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destroyed; the medicines, which were found in the apothecaries shops, wantonly spilled and spoiled. All the goods in the shops that could not be carried away, have been rendered useless. Against this inhuman coaduct, the remonstrancès of humane commanders (among whom Marshal Bernadotte merits particular attention) have proved ineffectual. The present ad

vancing of the allied armies makes the seventh time that this once

happy country, inhabited by an industrious and contented population, has been afflicted by the march of troops through it; and all the humane endeavours of the commander in chief, General Bennigsen, his vigilant attention to discipline, and the patient frugality of the brave Russian soldiers, will be inefficient to prevent us from being involved in the most dreadful calamities.

We are, therefore, compelled to appeal to the humanity of foreign countries; and hope that England will not refuse to extend her generous and humane assistance

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Never has the benevolence of a British Public been implored in vain in behalf of suffering humanity; and, since this highly-favoured nation has not only been preserved from the devouring sword, and the devastating pestilence, but is also blessed with internal tranquillity and with fulness of bread, the Committee implore their kind aid in behalf of many thousands, who, without effectual assistance speedily bestowed, must ere long perish!

The Committee might now invite the further liberality of the Public by many very forcible and affecting considerations; but they preferably rely on the preceding statement of facts, being firmly persuaded that they are of themselves sufficient to produce a deep and sympathetic impression.

Subscriptions are thankfully received by J. Hardcastle, Esq. Old Swan Stairs; T. Wilson, Esq Artillery Place; and Mr. Butterworth, Fleet Street.

COLLECTION FOR THE GERMANS.

Mr. Dewhirst and Congregation, Bury St. Edmund's

DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS.

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AUG. 12. The Trustees of this Magazine met for the Distribution of Profits, when the following Cases were relieved:

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MISSIONARY COLLECTIONS, &c.

Rev. T. R. Gawthorne and Congregation, Belper, Derbyshire
Js. Boden and Congregation, Sheffield

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S. C. by J. H.

Addition to Collection at Inverkeithing, Rev. E. Brówn
Collections at Dundee, by Mess. Campbell and Frey

H. H. from Pembrokeshire

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The Collections made by the Rev. Mess, Collison and Frey, in their

Pate Tour, will appear in our next.

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THE Members of the West Kent Union held their Half-yearly Meeting at Mr. Popperwell's Chapel, Marden, April 21. After solemn prayer, the accounts were audited and the business of the society settled in the forenoon. In the afternoon and evening, Mr. Knott, of Chatham, preached from 1 Cor. i. 21; Mr. Drew, of Stroud, from Jer. xxxiii. 6. Prayer was of fered by the brethren Pryer, East, Brown, and Bentliff. The next Meeting is to be held at Mr. Bentlif's, Maidstore, Oct. 13. The forenoon to be appropriated to business. Messrs. East and Prior to preach; in case of failure, Messrs. Hackworth and Slatterie.

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The same day, the Rev. W. Cakebread (Baptist) of Hook Norton, was set apart to the pastoral office over the church of Christ, consisting of Independents and Baptists, at Eatington, Warwickshire. Whitehouse, of Stratford, menced the service and offered the intercessory prayer; Mr. Draper, of Chipping Norton, delivered the introductory discourse, &c.; Mr. Smith, of Alcester, offered the ordination prayer; Mr. Sinith, of Blockley, gave the charge, from Jer. iii. 15; Mr. Cales, of Burton, preached to the people, from 1 Thess. v. 12, 13; and Mr. Read, of Warwick, concluded. Mr. Whitehouse, of Stratford, preached in the evening, from Isa. xlix. 13. Some account of this newly-raised interest is given in our Magazine for last September, page 414.

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July 8, The Independent Ministers in Kent held their Annual Meeting at Mr. Gurteen's Chapel, Canterbury. Mr. Percy preached in the morning, On Growth in Grace (2 Pet. iii. 18). In the evening, Mr. Kent, On the Union of Christian Churches (Eph. iii. 15); and on the preceding evening, Mr. Drew, from Rom. v. 11.

