No permanent connexion with the Pasha of Egypt is contemplated or desired-Our readers will judge for themselves which of these statements is the more probable. We suspect there is some truth in the former, but that the expedition will be so conducted as that it may conform to events and circumstances yet to be evolved-Some prosecutions are going forward against printers who have indulged in offensive remarks on the religion of the state, and the measures of the king.

In Spain and Portugal we know of no new measures or occurrences worth reciting. We hear nothing farther of the Spanish expedition against Mexico, except a rumour that the British court has interposed to forbid it. There is also a rumour, which we should be glad to find true, that our Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Brent, has left the court of Don Miguel.

ROME. By accounts from Rome, which seem to be authentick, it appears that the Pope has lately held a secret conclave, at which propositions were made for filling fifteen Episcopal Sees, the greater portion of them in partibus-that is, in foreign countries. The United States, we doubt not, will have a goodly share.

In the latter part of April last, Madam Letitia, the mother of Napoleon Buonaparte, while walking in the garden of the village Borghese, made a false step, and though leaning on the arm of the Chevalier Cozarra, fell with such violence, that she broke one of her thighs. The last accounts from France state, that she died from the effects of this fall, on the 26th of April, at the age of 83. She has left large legacies in money to each of her children, and to her brother, Cardinal Fesch, and made the Duke of Reichstadt, the son of Napoleon, the residuary legatee of her immense wealth.

GREECE. The independence of Greece has at length been acknowledged by the Turkish Sultan. Its limits have been delineated on a map, and agreed to in the presence of the ambassadors of Russia, Britain and France; and an account of this transaction has been transmitted to each of those powers. Prince Leopold has not yet arrived in Greece to assume the government, which continues to be administered by Capo d'Istrias. The arrival of the Prince, however, is soon expected. The country it appears is still divided into parties; but there is none which can make any effectual opposition, even if so disposed, to the new sovereign. The Turks are to surrender Athens to the French troops, and to leave the country. It is surmised that the Greeks will not readily yield to the Turks some of the places and territories, which, by the treaty, they are bound to surrender. On the whole, however, appearances seem to indicate that a settled state of this long afflicted and dreadfully ravaged country is likely soon to take place.

TURKEY.-Letters from Smyrna and Constantinople announce, that Commodore Biddle has succeeded in negotiating a treaty with the Turkish government, for the navigation of the Black Sea by the vessels of the United States; and that a Firman has been obtained for the Java, the Commodore's ship, with the Lexington, to proceed to Constantinople. The truth is, that the free passage of the Dardanelles, and of the Straits of Constantinople, both to and from the Black Sea, was assured to all nations with whom Turkey should be at peace, by the late treaty between Russia and the Porte. The Sultan Mahmoud is represented as making great exertions to repair his losses by the late war. It is said that he foregoes the indulgences of the Seraglio for the active discharge of publick duties, and as far as possible inspects every thing that is going on with his own eyes. He is particularly attentive to the marine. It is said that thirty ships of the line and frigates are getting ready for sea; and that numerous sailors from Hydra, Spezzio, and Ipsara, have been enlisted, with a liberal pay.

RUSSIA. We have not, in the month past, seen the notice of a single political occurrence in Russia worth repeating-There has been a terrifick earthquake in Armenia, in which 400 persons, in one place, were buried under the buildings thrown down. A mountain opened with great noise, and one-half of it sunk considerably.

ASIA.

According to the last advices from India, the regulation of the British Government at Calcutta, interdicting Suttees, or the burning of Widows, had already proved effectual in several instances, and occasioned but little sensation among the Hindoos. Yet, when this measure was proposed under former administrations, it was earnestly repelled as certain to produce general disaffection or rebellion.

AFRICA.

Piracy is now practised in its most shocking form on the African coast.-The schooner Repeater, arrived at Baltimore from the coast of Africa, was boarded by

the boat of H. B. M. sloop of war Madison, the commander of which stated, that a few days prior, a vessel from Sierra Leone was boarded by a pirate, and the captain and first officer, and twelve of the crew, tied back to back, and in that situation were all thrown into the sea. After tarrying thirty hours, plundering or destroying nearly every thing within their reach, they cut away the masts and fired several shot through the hull. Five of the crew during this time were secreted below decks, and fortunately escaped the fate of their companions; they afterwards rigged jurymasts, and finally reached her destined port. On the 20th May, off Cape Verger, the Repeater was spoken by a British armed vessel, and after some detention, permitted to proceed, with the advice to keep a good look out, as several pirates were on the coast. It appears that another vessel is fitting out for Liberia, for the conveyance to that interesting colony, of emigrants, many of whom are emancipated slaves. We hope that the collections taken up in the American churches on the anniversary of our national independence, which this year has occurred on the sabbath, will largely replenish the exhausted treasury of the African Colonization Society.

