Intelligence, &c. CORONATION. ÖN Thursday, July 19, 1821, the In signia of Royalty were delivered to the Fourth Monarch of the illustrious, revered, and beloved House of Brunswick. We pray that his Reign may be long and prosperous, and that "his blessings may prevail above the blessings of his progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.”. After the delivery of the Regalia, consisting of St. Edward's staff, the spurs, the sceptre with the cross, the swords of justice and mercy, the sword of state, the sceptre with the dove, the orb, St. Edward's crown, &c. by different noblemen, to the Sovereign in Westminster Hall, which lasted near an hour, the procession proceeded about eleven o'clock to Westminster Abbey; where, after the Recognition, the Offering, and a Sermon by the Archbishop of York, from 2 Sam. xxiii. 3, 4, containing excellent constitutional sentiments, his Majesty took the Coronation Oath, adding his royal sign manual. After the anointing, the benediction, the investing with the supertunica, the spurs, the sword, the mantle and armilla, the orb, the ring, and the sceptre, the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown upon his Majesty's head. After the presentment of the Bible to the King, the enthronization, the homage, and the reception of the Sacrament, his Majesty left the Abbey, and returned about four to Westminster Hall, where he proceeded im mediately to his chamber. About six his Majesty attended at the banquet, during which Mr. Dymoke the Champion, whe was mounted on a charger, and attended by the Duke of Welling. ton and Lord Howard of Effingham, delivered his challenge. The King quitted the Hall before ten, and it was cleared by about eleven. For other particulars we refer our readers to the newspapers, which are also filled with accounts of the illuminations, the transparencies, the fireworks, the ascent of balloons, and the other tokens of general joy. Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Dr. Staughton of Philadelphia to the Rev. Mr. Ivimey, dated March 26, 1821. I REJOICE to find your Irish schools succeed so well. I have sent you two valuable articles for your Magazine. Brother Ward has been very popular in America. He has raised in this country upwards of ten thousand dollars for the College at Serampore. Letter of Thanks from a converted Burman to the Board of Managers of the Baptist General Convocation in America: translated by the Rev. A. Judson, their Missionary to that country. This is the first of the two Articles above referred to. The second Article, containing an interesting account of this extraordinary man, is intended to appear in our next Number. BRETHREN all, who live in America! The brethren, who live in Burmah, address you. We inform you, brethren, that trusts ing in the grace of the eternal God, the divine Spirit, and the excellent Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, we remain happy: and seeing our real state and circumstances, we have repentance of soul, and an anticipation of the happiness of heaven. God, the sum of all perfection, without beginning and without enđ, súbsists through successive ages; and this world, the earth and sky, and all things therein, which he has created, are according as he created them. God, the Creator, is replete with goodness and purity, and is exempt from old age, sickness, death and annihilation; and thus, there is none that can com pare with him. It is contained in the scriptures, that God, in his own nature, unites three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and is (yet) mysteriously one God; that he is in all places, but dwells in heaven, by the clearer manifestation of his glory; that his power and wis dom are unrivalled; and that he enjoys happiness incomprehensible to creatures. But the Burmans know not the true God; they know not the true religion; they worship a false god; they practise a false religion; and (thus) they trans gress the divine law, and sin against the most estimable benefactor. And, there fere, they neither expiate their sins, nor acquire merit. And by excessively loving themselves and the filth of this world, they love not, nor worship the eternal God, nor believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; but regard the good things of this world merely. That the Burmans, who know not the way to eternal happiness, might become acquainted with it; that they might be renewed; and that they might escape everlasting punishment, the American teacher Judson, and wife, have both come to Burmah, and proclaimed the gospel of the divine Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; on which some Burmans have become disciples. And on these ac counts, the disciple Moung Shwa-ba says, that your favour is very great (or he gives you very many thanks.) Those who love divine grace, who believe, who hear and consider the gospel, who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, who repent of their sins, attain the state of disciples. And that this religion may spread every where, Moung Shwa-ba is making endeavours, and constantly praying, to proclaim the gospel. And he prays thus:-O eternal God, graciously grant the favour which