In the press: A volume of Travels in Spain in 1809, 1810, by William Jacob, Esq. M. P.; which will contain views of agriculture, arts, commerce, &c.; manners, religion, anecdotes of leading characters, &c.;-The second volume of Mr. Southey's History of Brazil, relating to the Foundation and Establishment of the adjacent Spanish Provinces;-An Account, by Mr. Trotter of Wicklow, of the Travels of the late Mr. Fox, Lord St. John, and himself, in Flanders and France, during the late short Peace; and, Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan to various Public Functionaries; translated by Colonel Kirkpatrick. Preparing for publication: A detailed Account of all the Scottish Families of Note, from the Peopling of Scotland by the Scythians, down to the present Era; by Mr. Hamilton Bruce-A general History and Collection of Voyages and Travels; by Mr. R. Kerr; and, The Poems of the Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and others; by the Rev. G. F. Nott. OXFORD. The following subjects are proposed for the chancellor's prizes, for the ensuing year; viz. 1 For Latin verses-" Herculaneum." For an English essay"Funeral and Sepulchral Honours." For a Latin essay-" De Styli Ciceroniani, in diversâ materie, varietate." The first of the above subjects is intended for those gentlemen of the university who Have not exceeded four years from the time of their matriculation: and the other two for such as have exceeded four, but not completed seven years. Sir Roger Newdigate's prize: For the best composition in English verse, not containing more than fifty lines, by any under-graduate who has not exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation -"The Parthenon." CAMBRIDGE. The subject for the Norrisian prize this year is, "The divisions of Christians are not inconsistent with the truth of Christianity." The Hulsean prize for this year has been adjudged to William Jowett, Esq. B. A. of St. John's College, for his essay on the following subject:-"The remarkable propensity of the Jews to idolatry, before the Babylonish captivity, compared with their exemption from it in general afterwards, affords the unbeliever no just ground for rejecting the scriptural account of the miracles in the time of Moses and Joshua." In the literary intelligence for September last, page 582, we committed a mistake in stating that Dr. Bell had transferred 15,0002. three per cent. consols. to Magdalen College, Cambridge, for the purpose of founding eight scholarships. This sum Dr. Bell has transferred, not to Magdalen College, but to the university generally, for the purpose of founding eight university scholarships for the sons or the orphans of clergymen, whose circumstances are such as not to enable them to bear the whole expense of an university education. Four scholars have already been elected, viz. Messrs. Robinson and Peacock, both of Trinity College, and of the second year; and Mr. Griffith, of Trinity, and Mr. Skules, of Christ's, both of the third year. Elections, in future, will be on the Friday after Midlent Sunday, and only freshmen will be elected. The electors are the vice-chancellor, the king's professor of divinity, the king's professor of civil law, the Lucasian professor of mathematics, and the public orator. The medical report of the West of England Eye Infirmary, at Exeter, announces the cure, in the two last years, of 1,195 per sons Of these, 86 have been cured of cataracts, of whom 30 were born blind. Two persons, servants in a gentleman's family, were lately killed by means of charcoal. Their sleeping apartment was over the harness room, where in damp weather it was usual to burn charcoal during the day time. But the charcoal having been imprudently left burning during the night, after the house had been shut up, the two persons in question, young men in the bloom of life, were found suffocated. danger from the use of charcoal, if proper precaution, as ventilation, &c. be not taken, is great, as it is attended with little or no smell. The So many people have lately been burnt to death in consequence of their clothes catching fire, that it seems important to remind our readers that the fatal effects of such accidents, even when they do take place, might easily be prevented by a little presence of mind. The advantage of rolling the person, whose clothes are on fire, in the carpet, is universally known. It may not be so well known, that the easy and simple precaution of lying down on the floor, instead of continuing to stand, would, in nine cases out of ten, probably prevent all serious mischief. Any person may satisfy himself on this point, by a simple experiment. Let him take a piece of muslin, and, holding it per pendicularly, set fire to it, he will see it consumed with great rapidity, the flame also ascending to a great height. Let him take a similar piece, and set fire to it as it lies horizontally, and he will find that it will burn much more slowly than the