AMERICA.

COLOMBIA.-It appears that the Colombian congress at Bogota have elected a president and vice president for that state, and formed and published a constitution. Bolivar absolutely declined the presidency, and it is now said that he has determined to leave his country for Britain, and finally to settle in the United States. Some such course as this appears to be indispensable, to free him from the suspicion of cherishing the ambitious project of acquiring monarchical power and influence in his own country. It is, and always has been, our sincere wish that he might be able effectually to falsify the allegations and indications unfavourable to the purity of his patriotism, and his integrity and honour as a man: and it was with regret that we read a paragraph in a late paper, which states that a British frigate that had been waiting at Vera Cruz, for no other purpose but to receive him on board, for ten days, at length sailed without him. It seems to be well ascertained that Venezuela is separated from the rest of Colombia, and that General Paez is at the head of this new state.

BRAZIL.-By a late arrival it appears that the General Assembly of the Empire of Brazil convened at Rio Janeiro on the 3d of May last, and that the Emperor addressed "that most august and most dignified body" in a speech of considerable length. He opens his speech by announcing the arrival of "Her serene highness the Princess Donna Amelia Augusta Eugenia de Leuchtenburg, reigning empress, beloved spouse, and excellent woman!"

He then informs the assembly that his daughter, the Young Queen of Portugal and Algarves, had returned to his protection and care, and declares that although both in the character of her guardian and father, he is bound to defend the cause of that princess, he will ever remain faithful to his promise to the assembly not to compromit the tranquillity and interests of Brazil, on account of the affairs of Portugal. He recommends to the care of the Assembly the Portuguese emigrants, who had accompanied the young queen. He congratulates the assembly upon the peaceful relations of Brazil, with all foreign nations, and suggests the necessity of rigorous laws to repress the licentiousness of the press, which he says has produced many evils. He declares his intention to suppress the slave trade in every form, or under whatsoever pretext it may be prosecuted. He commends to the special attention of the assembly, the education of youth, which he says has always been the object of his "imperial solicitude," and urges the establishment of schools in which the principles of the Roman Catholic religion are to be carefully inculcated.

Of the other states in the southern part of our continent we have no information to give, in addition to what we have heretofore communicated.

UNITED STATES.-During the past month, two proclamations of the Governor of Georgia have appeared-The first is in execution of an act of the Legislature of that State, extending its laws over the whole territory of the Cherokee nation of Indians; declaring that the fee simple right to the soil belongs to Georgia, and abolishing all the usages and customs of the Cherokees, and inflicting the severest penalties on every individual-Indian or white man-who shall so much as advise the Indians not to evacuate their country-The second proclamation forbids all persons to work the gold mines in the Cherokee country, without an express permission from the State authorities of Georgia-Thus the Indians are dispossessed of the very soil of their country, and are absolutely forbidden to gather up a particle of gold dust from the land given them by the Sovereign of the Universe, without a permit from the sovereignty of Georgia. We have not room for comments on these high-handed proceedings and we need none-our readers will make all that we wish, and more than it might be proper for us to express.

THE

EDITED BY J. T. RUSSELL, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

JULY 1, 1830.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS.

Review and Conclusion.

Two years have now elapsed, since the reorganization of your Board was authorized by the General Assembly-but the entire plan which has been developed in the first part of the present report, has been in operation but a very few months, and is as yet unknown to many of our churches. Still, however, when they compare the doings of the present, with those of the past, and especially of the preceding year, they would deem themselves ungrateful and unworthy of being employed as the stewards of God, and the servants of his church, if they did not thankfully acknowledge the hand of God, and take courage.

The following table will exhibit a brief view of the most important operations of the Board for the last three years.