I desire. Graciously grant, that I may have regard to thy divine will, and be conformed thereto. Be pleased to take notice of my supplications, O God. I desire not to seek my own profit: I desire constantly to seek the profit of others. Thou art the Creator of all things; and if thou art pleased to be gracious, O grant that I may be enabled to promote the good of others. Open thou the eyes of my mind, and give me light. And when I shall preach in various places, evermore send forth the divine Spirit, that multitudes may become disciples. That thou wilt grant these things, I beseech thee, O God. The disciple Moung Shwa-ba has composed this writing, and committed it to the hand of the teacher; (even) in the Burman year 1182, on the seventh of the waxing of the moon Wah-goung, he has written this, and delivered it to the teacher and his wife. P. S. Brethren, there are, in the country of Burmah, nine persons who have become disciples. Extract of a Letter from Scotland. A RESPECTABLE minister in Scotland, in a letter dated March 21, 1821, has sent us the following extract of a letter which he has received from a worthy young man, a surgeon :-"There have been at Edinburgh for some years past, several meetings of medical students attending the University: they employ themselves in praying, singing, and spiritual conference. They are of different nations, and of all denominations." PROTESTANT SOCIETY POR THE Protection of Religious Liberty. (Concluded from Page 305.) COMMITTEE for the ensuing year: Rev. Messrs. J. Brooksbank, W. B. Collyer, D.D. George Collison, F. A. Cox, A.M. Thomas Cloutt, Alexander Fletcher, A.M. Rowland Hill, A.M. Thomas Jackson, William Newman, D.D. W. F. Platt, S. W. Tracey, John Townsend, and Matthew Wilks; and Messrs. David Allan, William Bateman, J. B. Brown, James Emerson, James Esdaile, Thomas Hayter, J. O. Oldham, James Pritt, William Townsend, Matthew Wood, M.P. Thomas Walker, Thomas Wontner, and James Young, Esqrs. By the Committee we are requested to renew our annual intimation, that £2 is the amount of the annual contribution expected from each congregation in England, and £1 from every congregation in Wales; that such subscriptions became due at Ladyday last; and that the arrears may be transmitted by friends, or by the post, to the Treasurer, ROBERT STEVEN, Esq. Upper Thames. street, London; or to either of the Secretaries, THOMAS PELLATT, Esq. Ironmongers' Hall, and JOHN WILES, Esq. Finsbury-place, London, to the latter of whom applications may be addressed; and that country ministers or their friends will always be received with pleasure at the meetings of the Com Coffee-house, Cornhill, at half-past six mittee, which are held at Batson's in the evening precisely, on the last Monday in every month. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. THE Twenty-second Anniversary was held at the City of London Tavern on " the morning of Thursday the 10th of May, at six o'clock, when JOSEPH RAYNER, Esq. was called to the Chair. The Rev. Mr. Upton opened the meeting with prayer. The Rev. Thomas James read the Report, from which it appears that 4,830,770 Tracts were issued from the Depository during the past year. The Rev. Mr. Mejanel from Paris mentioned several instances of the good which has resulted from the distribution of Tracts in France. Mr. Ward from Serampore pointed out the acceptableness and utility of Religious Tracts abroad, and related many interesting anecdotes, which our readers will find in the former part of this Number. Among the speakers were the Rev. Dr. J. P. Smith, the Rev. Jenkin Thomas, the Rev. Legh Richmond, and the Rev. Mr. Curwen. HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. THE Committee respectfully infor the subscribers and religious public, that the second Anniversary of the formation of the Society will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 7th, 8th, and 9th of August. On Tuesday Evening a meeting of ministers, subscribers, and friends, will be held at the Rev. E. Jones's Chapel, Silver-street, Wood-street, when an address will be delivered, and several of the Missionaries will communicate many interesting particulars of their success and encouraging prospects in the nu merous villages within the extensive spheres of their labours, and the number of children contained in the Sunday Schools which they have established. On Wednesday, two sermons will be preached. In the morning at Surry Chapel by the Rev. James Bennett, Theological Tutor of Rotherham Academy. In the evening, at the Rev. John Clayton's Chapel in the Poultry, by the Rev. W. Thorpe of Bristol. On Thursday Evening the Anniversary will be concluded by a meeting for special prayer, at the Rev. Mr. Stollery's Chapel, Chapel-street, Soho, for imploring the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all Missionary efforts at home and abroad, for the entire evangelization of Britain and the world, and for the increasing prosperity and success of the HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The morning service of Wednesday will commence at eleven o'clock; the evening services at half-past six. Col. • lections will be made for carrying on and extending the important objects of the Society. