er. a ex therefore, the effect produced the great- It would be injustice to omit our The thickness of metal in great and approbation of the superiour manner small arms, being somewhat proportional , of arrangement adopted in this vowhen the powder is fired, a part of the heat is absorbed in raising the tempera- lume. Instead of a chaos of inforture of the cold barrel. To such as are mation, which frequently defeats the fond of rifle shooting, we should recom- good effects of intrinsick inerit in mend the purchase of two, three, or half professional works, each article is are a dozen pounds of powder, always of the best quality, to be mixed well together ranged under its own proper head, with the hands, to prevent the contact of and an index presents a ready referany thing that might inflame it, till ren- ence to it, thus uniting the facilities dered as homogeneous as possible. of a dictionary to the interest of an “ It should be laid on a large water-dish, able treatise. In addition to the sci. filled with boiling water, where after a entifick information which abounds few minutes stirring, it will be found con in these pages, it contains a great siderably heated, and consequently dried. If then put into bottles well dried, and variety of very interesting reflections previously heated, for the purpose of and observations, relative to military pelling every particle of moisture, and concerns in general--the organizaclosely corked, it may be kept for any tion of the army-of a battalion-the length of time, and in any situation, with. selection of light infantry men-of out being deteriorated as to strength or riflemen. Some very valuable hints quality. The water plate is recommended on account of its safety, in preference to relative to the improvement of the other methods used, as passing a heated dress, accoutrements, and luggage fire shovel over it, and so on. If powder of troops—and similar topicks. To be well dried, it will not soil the hands, those whose rank gives weight to and therefore there is no difficulty in as- their opinions in military matters, certaining when it may be removed from this work should form an object of the plate to the bottle, without fear of the operation being sufficiently completed."* study. All, who are any way inte We did intend noticing several rested in the subject, should read it other interesting passages, but we attentively. And we hope that we have not room. We will venture to shall not be deemed impertinent in say that no military library can be recommending to the able author, complete without' Mr. Beaufoy's to compile an abridgment of the book. most prominent and useful arti cles of the work, omitting, for ex* Powder should not, however, be fre. ample, all theoretick speculations, quently exposed to heat, in this way, as and thus, by producing a useful shilevery time, a certain portion of the sulphur ling pamphlet, enable every rifleman is carried off in the shape of vapour, and in the kingdom, whether regular or as the goodness depends chiefly on the volunteer, to profit by the experience three different ingredients, used in its manufacture, bearing a certain proportion and the knowledge which the patriotto each other, one cannot be diminished, ick studies of the author have eliwithout deteriorating the quality of the cited. whole. " FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. Periodical Accounts relative to the Baptist Missionary Society. Major Scott Waring, -Twining, Vindication of the Hindoos, &c. &c. bered their common origin, and when the interests of Christianity were in question acted as one body, with one heart and will. Before this struggle was over, the zeal of protestantism had spent itself. All sects and com THE rapid progress of Christianity during the first ages of the church, and its victory over the established forms of classical superstition, the schools of ancient philosophy, and the barbarous mythologies of the northern nations, were the uni-munities of religion settle and purify ted produce of the ardent piety and indefatigable zeal of the first preachers of the Gospel, and the blessing and assistance of Heaven. But, it is observable that, in later times, the faith has been spread more by colonization than conversion. How is it that the latter has been so deplorably checked? The Romanists accuse the Protestants for their indifference; the Protestants retort upon the Romanists for their corruptions. There is but too much truth in the charge on either side; but the reproach is better founded than the recrimination. after their first effervescence. Then they become vapid. The protestant churches had reached this second stage, when they were securely and peaceably established: their turbid elements had cleared away, but the quickening spirit was gone also. While they had zeal to attempt the work of converting heathen nations they had no opportunity, and when the opportunity came, the zeal had evaporated. The Dutch, indeed, did something in Ceylon-a poor atonement for the irreparable evil which they occasioned in Japan. Quakerism sent forth a few apostles to the pope and the great Turk, and the good spirit which animated them