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moved from 15; the people either hiring school masters at their own expense, or attending to their own education, and helping each other forward. The extracts we are about to give from the Report, will establish the claims of the Society to the support and patronage of the public.

In the course of the summer, one of the Secretaries visited many of these schools. We shall quote a few passages from his journal.

July 4 and 5." I was at Tierndrish, the residence of the Rev. Mr. Ross, minister of Kilmanivaig. This parish, which is about 63 miles in length, enjoys several important advantages in point of education; but many parts of it are, notwithstanding, in a most destitute condition."

"Proceeded by the banks of the Caledonian Canal, and called at Strown for Captain Cameron. He was not at home; but his lady gave a very favourable report in regard to the conduct and behavour of the Society's Teacher at Muirshealich, about a mile distant. This school could not be continued during the summer months, as the attendance was so small. The teacher has therefore removed to the head of Locharcaig; where, in a district called the

Rough Bounds,' the people have duly appreciated the value of his labours. The country is intersected by two rapid rivers, but, in wet weather, the children have been carried to school, across these, by their parents, so that the attendance bas, upon the whole, been regular."

July 8-Arrived at Borrodel, near to Arisaig. Crossed Loch Aylort, in company with another gentleman, to Moidart, a country wholly inhabited by Catholics. Examined the Society's School at Glenuig. The children acquitted themselves much to the satisfaction of all present, and the parents seemed not a little gratified. A gentleman, from the opposite coast, who, coming up the Glen on business, was invited to attend, repeatedly expressed his surprize, as he had ao idea that such proficiency could be made in the short space of a few months. The parents and elder people were exhorted to profit by the teacher's present residence among them, and to attend the school; since which period, the greater part of the unmarried women have begun to learn to read.”

16th.-At Coshladder, in the parish of Duinnish, in company with Mr. Shaw, Here there is a numerous and flourishing school. Great satisfaction accompanied its examination, though the attendance has raaher fallen off during the summer. About 75 persons, old and young, have entered

this school. Among a goodly number present, I found the husband and wife learning together. There was one scholar aged 56; three men aged from 30 to 32; two women of 37, and one of 32 years of age; besides a number of young people from 18 to 25."

"July 24.-At Jeantown, in the parish of Loch Carron. The Rev. Lachlan Mackenzie, minister of the parish, accompanied me to the Gaelic School in Jeantown. About one hundred persons have derived benefit from this teacher's labours. During the vacation between the winter and summer sessions, the people, of their own accord, proposed to support the teacher, at their own expense entirely, in order that they might derive more benefit during his residence among them. Few sights could be more gratifying, than to witness parents and children, old and young, assembled in the same school, and all equally interested; to hear the children, who, but a few months ago, com-' paratively knew not any thing,' reading the living Oracles with fluency; and the mother of children, with the youngest in her arms, hand this infant to her neighbour, while she should stand up, in her own class, consisting of mothers, to read her lesson; and all this in a fine flourishing village on the banks of Lochi Carron, where the number of inhabitants is rapidly increasing."

The following extracts are from letters addressed to the Secretary ;—

1. From the Rev. Dr. Ross of Lochbroom, Invernesshire, dated May 10, 1813.

"I visited your School at Keppoch, on the 1st inst. Fifty were present on the day of examination. I proceed to state their progress. Here, indeed, I have good news to communicate to you; for their progress i was to me surprising. It is quite unnecessary to enlarge. Every individual did his duty, Some did wonders And he must have had a hard and unfeeling heart who could hear, without emptions of delight, little children of seven or eight years old, and grown up persons at the head of families, who, on the 1st of November last, knew not one letter of the Alphabet, on the 1st of May reading alternate verses of the Bible, ad aperturam libri, with precision and accuracy, in a language which they perfectly understood, and seeming to be deeply impressed with what they read. I never examined a school with more unmingled satisfaction; nor could I suppose it possible, that a woman of a weakly constitution; and in indifferent health, however zealous, could have done what Margaret Sinclair did. But she gives the proper account of the matter herself; for

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2. From the Rev. J. Macqueen, of Apple- tholics committed to my care, with the excross, Rosshire.

"April 5, 1813.—It gives me pleasure to report the diligence and successful exertions of your teacher in this parish. The object of his mission could not but render him acceptable to the people of Canukile; and the benefit they have already derived from his scrupulous and conscientious attension to his duty, hath gained him their good will and attachment. Their progress in the short period of little more than four months, is truly gratifying. Of fifty persons who have occasionally attended his School, four read the Old Testament, seventeen the New Testament, five the Psalm Book, and twentyone the First Book; the other three are but beginners. They were all so completely illiterate, that of this number, only seven knew the letters when he commenced teaching in December last.

