have been expected, considering the short time that Sunday has been ob served, and the disadvantages under which the people still labour. Conclusion. After he was gone, a trader, returning to Sierra Leone, arrived at the Island. His canoe was too deeply laden to take the people, but he offered to accommodate me with a passage; which I accepted, and went on board about six o'clock in the afternoon. After the anchor was up, and we were on the point of sailing, Davis came in a small canoe to inform me that Tamba had returned without being able to procure a canoe. I was sorry to be thus obliged to leave my dear companions behind, uncertain when they five o'clock, I arrived at Fongier; and would follow me. Return to Cape Shilling— April 10.-Contrary winds have detained me, tossing on the mighty ocean, since the 6th; but the Divine Hand, in which they are held, and which restrains the fury of the waves, at length brought us in safety, last evening, to a small village, about two miles from Cape Shilling. The inhabitants had retired to rest when I landed. They were sooner roused than made acquainted with what I wanted, as they could not understand English. At length I succeeded in getting some plantains for supper, and a house to sleep in. This morning, I came to Cape Shilling; and had the comfort of meeting the dear Friend stationed here, in health. Here I have also heard of the welfare of Sierra Leone Friends, and the arrival of more Labourers from England. In the evening, a part of the inhabitants attended Family Worship, at which I read and explained Romans ii. 1-16. April 11th. Sunday. A much larger congregation assembled in the forenoon. After part of the Service had been read, I addressed them from Mark xii, 4, 5. In the afternoon, nearly thirty Young Men and Boys attended School, to learn the Catechism, and receive other religious instruction. The attention paid to Religious Worship here, is greater than could April 12-At four o'clock in the morning, I took leave of Mr. Randle; and embarked in a canoe, which the kindness of a Gentleman at the Cape had lent me. About noon, having passed the Whale River, I went on shore, and sent the canoe back. By as the men with me were tired, I consented to remain till morning. April 13.-At four in the morning, and, by eight, arrived at Regent's we commenced our journey again; Town. The dear Minister of that rienced the warmth of Christian place was not at home; but I expe. Friendship from Messrs. Morgan and Barrett. We knelt down, and Mr. Morgan returned our united thanks, for the mercy of being brought together again in peace and safety. After this, I received the congratulations of such as came to offer them. home, and was equally glad to see me. In the evening, Mr. Johnson came April 15, 1819.-Wm. Tamba, Wm. Davis, and the people with them, all returned in safety. In reviewing the journey, it becomes me to raise an Ebenezer of Praise to that gracious God who has protected and upheld me and all my companions to our journey's end; and who has, I trust, in some measure opened a way for the continual preaching of His word, by any persons whom the Society may be able to send. We have been kept from every serious calamity, in a country most unfavourable to excursions of this kind, and have, in many places, been received with civility and kindness. Our message has been totally rejected only in one place; while, in many, it has been approved, and, in the last, 'accepted with eagerness, beyond what my most sanguine expectations had anticipated. With the prospect in Bassa I feel more satisfied than with that in any other part of the country. The people appear sensible of their want of instruction-willing to receive it—and ready to comply, in an extraordinary degree, with the customs of one whom they esteem a Book-man. I would, therefore, trust, that it is in the gracious purpose of God to raise up a seed t serve Him in that country. APPENDIX IV. (See Page 139.) DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO THE MISSION AT BENARES. Some of these documents were mentioned in the Nineteenth Report Copies have been received since the publication of that Report. Circular issued at Secrole, in April, 1818, by the Rev. Daniel Carrie. Ir having been found, on inquiry, that ma nychildren of Christians, chiefly connected with the Native Battalions, were without the means of instruction, a School was established in the Lines in the month of February, for their benefit, which now consists of the following number and description of Scholars : Number of Scholars. 4 Adult Christians, learning to read Hindoostanee in the Nagree Cha Of the above number, 8 Boys are orphans, or children of indigent pa rents who cannot afford to maintain them: in consequence of which, the children receive subsistence as well as education. The monthly expenses of the School are as follows: 1 European Assistant, Rs. 10 0 0 1 Sweeper 600 400 400 400 The expenses for subsistence and clothing of the eight Orphan Boys before mentioned, amount to about twenty Rupees a month. A Christian Moonshee is also entertained, at sixteen Rupees a month; whose office it is to read the Scriptures, morning and evening, to as many Christians as may attend; and, on Sundays, the Churchof-England Service, and an Exhortation, previously prepared, (both in Hindoostanee) to the Native Christians in the Lines, about 30 or 40 of whom, besides Children, regularly attend. The Rev. Mr. Corrie has engaged in these undertakings; with the promise of pecuniary support, if required, from the Calcutta Committee of the Church-of-England Missionary Society: but he conceives that he will Deed of Gift, by Jay Narain Ghossaul and Kalee Shunker Ghossaul, of a House and Premises in Benares. I, Kalee Shunker Ghossaul, dwelling in Bhokulass near the City of Calcutta, son of Maharaj Jay Narain Ghossaul, son of Kissun Chund Ghossaul, being in possession of a House near the Jungum Baree, in Bengalee Tollah, in the City of Benares, and the writings of the said House stand. ing in my name; the said House I give, in trust, to G. Udny, Esq., J. W.Sherer, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Thomason, the Rev. Mr. Parson, and the Rev. Mr. Robertson, who are the Calcutta Committee of the Church Missionary Society meeting in London, and to their successors, for the purpose of a School for instruction in all kinds