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consent to any treaty, or any condition that shall compromise the honour, the liberty, and independence of the Haytian People. Faithful to our oath, we will rather bury ourselves under the ruins of our country, than suffer our polítical rights to sustain the slightest injury.

Given in our palace of Sans Souci, the 18th of September, 1814, eleventh year of Independence, and the fourth of our Reign. (Signed) HENRY. "By the King, the Secretary of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs,

"Count de LIMONADE."

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"ed authors; let diese traders in human flesh, these vile and perfidious platters, come to execute their grand schemes of servitude and destruction.

Let them place thenselves at the head of the columns, to direct their march. They will be the first victims of our vengeance, and the land of fiberry will rejoice in being watered with the blood of its oppressors. Then will indeed be "waged a war of extermination: no quarter will be given, no prisoner wade. Then shall we prove to the world what a nation of warriors, armed in the most fast ef causes, can effect in the defence of our homes, our wives, our children, our liberty, our independence." A number of direc tions as to the mode of warfare which most be pursued in case of invasion are thes given. The paper thus concludes :-" It is in vain that our tyrants concéise the mat hope of sowing: disanion amông us : Their appearance will be the signal for our unien Who can now deceive us as to our true "interests? Who is there among us, pho would now allow himself to be seduced by the treacherous and deceitful promises of in enemy whom we know too well? Who is the weak wretch who would even think of prolonging his days, in order to de bant alive, drowned, or hanged six months after? No, no; if we must have war, we must either "be all exterminated, or live free and independent."

Besides this Manifesto, which is evidently intended to operate on the powers of Europe, there has appeared in the Gazette of Hayti a paper, the object of which is to enlighten the Islanders themselves respect ing the new political relations in which the peace of Paris may have placed them. After expressing their joy in the downfal of Bonaparte, the monster who had endeavoured either to exterminate them, or to subject them anew to the hateful yoke which they bad for ever broken, and with whom they : had determined never to enter into any engagements, it is intimated that there do not exist the same reasons for rejecting the peaceful overtures of the present monarch of France, and forming with him a treaty of commerce and friendship compatible with the honour, liberty, security, and independence of Hayti. But, if we desire the benefits and enjoyments of peace, we fear neither the fatigues nor the horrors of war." 7* Let our 'implacable enemies, the planters, who have not ceased, for twenty-five years, 'to indulge the extravagant dream of slavery, and to pester each succeeding Government with their memoirs, and projects of conquest and subjugation, exciting only pity, disgust, or abhorrence for their criminal and wretch-bour in St. Domingo.

^ And this strong language is evidently no empty boast. In the northern half of the island Christopire has an army, perfectly appointed and disciplined, of 22,000 men, and a militia of 33,000, accustomed to the use of arms. If we suppose a like number in the South, there will then be 110,000 men resolved to conquer or die, who must be subdued before a single cask of sugar et bag of coffee can be produced by slave in

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Z; A CONSTANT READER AND AN ADVocate for Domestic Instruction; M.; VERITAS; APFs, have been received.

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INDICOPLEUSTES will have learnt, long before this Namber can reach his eye, howe greatly he has erred in the interpretation of prophecy.

We are obliged to I. S. for his proofs of the strange and unexplained tergiversation of the British Critic, on the subject of the Bible Society.

We are under the necessity, of withholding, que assent from the proposition of 8. WHYTE.

We have repeatedly remarked that articles of Literary Intelligence should reach' ne before the 20th of the month, to be in time for insection. Various articles which did not come to our bands until the 24th just, are necessarily excludeil

ERRATUM-Présent No. p. 787, col, 2, 1. 15, dele 1818.

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as the finger of God, and felt apprehensive lest a refusal might carry with it a reproof to my conscience

I serted an abstract of the Tenth of something like shyness in case

Report of this Society. It was our intention to have followed it with extracts from the copious Appendix to that Report, but we have hitherto been prevented by the press of matter from doing so. The few passages which we now extract furnish little more than a sample of the rich materials which are comprised in that most interesting document.

1. Extract of a letter from Baron Rosenblad, Minister of State in Sweden for the Home Department, to the Rev. Dr. Brunnmark, dated Stockholm, Oct. 18, 1813.

fessing Him before men.

"I cannot describe to you my admiration of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Their enlightened zeal, their labours, their progress, and their success, are so much beyond common occurrences, that I should have thought the hand of God must have been visible to all that did not wilfully shut their eyes upon them. We must follow their footsteps in our humble measure.

"My dear doctor, your zeal for the glory of God, and the good of your native land, has made you a welcome visitor to us. Your reward' will not linger, either from your Lord or your country, when you have finished your service to both, and wish, after your labours are over, to sit down in quiet in your native land."