Several Members of Mr. Lambert's church, at Hull, with a Missionary (Mr. Earl) sent out by that church, having for more than eight years visited several towns and villages in Holderness with the glad tidings of gospel grace, a considerable part of which was formerly in a state of the most gross ignoranee; and God having crowned their bumble efforis with much success, in the conversion of many, at skipsea (where a neat meeting - house has been erected) a church, on the Congregational plan, was formed, July 9, 1807, after a discourse delivered by Mr. Lambert, from Acts xiii. 1,

The last Meeting of the East Kent

Association was held at Eyethorn, July 28. Mr. Parnell preached from Isa. Ixii. 7,8; Mr. Atkinson from 2 Cor. iv. 7; Mr. Whitefoot, from Titus xi. 12. The Association (about 150) dined at Waldershare. After dinner, it was resolved, That this Association will endeavour to promote the sale of the Eclectic Review, as an antidote to the literary poison of the day. The next Meeting will be held Oct. 13 and 14, åt Margate. The ministers to preach are Messrs. White, Young, and Chapman..

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Same day, the Rev. W. Haward, from Hoxton Academy, was ordain ed over the Independent church at Rendham, Suffolk. Mr. Pickles, of Walpole, began with prayer and readings Mr. Price, of Woodbridge, delivered the introductory discourse and asked the questions; Mr. Dennant, of Halesworth, offered the ordination prayer; Mr.Shufflebottom, of Bungay, gave the charge, from Acts xx. 28; Mr. Vincent, of Deal, the general prayer; and Mr. Wair ford, of Yarmouth, preached to the people, from 2 Phil. ii. 16.

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Aug. 12. Rev. R. Pengilly, late student at Bristol, was ordained pastor of the Baptist church at Newcastle upon Tyne. Mr. Arbon, of Newcastle, began the service; Mr. Steadman, of Yorkshire, delivered the introductory discourse and the charge, from Rev. ii. 10; Mr.Whitfield, of Durham, offered the ordination prayer, and preached to the people in the evening, from Phil.

ii. 19.

We understand that the Annual Meeting of the Independeat Benevolent Society, meeting in Gloucestershire, will be holden at Wotton under Edge, Sept. 9, at the Rev. Mr. Lewis's Meeting-house; and on the preceding evening there will be an Open Committee at Mr. Lewis's own house, to audit the accounts, prepare a report, &c.

The Wilts Association will hold their Half-yearly Meeting at Devizes, on Tuesday, the 15th of Sept. inst. The Rev. Mr. Williams is to preach in the morning, on Family Worship; and the Rev. Mr. Berry in the afternoon.

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LONDON.

A Society has been lately instituted for the Suppression of Vice, in the parishes of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and St. Luke, Middiesex, by giving Effect to the Laws made for the Protection of Religion and Morality, when friendly Admonition

has failed of Success.

The particular objects to which the Members of this institution wish to direct their attention, are the Profanation of the Lord's Day, in the carrying on of trades, in the working of artificers at their ordinary callings, and in the vending of goods by shopkeepers and others; and also the frauds and abuses practised in setting by False Weights and Measures, Riotous and Disorderly Houses, Lewdness, Drunkenness, and Profane Swearing.

This Society is under the direction of a President (T. Wilson, Esq.) a Treasurer, a Secretary (Mr. Warnę, Gloucester Terrace, Hoxton) and a Committee of Thirty, chosen in equal numbers from the two parishes; to whom are added the Vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, and the Rector of St. Luke's, for the time being.

The funds of this Society are raised by annual subscriptions, donations, bequests, and public sermons; which will in part be employed in rewarding peace officers who are found to be vigilant and active in the discharge of their duty, - in printing and circulating abstracts of the laws made for their guidance; and also in printing and distributing, among the lower orders, abstracts of such penal laws, which, from their want of information, they are liable to violate.

