MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

AN INSTANCE OF COURAGEOUS

HUMANITY.

The following affecting incident is taken from the appendix to the Rev. Mr. Andrews's Sermon before the Merrimac Humane Society.,

"On the 13th of July last, William Plumer, a lad of about nine years of age, having been at play on a raft near cap. Coombs's wharf, in Newburyport, accidentally fell into the water, at a moment when the people, who had been at work on the wharf, had gone home to dinner. He had probably been in the water sometime, and had sunk once, before he was discovered by capt. Coombs, who was passing that way and whose attention was called to the spot by the eries of a child on the raft less of the hazard to which he exRegard. posed his own life, this aged gentle man leaped from the wharf, without removing any of his clothes. only hastily throwing off his hat and wig. seized the child in his arms, and was happily successful in saving him from a watery grave The water in this place was from six to seven feet deep, and the listance from the wharf to the place where the lad was struggling must have been as much as ten or twelve feet.'

After relating these facts the Committer add,

"Your Committee are happy in stating to the Trustees that this distinguished act of humanity has fallen to the lot of their late worthy Vice President, William Coombs, Esq. at the advanced age of seventy six years; and they participate the high satisfaction he must have experienced when the lad whom his heroic exertion had rescued from premature death, as soon as he had placed him on the raft in safety, threw his arms around his aged benefactor's neck and exclaimed-Oh! Sir, you have saved my life."

The Trustees adjudged a gold medal to "William Coombs, Esq. ex

The following gentlemen are the offi-
cers of the Society; viz.
Rev. ASA PACKARD, President.
Rev. DAVID LONG,
Mr. ABNER H. HARDY,

Vice Presidents.
Rev. NATHANIEL Howe, Cor Sec.]
Rev. BENJAMIN WOOD. Rec Sec.
Mr ASAPH RICE. Treasurer

The first article of the Constitution declares, "That the music which this Soci etv shall encourage, is the grave and solemn or that which corresponds with the general character of the Middlesex and Lock Hospital col'ections"

Another article requires, that there be an annual exhibition. on the last Thursday in September annually, at which time a sermon or dissertation on sacred music shall be delivered

The Soelets consisted sometime ago of between 60 and 70 members. Persons of immoral character are excluded.

CONVICTS.

Two unhanny men were lately convicted of Piracy before the Circuit' Court of the United States sitting in Boston; and were sentenced to be executed on the 10th of December. Their names are Samuel Tully and John Dalton, alias Rowland Heathcote. Though tried for piracy only, there is reason to believe that they were guilty of murder also. They are now confined in solitary cells of the State

Oct 28. From the Female Foreign Missionary Society in
Tyringham, by the hands of the Rev. Dr. Morse
Nov. 7. From friends of missions in Whitesborough and
Utica, (NY) by the hands of Mr. Frost, a contribution

From the officers and students of Williams College, by
Mr. Frost, a contribution

$19 CO 44 29

45 00

From friends to missions in Williamstown, (Mass.) by Mr. Frost, a contribution

66 25

10. From friends to missions in Cheshire, (Conn.) by Mr.

Frost

14. From individuals in the Rev. Mr. Kellogg's parish in Framingham, by the Rev. Dr. Morse

26. From the Religious Charitable Society in the County of Worcester, by the hands of the Rev. Joseph Goffe, Treasurer

AUDITOR'S CERTIFICATE.

Boston, October 8, 1812.

THIS certifies that I the subscriber have this day examined the accounts of the Treasurer of THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMIŠSTONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS, and find them correctly cast and vouched, and that the statement within exhibits a true state of the funds of the Board, the amount of which forms the balance in the Ledger of Five Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Two Dollars and forty six cents, brought forward to new account on the first day of September last. S. H. WALLEY, Auditor.

The statement above referred to is in substance as follows:
Deposited in the Massachusetts and Eagle Banks.
Notes on interest with sureties.

In the hands of agents, who had received donations, but not
been able to remit them.

In the hands of the Prudential Committee to meet contin

$3,782 69 1,018 00

271 63

179 14 1.00

$5,252 46

FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETIES.

A Foreign Mission Society has been formed in the County of Middlesex, (Conn.) styled the Auxiliary Foreign Mission Society of Middlesex. A committee of fourteen very respectable gentlemen have been appointed to solicit subscriptions, and the following gentlemen have been chosen officers: viz. Rev. ELIJAH PARSONS, President.

A Foreign Mission Society has been formed in New Haven County, (Con.) styled The Foreign Mission Society of the Eastern District of New Haven Chanty. The following gentlemen have been chosen officers; viz.

Rev. JOHN ELLIOTT, President.
Rev. DAVID SMITH,

Vice Presidents.

Dea, ABRAHAM CHITTENDEN,
Rev. TIMOTHY P. GILLETT, Secretary.

Rev. MATTHEW NOYES, Treasurer.

Dea. DANIEL PARMELEE,

Rev. AARON DUTTON,

Col. JONATHAN TODD,

Maj. BENJAMIN BALDWIN,

Dea. TIMOTHY KOSSITER,

Trustees.

The Prudential Committee have lately remitted to Calcutta, vis London, one thousand dollars to be expended in publishing and distributing the Scriptures into the vernacular languages of Asia. They have appointed the Hon. John Herbert Harrington, Esq. President of the College at Fort William, President of the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, and one of the principal judges in India, the Rev. David Brown, Senior Chaplain at Calcutta and late Provost of the College, and the Rev. William Carey, D.D. Professor of Shanscrit in the College, the agents of the Prudential Committee to superintend the expenditure of the money, consulting the American missionaries so far as may be practicable. The Committee will also soon remit the same sum toward the salaries of the missionaries.

OBITUARY.

DIED, lately, at Southbury (Conn.) the Rev. BENJAMIN WILDMAN, aged 77.

In August last, at Litchfield, (Conn.) the Hon. JOHN ALLEN, Esq. formerly a Representative in Congress from Connecticut, and a member of the Council of that state.

Lately, at Charleston, (S. C.) of a pulmonary complaint, Mr. HENRY JONES, merchant, late of the house of Crockat & Jones, London.

In this city he had resided about fifteen years, having chosen it in preference to London for the benefit of his health; which, till within the last two or three years; appeared to be much improved by the change: and, beyond his former expectation, he arrived at the age of 54. He was a native of Wales, but, on his arrival here, became a citizen of the United States; to which he was faithfully attached, without excluding his native country from his affections.

In regular attention to business,

candor, integrity, uprightness, and benevolence, he was exceeded by few, if any: but the strongest trait in his character was unaffected, fervent piety; the consolations of which, especially in the latter part of his life, he enjoyed to an uncommonly high degree. To him, for several years, death had no terrors. He rejoiced in the prospects of eternity-in the hope of being admitted in that final state, to the open vision of God, and full fruition of Divine Love. This hope was founded, not on vague or general principles, but on the evan gelical truths of Revelation, and his own experimental acquaintance with them.

No man would more readily or feel. ingly acknowledge the fallen, guilty state of human nature and his own sins and errors. These he considered as great in the sight of a Just and Holy God; but, at the same time, he derived his consolation and holy confidence from the atoning sacrifice of

his Redeemer, the covenant of Grace, and the promises of God made to penitents and believers.

These consolations did not forsake him at the hour of death. But it may

be truly said, in the language of the Christian poet

"His God sustain'd him in his final hour! "His final hour brought glory to his God!"

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