"I have received much pleasure in the perusal of your letter of the 11th instant, and can assure you that your important arguments had their full weight in my resolve to accept of the presidentship of the Evangelical Society. Your enlightened zeal for the Gospel of 2. Christ, and the most satisfactory exposition you have afforded me of the constitution, activity, and excellencies of the British and Foreign Bible Society, convinced me that, by the help of our common Lord, I -might also become, in my measure, helpful to our Zion. In point of fact, I viewed the call made on me CHRIST. OBSERV. APP.

We are induced to add an extract from the speech of this nobleman when he took the chair as President of the Stockholm Society.

"With sentiments of the sincerest gratitude, I now undertake the confidential office with which your choice has honoured me. I am am aware of my deficiencies; and they could not fail to occasion me

great anxiety, even so as to make Sme very doubtful whether I ought to accept this place among you, when I consider that I succeed that venerable and revered character, has induced him to

ada 8161 purpose to promote his glory, and to communicate to our fellow-men a knowledge of salvation by faith in his atonement.

"We have outlived the awful period when the doctrine of the Atonement

whose great age residency which · of Christ was shrouded in darkness.

withdraw from

he has held from the commencement of this Society, and which, under the blessing and favour of Almighty God, he has filled, with great advantage to the diffusion of Gospel light, as well as with much satisfaction to all the members of the Institution.

But, gentlemen, I have considered your call as the finger of Providence, pointed by that unerring Hand, which, unseen, directs the conduct of mortals, and always with a view to lead them nearer to himself. The principal part of my life has been occupied in my extensive and laborious official engagements; and the unceasing care I have been obliged to exercise in order to accomplish their many important duties, has not seldom awakened in me the painful reflection, that but a small portion of my time had been alike laboriously devoted to advaneing the cause of religion. But now, although in the autumn of life, a gracious Providence has been pleased to open to me a new field, and so favoured me with an opportunity of correcting my past neglect; placing me, through its kind guidance, within this not only more exalted, but also more peaceful sphere of action; in order that I may do my part in furthering and supporting the important objects of this Society. To do so is my resolution; nay, the very desire of my heart: but I feel my own incapacity for such a solemn work, and rest all my hopes of success upon assistance from our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ-yes, upon him alone, who has assured us, that he will

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Mournful was the lot of those who confessed His name. For almost an entire century, did infidelity, with unblushing front, deride the revealed Will of God, and either openly or secretly undermine the sacred foundations of the Gospel doctrine. The deleterious poisen, having worked its way among what are called the most enlightened nations of Europe, and established its influence in their higher circles, soon spread abroad among the mass of the people; and rolled on in fearful torrents of iniquity, carrying with it a sweeping destruction wherever it went. We have truly the most abundant cause for thankfulness to a gracious God, for having preserved our native land from such scenes of desolation. We dare not, however, deny, that even among us were found an increased indifference to the Word of God; and, with many, a bold contempt of it. Not a few were ashamed to confess the name of Jesus: and have we not ourselves had to endure long discourses upon religion, in the course of which we scarcely once heard that blessed name mentioned, before which, however, every knee shall bow, whether it be upon earth, or under the earth-But the promises of God are fulfilling: for heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Words shall not pass away. (Luke xxi. 35.) And upon this Rock with 1 build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her. Se spel light is dawning again on those nations, where the shadow of death sat almost enthroned, and barriers

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spark of got quench the smallest are raising against the abomination

spark of grace and truly we may all encourage our ourselves in the certanity of his Almighty aid, if we follow the light of his Holy Spirit, and have a single eye and Brm a firm

of desolation.
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lo a certain country, most pow erful because of its veneration for religion, and consequently for the laws; as a result, the welwhere,

fare of the public and individuals rests on the surest foundation; a Society was established, and in times too, while the whirlwinds of desolation were yet laying waste the earth. The aim and glorious object of this Society embrace a distribution of God's holy Word and Gospel. Light through the whole habitable globe. That revered Society, which has also held forth its friendly and generous hand to our Swedish Evangelical Institution, has found in its zeal and liberality a success which so utterly exceeds the power of all human effort, as evidently to proclaim that the finger of God is in it: his guardian care is therein distinctly unveiled.

"Warned and roused from their indifference by what they have experienced of the horrible effects of infidelity, several other nations have also bestirred themselves, and followed the glorious path struck out by the before-mentioned honoured Society. And we, among others, cannot help being exceedingly thankful to God, that what is called the New Philosophy' begins to be treated with contempt in our native land, and that the minds of men have taken a favourable turn towards better things.

success and Thy richest blessing to all we shall do towards promoting this great end. We place all our reliance on Thee; and rest our hope of a gracious answer to our suppli cations, upon that wonderful love which brought Thee into the world to save sinners."