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BAPTIST HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. (Concluded from Page 311.) Dr. STEADMAN. - In the Report Herefordshire is particularly mentioned. From having been born there, and from having been, I trust, brought to the knowledge of the truth in that county, I cannot but feel peculiarly for its interests. Whilst I lived there 1 often mourned over the ignorance and vice of my neighbours, but I could not make a single effort to cure the disease. I now regret that I did not make some attempt to do it, as I am sure, with all the disadvantages that might have attended inexperience, some good might have resulted. Persons in London are not much acquainted with the state of the country; but if they travelled through the kingdom, they would be convinced that the efforts which are now making are yet far from being adequate to the great design. In the West-riding of Yorkshire, we have been labouring for ten or twelve years, and our brother Edwards, your Secretary, for one, has been indefatigable in these labours. There are now six or seven churches, which have been lately formed, and which may be considered as fruits of those labours. Such exertions as are now making were scarcely known a few years ago; let us therefore go on to seek facilities to assist them, and God will no doubt provide them. We have young men in our seminaries, who, without neglecting their studies, might do much more than they do if some resources were obtained to defray their expenses. But we cannot send a young man out ten or twelve miles on a Saturday, who has to return back on the Monday, without some re. muneration. But not to detain you longer, the result of all is, let us go on, and let us go in the strength of the Lord God. We are engaged in a good work, and if we pursue it with a proper spirit, it may furnish a pledge that God will be with us, and not only now, but in all future operations. Let us go in his strength, and he who has brought us thus far, will never leave nor forsake us. Great things we have seen; greater than we expected to see; and greater we shall see even while here, and if we ascend to a better world, who can tell but we shall look down and contemplate with delight this work still going forward? Rev. I. COBBIN, one of the Secretaries of the Home Missionary Society, spake as follows: We are only at the commencement of our labours; and seem only planting the first footsteps in the enemy's country. Much has been done, but let the friends of religion go forward in their good work; for if we look upon our own country, though, compared with many, it is a land of Goshen, yet it may be called a land of darkness; where hundreds and thousands are destitute of the light of the gospel. Still there is much Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: to encourage us. I hold in my hand a Nothing should have induced me to step very pleasing account, which we reforward upon this occasion, but my ceived last week from one of our Misgood will to your Society. Your worthy sionaries, who had heard of a fair to be Treasurer took the Chair at the forma- held at one of the places where he was tion of the Home Missionary Society, engaged to preach. Having another enand we can but good-naturedly return gagement, he proposed deferring his the compliment. Our worthy Treasurer visit until after the fair. "But," said has therefore accompanied me this even- the cottager who invited him, “ we had ing to your meeting. Lest I should not rather hear you preach than attend all be able to continue very long, I shall the fairs in the country." On his arrival begin with a very long wish: it is, that he found the place filled, and crowds your Society may, in one continued round the door. After the service he line, reach from the Highlands of Scot- inquired, if there had been many persons land to the first inn in England, and to at the fair. "O po, Sir, there was nei. Į the last at the Land's End. You may ther man, woman, nor child, to be seen have the line, and the Home Missionary at the fair, except the owners of the Society will take each side of it; we stalls, and the publicans, who were shall all have work enough to do, and railing at you for keeping the people we need not jostle one another. Though away from it." In one place a Missionwe have different names and different ary kept the players out of a town conuniforms, we are soldiers fighting undertaining 2,000 inhabitants, and took the the same leader, and we will swear fidelity to the same cause. I hold in my hand a letter, which informs mè, that in a parish church in Somersetshire there is service only once a year! and this is only one instance of the neglect with which many of our villagers are treated. As an encouragement I have also to mention, that a gentleman, in passing through one of these villages, circulated some tracts, in consequence of which an interest has been excited, a chapel built, and at the opening of it several of the most distinguished persons of the neighbourhood attended; and it will doubtless be interesting to know, that the Lord of the Manor contributed wards the building. house in which they used to perform, where many now attend the word of life.