former, in the proportion of about one to fifteen or twenty, while the flame will never rise above an inch or two at most. The fifth annual examination of the students at the East-India College, Hert ford, took place lately. The business of the day began, by Mr. Paul Marriott Wynch reading an essay "On the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the consequences resulting therefrom." In this task Mr. Wynch acquitted himself in a manner that reflected the highest credit on his proficiency in historical knowledge, Several of the students then exhibited proofs of their attainments in oriental learning, by reading and construing various pas sages from different authors, in the Persian, Hindostanee, Sanscrit, and Bengalee, languages. The examining committee state, the gratification which they experienced from the creditable state of the examination, reflecting no less honour upon the students, than upon their respective teachers; and from the general character of the college, this term, for regular, orderly, and good conduct. The following prizes were presented to the undermentioned students, to whom the same had been awarded, viz. To Alexander Dick Lindsay, the first prize for Persian, a gold medal. To Robert Stuart, the first prize for theology, a gold medal, and also a prize of books for classica, Books were presented to the noder. mentioned, viz. to Charles Chicheley Hyde, for mathematics; to George Richardson, for Bengalee; to Richard Clive, for Persian, Hindustanee, and Persian writing; to Charles Norris, for classics and Hindustanee; to Richard Carr Glyn, for Bengalee; to Heary William Hobhouse, for Sanscrit; to Henry Blundell, for Persian; to Henry Minchin Pigou, for classics, history, and French; to Alexander Frazer, for mathematics; to Ben jamin Guy Babington, for law; to John Edward Wilkinson, for theology; to John Vin cent Briscoe, Bengalee; to Henry Millet, for mathematics; to John Master, for Ben galee; to Edmund Molony, for classics; to William Lance, for French; to George Jenkin Waters, for drawing; and, to John Walter Lewis, the second for ditto.—Most of the above were also highly distinguished in other departments. The names of the following students, who were "highly distinguished" in the different departments, though they did not obtaią prizes, were read, viz. John Vaughan, Henry Swetenham, John Sax, William Smith, James Allen Dalzell, Abercrombie Dick: as were the names of the following students, who, though they did not obtain the rank of "highly distin guished," passed the examination “with credit." George Jenkin Waters, John Walter Lewis, Shadwell Morley Boulderson, Ed ward John Harington, Thomas Geo, Gardiner, Robert Parry Nisbet, William Henry Valpy, Ralph John Tayler, John Hadley D'Oyly, Edward Bouchier Wrey, Thomas Theophilus, Metcalfe, Charles Harding, Charles Matthew Whish, James Taylor, Jonathan Chapman, John Hutt, To Mr. Paul Marriot Wynch, the first prize for composition, viz, a certificate of superior merit (having obtained the gold medal the year before.) He was also highly distinguished in other departments. To Henry Chastenay, the first prize for classics, gold medal; a ditto for mathematics; a ditto for Sanscrit; and a prize of books for French: he was also highly distinguished in other departments. To William Hudleston, the first prize for paliti cal economy and bistory, a gold medal; the third pize of books for composition; and highly distinguished in other depart ments. To Harry Rooke, the first prize for law, a gold medal. To John MPhersoning papers about the streets on the Sunday. M'Leod, the second prize, for composition, gold medal; prizes of books for mathematics. Hindustanee, Persian, law, and for pplitical economy and history; he was also highly distinguished in other departments. The Lord Mayor, we are happy to find, has fined a newspaper-carrier for vending on a Sunday, the second edition of one of the Sunday newspapers; the Lord Mayor, in convicting the party offending, expressed his determination to take every means in his power to put an end to the custom of hawk His lordship observed further, that it was evident in this, as in former cases, that no news whatever had arrived, and that the publication of the paper itself was therefore a gross fraud upon the public, LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. THEOLOGY. A Series of Discourses, principally on the Evidences of Christianity. By the Rev. N. J. Naylor. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Sermons and Extracts, consolatory on the Loss of Friends, selected from the Works of eminent Divines. 8vo. 8s. A concise Manual of the Principles and Duty of a Christian, By the Rev, John Maule. 2s. 6d. A Sunday's Evening's Companion for Pa rents and Children. 18mo. 2s. 