"Sept. 14, 1813.-As your teacher in this parish will soon be removed from his present station, I wish to have your concurrence to appoint him to any other part of the parish, where I may judge his services may be most required. With a view to raise a spirit of emulation among the people, I have had his pupils, young and old, married and unmarried, examined publicly in church, after Divine service. The exhibition did full credit to the teacher and the scholar, and hath created a competition in different districts of the parish for his next appointment. I have no intention to place him in any situation where less than forty-six can attend, aud, eventually, many more.”

3. From the Rev. Dr. N. Macdonald, Roman Catholic Clergyman, dated Moidart, Invernesshire.

"April 22, 1813.-Sir, please permit me to inform you, that Peter M'Ewen, the bearer hereof, has given entire satisfaction in regard to his moral conduct, which has been irreproachable since he came to this country; as also in teaching the Gaelic language, in which branch of education, his pupils, I find, have made an unexpected progress, during the short period since he came here, having, by all appearances, paid the utmost attention to the trust you and the Society reposed in him. I give this character of him entirely unsolicited by himself; but, from the little acquaintance I have had personally with

ception of a few of the established religion." The difference of our creed, I understand, makes no difference in the universal benevolence you shew towards all mankind; and, therefore, if you and the Society do not find it convenient to restore Mr. M'Ewen to us, 1 beg leave to propose another candidate, who is his principal scholar. I have examined, the boy, and have made him read' different parts of the Bible, besides his ordinary lesson, when I found him as expert in reading the Gaelic, and as fluently, as you or I could read English. The local situation of this country is very disadvantageous to any kind of public school, being cut up a considerable way by the sea; but if you can find it convenient to employ Ranald M'Donald, Mr. M'Ewen's pupil, he will, in a short time hence, teach all the youth of the country to read the Gaelic Scriptures, which I wish for very much."

4. From the teacher at Gress, in the parish of Stornoway, Isle of Lewes, dated Dec. 9, 1813.

"No doubt but you will be glad to hear that I am more busy with scholars at this time, than I have been since I began teaching. The number on the list is 1C9.1 There was not one among the 109 that knew a single letter in the Spelling-book when I began teaching them, which Mr. Mackenzie' can witness. They are coming on surprisingly. I had a person from Stornoway with me last Sabbath, and I made one of the scholars to read before him, who said that he has seen a number that was at school six years (i. e. successive winters) that could not read as proper. He can read Gaelic as well as myself, though he knew not a letter when I came here."

5. From the Rev. John Shaw, of Duirnish, Isle of Skye, dated April 13, 1813.

"Your school, at Cosbladder, the leastpopulous district of the parisir, succeeds far beyond my expectations. There are seventysix already on the list of the school, almost all of which attend regularly one part of the day; and there is hardly a day passes without additions being made to the number. You can hardly conceive what an interest is excited by the School; not a moment is the teacher allowed to himself; even when obliged to come to his house for refreshinent

people will be at him to receive instructions, he is employed, almost without intermission, from seven in the morning till ten or cleven at night. In the morning and forenoon, he has mostly children and young people; in the evening, persons of all ages. On Sab bath, also, the School is open morning and evening, and numbers attend. Of the seventy-six scholars I mentioned, fifty-three are men and boys, and twenty-three women and girls. Twenty-two are above twenty years of age, one is fifty-six, the rest are from twenty downwards to five years. There is one whole family attending, consisting of the husband, wife, and three children. Four read in the Old Testament, six in the New, and in a short time eight more will be added to this class; the rest are reading in the First Book, except two or three in the Alphabet,"

6. From the teacher in the island of Cannay, dated Dec. 8, 1813.

"The Roman Catholics here make no scruple in learning any thing I request-any portion of Scripture. I am greatly obliged to Mr. MN. for his kindness in every respect; and also to the priest, who lives at Eigg, and came to this island some days since. He has been admonishing both old and young to attend. I have heard him saying (while talking about me), that he should be greatly displeased, if they should not attend, for (addressing them) you see he came here, not for his own interest, but for yours; therefore, I hope you'll consider that.' And there is a prospect of a large

attendance."

We conclude with an extract from the Report of the Gaelic School in Edinburgh.

There are various persons attending who seem to be above sixty years of age, and cannot read without the assistance of spectacles, who now read with much propriety, and their progress has far surpassed my I must not rere omit to expectations. mention the case of a very poor woman, at the advanced age of seventy-eight, who could hardly read any at the beginning of the last session, and who is now reading in the high

est class, while her mental faculties seem to be unimpaired, so that she can comprehend what she reads. Her appearance struck me very much, from her seeming earnestness to be able to read. It was truly pleasant to see her calmness of mind, and to be informed of her steady attendance, under the pressure of poverty, and the infirmities of old age, for she cannot walk without the assistance of crutches!"

