roubles to found a military school in that province. A number

of similar donations have been made in various parts of the empire.

Mr. C. TAYLOR, of London, has published an improved quarto edition of Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Bible. The following is his address to the public:

"The present times are peculiarly distinguished for the necessity of calling the minds of Christians in general, and of the world at large, to the genuine dictates of the standard of truth. We have seen the plainest passages of Holy Writ wrested from their evident import; and passages confessedly difficult, have been triumphantly adduced as demonstrations of folly and imposture; without inquiring whether accurate information might not render them clear and easy. Influenced by these, and by other considerations, of which the public cannot be ignorant, and desirous of vindicating truth, and promoting piety and knowledge, the editors presume to think they could not have rendered

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more acceptable service to the interests of religion, than by reprinting a work of established reputation,

in which, from the nature and form of it, any article that can be desired may be instantly found in its proper place, satisfactorily explained in a simple and perspicuous manner.

"This work is the production of thirty years professedly devoted to it; it has ever been esteemed a complete library of scripture knowledge. It

has been translated into most languages, French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, &c. Its authority has always stood very high; not a commentator of repute has appeared since the publication of it, who has not either quoted from it, or appealed to it. No library has ever been deemed complete without it: but its usefulness is not confined to the learned, or to the library; it is calculated for the service of all who wish to " give a reason for the hope that is in them," or who wish to understand, for themselves, that sacred volume on which they build their faith.

"This celebrated dictionary we have printed in quarto, as a more eligible size than folio; we have accommodated it to English readers, by our mode of publication, by arrangement, &c. and, to render it complete, we have annexed one of the most entertaining, as well as instructive works, which have issued from the English press; forming an assemblage of the most curious and pertinent extracts from voyages and travels into the east, which illustrate an infinity of scripture peculiarities and incidents, by the same customs, manners, and

ideas, which are maintained in the east at this very time; with Plates, Maps, c. e. from the authorities."

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Mr. JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM, of Boston, intends publishing, in monthly numbers, (the first appears Jan. 1806) a work called the PoLYANTHOS. Its aim is "to please the learned and enlighten the ignorant; to allure the idle from folly, and confirm the timid in virtue." Each number is to contain a biographical

We think this should be Polyanthus. See Encyclopedia.

sketch, and a portrait of some distinguished American character. We wish the POLYANTHUS may be found among the "prize flowers," possessing the requisite properties for admission into the collections of men of taste, virtue and science.

WE are happy to learn that different booksellers in England and Scotland, are publishing the whole works of the following eminem divines, viz. Bishop Hall, Archbishop Leighton, Dr. Watts, Dr. Doddridge, and the late President Edwards. Also the moral and religious works of Sir Matthew Hale.

List of New Publications.

LETTERS from Europe, during a tour through Switzerland and Italy, in the years 1801 and 1802, written by a native of Pennsylvania. In two volumes. Philadelphia. A. Bartram.

Hymns and spiritual songs, for the use of Christians. Seventh edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged; containing, in addition to those heretofore published, a copious selection from the best modern authors, and several original hymns, Baltimore. Samuel Butler and Warner & Hanna.

The flowers of fancy, or poetical wreath; carefully selected from the best authors. Baltimore. J. W. Butler.

The stranger in France; or, a tour from Devonshire to Paris. By John Carr, Esq. Baltimore. G. Hill.

A short account of the life and death of the Rev. John Lee, a Methodist minister, in the United States of America. By Jesse Lee. Baltimore. John West Butler.

A compendious system of geography, as connected with astronomy, and illustrated by the use of the globes, with an appendix. By the Rev. Thomas Ross, A. M. senior minister of the Scotch church in Rotterdam. Edinburgh. 1804. 780 pages 8vo. This is a judicious and valuable work, neatly printed on wove paper, with maps engraved by the first artists, and coloured.

Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible; explaining the names, histo.

ries, &c. of persons, places, and natu ral productions mentioned in scripture; the antiquities, buildings, coins, habits, laws, customs, and peculiar ities of the Jews, and other eastern nations: with chronological tables, calendar, &c. &c. to which are added entirely new illustrations of scripture incidents and expressions, selected from the accounts of the most authentic historians, travellers, &c. contain. ing many incidents and observations extremely interesting, and highly entertaining. Illustrated by numerous plates of views, maps, plans, dresses, &c. This work may be had in sixtyfour numbers, at 1s. a number, or in twenty-one parts, on fine paper. C. Taylor. London.

Supplement to Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Bible; containing words, &c. omitted in the dictionary, and further remarks, &c. in continuation of the fragments. C. Taylor. London,

Scripture illustrated by engravings; referring to natural science, customs, manners, &c. of the east, with dissertations, and an expository index of passages in the Bible, which are capable of illustration by the knowledge of nature. In eight parts, price five shillings each. C. Taylor. London.

IN THE PRESS.

Pope's Homer's Iliad, in two vols. fine demy, 18mo. Bosten. E. Cotton.

The Sabbath, a poem, an elegant edition. Boston. D. and J. West.

A companion to the holy Bible; being Dr. Wells's historical geography of scripture, revised, corrected and improved; with geographical excursions, intended to ascertain certain facts of importance. Accompanied by maps, plans, views, medals, and other plates suitable to the subject, and illustrative of the religion, and incidental peculiarities of places mentioned in scripture.-Of the maps of this work, some are outlines representing the ancient state of various parts; others are finished, representing the same countries in their mod. ern state. Many of the plates will be taken from medals of the cities referred to, from whence their deities may be ascertained; which will shew

at the same time what idols the Isra-
elites were seduced to worship, and
what opponents the Christian religion
had to overthrow at its first promulga-
tion.-Of this work there will be two
editions: one on common paper, in
shilling numbers, crown octavo, pock-
et size; published monthly; will be
Another on
complete in two vols.
fine paper, in five shilling parts, de-
my quarto, each containing three
shilling numbers; published every
three months; will be complete in
one volume. The second part of this
companion will contain the history of
the sacred books, the lives of the
writers, remarks on their styles of
composition, &c. C. Taylor. Lon-
don.

