at their pleasure. It was a quaint, but expressive and pregnant, saying of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, that when ever he had conquered a new language, be found that he had acquired an additional soul. He felt within himself a marked expansion of the powers of conception, comparison, and combination. It could not be otherwise-the study of language necessarily entails it. Words, the types of ideas and things, cannot be treasured up without some consideration of the things to which they refer; and the variety of shades which must present themselves in translation, will infallibly lead the student into a research respecting the causes and qualities of those discriminations èalculated to open his mind to an infinity of relations in his native tongue never before imagined by him. This was what the Emperor meant to imply he had perceived in himself. Be assured that the same cause attained of communing with the inhabi. tants, will enable you to discover and to designate to us any particular, in which the paternal superintendance of Govern. ment is perverted. You will be enabled to suggest to us, where the intervention of our authority, or of our, assistance, may mitigate and redress any physical or moral evils under which the native subjects labour. In short, you will be the efficient ministers of that benefi cence, which the British Nation has so generously desired and resolved to ex tend to the inhabitants of India. If this be not enough, I will allure you by the advancement you will gain in rate of intellect. I will tell you that conscious elevation in the state of being is the most delightful sensation that can swell the breast. It may suit the poet to describe man as indiscriminately born High to bear his brow, To drink the spirit of the golden day, And triumph in existence; But the observation must be dull indeed, which has not satisfied you, that to upcultivated man, there is no such glowing sentiment. The propensities of his na will produce a similar effect in you, and the gratifying result of it will be, that you will find yourselves imperceptibly become competent to wield with readiness, with elegance, and vigour, the mighty weapon of the English language." "Pursue then your present occupa-ture are selfish and violent. His qualition earnestly. The richest rewards lie before you all that can gratify the vanity or soothe the higher feelings of our nature. It would be quite sufficient were I only to indicate the proud consciousness of shewing yourselves exemplarily worthy of the bounty of our honourable Patrons in this institution. It would be an honest triumph to feel, that you had discharged your obligation to them by the attention with which you had fullled their object, and by the capacity you had acquired of rendering them service. But I have even in that line much more to hold forth to you. I conscientiously believe, that the administration of affairs in this country, (I cannot be supposed to allude to my own short term in it,) has been guided by a more active solicitude for the welfare of the governed, than has perhaps taken place in any other portion of the globe. The view I have had of the system of government enables me to assert, that the security and the comfort of the people are watched over and pro-whosoever can bestow it. Superiority moted with the most anxious vigilance and unremitting exertion. The best intentions, however, of any Government may be defeated, if in even a remote link there be a disposition to thwart them. The power which you will have fications make him only the most mischievous and dangerous of animals. Hateful to others, and knowing that he is so, he never can raise his thoughts above petty plots for the molestation of his fellows, or miserable precautions for his own security. It is only through culture, that he cau arrive at any sense of his duties; and through that sense of his duties, at any estimation of himself. And that first important step gained, what an infinity of gradations remains! Is it nothing to remove yourselves almost universally from the lowest line of such a scale? Is it not excellent to reach the top of such a progression, and to enjoy over so large a portion of your kind, a pure, a noble, an undisputed exaltation? Undisputed, I say, because it is so deliciously fascinating to the hu man heart to receive such instruction as will make it buoyant, and help it to soar from the dirt and dregs and depression of this earth, that it will always, repay the hoon by enthusiastic submission to of mental powers is the warrant of the Almighty for command; and man will eagerly bow to it wheresoever his judg ment acknowledges the stamp and signature. Ought I to stop here? Not so. Having attained that summit, think what an expanse must be spread beneath your eye. Think how your eagle ken will range around;-how distinct will be your view of the universe; that view which necessarily leads the mind from nature up to nature's God. Upon that pinnacle man breathes a purer air: he becomes in some degree a denizen of etherial regions, before he has shaken off his mortal coil. Not by a selfish di vorce from society, or by a chilling abstraction from earthly concerns. Oh no! The capacity to which he has raised himself of gazing more stedfastly and more fervently on the ineffable glories of the Creator, will only teach him to read more distinctly the part which Almighty Wisdom has assigned to us here below. He will feel that fulfilment of earthly relations is the great obligation imposed on our existence in this world: he will confess that no period of life can be exempt from it-the energy of youth, the steadiness of maturer years, and the experience of age, are alike bound to obey the claim. Even in that stage of decadence, when the failure of the frame no longer allows bodily activity, he will be sensible that he still may inculcate and watch, and warn, and prompt, and encourage, and lead younger intellect to a conception of its high destinies. 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We bid them God speed, and strive to imitate so glorious an example." The capture of a vessel, conveying a quantity of Bibles to the Cape of Good Hope, by an American privateer, afforded the Bible Society at Massachusetts another opportunity of displaying its paternal regard for this Institution. The Treasurers, on the sale of the prize, purchased the Bibles on their own responsibility. Their proceedings were ratified at an Annual Meeting of the Society, and notice given, that the redeemed Bibles and Testaments were again the property of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Committee repeat their cordial acknowledgments for the truly Christian and liberal con duct of the Bible Society at Massachusetts; and have, in return, placed the Bibles and Testaments at the disposal of that Society. The attention paid to supply the American prisoners of war has been noticed by the Secretary to the Bible Society at Virginia, in the strongest terms. He himself, the Rev. J. H. Rice, before the institution of the Virginia Bible Society, distributed among the British prisoners of war a number of Bibles, which were well received. The Committee have granted to the Philadelphia Bible Society, for printing German Scriptures, 2001.; to the New York Bible Society, for printing French Bibles, 2001; to the Delaware Bible Society, 1001. besides donations in Books to other Societies. The Committee have received a gratifying account of the distribution of Dutch Bibles and Testaments sent to Surinam, in South America. In Canada, a supply of the English and French Scriptures, to the amount of 1001., has been placed at the disposal of the Quebec Auxiliary Society, in addition to the usual return of a moiety of its contribution, The Nova Scotia Auxiliary Society, has remitted 6001, to this Institution; making a total of 8001., since it was formed in November 1813. Branch Societies have been added in the prin cipal towns of that province. The Auxiliary Societies at Picton and Quebec have renewed their contributions. In the island of Antigua an Auxiliary Society was instituted on the 9th of February last, which has commenced with a respectable subscription. The Committee have received 721. 