was so far communicated to the personages whom they addressed, that, little used as they were to the benignant mood, they sent the gentle zealots safely home again. A Danish mission was established in India, where it has continued merely because it is an establishment. Assistance has, indeed, been given to it by our own society, for promoting Christian knowledge; and some attempts have been made among the North American savages by the society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts. But these efforts, however laudable, have had no very extensive consequences; and protestantism has rather attempt This evil grew out of the reformation, and it is the only evil attendant upon that blessed event which has continued to the present times. The schism between the Greeks and Latins was less mischievous. There the parties were so little in contact, that their hatred was without exasperation; and each talked its own nonsense, without attempting to convert the other, except by the innocent and inefficient formalities of a council. Separated from the whole Latin church by their geographical situation, by the great boundary of language, by their political relations, their pride of elder and superiour civilisation, and their semi-oriental manners, the Greeks were scarcely included in the idea of Christendom, and our crusaders sometimes founded than effected the work of converthem as hostile as the Saracens. But the revolution which Luther effected produced a civil war between the members of that great Gothick family, who, amid all their civil dissensions, had ever till then remem sion. There is, however, in all religious communities a vivacious and vivifick principle not to be found in the same degree in political bodies; their hold is upon the heart of man, upon his hopes and fears, the weakness and resist such assailants. Some evil glected or lost. Carey was a stuciIt cannot here be necessary to at ous and pious man, his faith wrong, tend to the classification of sectarian. his feelings right. He made him. ism. The Wesleyans, the orthodox self completely versed in Latin, dissenters of every description, and Greek, and Hebrew, and was then the evangelical churchmen may all be ordained among the Calvinistick Bapcomprehended under the generick tists. For many years his heart was name of Methodists. The religion set upon the conversion of the heawhich they preach is not the religion then. This was the favourite topick of our fathers, and what they have altered they have made worse : but * The Particular Baptists are Calvin ists. The General Baptists are those of they proceed with zeal and perseverance; and the purest forms, when practice of baptizing adults by immer. any other description, who agree in the they are forms only, are little able to sion. a a of his conversation, his prayers, and which in our own entitle him to rehis sermons; and from the earnest- spect and admiration. He had preachness with which he seemed to feel ed to the natives in Bengal, and prothe subject, and the remarkable ap- duced effect enough to convince him titude which he possessed in acqui- that much might be done there. ring languages, his friends were in- Here then was a way opened for the duced to think that he was peculiarly society. They engaged him as a misformed for some such undertaking. sionary. Carey consented to accomIn the year 1791, being at a meeting pany him with his whole family, and of his brother ministers at Clipstone. in 1793 they sailed in a Danish Indiain Northamptonshire, he proposed man. this question for discussion : “Whe. Thomas, who was a surgeon, in. ther it were not practicable, and our tended to support himself by his probounden duty to attempt somewhat fession. Carey's plan was to take towards spreading the Gospel in the land and to cultivate it for his mainheathen world.” He was ther. re- tenance. After many difficulties they quested to publish an inquiry which accepted the superintendance of two he had written upon the subject; and indiyo factories in the neighbourat a subsequent minister's meeting hood of Malda, and covenants were (as these convocations are called) this granted them by the British govern. society was formed, and a subscrip- ment. Fountain, another missionary, tion begun for carrying its object was sent to join them here, and he into efiect. The money then raised and Carey, having acquired the comamounted only to 131. 