Mohun and Kristno Dass, whose places of residence are not men Serampore and Calcutta Chowgacha, and two or three other places in Jessore Cutwa and Berhampore Barbaree, on the border of Bootan tioned, the ministers were divided as follows: 2 Carey, Marshman, Ward, Rowe, and Kristno Pawl. Soon after Mr. Chamberlain's arrival at Agra a church was established at that place, which increased the number of churches to nine, viz. five in Bengal, two in Hindostan, one in Orissa, and one in the Birman Empire. This was the number at the end of 1811. Near a hundred were added to the different churches in the course of that year, of whom about seventy were admitted at Calcutta. As early as the beginning of October, 1811, two new missions were contemplated at Serampore, one to the island of Java, on which lies Batavia, formerly the capital of all the Dutch dominions in the East, but now in the hands of the English, and where the Malay Bible was printed by the Dutch government in 1758; the other to the island of Amboyna, chief of the Moluccas. By letters received in this country from Mr. Ward and Dr. Marshman, under date of Jan. 15 and 18, 1812, it appears, that Mr. Robinson was expecting "in a month or two" to go to Java, by which it would seem that the Bootan Mission is for the present abandoned. At that time Messrs. Chamberlain and Peacock were understood to be go ing on prosperously at Agra; and a friend who seems to be of another communion, was spreading the Scriptures and the savor of Christ in the Mahratta country. These are the latest accounts from India.* Messrs Johns and Lawson, with their wives, and Miss. Chaffin, are now on their way to India, and will swell the number of ministers to twenty one. They arrived at New York from London Dec. 23, 1810, and embarked at Philadelphia for India the next May. Obliged to put back in distress, they relanded at Philadelphia the first of June, and continued in the country till February, 1812, when they embarked again at the same port with three of the Missionaries going from America. Mr. Johns has studied surgery, and Mr. Lawson possesses the art of engraving on wood, which will render him an important auxiliary in the work of printing the Chinese Bible.f Nar. p. 70, 71, 74. M. B. M. M. vol. ii, p. 294. vol. iii, p. 106, 107. Pan. vol. vi, p. 44. vol. viii, p. 43, 41. Ch. Ob. vol. x, p. 394, 395, 803. vol. xi, p. 61. Guthrie's Gazetteer under Amboyna and Batavia. Nar. p. 79, 81. Pan. vol. vii, p. 426. OTHER MISSIONS AND MINISTERS. THE following scraps, which have fallen in the way of the compiler as he has been in pursuit of other information, are not brought forward as furnishing, by any means, a full view of the subject to which they relate. As late as the year 1805, the establishment of chaplains for British India was as follows: six military chaplains for the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, Oude, the Dooab, and Orissa; three chaplains in the town of Calcutta; five at the Presidency of Madras; and four at the Presidency of = Bombay. But that list was never full. Two thirds of the number, (that is, twelve,) had been the average for the last ten years. In all India there were but three English churches; one at Calcutta, one at Madras, and one at Bombay.* Though Mr. Ringeltaube, now in the employment of the London Missionary Society, arrived in India the latter end of 1797, or the beginning of 1798, the Society sent no Missionaries to that country earlier than 1804. Towards the latter end of that year, six of their Missionaries disembarked at Tranquebar, and continued there for some time, learning the Tamul language. The next year they separated to their several stations. Messrs. Cran and Desgranges settled at Vizagapatam in the Northern Sircars, where they carried on an affectionate correspondence with the Missionaries at Serampore, and commenced the translation of the Scriptures into the Telinga lan gal. Mem. p. 17. R's. Cyc. under Ben guage, the vernacular dialect of In 1805 the London Society sent out two more Missionaries, intended for Surat. One of them was Mr. Taylor, and the other appears to have been Mr. Loveless. Mr. Taylor was at Serampore in December, and departed for Surat in January 1806, carrying with him 200 copies of Matthew in the Mahratta tongue, which he had received from the Baptist Missionaries for distribution at Surat. The Mission however failed, and has not been since attempted. What became of Mr. Taylor is not known; Mr. Loveless stationed himself at Madras, and is there still.† In October 1806, there were in Bengal two Presbyterian min B. P. A. vol. i, p. 421, 422, 430. Vol. iii, p. 104, 223. M. B. M. M. vol. i, p. 143, 198. Pan. vol. vi, p. 335. Ch. Res. p. 134-139. Ch. Ob. vol. X, p. 61. †M.B.M.M. vol. i, p. 198. B.P.A. vol. iii, p. 187,223. Pan. vol. vi, p. 334, 372. isters, (Messrs. Forsyth and Edmonds,) and five evangelical clergymen of the Church of England; three of whom had lately arrived. Dr. Carey stated in December 1807, that there were, in all India and Ceylon, thirty-five evangelical ministers; of whom sixteen were in Bengal, three in Hindostan, two at Vizagapatam in the Telinga country, eight in Coromandel, three in Ceylon, one at Bombay, and two at Rangoon. He was not certain but there were three or four more in Coromandel, which might swell the number to thirty-eight or thirty-nine. Of these, fourteen were Baptists, (including two Hindoos,) seven or eight were Independents (under the London Society,) one or two were Presbyterians, six were of the Church of England, and from five to eleven were Lutherans.