9s. 6d. from Port Royal, Jamaica, through the Rev. T. Simeockes, the Rector; and 451. 19. sterling, from Kingston; beside several smaller donations from other parishes and individuals in the same island. An opening has been made for transmitting the French Scriptures to St. Domingo, through a gentleman returning to that Island. 100 Bibles and 250 Testaments have been placed at his disposal, and encouragement has been given for the formation of a Society there. The Committee have taken every practicable opportunity to promote the circulation of the Scriptures in the West Iudies; and have supplied copies for gratuitous distribution or sale within several of the islands. AFRICA. The Bible and School Commission, at the Cape of Good Hope, has resolved annually to transmit 251. to this Society, which has also supplied the Commission with Bibles and Testaments on credit. An importation of Dutch and German Testaments from Bengal had proved a seasonable supply to the converted Hottentots in Southern Africa. The Rev. George Thom had visited two settlements of Hottentots, containing 650 inhabitants, as well as that at Bethelsdorp: he had heard some of the Hottentot youth read very well; and the Bible was much read by the Christian Hottentots. The Committee have received an application for a number of Bibles and Testaments for the convert ed Namaquas, a tribe of South Africa. The Rev. C. Albrecht had begun a translation of the Gospel of St. Matthew into the Namaqua dialect. The ready acceptance of some Arabic Bibles at Yongroo, in Western Africa, by the Mohammedans, encourages a hope that they may be more extensively circulated, and has produced an appli cation from the Rev. G, Nylander för a further supply. The Committee have furnished the Church Missionary Society with Arabic Bibles, for Western Africa and India; the Schools at Sierra Leone, with English Bibles and Testaments; and various individuals have been entrusted with copies for distribution in Africa. ASIA. A Memoir of the Missionaries at Serampore, exhibits their progress in translating, printing, and publishing the Scriptures in eighteen eastern dialects, eight of which are in use within the British Dominions iu India, and ten out of them. From later intelligence it appears that their translation has been extended to twenty-five languages, of which twenty-one are in the press. In aid of these works, grants have been voted at different times, amounting to upwards of 13,0001. including the parchase of 2000 reams of paper, to replace that destroyed by fire in 1812. An improvement has been effected by the Missionaries in printing the Chinese, by the invention of moveable metallic types, in place of the wooden blocks, formerly used. The advantages of this invention, independently of the superior beauty of the characters, are these: that it will save much time and expense; while it more easily admits of improve ments in the work. "A copy of the Gospel of St. John in Chinese, printed with metallic types, has been received. The Missionaries have also been employed in printing Sebastiani's Persian translation of the four Gospels, and Sabat's Arabic version of the Gospel of St. Matthew. The labours of Sabat have been resumed; and it is hoped that a perspicuous edition of the whole New Testament may soon be obtained. The peculiar importance of a correct style in both these languages is well known. The printing of Mr. Martyn's Hindostanee translation of the New Testa ment, in the Persian character, was completed. Three thousand copies of the Gospels and Acts had been previ ously ́circulated." Wherever the Hin dostance Testament has been received, it has obtained the high approbation of the learned, has been generally under stood by the natives, and had proved a source of instruction and comfort to many. The Third Report of the Calcutta Bible Society states, that the circula tion of the Portuguese New Testament has met with some obstacles in the religious persuasion of those for whose use it was intended. One thousand copies of the Tamul New Testament, of which the typographical execution has been highly admired, have been sent to the Danish Mission at Tranquebar. The remaining 4000 copies will be forwarded to Tanjore, and other parts of the Peninsula where the Tamul language is current. Two thousand copies of the Cingalese New Testament have been printed, and the four Gospels have been tion have been admired, and the edition sent to Ceylon. The type and execu has proved highly acceptable to the naundertaken, The Malayalim version tive Christians for whose benefit it was of the New Testament, intended for the native Christians on the Malabar Coast, has not yet been completed. The four remaining Books of the New Testament Gospels were printed at Bombay; the have been translated, and the whole is now under the revision of the Malabar has relinquished its intention of printing Syrian Bishop. The Calcutta Society the Scriptures in the language of Canara, for the Roman Catholic Christians of Goa, as the Archbishop of that place has discouraged the plan. It has, however, undertaken the printing an edi tion of 2000 Armenian Bibles, the copies of which are so scarce in Bengal, as to be only attainable by the wealthy. The Armenians are scattered all over Asia. They have churches in various parts of India. The printing an edition of the whole Scriptures in the Malay language, to which the Government at Fort William had agreed to contribute 10,000 rupees, is suspended for neces sary information; but the Society has determined to print 3000 copies of the New Testament only in Malay, for the benefit of the schools at Amboyna, In the list of benfeactions received by the Bible Society at Calcutta, is the sum of 1000 dollars from an Association in America-"The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. An addition has also been made to their funds by subscriptions at Fort St. George, where no Bible Society has yet been instituted. From a deep sense of the importance. of encouraging the exertions now mak ing in Hindoostan, the Committee have agreed to supply the Corresponding Committee of Bengal with the sum of 60001 ford expenditure in the years 1813, 14, and 15, to which they have since added a further grant of 20001. for the year 1814, upon receiving the |