Obituary.

A Memoir of the Rev. JONAS CLARK, whose death has been already announced.

He was born at Newton, on the 25th of December, 1730, graduated at the neighbouring University in 1752, and on the fifth of November, 1755, succeeded the aged and venerable HANCOCK, in the pastoral care of the church and congregation in Lexing

ton.

Here, through the course of half a century, he approved himself an able and faithful minister of the New-Testament. Receiving the charge of a people, long accustomed to gospel order, he was landably ambitious to lead them on in the good old paths, trodden by our pious ancestors. He regarded the usages which had prevailed during the ministry of his predecessor, as models for his own. Indeed the mantle of the ascended prophet apparently rested on his successor. The spirit of primitive Christianity displayed through the long life of the former, was exhibited afresh in that of the latter. Mr. CLARK was wholly devoted to the duties of his sacred calling, and by reading, medita tion and prayer, became mighty in the scriptures, rightly dividing them, giving to every one their portion in due season, supplying milk for babes, and strong meat for those of full stature; feeding, with equal care, the lambs

as well as the sheep. His public discourses consisted, not of learned discussions on speculative or metaphysical subjects, nor yet of dry lectures on heathen morality; but of the most interesting truths of the gospel, well arranged for the edification of his hearers; and they were delivered, not in a formal, heartless manner, but with uncommon energy and zeal. He also lived in a good measure, as he preached. He was incapable of wishing to be himself exempted from those restrictions and self-denials, which he inculcated upon others. Far from esteeming Christ's yoke to be heavy, he always appeared to bear it with delight.

In his pastoral visits and in the whole of his social intercourse among his people, no minister could be more tender and sympathizing, or take a deeper interest in whatever concerned either their present or future well-being. "He was gentle among them, as a nurse cherisheth her children."

His attachment to them was naturally connected with an high degree of patriotism. In the times preced ing the American revolution, he was not behind any of his brethren in giv ing his influence on the side of his, country, in opposition to its oppres sors. While the distressed inhabitants of Boston were suffering under

the port bill, sixteen or twenty cords of wood were said to have been sent on one day, to their relief, from Lexington, as a donation from the minister, or from the people through his influence. Whether the British troops became acquainted with this circumstance or not, it is certain, that the first blood which they afterward shed was that of the Lexington people. At the dawn of day, on the 19th of April following, the heart of the pastor was wrung with anguish at the sight of his beloved parishioners, not many rods distant from his door, most cruelly murdered, through the mere insolence and wanton pride of an armed force. During the continuance of the war, which then commenced, the anniversary of this outrage upon humanity was religiously observed by him and his people.

As his circumstances were never affluent, and he had a numerous family of ten children to educate, it was matter of admiration how he found means for his works of charity and for the practice of hospitality to so great an extent. His doors were open to laymen and strangers, as well as to his brethren and to candidates for the ministry. So generally did the latter, allured by his known disposition to encourage them, seek his acquaintance, that he was, of course, during the lat ter years of his life, very frequently solicited to assist at their ordination. Perhaps there is not another minister in the State, who has so often administered the charge on such occasions.

He continued the performance of parochial duties until within a few weeks of his death. Visiting him after his confinement, the writer of this article was pleased and edified in witnessing the calmness and composure with which he supported the prospect before him, and spoke of his approaching dissolution. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.

At Braintree, EBENEZER C.THAYER, aged 30; a respectable physician.

At Amherst, on the 14th inst. the Hon. SIMEON STRONG, one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth, in his 70th year.

AT Newbury, December 10, the widow SARAH NEWELL, aged 83.

As an affectionate, exemplary mother, as a faithful friend, and, most of all, as a follower of Christ, she deserves the remembrance of her surviving acquaintance. By her fruits she shewed herself a child of God. The pleasing hope, which is entertained of her eternal welfare, is not grounded merely on that fairness of character and that amiable deportment, which gained the esteem of all who knew her; nor on the seriousness of her last days and hours; but a cordial regard to Jesus Christ and the truths of his gospel, which uniformly appeared in her life. She loved the habitation of God's house, and was, even to old age, a pattern of constancy in attending public worship. Her religion conspired with her natural temper to render her cheerful; but her cheerfulness was not levity. She had little confidence in her own piety. The hope she entertained of her final acceptance was commonly a trembling hope. But this did not prevent her joy in God. She often expressed a penitent sense of her sins, of the weakness of her faith, and of her great distance from that perfection, after which her soul aspired. The amiable glory of Christ excited her love. Though she was conscious of total unworthiness, the fulness of his atonement encouraged her hope; while the promise of his Spirit animat. ed her endeavours and prayers. The peculiar discoveries of the gospel gained not only the assent of her understanding, but the tenderest affection of her heart. To the last she was favoured with a remarkable degree of mental vigour, and was enabled, a short time before she expired, to address to her children and grandchildren such pious counsel, as was dictated by the dying scene. They had comfort in her life, and are not without comfort in her death. But praise is not due to mortals. Let us cherish that lovely humility, which she often expressed, and ascribe all her comfort and usefulness here, and all the blessedness we hope she will enjoy hereafter, to THE GRACE OF GOD.

Off Cadiz, October 19, Lord Vis count NELSON, a celebrated British admiral, killed in a battle between a British and a combined French and Spanish fleet, in which the former

were victorious.

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