Judson's Burman Dictionary. Nor is it be established on a foundation more immoveable than ever. It was with this ex-important, considering the advantages I pectation that Mr. Hough was about to depart from Calcutta for Rangoon. He is probably at present there, and recommencing, or preparing to recommence, missionary operations. here have for studying the language, and the extravagant prices of provisions there of all kinds, that I should return at present: Mr. Hough, I suspect, will return soon, probably by the first opportunity. LETTER FROM REV. J. WADE ΤΟ REV. DR. BALDWIN, DATED Calcutta, Aug. 23d, 1825. Very dear and Reverend Father in Christ, I have received your letter, dated Feb. 17, 1825, from which I derived very great pleasure. I have let one opportunity pass without returning the favour; the reason of which was, that Mrs. Wade, at the time, was very ill, and I chose to wait until I might have something favourable to write of her recovery; and, blessed be God for his mercy, she is now convalescent, and gaining her strength, as fast as could be expected in this climate, and especially at this season, which is very sickly. As to news from Burmah there is very little at present which can be depended upon. It seems that the army which proeeeded up the river from Rangoon still continue at Prome, and will do so until the rainy season is over. There are reports respecting the dear Missionaries at Ava, and though they cannot be entirely depended upon, our hopes that they are still alive are thereby greatly strengthened. The most probable reports of this kind are stated under oath by an English native Soldier, who was for some time a prisoner at Ava, but who, at length, effected his escape, and found his way to Prome. His testimony states that Dr. Judson, Dr. Price and some English prisoners were in close confinement and in chains, that Mrs. Judson lived in her own house unmolested, and was permitted to visit Dr. J. once or twice in a week, and to send him and the other prisoners provisions daily. This statement has been corroborated by private letters to Mr. Hough from some of the officers at Prome. || We feel exceedingly anxious to return to Rangoon. But I cannot, under two or three months, leave Calcutta on account of my engagement relative to printing Dr. || Ir is with deep regret that I state, we have received no intelligence that can be much relied on, respecting Mr. and Mrs. Judson, and Dr. Price. Your Mis sionaries of course will inform you rela tive to the state of the war as affecting the American Mission in the Burman country. It is reported that all the Europeans at Ava are imprisoned, and subsist entirely on the charity of passengers, who throw them a little rice, &c. It has also been reported, that Mrs. Judson is permitted to reside in her own house, and goes to the prison every two or three days to see Mr. Judson. Another report stated, that one of the prisoners was very ill indeed. This is all that we have heard, and we cannot depend on this. If there is any truth in it, it is consoling to learn that our friends are still alive. God alone can deliver them. Many prayers are daily presented here for their safety, and we doubt not the churches in your beloved America cease not to supplicate in their behalf. Prayer has opened the prison door in more cases than one; and why should it be less powerful now than in former days? God is not less disposed to hear, and his hand is not shortened that it cannot save. Mrs. Wade is ill. She is now under our roof, and has the best medical attendance. We trust she will soon be restored to health. Judson's revised translation of Matthew, and am proceeding, with the second part of Acts, (in the same manner) beginning with the 15th chapter, which has not yet been printed. The parts of the New Testament now in print, are Matthew, John, John's Epistles, the first fourteen chapters of Acts, and Ephesians. I have with me a short Epitome of the Old Testament, and Hebrews not printed. The remaining part of the translation is with Dr. Judson at Ava. My last letter from an officer in the army, at Prome, and written in May, mentions that Dr. Judson, Dr. Price, and an Englishman, are in chains; that one of them, whom the writer could not learn, was very ill. No mention is made of Mrs. Judson, and I infer that she is not in confinement. Another letter which I have lately received from Rangoon, states that part of the country to be quiet, but that there is a prospect of famine among the inhabitants, as no rice has been cultivated in the country since the war commenced. Provisions are now sold at a very great price. I think of returning, however, in two or three months, as some one of us ought to be there about that time, to make the necessary repairs, and commence arrangements for future missionary operations. The termination of the war cannot be expected, till the fall of the Capital, which event will take place, humanly speaking, about the beginning of next year. The prevailing idea is, that a large proportion of Burmah, will be retained by the English, particularly the lower provinces and Arracan; should this be the case, some of the obstacles in the way of the progress of Christianity will be removed—at least, its progress or regress will not depend upon the will of Majesty. There is no cause why Mr. Boardman should delay. Should it not be practicable for him or us to go to Burmah for some time to come, he can commence the language under good advantages in Bengal. With Christian affection, Rev. Dr. Bolles, Assistant On the 5th instant, we sent a perigue with five men in her, to the Thomas Station on Grand river, laden with supplies for that establishment. The following day I set out by land for that place, driving a few cattle. Travelling slowly, brought us on the ninth to an Indian village about 30 miles from Thomas. These people had been apprised of my intention to visit Grand river, and had been instructed by other chiefs to listen to me as I passed their place, which would supersede the necessity of their meeting me at Grand river. We had scarcely pitched our tent in their