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tering the town. As he advanced, he was met by the most affectionate cheers of welcome, and in a moment was surrounded by hundreds eagerly striving to shake the hand of their common father and benefactor. The worthy rector afterwards collected his flock in the church, where they all joined in the national anthem of 'God save the King,' in a manner truly affecting to every one present.

"Sir Charles and the party next moved on towards Regent's Town. On His Excellency's crossing the large stone bridge adjoining the town, he was met by a band of young school girls, modestly and neatly attired, and decorated with flowers.

"His Excellency remained among his affectionate Negroes for a considerable time, when their excellent rector and superintendant, the Rev. W. Johnson, led them in a body to the church, where they joined in hymns of thanksgiving to the Almighty."

Sir Chas. MacCarthy afterwards inspected the various establishments in the Peninsula: the following is an account of his reception at Waterloo.

"As the path lay through a thick wood, the party had to grope their way in the dark indeed so impenetrable was the barrier against light, that they could not discern one another, much less observe a small pocket compass with which one of the gentlemen was furnished. Led on by a Negro child six years old, the party moved forward through woods and wilds; and what was worse, through mangrove swamps, which occasionally taking them above the middle, made them think seriously of swimming, till about nine o'clock, when the noise of distant voices indicated their approach to Waterloo. A shout or two from the party soon set the inhabitants in motion; and in a few seconds the village and its environs were entirely illuminated with torches. His Excellency was actually borne on the shoulders of the crowd, from the point where he was met, to the house of the Rev. Mr. Wilhelm, the rector of Waterloo. Firing, shouting, huzzaing, singing, and clapping their hands (their strong demonstrations of joy), did not cease for many hours.

"What a scene for the philanthropist to contemplate! In the midst of woods, in which, scarcely more than two years ago, existed the dens of the leopard, are now to be found the peaceful habitations of man→ where, instead of the growl of the tiger, and the howl of the hyana, the ear is saluted by the hum of the busy cottage and the solemn peal of the missionary bell, summoning to the praise of their omnipotent Creator whole flocks of beings, on whom the light of the Gospel has lately been shed; and who, from a conviction of the spiritual change which has been wrought within them, are to be heard rending the air with acclamations of gratitude to those generous individuals by whose agency they have been thus fostered and taught."

CIVILIZATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.-By a Report which has been laid before Congress, of the expenditure made under the appears that the Act to provide for the civilization of the Indian tribes, it aggregate sum paid to different societies, to assist in promoting this important object, was 16,605 dollars. Of this sum 14,000 have been applied through the different missionary establishments of the Moravians,

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the American Board for Foreign Missions, the United Foreign Missionary Society, the Baptist Missionary Societies, and the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia. The sum of 14,338 dollars was paid for the instruction of Indian youth at the mission school in Cornwall; to the Baptist Mission School at Great Crossings, Kentucky, 400; and the further sum of 780 for the Rev. Dr. Morse's visit of observation and inspection.

MORAL REFORM IN INDIA.-It must gratify every friend to the progress of human reason to learn, that notwithstanding the difficulties so long considered insuperable, a glorious change is effecting in Britis India. The free press of Calcutta has operated powerfully in reforming the most inveterate and revolting abuses. The effect of seven native presses at work in that great city, has been to triumph over Hindoo superstition in its strong hold. During the last festival of Juggernaut, there were so few pilgrims present, that they were unable to drag the car. The Brahmins called in other aid, but no devotee could be persuaded to sacrifice himself to the idol. They now talk of removing the Rath to a more central situation. The wily priesthood have sagacity enough to perceive, that they must remove the theatre of their sanguinary superstition beyond the sphere of a free press, or that the bigotry of thirty centuries will disappear. To the glory of our Indian Administration, a large portion of the population of Bengal are receiving the rudiments of an improved system of education, while thousands of elementary works are circulating throughout our empire. Even Hindoo women, against whom widowhood, and consequent burning alive, are denounced for learning the alphabet, and who must not read the Veda, under pain of death, have placed their daughters at the public schools.