MISSION TO TARTARY.
The Missionaries have recently been foreed

to abandon their settlement at Karass, and to retire to Georghjevsk, in consequence of disturbances among the Tartars. They have been enabled to remove the property belongs ing to the Mission. The printing of the Turkish New Testament had previously been completed, and all the copies of it were brought to a place of safety without sustain, ing the slightest injury.

EAST-INDIES.

The Rev. Archdeacon Middleton, whose

address to Mr. Jacobi, on the occasion of his being sent as a Missionary to India by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, we noticed in our volume for last year, p. 673, has been appointed the first Bishop of India. May his appointment prove a source of blessing to the millions of Hindostan!

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE
SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society will be held at Freemason's-Hall, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's" Inn Fields, on Wednesday, the 4th of May. The President will take the chair at twelve o'clock precisely,

N. B. No ladies can be admitted.

CHURCH MISSIONÁRY SOCIETY.

On Tuesday, the 3d of May, the Anniversary Sermon for this Society will be preached at the church of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, by the Hon. the Dean of Wells; service to begin at balf past ten o'clock. The Annual Meeting will be afterwards held at two o'clock, at the Crown and Anchor Tas vern in the Strand. On Wednesday evening, the 4th of May, the Annual Sermon

before the members of the various Associations formed in the Metropolis, in aid of this Society, will be preached at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, Guildhall, by the Rev. Basil Woodd, M. A.-service to begin at half past six.

PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY
SOCIETY.

A sermon will be preached at Christ's Church, Newgate Street, for this Society, onɛ the morning of Thursday the 5th of May, by the Hon. and Rev. G. F. Noel, M. A., Vicar of Rainham, in Kent; service to begin at eleven o'clock. A general meeting. of the Society will afterwards be held, at one, on the same day, at the New London Tavern, Cheapside.

LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE

JEWS.

The sixth anniversary meeting of this Society will be held, on Friday the 6th of May next, at Freemasons'-hall, his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent in the chair, which will be taken at twelve o'clock precisely. Sermons will be preached, for the benefit of the Society, on Thursday evening the 5th May, at St. Bride's Church, Fleetstreet, by the Hon. the Dean of Wells; and on Friday evening the 6th May, at the Jews' Chapel, Church-street, Spitalfields, by the Rev. W. Cooper, of Dublin: service to begin at both places at half past six.

NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE
SOCIETY.

be held at the New London Tavern, Cheap side, on Tuesday the 10th May, 1814. The chair will be taken exactly at one o'clock.

SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

The next annual general meeting of the members and friends of this Society will be held, at six o'clock, on the morning of Wednesday the 11th of May, at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.

RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the Religious Tract Society will be held, at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, opposite to Threadneedle-street, on Thursday the 12th of May, at half past six in the morning." The chair will be taken at half past seven

The annual meeting of this Society will precisely.

VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

WHEN we ventured, in the month of January last, to express, not only our ardent wishes but our confident hope, that the military despotism of Bonaparte would, ere long, be superseded by the mild and constitutional sway of Louis XVIII., we excited no small surprize among many of our readers; and yet, if they will now do us the favour to look back to that Number of our work (pp. 62 and 63), they will perceive that the grounds on which we founded that expectation have proved to be by no means chimerical. Short as has been the interval since we indulged in these speculations, which were then regarded as so visionary, they have been realized to their utmost extent. Bonaparte no longer reigns: his power is broken! Louis XVIII. is restored. to the throne of his fathers, with the univer, sal concurrence of France! A constitution is already adopted for that country which, with some modifications, appears calculated to secure at once the happiness of the people and the dignity of the government! Europe is at peace, its dangers obviated, its miseries terminated, its independence achieved! What a wonderful revolation! A revolution too in which humanity has every thing to rejoice at, nothing to lament! A revolution tarnished by no act et crueby or retenge; the actors in which have seemed only anxious to become the ministers of God for good to the afflicted nations of the

earth! This hath God wrought, and let us all give him the glory!