The Society intend that all their measures shall be conducted with the greatest moderation, and in strict conformity to the laws of the land, persuaded that it is always more desirable to prevent crimes than to punish them.

The Members of this institution are desirous of obtaining the patronage and support of those worthy persons, of either sex, who have the interests of morality and true reli gion at heart; and who wait only for an opportunity of knowing by

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In your Magazine for August, appears, an account of the Examination of the Students in the Academy at Homerton, on the 24th of June; which puts me under the necessity of requesting a place for a few lines in reference to the same subject. However friendly the intention of the - unknown writer of that article might be, I think the paragraph itself is calculated to convey an unfavourable representation of the Academy to every reflecting reader. The most interesting part of the examimation is passed by in silence; and the great design of the Institution itself is not even adverted to.

To the account of Examination in the Languages and Sciences, it might have been added, that one class was examined in the Syriac Tesfament; and that the subjects enumerated, form only a part of a course of lectures, which cannot be delivered in much less than three years. Without this information, any one would deem the arrangement arbitrary and unreasonable: But it was of much more consequence to have omitted the facis, that the students were particularly examined in the course of Scriptural Theology, which employs the best part of their time and attention during their academical studies; and that three of them (not selected, But following from year to year in the order of seniority) delivered Orations; which were received with tokens of high approbation. The first oration was by Mr. W. J. Fox, On the Difficulties of the Christian Ministry among Protestant Dissenters, and the best Means of sur

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mounting them." The second, by Mr. T. Raffles, " On the Character of our Lord as a Public Teacher, and as an Example for Gospel Ministers." The third was in Latin, by Mr. J. Inderwick, "On the Degree in which Divine Truth and the Way of Salvation were known to Mankind in the Periods of early History."

As a considerable number of your readers can have no knowledge of the Homerton Academy, except what they derive from your valuable work, I beg leave to add some brief and general information.

This Seminary is by far the most ancient of the same kind among Protestant Dissenters. It was founded in the year 1730; and afterwards received the accession of the Fund Board Academy, which had subsisted from the very times of the Ejected Ministers. It was established solely for the preparation of truly pious and holy young men, for the more useful discharge of the gospel ministry; and, through the preserving care of Divine Mercy, it has never swerved from its origi nal, sound, and scriptural principles.

The number of students, during the latter part of the past session, was sixteen. Besides the attention paid to the advancement of Classical Learning, and its application to Biblical and General Criticism, Lectures are delivered in Natural Philosophy, Natural History, Logic, the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Rhetoric, the Study of General History, and Divinity in its scriptural extent, its ample evidence, and its practical importance. In addition to the lectures of the regular tutors, the students enjoy the instructions of an eminent professor of elocution. The time appropriated to these studies varies, according to the previous advantages of the pupils: it may be only three years and a half, or it may be prolonged to six years. Among the tutors who have laboured in this long-established and extensively useful Institution, occur the names of Dr. Ridgley, Dr. A. Tayor, Mr. Hubbard, Drs. Marryatt, Conder,

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Walker, Gibbons, Davies, Fisher, health, retired to her apartment;

Mr. Fell, and Mr. Berry.

The insertion of this short account will greatly oblige,

dear Sir, yours very respectfully,

Cheltenham.

J. P. SMITH.

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where she was heard to exclaim, “Lord, have mercy upon me!" and when her friends entered the room, she was found dead.

On Friday morning, Aug. 14, died the Rev. Dr. Fisher, of Mare Street, Hackney, aged 76. Dr. F. was tutor at Homerton Academy for upwards of 30 years; but had retired about four years before his death.

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LECTURE TO THE JEWS..

MR. Frey's Lecture to the Jews, which has hitherto been delivered every Saturday Evening, will, in future, he preached on FRIDAY Evenings, at a Quarter before Seven o'clock. It has also been judged expedient to remove the-Lecture from Sion Chapel, where it has lately been preached, to the Rev. Mr. Ball's Chapel, in Jewry Street. The First Lecture on Friday, September the 4th.

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