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Home Intelligence, including Notice of Public Meetings of the Society to be held in Town or Country; 6. Foreign Intelligence; 7. Miscellaneous Matter. The price of the work is to be sixpence a Number, and the profits to be devoted to the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Stuart papers are said to be on their way to England, the British government having sent two men of war to Civita Vecchia to transport them thither. They are numerous, authentic, and very valuable. They illustrate every thing obscure in the history of the last Stuarts, and throw new lights on the literature, the history, and the politics of the most interesting period of modern times. In the literary part is a correspondence between King James and Fenelon, Swift, the Bishop of Rochester, Lord Bolingbroke, Marshal Keith, and other equally celebrated personages. In the political part there are above 6000 autographs of the Stuart Family; as well as a great number of letters from Charles XII. Peter the Great, Louis XIV, and almost all the sovereigns of Europe.They were discovered and purchased, by a Mr. Watson, of Cardinal Tassoni, the Pope's auditor, and executor to the will of the late Cardinal York. An apothecary of Amiens is reported to have recently obtained a new and very lucrative product from potatoes, by burning the stalks and leaves of the plant to extract the potash, which it contains in abundance. His method consists in cutting the plants just when the flower begins to wither, at which time the stalk is in full vigour. He cuts them five inches from the ground, with a very sharp instrument. The stumps left soon push forth new shoots, which suffice to bring the roots to maturity. The plants cut down are left upon the field eight days, to dry them properly. They are then burnt, as the manufacturers of soda burn the kali, in a hole five feet in diameter, and two feet deep, washing the ashes, and evaporating the ley. It is said that 2500 pounds weight of the salt may thus be obtained per acre, besides a considerable increase in the crop of potatoes, occasioned by this mode of management. The root, also, of this valuable plant has been discovered to be capable of affording, by a suitable process, sixty or seventy quarts of good spirit for every 1000lb. weight of potatoes. The French chemists are eagerly prosecuting these discoveries. A French physician is said to have in his cabinet two galvanic piles, sixteen inches high, which alternately attract a small beam. The continual oscillation of the beam gives motion to a pendulum, which has never stopped for three years. The physician is now endeavouring to give to this movement an isochronism, which may render it more useful. A quantity of cocoa-nut oil has recently been introduced into this coun try from Ceylon, intended as a substitute for spermaceti oil, which, it is thought, may be found useful in the manufacture of soap, candles, and the finer articles of perfumery. Dr. Pearson has recommended, for the use of travellers in hot and desert countries, a portable vegetable compound, made of the nutritious part or starch of wheat, or other bread. corn, with a due portion of gum arabic, chrystalized citric acid, and a small quantity of catechu. If properly prepared, in the proportions of a pint of the vegetable jelly, to two ounces of gum arabic, one drachm of the chrystalized citric acid, and half a drachm of catechu, and dried with a moderate heat, the composition will be hard, brittle, and capable of resisting every change of climate. 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Such an establishment, independently of its immediate advantages to aNew-Zealanders, will afford a plenforor the safety of the settlers in that country, as the persons instructed will be either the sons of chiefs or their near relatives. WESTERN AFRICA. Kissey Town.-Mr. Brennand, who was appointed to assist Mr. Wenzel, died on the 20th of June, not having been quite four months in the colony. Mrs. Johnson being ill at Regent's Town, he went thither on the 5th, with the view of assisting Mr. Johnson. On the 7th he was taken ill; and continuing to get worse during a few days' stay at Leicester Mountain, he was carried in a palanquin to Kissey Town. He received every kind attention from Mr. and Mrs. sistance. His spirits were greatly depressed, though he was calm and peace. ful in reference to the prospect of eternity. Mr. Wenzel writes: "On Thursday evening, I again prayed with him; and seeing now that his end was fast approaching, I did not think it proper to leave him. I and Mrs. Wenzel, therefore, sat up with him.' He said much to my wife respecting our own children and his relations who had died, and said, 'To-morrow I shall be with them. The Lord is now calling me away.' He wished us to sing with him. I sang with him many verses. When we came to the words, in one of Dr. Watts's hymns We're marching through Immanuel's ground his spirits revived, and he sang these words in a manner so loud and distinct, that no one could suppose him ill: but his voice soon dropped, and his strength failed. When we had left off singing, he embraced me, and said, 'You are my brother, and you shall be my eternal brother before the throne of the Lord. Amen!' He spoke but a few words more. A little before two o'clock on Friday morning, he gently breathed his last." Yongroo Pomoh.