But it will be necessary to trace briefly, steps by which these providential changes have been brought to pass.:

the

Our last Number brought down the history of the campaign in France to the 14th of March. For some days the hostile armies were engaged chiefly in manœuvring; and, Bonaparte having directed his main force against the army of PrinceSwartzenberg, Blucher was enabled in the mean time to execute some important movements, which placed him ia a situation effectually to co-operate with the grand army. On the 18th, the negociations at Chatillon were finally broken off. Bonaparte appears to have immediately, formed the plan of passing into the rear of the allies, in the hope that the desire to protect their magazines and to preserve their communication with Germany, both which would be threatened by this movement, might lead them back to the Rhine. His garrisons in this quarter would also be relieved, and the war removed to a greater distance from his capital. The allied generals appear at once to have penetrated into Bonaparte's design; and, with a boldness! and decision worthy of their cause, they adopted a resolution which not only frus-> trated that design, but in a week put a: happy period to the contest. They resolved to leave Bonaparte behind them; and,

having united the armies of Swartzenberg and Blucher, amounting together to more than 200,000 men, to march direct to Paris. A corps of 10,000 cavalry and forty pieces of cannon was left to watch Bonaparte's movements, and to harass his march. The advancing army encountered, nearVitry,on the 25th, the corps of Marmont and Mortier, which were hastening from Paris to join Bonaparte, and drove them back with loss. On the same day an immense convoy of provisions and ammunition, escorted by 5,000 men, was niet near Fere Champenoise; and, after a gallant resistance, the whole fell into the hands of the allies. From this place the allies continued to advance rapidly on Paris, which they reached on the 29th; the retreating corps upposing an occasional, though ineffectual, resistance, to their progress. The position they occupied extended from Montmartre, on the right, to the wood of Vincennes, on the left. Prince Swartzenberg addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants of Paris, calling upon them to imitate the conduct of Bourdeaux, and to accelerate the peace of the world, by concurring with the allies in establishing a salutary authority in France; but the flag was refused admit tance. On the 30th, the troops composing the garrison of Paris, with the corps of Mortier and Marmont which had joined them, posted themselves in a strong situation on the heights of Belleville. These heights, as well as the whole line of the enemy's entrenchments, were successively attacked and carried by the allied forces, but not without a sanguinary conflict. At the mo ment of victory, a flag of truce arrived from Paris, proposing to accept the offer previously made but which had been refused admittance. This proposal was acceded to; and, on the morning of the 31st, the allies entered Paris. They entered it, however, not as conquerors but as deliverers. The Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia were received by all ranks of the population with the loudest and most cheering acclamations. The general cry was "Vive l'Empereur Alexandre!" " Vive notre Liberateur !" "Vive le Roi de Prusse!” mingled with a considerable and increasing cry of " Vive Louis XVIII!" " Vivent les Bourbons!" The national guard in their uniform, and armed, cleared the avenues for the troops passing through, in all the pomp of military parade, the very day after they had been so severely engaged; while the people, ananimous in their cry for peace and for a change of dynasty, enjoyed the spectacle of the entry into their capital of an invading army as a

blessing and deliverance. A declaration was immediately issued by the allied sovereigns, expressing their fixed determination no more to treat with Bonaparte or any of his family; to respect the integrity of aucient France, as it existed under her legitimate kings; and to recognize and guarantee the constitution which France should adopt. The Senate having been called together on the following day, a Provisional Government was immediately nominated by them, consisting of five members, at the head of which Talleyrand was placed; and resolu tions were adopted declaring that the Dy. nasty of Bonaparte was at an end, that the French Nation was delivered from its allegiance to him, and that the soldiers were absolved from their oaths. To the Provi sional Government was delegated the task of preparing the plan of a constitution. On the 6th instant, the plan they had prepared was presented to the Senate, and it appears to have been unanimously adopted. We were rather startled at the sight of this constitution, the work of four days, and began to tremble lest the happiness of France was once more to be made the sport of some new and rash experiment in political science. We found, however, a solution of the phe nomenon of the unprecedented haste with which so great and momentous a work had been achieved, as well as some abatement of our alarmus, in the near resemblance which the plan bears to the British Constitution. The following is a brief outline of it.-The Government is to be a hereditary monarchy. The French people call freely to the throne of France Louis Stanislaus Xavier, brother of the last king, and the other members of the House of Bourbon in their order. The executive power belongs to the king. The king, a hereditary senate named by the king, and a legislative body elected by the people, concur in the making of laws; the king's sanction being necessary to the completion of a law. Plans of laws may originate in either house; and the king may propose to both, subjects of consideration; but laws relating to contributions can only be proposed in the legislative body. Members of both houses are free from arrest without a previous authority from the house to which he belongs, but the trial of mem bers of either house belongs to the senate. The princes of the blood are of right memhers of the senate; and the ministers of state may be members of either house. The legislative body must be re-elected at the ed of five years; it assembles each year, of right, on the 1st of October; but the king may

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