The increase of Missionaries, of permanent auxiliaries, of receipts and appropriations, and of congregations supplied, and the diminution of the expenses incurred by the Board, as presented in the foreign summary, are without a parallel, it is believed, in the history of missionary operations in our country. These very striking and favourable changes in their circumstances are to be attributed, not to any extraordinary wisdom or energy in the Board, but to the previous changes effected in their organization, to the simplicity of their plan, and its strict conformity to the constitution of our church, to the increased zeal and liberality of the churches, and above all, to the gracious interposition and blessing of God upon their labours. For the humble instrumentality which they have been privileged to exert in carrying into effect this plan of operations, for the first principles of which they are debtors to the wise and venerated founders of the Presbyterian church, they desire to be unfeignedly thankful-and they can truly say, that the time, and labour, and thought, bestowed upon this great object, have been consecrated cheerfully, and with great pleasure and profit to themselves.

But although a considerable amount of good has already been accomplished, the blessed results of which will be fully known only in eternity, yet your Board are very deeply impressed with the belief, that the great work, in which they are engaged, is but just begun. "There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed." The wants of more than three hundred feeble congregations and missionary districts have indeed been supplied, some new churches have been formed, and the means of religious instruction, and moral culture, have been considerably multiplied; but when the work already accomplished is contrasted with what remains yet to be done, there is much in the contrast which ought to humble, and affect, and distress the heart of every philantropist, and of every Christian.

Notwithstanding all the past efforts of your Board, and of other sister institutions, the wants of our vacant churches have not been half supplied. There VOL. VIII.-Ch. Adv.

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are several hundreds of such churches still destitute of a stated ministry, which really need, and earnestly implore, assistance. More than one hundred additional labourers, and the means necessary for their support, are actually needed by your Board at the present time.

consecrate their sons anew to God, and pour forth morning, evening and midnight prayers for their conversion, that the schools of the prophets may be replenished. Let those who have already been authorized to preach the gospel, but are now unemployed, thrust themselves without delay into the wide spread harvest. Let the rich bring of their

How overwhelming then is the prospect before us, when we add to the nu-abundance, and the poor of their hummerous vacancies, within the comparable pittance, and cast them into the extively narrow boundaries of our own hausted Treasuries of the Education church, the widely extend moral wastes and Missionary Boards. of the South and West, where the voice Let the influence and the efforts of of the Missionary has never been heard, all who love Zion, and the souls of and where hundreds of thousands of fa- men, be sacredly combined, and powermilies are not only destitute of a preach- fully exerted. Let the judicatories of ed gospel, but even of a Bible to point our church, from the lowest to the highthem out the path to happiness and est, be thoroughly organized, and heaven. We need not descend to par- brought up to the Missionary work. ticulars. It is already known to the Let all who know the way to the merAssembly, that the entire extent of cy seat, lie upon their faces before God, country, stretching from the North and plead with Him for help And Western Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, then something shall be done, and done and from the Alleghany to the Rocky effectually. The company of the preachMountains, embracing a population of ers shall be great, and the means of more than 4,000,000, and that popula- the support shall be ample. Feeble tion daily increasing with unparalleled congregations shall be sustained-new rapidity, can be regarded by the en-churches shall be organized-the deslightened Christian, as little else than a vast Missionary field-already white unto the harvest, and calling aloud for the sympathies, and prayers, and efforts, of all who have hearts to feel, wealth to bestow, or time to consecrate.

From the post of observation, which your Board have been permitted to occupy, they have looked down upon this vast field with unutterable emotions. They have carefully surveyed it in all its length, and breadth. They have listened to the melancholy moanings of the desolate daughters of Zion, who are weeping here and there, by the streamlets which wind their way through this mighty moral wilderness.

They have seen a generation springing into being, and rising up to manhood, ignorant of the God of their fathers, destitute of the means of moral culture and religious instruction, and pressing onward in their sins to the bar of God, and the retributions of eternity. They have mourned, they have prayed, they have wept, over the melancholy scene; and now in behalf of these perishing millions, they make a solemn appeal to this venerable Assembly, and through them to every Presbyterian church in our country.

In the language of the dwellers in the wilderness, they ask, "can nothing more be done, to rescue these undying souls from present wretchedness and everlasting wo?" Let Christian parents

titute shall be supplied. The wilderness shall be converted into the garden of God-it shall rejoice and blossom as the rose, and the land of the pilgrims shall be saved from becoming the grave yard of political and religious libertyand shall be made pre-eminently the land of Immanuel, mountain of holiness, and a dwelling place of righteousness. By order of the Board,

JOSHUA T. RUSSELL, Corresponding Sec'y. of the B. M. G. A.

PRESBYTERY OF LEXINGTON, Va.