-Mr. Nyländer draws the following melancholy picture of the superstitions of the Bulloms with respect to witchcraft. "About a dozen supposed witches were tried lately. The greater part of them pleaded guilty. One was accused of having sent a snake into the king's house, in order to kill him; another, of having bewitched a hunter's gun, so that he could never kill any thing, though he even shot it; another, of bewitching an old man, that he could not get any money at this time; another, for having shot a man with a witch-gun, and hurt him, so that he was dangerously ill, and taken with fainting fits; another, for having prepared a witch-gun, and placed it under the roof of his house, in order to kill a person who lived with him in the house. Two only of them said they were not guilty. One of these was tried by red-water, and found guilty: he is committed for further punishment. The other is to drink red-water at a distant period. Those who pleaded guilty, and begged pardon, did not undergo any punishment at all: they only go under the title of witch. The others must suffer severely." A short time afterward, he writes"The accusation of witchcraft still continues. Numbers of poor persons are miserably punished; and some carried to the Susoo country, and there exchanged for cattle, which are either sold or killed, and a great cry (feast) made in remembrance of those persons." Canoffee. Our readers will have seen, by Mr. Bickersteth's Report and Journal, that he had made arrangements for the Missionaries visiting the Natives, and preaching to them the Gospel. The following communications from Mr. Renner and Mr. Wilhelm will shew with what fair promise they entered on this labour. Subsequent dispatches express serious apprehensions that the renovated Slave Trade-that dire curse of Africawould compel the Missionaries to abandon the undertaking, and possibly even the settlement itself, at the very time when they seemed to be on the point of realizing their warmest desires. Mr. Renner writes "Dec. 1, 1816. A blessed Sunday of Advent!-Having previously acquainted Mongè Backe that I intended to come to his town to pray,' as they express it, we accordingly went this day." "Monge Backe had well prepared the minds of his people for the occasion; so that a pleasing silence was observed in the whole town. He told them to appear clean, and that every one should put on his best clothes," "After I had finished, Mongè Backe called me to him, and said, that it was very good to talk about God; and that since he heard what I said, he and his people would have no objection to hear me again, and that I might come as often as I pleased. He said, also, that his people should build a pray-honse, like Fernandez's, at Bramia; because, as he said, the people would not come close together in a hot sun, aud could not understand all at a distance. He made us, then, a present of a quantity of kolas, and a little palm-wine ; and we spent the time very agreeably among these friendly people." "Dec. 3.-We sent word to Mongè Tomba that I would come to his town, next Sunday, to pray.' He let me know that he likes what Mongè Backe likes; but that he had to go up the country to settle some palaver,' and that his people could not pray behind his back!-but that I should come the Sunday following. We also sent word to Yangji Bully, in Upper Bashia, that I would, next Sunday, preach in his town. He likewise said, that what Mongè Backe likes, he likes too." "Dec.7.-Mongè Backe sent word to Stephen to come to-morrow, and see the posts for the Pray-house' fixed in the ground. Stephen, recollecting himself a little, said, Master, me must run over to Mongè Backe, to tell him that to-morrow is Sunday, and a Pray. house cannot be built on Sunday.' "Dec. 8. Sunday.-I performed Divine Service at home; and Brother Wilhelm preached at Upper Bashia, the Lower Bashia people also attending.” "Dec.15.