neighbourhood, before all the men, and some boys, assembled at our camp for conversation. No company ever appeared more easy, pleasant, and friendly, than this. They smoked, and listened, and talked, until late at night. The following day afforded me the satisfaction of shaking hands with numerous Ottawa friends, who came to see me a few hours after I reached our establishment. I informed them that the next day would be prayer-day, (Sabbath) when I should wish to see all their people at our house, the women as well as the men, that I might talk to them on things that are good. It would not be a meeting for the purpose of smoking. On the next day I would meet the men and smoke with them. About 9 o'clock on Sabbath morning, all the inhabitants of Noon-day's village, except a few who were absent from the neighbourhood, assembled, and listened to preaching with remarkable decorum and attention. In the afternoon, I rode five miles down the river with the view of preaching to Blackskin and his party. The chief, whom I had not seen before, met me in his yard, and very affectionately invited me into his house. We had but just seated ourselves when orders were given to prepare food for us, which I informed him was unnecessary, as I had made a very hasty visit. I acquainted him with || they hoped I would feel no uneasiness oa my object in calling on him. It was not account of these things, as the reports were not credited. They told me these: things merely because they thought I ought to know them. On the 13th, I called together the two principal chiefs mentioned above, and several subordinate ones, and many other persons, and distributed to them a lot of farming and other utensils, furnished by the government, and forwarded to our care some time since, consisting of ploughs, yokes, chains, axes, hoes, augers, saws, &c. In our intercourse with the Indians, we endeavour at all times, to avoid every thing that would be considered trifling in our deportment; at the same time there is perhaps no people among whom it is more necessary to appear with an easy familiarity, than among these. Naturally suspicious of the whites, they notice many things which give them pain, of which they do not complain; and attentions which they consider their due, they seldom fail to reward with expressions of sensible satisfaction, and that delightful confidence which bursts from the bosom of the forlorn on his meeting a friend. These sentiments were strikingly corroborated on a visit I made to the chief Blackskin on the 14th. I spent the night in his bark hut, where I was loaded with hospitality and kindness, which, with sim in a Christian country, where I was desired to listen to many deeply affecting remarks and narratives respecting the sad and almost friendless state of the Indians, and where I was listened to as a confidential and affectionate friend. Agreeably to our previous arrangements, I met on the following day, in Noon-day's village, a pretty large assembly from this, and from Blackskin's village, and elsewhere. They expressed a high opinion of our Missionary labours, and most earnestly entreated that they I might soon be favoured with a school inilar means, could not have been exceeded their place, and with all the instruction and assistance which the Mission, in complete operation, was calculated to afford. Noon-day and Blackskin said they were both growing old, and they desired very much to see, before their deaths, their children enjoying the advantages of education, and of other improvements which they hoped would be made through our means. They were sorry that some of their young men, when intoxicated, had insulted our people, and injured our property, but they had been instigated by a mischievous white man whose name they gave me. This man and some others, had endeavoured to disaffect them to the Mission in general, and had circulated among the Ottawas many slanders, the particulars of which they gave me. But On this occasion, as often on similar ones, I felt happy to be a messenger of peace and comfort from friends of humanity who could not visit in person these abodes of despair-I was happy to be the bearer of glad tidings to the The poor. sweet words of our Saviour, "to the poor the gospel is preached," can never be better relished than when, under a due sense of dependence on Almighty God, ' we talk of the condescending love, sufferings, and righteousness of our blessed Saviour, to the wild, weather-bea ten, heart-broken savage of the woods. Eve- || striking, and the effect deepening to his better feelings. ry thing around appears in a state of nature. The voice of necessity alone has Allow me, dear brother, to solicit a been obeyed; nothing has been improved moment of your time as you ascend your by art or polished by science; and one pulpit in presence of your congregation, feels as though he had reached the re- and entreat you to indulge the reflection, gions of the lowest state of human nature. that at that very time, thousands of InYet, even here, he is rejoiced to find, dians dark within and distrest without, though enveloped in poverty, wretched-lie lonely in their smoky huts, or tremble ness, superstition, and sin, evidences of || in the snowy blast or chilling rain, withthe existence of a noble mind, sensible of out a hand to point them to a home,present woes, dreading the future, strug- without a guide to show the path to heav gling to rise, yet ignorant of the means, en! I need not predict the effect of such and ready to bow in despair! reflection. I persuade myself, sir, that a visit In behalf of the poor Ottawas, allow among these houses of wo in the wilderme to exclaim, O that God would have ness, could not fail to benefit the minister compassion,-that Christians would pray, whose lot it should afterwards be to la--that the benevolent would help! bour in the milder climes of civilization and Christianity. The contrast would be Respectfully your obedient servant, RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. DIVIE BETHUNE, ESQ. OF NEW-YORK. At the public meeting called by the Board of Managers of the