prevented enlarging their plans, and embracing the opportunities now of fered them of extending their exertions, but have reason to apprehend that they must contract their present sphere of operation. In short, this favoured mission must fall into decay, unless Christians of other denominations are inclined by Him, who has all hearts at his disposal, to come forward to its aid."

The Committee of the London Association earnestly solicit the co-operation of their Christian brethren of all denominations. Subscriptions and donations of the smallest amount will be thankfully received by J. W. Warren, Esq., President, 4, Powis-place, Queensquare; the Rev. John Bull, 16, Southampton-place, Euston-square; Rev. W. Gurney, 22, Cecil-street, Strand; Rev. Dr. Steinkopff, Savoy, Strand; Rev. Dr. Nicoll, Hans-place, Sloane-street; Rev. J. Leifchild, Hornton-street, Kensington; J.G. Lockett, Esq., 64, Warrenstreet, Fitzroy-square; W. M. Forster, Esq., 32, Gower-street; W. B. Hudson, Esq., 27, Haymarket; J. Christian, Esq., Wigmore-street; J. Symmons, Esq., 1, Burton Crescent; H. C. Christian, Esq., 10, Strand; T. Johns, Esq., General Post Office, Lombard-street; R. King, Esq., Arabella-row, Pimlico; W. Leach, Esq., 1,North-place, Hampstead-road; Messrs. Stephensons, Remmington,and Co.,Bankers, 69, Lombard-street; and Messrs. Morland, Ransom, and Co., Bankers, 56, Pall Mall.

HAYTI.

We have received the following interesting intelligence relative to the business of instruction at Hayti, which is proceeding with great vigour. National seminaries have been formed at Cape Henry, Port de Paix, Sans Souci, and Gonaives, which, by the last accounts, contained 420 scholars, and the first of which has furnished monitors to all the rest. Another school is about to be opened at St. Mare's, and a new school-room is erecting at Sans Souci, to contain 1000 scholars. Besides these national schools, in which instruction is gratuitous, and which are wholly

founded and maintained by King Henry, the town of Cape Henry is filled with small elementary schools for the poorer classes, who cannot as yet be all accommodated in the national schools, where the children are taught, at a very moderate rate, to read, write, and cipher. Indeed all the inhabitants are obliged, under a penalty, to send their children to school as soon as they attain a suffi cient age. One of the scholars in the national school at Cape Henry, a son of Baron Ferrier, has formed a little elementary school at his father's house, where a room has been allotted to him, in which he instructs several of his young companions in the intervals be

tween school hours.

At the national school-room at Cape Henry, Divine Service is performed according to the forms of the Church of Engiand every Sunday morning, by Mr. Gulliver, the teacher, or one of the strangers resident at the Cape. The congregation of boys is respectable. The strangers occasionally attend, especially the ladies of the family of an American merchant, who are, in general, very regular. A chaplain of the Church of England would be a very desirable acquisition *.

*We are happy to learn, that this want has been already anticipated; a Clergyman of the Church of England having sailed for Cape Henry, the capital of Christophe's kingdom, in the course of last week.-Now we are on this subject, we may just add, that the. commerce of Hayti appears to be carried on with considerable activity. We have seen an official statement of it for the first seven months of the present year. The number of foreign vessels entered during that time, chiefly Americans and English, was 107, and their burden 12,009 tons. We understand too, that this sovereign has refused the use of his ports to the privateers under the different South American flags, considering the insurgent governments as not yet sufficiently legitimate to be recognized.

attention to religion, to purity of doctrine and holiness of life, to disinterested charity both at home and abroad, to missionary exertions for the heathen, with every other scheme worthy of a great, a generous, and a Christian nation, the more should we have felt humble gratitude to God for the favourable changes produced in the public manners and opinions during the present reign.

It is true that we could have extracted much, very much, of an opposite kind;-it is true that we have seen enough, and far more than enough, of civil and religious broils, of disasters at home and abroad, and of what must be painful and appalling to us as men, as citizens, as Christians;-yet amidst all, nothing could have prevented our cherishing the pleasing idea, that even with so great drawbacks, very much remained to excite our gratitude; and still further, that the great national benefits to which we have generally adverted, were connected in no dubious manner with the personal character of the monarch.