-These things are very pleasing; but we cannot make the desired progress, unless we have more effectual aid from one and all. What are twenty. three Missionaries to (the destitute places of) Great Britain? We do hope that the ministers of our churches, and all those who have wealth or influence, -and those too who have nothing but their prayers will all unite and con tribute in sending the knowledge of Christ far and wide. Rev. F. A. Cox of Hackney then rose and said,—Exhausted by previous ex to-ertion, and almost melted by the heat of this room, I feel great hesitation about J. THOMPSON, Esq. Treasurer to the addressing you, and whether it would Home Missionary Society.I rise, Sir, not become me, in this exhausted state with considerable pleasure at all times of your feelings, simply to second the to advocate a cause so dear to my resolution which you have heard, and heart, in which I have co-operated with sit down. I cannot, however, suppress you for a long period of time; for al- the rising emotions of my heart, when I though there are two of these Societies, contrast the present meeting with that of I regard them as Caleb and Joshua, last year ;-I cannot but rejoice at the when they went to look at the king-opportunity afforded me of coming for. doms of Canaan; and I hope that the Reports of this Society, and that Society with which I am more immediately connected, will stir up and provoke one another. ward upon the present occasion, to plead the cause of the Baptist Home Missionary Society. This cause recommends itself to every mind, and is worthy of our noblest efforts, Mr. HANSON then returned thanks in the name of Mr. Day, and assured the meeting, both for himself and his worthy father-in-law; that it would afford them great pleasure to promote the interests of this Society to the utmost of their power. The object of this Society is most in- this Society exerts itself, the more the teresting; it is to teach erring man the Foreign Missionary Society will increase way of life, and to raise him from that its funds, and be able to support its ladegraded condition into which he is bourers. It is no small gratification to sunk by the fall; to diffuse the blessings me that I have so worthy a character of religion all around; to open to his for my successor, [WILLIAM DAY, Esq.] view the path of immortality, to show Though he is himself drawing so near him the way to peace, to heaven, and to to the vale of years as to be in some glory. And surely this is an object degree incapable of performing the duwhich demands our best, our noblest, ties of this office, yet there is one very our most unintermitted exertions: and nearly allied to him who will second all surely when we begin at home, though his endeavours, and thus you will have it becomes us to extend them, we most some of the best of men that it was pos nearly follow the example of our divine | sible for the denomination to produce. Master, who directed his disciples, in preaching the gospel, to begin at Jerusalem. This Society, imitating the conduct of the Saviour himself, and of all the primitive labourers in this great field, in their exertions to promote the glory of God, and the best interests of man, begins with its native country, and I am Rev. JENKIN THOMAS-Ladies and sure every individual here must feel Gentlemen, during the past month I peculiarly upon this subject this evening. have had several opportunities of atThe cloud, if it were stationary in the tending meetings in this room, the ob heavens, could only pour out its re-jects of which were so identified with freshing showers on the spot beneath it; but by sailing round the hemisphere, it diffuses its blessings in every quarter, and every where produces beauty and vegetation. In like manner, the labourers of this Society go in all directions; they disperse the good seed of the kingdom, and sow it in every soil, to the utnrost extent of their power. Two or three centuries ago, when a great object was to be obtained, therefwere but a few Luthers and Wickliffes and Latimers to carry on the work; but now there are thousands of lights shining all around us, with united effulgence. I most cordially second the motion which has been proposed. BENJAMIN SHAW, Esq.-Ladies and Gentlemen, before I entirely take leave of this Society in the endearing character of its Treasurer, it becomes me to give an account of my stewardship. The state of its funds is as follows, (here an abstract of the cash account was read) Received during the last year £726 15s. 10d. paid £709 Os. 6d. leav ing in my hands a balance of £17 15s. 4d. As my friends have thought proper to nominate me to a similar situation in another society (the Baptist Missionary Society), it has been thought desirable, to prevent confusion, that I should resign the office of Treasurer in this. Yet it cannot, I think, be necessary for me to assure you of my constant attachment to your Institution, confident as I am that one is dependent upon the other. The welfare of each depends on the prosperity of both; and the more those of the present, that in appearing |