3. Extract of a letter from the Bi shop of Westeras in Sweden, to Lord Teignmouth, dated Westeras, Jan. 20, 1814.

"My Lord, the undersigned Bishop of Westeras, with the Committee of the Arosian Bible Society, have the honour to testify by this, the high gratification which we have felt in the kindness and nobleness of your gracious answer. This infant Society, owing to the illustrious example and large benefaction of the British and Foreign Bible Society its first existence and original formation, owes also to the rich munificence from the same hands the very success of its first endeavours, and therefore most humbly requests your lordship to be pleased to return to the great and generous Society the vote of its deepest and warmest thanks.

It is to the exalted character and mighty energies of the British Nation, that Europe essentially ascribes the recovery of the political system: it is also to her generou and extensive exertions that the world is indebted for the furtherance of its moral welfare, by the instrumentality of the holy Scriptures, which now, blessed be her liberality, brighten and cheer the gloomy darkness of the human mind in all quarters of the globe." སྨན་ན་སྐར་“ཕོ ཟ ན ་

"Under the protection of a government affectionately attentive to the preaching of the pure Gospel of Christ, measures are now actively adopted for improving both the cha racter of preaching and the mode of education; and we have often the happiness to find, that the best gifts of eloquence are no longer wasted upon dry moral portraits, but suitably exerted to honour the Giver, by ascribing glory to the name of Jesus. Extract of a letter from the Rev. and his atonement,"

"Eternal Saviour of the world! strengthen and support the desire thyself hast graciously awakened in this Society that all the members of it may work as one man; and, with full purpose of heart, spread abroad that heavenly knowledge, which records Thy atonement, Thy suffering, and Thy death. Grant

S. Leggatt, Chaplain to his Majesty's Forces in Portugal, to the Rev. John Owen, dated Lisbon, April * 16, 1814.*

"A clergyman resident in Lisbon having addressed himself to me, more than eighteen months since, with the information, that the Agent of your Society at Portsmouth had

put him in possession of a number of Bibles and Testaments in the French, and also Testaments in the Spanish, German, and Italian languages; considering, that they might more effectually contribute to the benevolent end to which they were directed, in communicating the Word of God to the prisoners taken from the French, in confinement within this garrison, necessarily including natives of different parts of the Continent, if the books were introduced to and distributed nniong them, by a person in some degree conversant with their language; I could not hesitate a moment with the greatest readiness to embrace the proposal; and I feel it accordingly my bounden duty, to communicate to the Secretary of an Institution, which has long made itself a channel for such rich stream of Divine Grace, the success of my poor ability, in cherishing that branch of its prolific root, which has sent its shoots across the sea; even unto us, for the purpose of bearing fruit to everlasting life, in the many thousands of prisoners of war that have been, and are still resident within our extensive garrison.

"And whilst such have been, and are, I fear, still too numerous to make it a reasonable hope, that the Society is equal to supply each man that can read with a copy of the Inspired Word, I have, at the same time, the satisfaction to inform you, that the few hundreds of copies I have received, have been husbanded with the most attentive care, and such an organized system, as it were, established for their distribution and circulation amongst the vast multitudes that have passed in succession, that there is scarcely a man, who, without some fault of his own, may not have profited, by my well-in{tended exertion. To a constant average of about three hundred sick in the hospital, the books have afforded, as may be imagined, more especial comfort. Notwithstanding these men professing, a different persuasion of our religion from myself,

yet from their apparent destitution of spiritual advice, I considered myself more than justified, in reading not unfrequently to the mustered convalescents a form of prayer suitable to their condition, and such parts of holy Scripture as their church do not pretend to controvert; and a good word in season, which this service naturally introduced, could not but ensure as good a reception from the assembled congre gation, as from the poor fellows whom disease confined to their beds, when accompanied by a gift which afforded them a demonstrative proof, that there existed those, who at least took a real and decided interest in their welfare. In my visits during the past Lent, two ships in the Tagus, containing near eight hundred, and another prison in the city, where near five hundred were confined, (many pursuing employments of a useful nature, and lucrative to themselves,) nothing seemed wanting, but the presence of some of the patrons and supporters of an Institution which is considered as so honourable to our country, for the purpose of witnessing the order in which these, in many respects, rude and undisciplined unfortunates formed a broad line of a magnificent circle, and with ears and minds in. tent on the petitions that were offered up to Almighty God, to give his blessing to the use of what they were about to receive, and on the admonition which it was thought advisable to add, to take care that they were not wanting to themselves in the application of it, had their eyes in the mean time concentered on the small pile that contained the purposed donation in the midst; and their generous benefactors would have been no less gratified, in beholding the grateful manner in which an allotted proportion was received by the chiefs of the companies into which they are divided, to whom the copies were delivered formally in the name of God, as to understanding men, who must no fail to apply them in a strictly con

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