House of Ref uge, a few weeks since, Hiram Ketchum, Esq. of this city, on submitting a motion, remarked-"That it was not two years since in that room was collected a numerous and highly respectable portion of our fellow citizens convened for the purpose of deliberating on the important measure, which had brought into existence this benevolent institution. I well remember, said Mr. K. how I was delighted on that occasion. We came not together, sir, to make speeches-we came to devise means for the melioration of the condition of the neglected and helpless children of crime. First rose a learned Professor of Columbia College, and in Addisonian style, and with Addisonian wisdom, advocated the cause of the hapless delinquent. In another quarter of the room was heard the silver tones of the District Attorney; presenting the result of his observations and experience. Next, a respectable mechanic presented himself, and proposed a measure, which was finally adopted, aud became a part of our plan. With all these, sir, I was highly delighted, and the recollection comes over my heart, cheering it like the first breath of spring. But there was another, whose speech was, in my estimation the best,because the most to the point. It was made by one, who, since that time, has, as I firmly believe, been This was a merchant's LAST HOURS OF BISHOP RIDLEY. sleep as quietly as ever he had done. On the morning, he dressed himself in his Episcopal habit, and walked to the place of execution between the Mayor and one of the Aldermen; and seeing Latimer approach, he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and exclaimed, “Be of good heart, brother, for God will either assuage the fury of the flames, or else give us strength to endure them." At the stake he knelt down and embraced it. Both he and Latimer prayed, and both suffered the most cruel death with the greatest courage. REVIVALS OF RELIGION. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM WEST- But now, my dear brother, I have good this place by the power of his Spirit. news to tell you. The Lord is at work in Those who were stout hearted and far from righteousness, are bowing to the mild sceptre of Jesus. Infidelity is schocked; the icy fortress of Unitarianism is thawed, and illuminated by the Sun of Righteousness. In short, sinners of all grades, and classes, and ages, are alarmed, and are crying for mercy; while saints rejoice in the work of the Lord. More of this hereafter. May this blessed work spread and prevail. Previous to the accession of the bloody Mary to the throne of England, Dr. Ridley, then Bishop of London, paid the princess a visit at her place of retirement in the country. Mary thanked him for his civility, and entered into conversation with him for about a quarter of an hour -she told him that she remembered him at court, and particularly mentioned a sermon of his before her father; and then leaving her chamber of presence, she dismissed him to dine with her officers. After dinner she sent for him again, when the Bishop informed her, that he not only came to pay her a visit, but also to of fer to preach before her next Sabbath, if she would be pleased to permit him. On this she changed countenance, and after some minutes silence, said, "As for this matter, I pray you, my lord, make the answer to it yourself. And upon the Bishop's urging the matter, as a sense of conscience and duty, she at last told him, that the doors of the parish church should be open to him, where he might preach if he pleased, but neither herself nor any of her servants should hear him. "Madam, I trust you will not refuse God's word ""I cannot tell what you call God's word. That is not God's word now which was God's word in my father's days." "God's word is the same at all times, but has been better understood at some times than in others." Mary enraged, replied, "You durst not for your ears have avouched that for God's word in my father's days, that you do now.As for your new books, I thank God, I P. S. About fifty have obtained hope never read any of them; I never did, in Christ, since the awakening began. and I never will." After using much Twenty-one have been baptized, and ten harsh language, she took leave of the Biare expected to put on Christ visibly, on shop with these words: " My lord, for the next Lord's day. Many are now disyour civility in coming to see me I thank tressed for sin, and new instances of awayou, but for your offering to preach before kening are multiplying; the hearts of me, I thank you not a whit." This inter- saints rejoice. Such a season of the diview gave the Bishop a sorrowful pros-vine power as we have witnessed here on pect of what was to be expected, if ever the Thursday and Friday evenings, have Princess came to the throne. When she asrarely occurred in the history of the cended the throne, Ridley went to do her church." ho nage, and to submit himself to her clemency. He was immediately sent to the Tower, and after three months imprisonment was removed to Oxford, and condemned for heresy. During the two weeks between his condemnation and death, the priests used every means in their power to gain him over to their cause, but he was deaf to their remonstrances, and was not to be shaken from the principles he had adopted. When the day of his death arrived, he was calm and intrepid. He called it his weddingday; and having invited some friends, he supped the preceding evening with great cheerfulness. One of his friends proposed to sit up with him, but he declined, saying, that, by God's help, he hoped to Yours truly. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED Messrs. Editors, Believing the readers of your Magazine to be interested in the advancement of Immanuel's kingdom, I submit to the pleasure of the publishers, a brief account of a late work of God in this place. The revival commenced in June last, when two or three of the youths were hopefully brought to a knowledge of the truth. This was indeed unexpected yet welcome and joyful news to the people of God, who had for a long time been distressed with painful trials; and even at |