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hcen governed , for fourteen hundred years , by a regular succession of bishops , whose ordination ( by the ^ patriarch q £ Anfioch ) is acknowledged by the church of England - Another subject of literary research offers itself among these antient Christians . When the Portuguese first arrived in India , they burned the writings and records found in ^ be Christian
churches and amongst them , says a Romish author , some apostolical monuments , in order to destroy the evidences pf their antiquity , and force them to an union . But it has been stated recently , by a respectable authority , that certain antient manuscripts in the Chaldaic language are yet preserved in the cpuntry of Travancore . ,
IITERARTi Miss Hamilton is again employed on a -work on . education , in a series of Letters to the daughter of a Nobleman , on the formation of moral and religious principles , . - -.,.
The following book , designed for thfc use of yQvngpersons , and for the J ^ ord ^ sday employment of schools , is , ^ we are lyippy to say ^ nearly ready for publication : —^ An Introduction to the
Geography of the New Testament , comprising a summary chronological and geographical view of the events recorded respecting the ministry of our Saviour ; with Questions for Examination * and an accented Index : accompanied with Maps . ' * fey-the Rev . Lant Carpenter , Exeter .
The venerable Dr . Burney has , we are happy to state , obtained a pension from his Majesty of aooL per annunf—a good omen , as has been remarked , of the respect which the present administration entertain for literature . We hear , also , that Mr . Campbellauthor of that truly classical poem the *< Pleasures of Hope , ' *—has been offered a pension of something more than 100 I .
a year . An Almanac for the present year has been printed at Constantinople , being the first ever published in that city , though a brinting office was established there so long ago as the year 1716 , from which many books have been issued . Madame Lavoisier has collected in two
Volumes , under the title of Memoirs on Chymistry , ail that is left of a work which her husband was printing when France and * the sciences had the misfortune to lose him . . The Hindoostanee Dictionary , so long expected by oriental students , is now rea-
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dy for the press . It will compose , two quarto volumes , to be edited by DiV ^ Vil * liaxn Hunter and £ nsign William Macdougall , and published under the patron * age of the . college of Fort William . The antient inscriptions and valuable manuscripts collected by Dr . Francis
Buchanan , in Mysore , have been committed to Mr . Carey , of the college of Fort William , to be translated into English under his superintendance . Among the manuscripts are a history of the fir&t arrival of the Portuguese in India , by a contemporary Hindoo Writer ; and a history of the rajahs of Mysore .
Captain Charles Stewart , assistant Per * sian professor , is forming a catalogue of the oriental book * and manuscripts belonging to Tippoo ' s library , in the college of Fort William . He has discovered in that library a valuable work in the Persian laii « r guage , referred to by Dow and Orme as necessary for the illustration of an
important period in oriental history , and wind * was sought for in Hindoostan by those historians without success * It is the history of emperor Aurungzebe , from the nth year of his reign to his death , an interval of forty years , written , by tfcic learned Mahommud Saki ; being a continuation of Mahommud Kazim ' s history of the first ten years of that prince *
Mr . Porson , professor of Greek in the university of Cambridge , is appointed librarian to the London institution . At the annual court of the Sierra . Leone Company , held on March 27 , a-plan for educating in England some children , natives of Africa , was revived . A Jew years ago , Mr . Macaulay , the present secretary of- the Company , on his return from the
colony where he had been governor , brought with him several young Africans , and very benevolently promoted a subscription for their education . This gentleman ' s zeal was not seconded as it deserved ; and the place chosen for the residence of the Africans on Clapham Common proved fatal to their constitutions in too many instances . We trust that this renewed zeal , with the
advantage of experience , will accomplish « n some good degree the benevolent object of communicating valuable knowledge to a class of our fellow-creatures , to whom we have hitherto communicated very little except vice and misery . That these young pupils will be unlikely to attain to the plain simple principles of Christianity we arc aware ; yet Christianity under any form must have
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Meligtous and Literary Intelligence . 221
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/53/
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