-Sunday. Myself and family went to Jesulu, to Divine Service there. Mongè Tomba had made a temporary shade for our reception, under oyhich I spoke the Word of Life. Wilhelm concluded by singing hymn. her co "Mongè Tomba was at much pains in preparing a dinner for our whole family; a thing which we did not much wish for ; but as the distance is greater than Lissa, it was welcome to us. "Two Portuguese men are living in this town, who strongly urged Mongè Tomba to build a church like the Lissa people, to which he shewed not much hesitation. "I was sorry, however, that I could not observe here, among the people, that order, regularity, and reverence, which was so visible in Lissa. Mongè Backe and his people made it a rule to observe, in every respect, the Christian Sabbath: whereas the Jesulu people made no distinction of this day from another." MEDITERRANEAN. Mr. Jowett has communicated from Malta some useful and interesting intelligence relative to several of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. We can extract only two or three particulars. "Tripoli.-Capt. Smyth visited about seventeen of the schools in the city, four of which appeared to be large, containing about thirty scholars each. They seemed pleased with his attention. The teacher is not always a Marabut. His daily pay is about sevenpence-halfpenny English. His scholars sit all round him, he being in the middle of the room. They have boards in their hands, which, being first whitened with chalk, have sentences of the Koran written on them with charcoal. The spunging of the boards clean, and preparing them from time to time, is the master's work, and must occasion no small labour and loss of time. Children are taught to read these sentences, which is done with great clamour and confusion." "As soon as the hour of prayer is announced from the minaret, the youths decamp, and the master is left to prepare the boards for the next lesson." "Of the degree of learning professed by these Marabuts, the following fact will serve to give you some idea:-Captain Smyth shewed to several of them the Arabic Bible. They readily understood the characters; but none of them could read it, as the vernacular tongue of all these parts is the jargon called Lingna Franca; and this, Capt. Smyth was informed, is understood by some one in most of the interior caravans. "Notwithstanding the extremely wretched nature of their education, the youth generally shew great aptness to learning. But this hopeful disposition is as generally kept under: for, as soon as any youth displays an opening mind, or enterprising spirit (for example, in commerce), he is checked by his superiors; as if it were dangerous to leave him to the impulse of genius. The consequence is, that they seem to grow more stupid as they grow older. "One indication of their good capacity, and a certain degree of knowledge, is, that when Capt. Smyth was on his travels, and took his astronomical obser CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 190. vations, the Natives, in their way, made theirs also. This is peculiarly the case with those who traverse the deserts; a profession which requires, in fact, much the same kind of knowledge as naviga tion. One evening, as they were travel, ing in the dark, and had missed their way, they were all on the look-out for a rising star. On seeing Dubhe, in the Great Bear, they gave a general shout, and proceeded on their way in security." "Among the slaves brought to Tripoli from the interior of Africa, are many who profess the Christian name." "From the best information that he could collect, and from putting circumstances together, Captain Smyth is induced to think that the country of these Christian tribes is somewhere about Wangara." "Of their existence we are well assured; of their country and circumstances, we may be said to know nething. But there is one particular, connected with their tale, which appeals alike to our Christian and to our humane public character: these men are slaves. "There is reason for believing that an export Slave Trade exists along the Northern Coast of Africa, such as may well call for the inquiries of those who have so long and so successfully turned their attention to the Western Coast. "While Captain Smyth was on particular service, last March, at Lebida, his schooner then lying in Tripoli bay, one of the officers, whom he had left in charge, reports, that a Native vessel cleared out from Tripoli with slaves on board. Agreeably to the instructions which Captain Smyth had left, he went on board this vessel, and witnessed such a scene as completely took away his appetite for three days. The slaves were stowed so close, as scarcely to allow them room to turn themselves. Their sickness, stench, and cries were insufferable. Their destination, it is conjectured, was the Morea; a country depopulated by war and intestine feuds : but it is probable that a large proportion would perish before they could arrive. "In this Slave Trade, there are some circumstances peculiarly painful:-On procuring these slaves from the interior, they have to march them over tracts of burning sand of a very great extent. The sick are brought on camels, two slung on each side; a slow jolting pace, and a burning sun and desert, their lot! Vessels likely to be employed for these 4 U |