But though these and similar sentiments occured to us in closing our last Number, we postponed indulging in them till we had the satisfaction of announcing, as we fully hoped and expected to have done in our present Number, an event to which the Nation looked forward with much interest-and which was to add a fourth generation to the three then living of the royal house, and to perpetuate, as we hoped, in the person of the great grandchild, the virtues which we had so long loved and revered in our aged monarch. Alas! (our hearts sink and our hands tremble while we write it), two generations of the royal line are cut off at a stroke:-THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE IS NO MORE: her infant lies lifeless beside her: the buoyant hopes and eager anticipations of a loyal and affectionate nation have perished; and to sigh for the past

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and forbode for the future, to min gle our tears, as we unfeignedly do' with those of our readers, and pos sibly to suggest a few monitory remarks on the awful and afflicting visitation, is all that we have it in our power to perform. Never, since the commencement of our public career, has it been our unhappy lot to record an event which has excited such fixed and painful interest; never before have seen the hearts of the nation so "bowed as the heart of one man." Wherever we turn our eyes we meet with lamentations, and weeping, and woe. The national loss is almost forgotten in private grief; every family seems to have lost an endeared relative or friend; the sun has gone down at noon; and scarcely could the public anguish have been more intense, or the appearance of it more visible, if it were literally as it is virtually true that "in every house there is one dead." Three weeks have elapsed since the mournful tidings reached our ears; and we hoped before this to have been able to have composed our minds to the calm consideration of the subject, and to have viewed it in its momentous bearings and results; - but the more we survey it, the more it increases in painful, and perhaps fearful, interest. What may be its ultimate effects upon the country, He only, who appointed it for reasons as wise as they are inscruta ble, and, doubtless, as merciful as they are wise, can unfold!

Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta, whose affecting and untimely death it is our melancholy duty to record, was born at Carlton House, January 7, 1796. Her earliest years were spent under the domestic tuition of her Royal Mother; after which her education was confided to the bishop of Exeter (now Salisbury). On her being taken from the parental superintendance, the lady de Clifford was selected for her instructress, who, on the advance

ment of her royal pupil to maturity, was succeeded by the duchess dowager of Leeds.

match was openly proposed to her by her father. It is not necessary to dwell upon the circumstances of her firm and steady refusal. Always doing justice to the character, the courage, and amiable qualities of this prince, she resolved not to

history, especially that of her own country. The principles of the Christian Religion and an attach ment for the Established Church, were early instilled into her mind; and to complete the course of edu cation, so auspiciously commenced, the more elegant and refined accomplishments of her age and sex were not neglected. Her Royal Highness appears to have been a skilful musician; but one of her chief delights was the study of the poets and standard writers in her own language. She is said to have exhibited none of the vanity of exterior ornament; and neither be fore nor after her marriage to have affected any thing beyond the plainest dress and decoration that became her situation. In a word, she is described, on all hands, as sensible, accomplished, and modest, as peculiarly correct in her general deportment, and as chiefly indicating her high birth, not so much by the refined polish of fashionable life, as by a lofty and generous sense of the duties which her elevated rank demanded.

Thus lovely and engaging, this illustrious princess arrived at the period of life in which her marriage, as presumptive heiress to the crown of these realms, became an object of the utmost interest to the nation. It is well known that the prince of Orange, who was almost a native of this country (having come hither when an infant), was destined to be her husband. For this purpose he was educated at the University of Oxford, and taught from early youth to consider himself as the intended husband of the princess. Her Royal Highness was in the constant habit of meeting him at Carlton House. In a word, the

resolution remained unalterable. Among the reasons assigned for this refusal, her reluctance to residing in a foreign country, has been mentioned as having peculiar weight upon her mind.

Her first introduction to the Prince of Cobourg was in the summer of 1814, when the allied sovereigns of Europe visited this country upon the occasion of the general peace. The consequences of that meeting are well known. She was highly pleased with his address and manners: a more familiar intercourse improved these first impressions into a warmer sentiment, and affection succeeded to esteem. The duke of York, who first observed this growing attachment, communicated it to the prince regent, and a formal proposal was soon made through his royal highness to Prince Cobourg himself. It is unnecessary to dwell any longer upon this subject. Her marriage took place on May 2, 1816. His serene highness was requested to accept the rank and title of a British dukedom: the extinct dukedom of Kendal was to be revived for his acceptance. He is supposed to have refused it, with the entire concurrence of the Princess, from a desire to avoid the embarrassments which might eventually arise from his taking any part in political affairs. Both concurred in the preference of a country life; and Claremont, the place assigned and purchased for their residence, was daily adorned by their taste in landscape gardening and rural improvement.

Thus have we rapidly traced this virtuous and amiable princess to the commencement of a union almost unprecedented in the annals