SUTTEES. An order has been issued, dated Feb. 22, to the police officers of India, to prevent the burning of women, in all cases where the Shasters forbid it; as for example, where the victim is under 16 years of age, or does not give her full assent, or has had any intoxicating potion administered to her. It is to be hoped, by the vigilance of the officers, who are enjoined to attend on those occasions, some one or more of the prohibited circumstances will in every case be found to exist.

III. BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE.-On Thursday July 25, 1822, a general court of the Governors of this extensive and useful Institution was held at the City of London Tavern, Edward Forster, Esq. the Treasurer, in the Chair.

The Report was read by the Treasurer, and it stated, that 289 persons had been under the protection of the Committee in the various branches of the Institution, during the last six months; and that of these, 140 had been provided for, by sending them to sea; by placing them under the care of their relatives or friends; by apprenticing them out to respectable trades, or by providing for them suitable situations.

It proceeded to enumerate many cases of persons of both sexes, who have been recommended as servants and apprentices, who conduct themselves in a most exemplary and creditable manner. And the Committee conceive it to be one of the most favourable testimonials that can be adduced in behalf of the Institution, that its objects are in succession readily received into respectable families.

It seems to be usual, especially at the Female Establishment, to hold an annual festival, to which all the young women who have received the benefits of the Institution and have been restored to virtuous Society, are invited. This entertainment was held in the beginning of the present month; when thirty-six young women visited the Refuge, the whole of whom acknowledged that Asylum as the sole instrument of their present well-being, and of their future expectations. The whole of them were known to be living in honest and industrious habits: and as a proof of their gratitude for benefits received, they made a subscription among themselves upon the occasion, and presented to the Treasurer the sum of £10 5s.

An interesting account was also given of the benefits conferred on many of the other sex, some of whom have been taught useful trades and placed out in the world, wherein they are now earning an honest subsistence; and several sent into foreign countries to the West Indies, to the Cape of Good Hope, to Algoa Bay, and to Van Diemen's Land: concerning the whole of whom a very favourable account was read.

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In reviewing the general result of their endeavours to carry into effect the salutary provisions of the Institution, the Committee congratulated the general court upon its success. They still, however, lamented a deficiency of pecuniary resources, appealing to a humane and discerning public for that generous aid which may enable them-if not to open wider the path of restoration to the penitent criminal-to save them at least from the mortification of contracting the present compass of their efforts.

£589 14 10

MARINE SOCIETY.-Quarterly Account of Receipts and Disbursements, from the 30th of June to the 30th of September. Balance, 30th of June Annual Subscriptions, Donations, Dividends, &c. received in the Quarter

Disbursements on

30 Boys sent to Sea-4 in the Royal Navy; 4 in the
Hon. East India Company's, and 22 in the Merchants'
Service; and Maintenance of Officers and Boys on
board the Society's ship; Salaries, and other ex-
penses
£1,300 1 0
Apprentice fees to Girls, agreeably to Will of
late W. Hicks, Esq.

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£2,106 16 2

49 7 0-1,349 8 0

£757 8 2

SEAMEN'S

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL.-The following is a statement of the benefits

conferred by this Institution since its opening in March 1821.

Ditto, having obtained Ships

Cured, and discharged at the request of the parties

Ditto, Ships found them by the Committee

Ditto, conveyed to their homes.

Ditto, absented themselves

Ditto, expelled, after being cured, for misconduct

Died

Under cure, and convalescent

Total received

292

266

88

12

27

17

32

92

826

40

81

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BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL.-At the Annual Meeting of the Governors of this Hospital, held on the 4th of July last, Lord Robert Seymour delivered the following interesting speech on the state of the Institution.