* As early as the year 1808, the London Society had stationed Mr. Morrison in China, where, (residing chiefly at Canton, occasionally at Macao,) he was preparing for the press a Chinese Testament, part of which he had carried out from England. Sometime after, they sent out Messrs. Gordon and Lee by the way of America, to strength en the Mission at Vizagapatam. These pious adventurers sailed from Philadelphia in May 1809, and arriving at Calcutta in September, proceeded to the place of their destination. About the time of this accession to the Telinga Mission, Mr. Cran was removed by death.f In November 1809 there were M. B. M. M. vol. i, p 297. Vol. ii, p. 130, 131. Pan. vol. vi, p. 186-183, 227, in the Northern Presidency six evangelical clergymen of the Church of England, all of whom, except Mr. Brown, had arrived later in the country than Dr. Carey. No others of that denomination and description were then to be found in India. In the same Presidency there was one Presbyterian minister, and had lately been two. In other parts of India there were six Independents under the London Society, (there had been seven, but Mr. Carey, one of the number, had lately deceased,) and five Lutherans, three of whom had come to India before Dr. Carey. Besides these eighteen, there were seventeen Baptists, reckoning two at Rangoon, and including two Armenians and three Hindoos. There were in Ceylon three, and in China one, belonging to the London Society. The catalogue at that time consisted of six evangelical Churchmen, ten Independents, five Lutherans, one Presbyterian, and seventeen Baptists, amounting in all to thirty-nine, of whom only four were earlier in the country than Dr. Carey.* On the 7th of December 1809, Messrs. Pritchett, Brain, and Hands, from the London Society, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Madras. The latter was intended for Seringapatam, in the kingdom of Mysore, but was induced by the advice of friends in India, to settle at Bellary, where he began learning the Canara language. Into this dialect, which has affinity to the Telinga, and is spoken from 352, 334, 335, 372, 373. Ch. Res. p. 99. Ch. Ob. vol. x, p. 842. • Pan. vol. vi, p. 43. M. B. M. M. vol. ii, p. 328. Nar. 69. Goa and the borders of the Mahratta country to the southern extremity of Mysore, he began a translation of the Scriptures, and by October 1811, as appears by a letter not yet published, he had produced a complete version of Luke. The other two proceeded to Rangoon. Mr. Brain was removed by death before November 1810. About the same time Mr. Desgranges was called away from the scene of his labors, a few days after he had finished a translation of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. That portion of the Telinga Bible the Missionaries at Serampore declared in December that they intended to print without delay, as a memorial of the labors of a departed brother. Mr. Horst, after eighteen years labor, had died at Tanjore in August. By this time Messrs. Cornish and Peacock were added to the number of Baptist ministers; and besides Mr. Desgranges, the London Society appear to have lost one of the ten whom Dr. Carey had counted in November 1809. The whole number, therefore, it would seem, amounted at this time to forty. The Missionaries who had been in Otaheite, sailed in October, 1809, from the island of Hu aheine, to which they had fled, except Messrs. Hayward and Nott, who chose for the present to continue at Huaheine. At the Fejee islands Mr. Warner obtained a passage to India; the rest landed in New South Wales, In April, 1811, Feb. 17, 1810. as appears by a letter not yet published, Mr. Warner was at Macao with Mr. Morrison, intending to attempt a Mission in the Prince of Wales' Island. Mr. Morrison had written a Chinese Grammar and Vocabulary, and had printed in that language, a translation of the book of Acts.t In an Address published by the Directors of the London Missionary Society, in April, 1811, they present the following view of their missionary stations: Messrs. Thompson, Spratt, and May, were then on their passage to India, to strengthen the mission at Vizagapatam. Mr. Pritchett it was expected would go to Ava, and undertake a translation of the Scriptures into the Birman language; but it appears from a recent letter not yet published, that in October 1811 he was in Bengal, under sentence of VOL. V. New Series. they had thirteen Missionaries in Africa, and six more on the point of sailing to that country; four in the West Indies; eight in New South Wales; and one in Prince Edward Island in North America. These added to the thirteen in Asia, or on their way, (exclusive of Ananda Rayer,) amounted to forty-five. Fortyfive Missionaries under the care of a single Society! Two of the Missionaries from that Society were in the ship with the Baptist Missionaries, Johns and Lawson, when they were driven back and obliged to reland at Philadelphia, June 1, 1811. Mr. May sailed from Philadelphia February 18, 1812, with Messrs. Johns and Lawson, and three of the Missionaries from America. Letters have been received from Vizagapatam, the principal seat of the Asiatic Mission of the London Society, dated in October, and one as late as Nov. 19, 1811. The Missionaries at that station were deeply engaged in carrying forward the Telinga translation begun by Desgranges. Mr. Lee had undertaken Genesis, and Mr. Gordon John. Mr. Gordon was earnestly desirous to live long enough to complete a version of that Gospel, and to see it published with the other three Gospels translated by Desgranges, then printing in Bengal under the superintendance of Ananda Rayer. He seemed to look forward to nothing more on earth. His health and that of his family had been much affected by the climate, and he was expecting an early grave. New England, after a long, deathlike sleep, has at last begun to awake. The American Board of Commissioners have lately sent out five young men to labor in the dark places of Asia. Messrs. Nott, Hall, and Rice, and Mrs. Nott, sailed from Philadelphia on the 18th; and Messrs. Judson and Newell, with their wives, sailed from Salem on the 19th of February, 1812. After arriving at Calcutta, and conferring with their friends in that country, they will determine for themselves whether to settle in the Birman Empire, or in some other part of India.* When these ten Missionaries arrive (if no changes have taken place unknown to the compiler,) it will increase the number of evangelical ministers to fifty; to which if you add the eight in New South Wales, it will give you, for the Continent and Islands of Eastern Asia, fifty-eight. Of these, one is a Presbyterian, four are Lutherans, six are of the Church of England, twenty-one are Baptists, and twenty-six are Congregationalists and Independents. Besides these might be mentioned as appertaining to Asia, the Presbyterian and Moravian Missions in the neighborhood of the Caspian Sea. These are the Lord's doings, and they are marvellous in our eyes! Nar. p. 75. Pan. vol. vii, p. 426, Ch. Ob. vol. x, p. 841, |