of science; and that, in this School, Children of all kinds instructed in the English, Persian, may be Hindoostanee, and Bengalee Lan guages-the appointment of the Mas ters, and repairs of the Building, to be at the pleasure of the Committee; and I desire that the above-mentioned House may be appropriated as a School for ever. I appoint that none of my heirs may have any thing to do with it; but that the above-mentioned Committee, and their successors, may have the sole disposal of it. Of my own will and choice I do resign the above-mentioned House to the disposal of the Committee aforementioned, this twenty-first day of October, 1818, which answers to the sixth of the month Kartick of the Bengalee Year 1225. (Signed, in Bengalee) KALEE SHUNKER GHOSSAUL, In the presence of JAMES TRAIL, W. MOFFAT, Circular, issued at Benares, in November 1818, in several Languages, respecting Jay Narain's Charity School. Charity School in Bengalee Tollah, in the City of The Maha Raj Jay Narain Ghossaul, and his son Kale Shunker Ghossaul, its endowment, which are assigned in trust to the Calcutta Committee of the Church Missionary Society, through their Corresponding Member at Benares, the Rev. Daniel Corrie The following statement of the object and plan of the Institution is published, with a view to engage such support as may enable the Managers to extend to the utmost the benefits which it is intended to convey: 1. In this School, four languages are taught; viz. English, Persian, Hindoostanee, and Bengalee. 2. For the purpose of affording instruction in these languages, an English Master, as Superintendant of the Institution, is engaged: proper Assistants and Learned Teachers, in the other languages respectively, are also retained. 3. It is intended to maintain, as well as educate, a number of Poor Boys; who are to be accommodated in the House, as soon as proper arrangements can be made and a small daily allowance will be made to such Poor Boys as cannot be received into the House, to such extent as the funds may admit of. 4. The benefits of the Institution to be at the same time open to all who are desirous of availing themselves of them, without regard to caste or country; and, for this purpose, teachers, paper, pens, and ink will be provided gratis, for all the Scholars; it being left to the option of such parents as can afford to pay for their Children's education, to contribute at their pleasure to the general expenses of the School, and thereby to extend the benefits of it further to the poor. 5. The primary design of teaching the above languages being to enable industrious Youths to obtain for themselves a comfortable livelihood, the Application of Jay Narain To W. A. Brooke, Fsq. Agent for the Most Noble the Governor General at Benares. Sir-Itake the liberty of troubling you with the following statement respect. first care will be to instruct the Scholars in Reading, and Writing grammatically, and in the most necessary rules of Arithmetic, together with the Government Regulations on the subjects of Police and ordinary affairs: after which, such Youths as desire further improvement may be instructed in General History, Geography, and Astronomy. 6. No Scholar to be admitted into the School under seven years of age, except such as are on the foundation; nor any to be admitted to receive maintenance from the funds who are above eighteen years. Each Scholar to remain in School, if practicable, at least two years; but no Scholar to receive pecuniary support beyond the period of seven years, nor above the age of twenty, unless for the pursuit of some study approved by the Managers. 7. All the Scholars are required to attend regularly every day, to abstain from all improper language in School, and to maintain a respectable moral character in society; without which no Scholar can be admitted, or, if admitted, be retained, on his ill conduct being discovered. 8. The School to be open to all visitors, every Tuesday; and all contributors to the funds to be admitted to inspect the accounts, on the Second Tuesday in every month. It being intended to form a Library and Museum also, connected with the School, as soon as practicable, any donation of Natural Curiosities, or of Books in English or in any of the languages of India, especially Grammars, Dictionaries, and Books of History, will be thankfully received; and a Book will be kept, in which the names of Donors will be recorded, with the nature and extent of the donation. to the Governor General. ing my Charity School; with a view, if you approve, that it be laid before the Most Noble the Governor General, When his Lordship was at Benares, in 1814, I presented a Petition on the State of the School. From these it will be seen, that, at present, the Church Missionary Society supplies the salary of the Head Master; and that this, with the expense of books, slates, paper, &c. together with the necessary repairs of the House, and any alterations that may be hereafter necessary, must be provided for by the charitable contributions of such as favour the Institution. His Excellency the Governor General, being the Patron of Education, and having been pleased to express his favourable sentiments respecting my purpose of establishing this School, I, therefore, respectfully intreat his Lordship's kind attention to this subject, and that he will be pleased to grant such assistance as his Lordship may think proper. I would humbly request, that a few copies of the several Government Regulations, in the several languages in which they are published, may be given to the School, for Class Books: by which means a knowledge of what is cognisable by law, would gradually become known among the Scholars; and thus, in many instances, crimes be prevented, and also any tendency to exceed the Orders of Government in the lower classes of Government Servants be counteracted. I beg leave only to add further, that any directions which his Lordship may be pleased to give respecting the management of the School, as also any pecuniary assistance afforded, I request may be entrusted to the Rev. Daniel Corrie, with whose attention to the interests of my School I am well satisfied. I shall be much obliged by your favourable representation of this subject to his Lordship, and I have the honour to remain I send, accompanying, for the Most Your very obedient humble Servant, |