2s.6d, but want mon language of the country, proof money in such cases, is a molehill ceeded with a translation of the Scripin the way of zeal. tures into Bengalee, which Thomas Before any plan had been formed, had begun during his former resior any place fixed for their opera. dence in Bengal. In 1799, a reentions, they found that John Thomas, forcement of four brethren came out; a member of their own church, late- permission to settle in the British ly relurned from Bengal, was endea. territory was refused them, and Cavouring to establish a fund in London rey and Fountain, therefore, found it for a mission to that country. This expedient to remove to Serampore, is the person who is called a madman where the Danish governour protectby Major Scott Waring, and said by ed and favoured them. Here they him to have died raviny mad. That purchased a house, and organized gentleman has been misinformed themselves into a family society, reOnce during his life Thomas was solving that whatever was done by deranged for some weeks, and the any member should be for the benefit ardour and constitutional irritability of the mission. They opened a school of his mind evinced in him a tenden- in which the children of those nacy to madness, from which religion tives who chose to send them were might have contributed to preserve instructed gratuitously. The translahim, by giving that ardour a steady tion was by this time nearly compledirection towards one worthy object. ted. Ward, one of the last mis There are passages in his letters and sionaries, understood printing. They journals which may make a jester formed a printing office, and advertimerry, and a wise man sorrowful. sed for subscribers to a Bengalee Bi. They spring from the insanity of the ble. system, not of the individual. But Hitherto no convert had been there are also abundant proofs of a made ; but now, when some of the zeal, a warmth of heart, a genius- missionaries could converse fluently which in the Romish church would in the language of the people, and have obtained altars for him, and portions of the Scripture and religi a a ous tracts were provided for distribu- witness this first triumph of the faith. tion. Their preaching in the town Carey addressed the spectators in and neighbourhood soon produced Bengalee, declaring that he and his considerable effect. They entered fellows did not hold the river sacred: into controversy with the Brahmans, it was only water, and the person ridiculed their fables, and confuted about to be baptized, professed by their false philosophy; nor did the this act to put off all their deities, numerous bystanders discover any and all sin, and to put on Christ. displeasure at seeing these impostors The ceremony was impressive. The silenced and confounded. But when Danish governour could not restrain the first Hindoo, though in no higher his tears, and all the beholders seemnstation than that of a carpenter, was ed to be struck with the solemnity truly converted, declared his inten- of the rite. “ Ye gods of stone and tion of receiving baptism, and by eat- clay," says one of the missionaries, ing with the missionaries publickly "did ye not tremble when in the name “ broke his cast a great uproar arose, of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and Kristno the convert, and his one of your votaries shook you as the whole family, were seized and drag- dust from his feet !" ged before the Danish magistrate. Three months after Kristno's bapThe senseless mob, when they had tism, Golak, his daughter, was seized carried them there, had no accusa- at some little distance from his house, tion to make against them; and the and carried off by two men, one of magistrate commended the new Chris- whom was the person to whom she tians for having chosen the better had been contracted in marriage. part, and dismissed them. They The father overtook them. He was were brought back again upon a beaten unmercifully, and she forced charge, that Kristno refused to deli- across the river to Calcutta, and beat. ver up his daughter to a man with en also. As they passed by a police whom she was contracted in marri. station she cried out. The master of üge. This charge was true. She had police called them before him. Gobeen espoused to him four years be. jak said she had heard of the love fore, being then ten years of age, and sufferings of Christ; these things and after the espousals had returned had laid hold of her mind ; she was to her father's house, there to reside become a Christian from choice, and till she was marriageable. The par. was not willing to go with this man. ties appeared before the Danish go- They were detained for further inquivernour, and the girl declared she ry, and the next day appeared again would become a Christian with her before the magistrate, together with father. The bridegroom was then Kristno. The man claimed her as asked, whether he would renounce his lawful wife, and the magistrate heathenism ; and on his replying no, said he could not separate them ; but the governour told him that he could would take care that she should pronot possibly deliver up a Christian fess what religion she chose. This woman to a heathen. The next day promise he did not perform, and the Kristno was publickly baptized, after father, after one visit to his child, was the manner of the Baptist church, not allowed to see her again. Appli. by immersion in the Ganges, and cation was made to the magistrate with him Felix Carey, the mission- that this might be permitted. No ary's eldest son. The governour and answer was vouch safed ; and when a number of Europeans, native Por- Kristno spoke to him upon the subtuguese, Hindoos and Moslem were ject, he past on without making the present, and one of the brethren, slightest reply. Kristno was exceed. ihen labouring under a mortal dis- ingly fond of this daughter, and no , ease, was brought in a palankeen to circumstance could be conceived |