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They most earnestly entreated us to procure for them a brother who might be their minister, and instruct their children, whose education was much neglected. They offered to make sufficient provision for him, each cheerfully contributing his quota, but said they could not pay for his journey. We promised to do our best to help them; and before we left the settlement inade an arrangement, by which brother Mueller will in future go every fortnight to preach at Gnadenhuetten, and administer the Holy Communion once a month; those of them who are not yet communicants, will be admitted, after the usual manner, in the Brethren's church. We were edified by our conversation with these people, especially with the two Swiss brethren. "26th. We proceeded on our journey, Brother Heckenwaelder accompanying us to Goshen, a journey of seven miles, through a pleasant wood. We passed by the land purchased by the general committee for the management of our missions for the use of the ludians, and arrived at ten in the forenoon at Goshen, where we had the great pleasure to see and embrace that dear servant of Christ, David Zeisberger. I had written to him immediately on our arrival at Gnadenhuetten, to apprise him of our approach. I was deeply affected at the sight of this venerable old man, whom I found in a mean-looking cottage, weak in body, but alive and cheerful in mind. He has a serious and yet animated look, and his countenance is full of benignity. But his body is almost worn to a skeleton. He was clad in a clean jacket and trowsers, made of striped cotton. His reception of us was most cordial, his words were few, but the tears in his eyes, and the pressure of his hand, were expressive of heart-felt joy. At dinner he hardly eat a mouthful, and his wife said she could not conceive how life could be thus supported. She herself is but poorly in health, and wished that her husband would resolve to remove to Bethlehem to rest. "Brother Benjamin Mortimer and his wife are well in health, and active in their calling. They care most affectionately for their venerable parents, as they consider brother and sister Zeisberger, and live and labour with them in true brotherly love. "We were likewise welcomed, in the kindest manner, by the old Indian chief, Brother Bill Henry, and his three sons. They, with their wives and children, a few widows and a man, who had not yet obtained admission to the congregation, in all eleven adults and nine children, are, alas! the only native Indians residing at Goshen. We were quartered in the hut formerly oceupied by Brother Hagen, and though our beds were hard, and the horses belonging to the Indians all night playing or fighting before our door and windows, we got some Confortable sleep. "In the morning we were informed, that Brother Zeisberger had had a bad night, and was very weak. However, after breakfast, we found him in pretty good spirits, and be begged that we might all meet in conference, at which he assisted with much animation. After it was over, he stretched himself again upon his hard wooden platform, having taken only a little broth. “Our consultations related chiefly to the present state of the Indian Mission, in the three settlements at Goshen, Petiquotting, and Fairfield; and we were surprised at the knowledge our venerable brother possessed of all circumstances in the two latter places. "When I spoke with him of returning to Bethlehem, where comforts more suitable to his very advanced stage of life, than could possibly be procured at Goshen, would be most cheerfully provided for him, he declared, that he could not resolve to forsake his dear Indian brethren, while it pleased the Lord to leave him here on earth; but that he hoped soon to depart and be at rest, and rejoiced that he should find so many of his beloved Indians gathered around the throne of the Lamb. "On the day previous to our departure, Brother Zeisberger was remarkably cheerful, and well in health. He appointed a lovefeast with the Indian congregation, at which they partook of bread inade of Indian corn, and a species of herb-tea of singular, and, to us, unpleasant flavour. He interpreted all I said to the Indians, and they requested me to send their salutations both to the brethren and sisters at Bethlehem, and to all our congregations and friends beyond the great ocean; and to thank them that they had sent a brother to visit them. At the conclusion of our meeting, we sang to, gether a hymn in German, which they listened to with much attention and derotion. "Bill Henry's second son, Charles, who speaks English, was willing to accompany us to Pettquotting. Each was mounted on a good Indian horse, and our guide led another, laden with a small tent, lent us by Brother Zeisberger, and with provisions and implements for cooking. The water in the Muskingum was so high, that we were obliged to cross it in a boat, and make our horses swim over. "At Goshen we had made acquaintanc with a Mr. K., proprietor of New Philade phia, whose request to have a minister of the Brethren's Church residing on his estate could