"On motion, resolved, that the Presbytery give up the management of the Missionary business within their bounds to the Board of Missions of the General Assembly; and that the Commissioners from this body to the General Assembly, be authorized to make such arrangements with the General Assembly's board as may be necessary to accomplish that purpose.

Resolved, that whatever funds may remain in the Treasury of the Missionary Society of this Presbytery, be paid over to the Board of Missions of the General Assembly, as soon as the missionary affairs of its own Society are closed.

A true extract from the minutes of
Lexington Presbytery.

FRANCIS MCFARLAND, Stated CPk.
Staunton, Va., April 25th, 1830.

REPORTS OF MISSIONARIES.

NEW YORK.

From the Rev. Nahum Gould, a Missionary in the county of Cataraugus, N. Y., dated Elliotville, March 23, 1830.

This Missionary has supplied regularly 7 stations, during the last 5 months, and occasionally visited other places. From his interesting report, we can make only the following extracts.

Ellicottville, our county seat, is my next station. Here had formerly been a church connected with the Buffalo Presbytery. But none existed of any order, when I came here, if I may except an Episcopal. A few members, relics of the old one, and others recently from abroad, were found here and there, to tell the sad tale of its death. It was thought to be a fruitless attempt to make an effort to organize a church, or even a Society, or to raise a subscription for missionary services. After a few weeks, however, our School house became full, and crowded, so as to ren

"I commenced my labours here on the 25th October. I found the field assigned me a large one, and under lit-der it uncomfortable. tle or no moral cultivation. A field 36 miles square, and but one church fully organized; but one minister in the whole county of our order. The first station I occupied was Franklinville, situated on the Ishua Creek, 20 miles from its junction with the Alleghany. Here were 30 members of the Presbyterian church, in covenant with each other, and who had enjoyed occasional supplies. They had no rules of discipline, & were independent of any ecclesiastical body. They held no meetings by themselves, except when a preacher was present. No monthly concert nor prayer meetings, no Benevolent society, except a Sabbath school..

Dec. 19, and 20, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Gridley, we organized a church of 11 members, ordained 4 elders. Since, we have added 9 members; making our present No. 20. Here I have preached 17 times, administered the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 2, baptized 1 infant, attended one meeting of the county Bible Society, a few meetings of the Session, prayer, and other religious meetings, where I have taken a part in the exercises.

I have visited other towns, viz. Little Valley, Machius, Napoli and Olean, where I have preached 9 times. In each of all these towns, there are some With this church I have spent 7 SabPresbyterians. At Olean, once existed a church, connected with Bath Presbybath's, preached 22 times, administer-tery; but it is now lost. It cried for ed the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 2, baptized 1 adult, 1 infant, attended a few prayer meetings-meetings of the Session, and of the Temperance Society.

Feb. 3, I organized this church, by setting apart 3 Elders in the manner our Constitution directs. The church is connected with the Presbytery of Angelica. We have dismissed 4 members, and admitted 4,-1 on certificate, and 3 on profession.

Here has been some serious attention; cases of conviction, and hopeful conversion. Our congregation will average 80. It is a good number for this region. The inhabitants in the neighborhood of this church, are principally in favour of Presbyterians. The people are poor, and can do but little for the support of preaching. They will probably raise $50 for the support of your missionary. A Temperance Society, has been formed here, and exerts a good influThe Sabbath school has not existed through the winter. We hope to revive it soon. It is very doubtful whether we can get up a Bible class. We hope to form a Bible Association, the way is preparing.

ence.

BENI, MCCLURE, Clerk.

help; but being so far from the shores whence help could be found, none heard, and she died alone, unpitied and unknown! Her name was known on the Records of Angelica Presbytery, but none knew that she was dead, till it was told them a few weeks since. It was then proposed to send an Ambassy after her, if peradventure she might be found, but they were told it was too late now. One old lady told me the fence never and the wolves were not yet retired had been kept up, the sheep were gone, from the fold to their retreats. I have visited other towns, and am solicited, and importuned to come and preach to them. But how can I. Will no one pity poor Cattaraugus? Will no come and help me? Will any body send a poor missionary here a few Tracts? He has nothing to purchase them for the people."

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From the Rev. Matthew Harrison, dated Preble, April 28, 1830.

REVIVAL IN HARRISON, N. Y. "Once in two months the sacrament of the Lord's supper has been uniformly administered, and a preparatory lecture