I have always thought it an important part of my duty, as a Governor of Bethlehem Hospital, to go through the wards of it, and see every patient in them, whenever the opportunity has occurred. The visitation of a lunatic is always highly agreeable to him, as proving that he is not forgotten and abandoned by society. It is also a strong incen tive to the person who has the care of him, in the discharge of his duty. Humanity has lately made great advances in the care of insanity: we live in times which are much more favourable than those which have passed to persons afflicted with insanity. A man now talks to his friends, without repugnance, of his near relation being disturbed in mind, and he thinks it his duty to see such relative frequently in his confinement; whereas, till within the last few years, when a person was sent to a mad-house, his family made as much a point of putting him out of their minds, as if he had been consigned to the grave. I have been all my life in the practice of visiting the asylums of lunatics, as well upon the Continent as at home; formerly, perhaps, from motives of curiosity only, but, I trust, latterly from some desire to serve my fellow-creatures; and I am sure that I have not on ten occasions witnessed a lunatic visited by either a relative or a friend, till within the few last years.

Whenever I have of late years gone through the wards of our hospital, I have been much pleased with every thing I have observed in them. Very little personal restraint is now imposed upon the patients, and *when it has been unavoidably applied, it has been only for a short time. No unfortunate sufferers are now chained without clothes to our walls as formerly no wretched patient is encaged in iron; and the strait waistcoat is now so much out of use in our hospital, that there was this day no one of the 223 patients in the house so confined. I think it my duty upon every occasion to deprecate this horrible instrument of restraint, as being highly unfavourable to respiration and health, indent

ing the chest, and therefore especiallyinjurious in the case of females, and equally hurtful by its pressure on the stomach; to say nothing of its being a very heating dress. I have also a further and most substantial objection to the use of the waistcoat, being quite sure that, where it is used as an instrument of personal restraint, it will sometimes be brought into action as an instrument of punishment: a harmless patient, when kept under great excitement, will sometimes give a slap to the face of his keeper; the keeper angrily applies the strait waistcoat to him, and is. naturally governed in the tightness with which he applies it, by the degree of resentment which he bears to the offending lunatic.

I must here mention a circumstance which I am sure will prove agreeable to you, which is, that much as I have conversed with the more rational of our patients, as well as with persons who have been discharged from the hospital, I have never heard one word of complaint offered against either of the physicians or surgeons, those patients having always, on the contrary, spoken to me with respect of the skill of those officers, and with gratitude of their tenderness and affection—a fact which has always surprised me, as every patient knows that his physician is the only person who stands in the way of his enlargement. I never passed through the female galleries of the hospital without being struck with the marked calmness, tranquillity, and cheerfulness which prevail among the patients, and which are greatly attributable to the needle-work which is put into their hands by our humane and valuable matron.

To employ the hands, is to relieve the mind of a lunatic, and it certainly is to increase the chance of recovery. Hence it must be a matter of deep regret, that means have not yet been devised of giving, with safety, work to our male patients, as is the practice of several wellregulated country asylums. Bodily labour engages and consumes that power which gives activity to the mind, and experience has proved that it is a powerful mean of checking and abating that unnatural activity of the mind, which is the usual characteristic of insanity. This principle is strongly illustrated in the case of a very interesting young woman, now in the hospital, whom I saw some months ago quite unemployed, talking rapidly and incessantly, and much confused in her ideas; when I naturally asked the matron why she had not given to her needlework, who told me that she never attempted to force any work on a patient, and that this woman had repeatedly objected to all work when offered to her. Soon after this the young woman, complaining much of her confinement, earnestly requested that I would obtain her enlargement, which I undertook to endeavour to do, on two conditions-the first was, that she should talk less; and second, that she should do more work:-to these she immediately agreed, and some coarse linen was put into her hands, which was done by her with manifest indifference and carelessness; but it did not abate her incessant talking, or produce the slightest difference in her manner. It was then judged expedient by the matron, that some more nice and difficult work should be given to her; which was done, and this employed her for some weeks, at the end of which time I again saw her, and was much struck by her composure and reserve. I then asked her whether she

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