not, for the present, be granted; bot who invited us to take our breakfast with im in passing. His new settlement is three iles from Goshen, in a pleasant country, and he shewed us the spot he has destined for the erection of a chapel and minister's house, whenever the brethren can afford to assist him. He and his son accompanied us about ten miles, and brought us through any deep brooks, through some of which Our small horses could hardly get without swimming. "During the first night we slept in the wood; the musquitoes were so troublesome, and cur bed so hard, that we were glad to set out again very early. We had to pass a bog, in which Brother Cunow's horse fell into a deep hole, and, in his struggles to get out, rolled twice upon his rider; but by the mercy of God, he received no farther harm, than that of being soaking wet and covered with mud. During the following two nights and days we travelled in the woods, we fared better, notwithstanding the dreadful roads, which indeed are nothing but Indian paths through thick woods, over meadows and bogs, intersected with brooks, which we had to ford, the water sometimes reaching up to our knees, steep hills and precipitous places, and a vast number of large rough trees fallen across the way. Yet we finished our journey of 100 miles in four days, so as to surprise the Brethren Denke and Haven at Pettquotting, at their work in the field, some time before sunset. Brother Denke brought us into his cottage, and exerted himself to the utmost to contrive accommodations for us within its narrow limits. "At a meeting of the Indian congregation, which consists at present of fifty-nine members, I saluted them from our congregations both in Pennsylvania and in Europe, assuring them of the share all the Brethren and Sisters, and the Elders Conference of the Unity, take in their spiritual and temporal welfare. Brother Cunow delivered a discourse, and in the following days we heard Brother Haven preach in English, and Brother Denke in the Delaware language, Both of them spoke with great fluency, and we were much edified both by the attention, and the sweet and lively singing of the congregation. "Brother Denke has an extraordinary gift in learning languages with great facility, and is said to speak the Delaware better than any of our missionaries ever did before. We also thanked the Lord for the willingness he bas granted to this brother, to serve the Indian congregation with all the energies of his mind and body, a service here con nected with much labour and difficulty. Brother Haven, likewise, is devoted to the work of the Lord. "The day after our arrival at Pettquotting, Brother Denke heard that our guide, Charles, had brought a letter from Goshen, to the Indians in this place, which occasioned a consultation among all the fathers of families. The letter was signed by Bill Henry and his sons. They mention that they had conferred with us about their removal, and exhort the inhabitants of this place to do the same. Accordingly, in the afternoon, a deputation of Indian brethren called upon us, and having first thanked us, for undertaking so long a journey to visit them, dwelt upon the necessity of their leaving Pettquotting, especially as government had sold this land to the white people, and they were in danger of being driven away at a short warning. Besides this, the neighbourhood of the Monsytowns was very pernicious to the morals of their young people. The day following, we delivered to them our answer, that having heard their sentiments, and those of the Indians at Goshen, we must now also hear the thoughts of the Fairfield congregation; after which, on our return to Bethlehem, we should con sult our brethren, and be able to form some judgment what advice to send them through their teachers. We reminded them, that in a well-ordered congregation, it was but right that they should follow the good advice of those whom the Lord had appointed to serve them. They received our answer very kindly, and only added, that the situation of Fairfield was as dangerous to the brethren and sisters, and young people, in a moral point of view, as of Pettquotting; but having fine gardens and fields to leave, perhaps some of thein might love these better than their souls, which would be very wrong, for the land could not be nefit their souls. "Every forenoon we met in conference, at which the missionaries Denke and Haven, informed us of every circumstance relating to the mission. We endeavoured to assist them by our advice, and prayed fervently to the Lord to counsel and comfort them under every difficulty. Having heard that the traders, living about five miles from hence, had sent all their boats to Detroit, we were obliged to submit to the necessity of travelling on by land. Not one of the Pettqnotting Indians venturing to lend his horse for such a journey, we had no other means of proceeding, but by prevailing on our former faithful guide, Charles, whose |