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in sisted occasionally by Mr . T romp , and Mr . Smith . The missionaries have enemies in the colony , but their situation has been improved since . it reverted to the English . They look back with regret to the government o £ General Dundas , whose name , ttey say , will ever be remembered witri gratitude by
them and the poor oppressed Hottentots : they hope , however that I , ord Cajedon , the present governor , possesses the same liberal , enlightened , and humane views and disposition , and that in him , Providence has given them a second Darius . Bcthelsdorp is a barren spot y the sufferings of the niembers of the mission have , been considerable . A correspondence
is carrying on with the governor on $ i *§ subject ., The number of -Hottentots baptized down / to October last / ivere , adults eighty ^ -fouF , children sixtyj-eight . Dr . Vander -Kemp ha . s been , nii ^ ch engaged in writing ; he has completed and sent over to Holland a w © i ; k pn / the Epistle to the Romans , entitled V Theodicy of , St . Paul , " * ' and another considerable work on midwifery for the use , of . Bethelsdorp . The schools for ; the iris traction of Hottentot children , are
said to succeed . , The settlement on Zak River is broken up and the congregation dispersed : they having experienced much distress , tkrou&h the continued dry ness of the season , the unproductive nature of the soil , and the frequent plunderihgs of the Boschemen . Mr . Kicherer has
undertaken ( being so requested by General Baird ) the pastoral charge of the extensive district of Graaf Reinet . With him reside the three converted Hottentots who visited this country , who are reported to conduct themseves in an exemplary manner . The distance of thfe stations on 'the
Orange River , among the nation of the Natna £ quas + arid at Stelhnboscb prevents frequent communications . We scarcely see the wisdom of dispersir / g the few missionaries that are in Africa into barbarous settlements so far apart . >' There is one . missionary { Mr . Pidg-© on ) in North America , who is sta * tioned at New Carlisle , but who travel * led last summer several hundred miles
in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick * distributing in his journey many schoolbooks ana religious tracts . M ^ Hillyard , who went out as a missioi ^ ry to Newfoundland , has settled wjlth a church at Tar mouth ) in 'New Stoiia . " j \ , ' [ { i ,
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In South ^ me ; ric 4 , missionaries are gaining a footingl One sent to Buenos Ayres returned "with the discomfited English , not , howeyer , without dispersing at Monte ^ Video , where"he resided a considerable time , a number of New Testaments and religious tracts ^ ti the Spanish language .
The British colony of Demararanz $ ^ fi the course oif the last year been occupied by one of the missionary studerfts , 'M ' £ i- Wray , in consequence of a pressing invi- ^ tation from a respectable and pious plaiter , Mr Post , who , teing excejedin ^ ly con ^ cerned for his , own slaves who are very ;
numerous , and , desirous of extending iri-j struction to . the negroes of the kettl ^ nifent ^ at largejproniiseii to receive a riiiniste ^ if " sent , an 4 to assist Kim in the prqsetiitioiiof his evangelical la pours ^ Ht hadrjefoffe supportejd a sctioolr ^ a ^ ter on' hisplaiita- * tions . The . inl \ aDitants of the colony " are said to amount to one hundred
thoiisap 4- / t The adjo ^ ijing colonies , of TE ^ se * q ^ 'ibo and Berbj ^ e ' are yery popuioiir ^ nd Kdestitute of religlpus , instruction . ' Anotner' bf' ^ h >' missi ° narstuid-ehtsi Mr . EJtliofc , has fceeh dispatched to the island bjt * Tobago \ where there ar / 21 wen - tv thousand sjaves / aiid where some of the planters have expressed a readiness to encourage the labours oif riiissibnaries * The proceedings of thfe Society in Asia are as yet in their infancy , anji not
at all comparable to the proceedings of the Baptists in the same quarter of the world . Two missionaries , Cran and Des Granges * are QkVixingnputam . They have acT quired so much { uiawledge of theTehnga language , a ? to begin translating the gospel of Matthew , the two first chapters of-which , as also Dr . Watts ' s first
catechism , they have transmitted home as specimens of their 'progress . They have likewise sent the Directors a translation of a curious tricmoir , or history of a heathen temple , ifrom the original Telinga into English , Mr . Kingeitaube is labouring among
th « nativesr of ' TUmirvelly and others in th ^ c southern part of , l ; he peninsula , chiefl y those . who have professed themselves Christians , of whom *« his accounts are by no means encouraging . ** Mr , Loveless occupies , an important
station in the Asylum at Madras * and preaches in the chapel in the Black Town * Dr . * J * aylor continues at Bombay t actively engaged in acquiring the langua ; j e ^ necessary for translating the Holy
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Intelligence—r-Mi $ sio ? iary Society * ¦ 451
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/51/
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