OF THE Church Missionary Society FOR AFRICA AND THE EAST. TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. 1824-1825. CONTAINING THE ANNIVERSARY SERMON, BY THF REV. J. B. SUMNER, M.A. PREBENDARY OF DURHAM; THE TWENTY-FIFTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE, WITH APPENDIX; AND A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND BENEFACTORS. London: PRINTED BY R. WATTS, CROWN COURT, TEMPLE BAR. PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY, BY L.B. SEELEY & SON, 169, FLEET STREET; AND J. HATCHARD & SON, PICCADILLY. SOLD BY M. KEENE, J. PARRY, AND T. JOHNSON, DUBLIN ; AND, IN EDINBURGH, BY OLIPHANT, WAUGH, & INNES, AND BY R. GUTHRIE. 1825. Price, Four Shillings. All Communications on the Affairs of the Society should be thus addressed— "SECRETARIES, "CHURCH MISSIONARY HOUSE, "SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON." All Bills and Orders for Money should be made payable to the Assistant Secretary— MR. DANDESON COATES. The House is open Daily, from Nine in the Morning till Seven in the Evening. The Committee meet, at the Society's House, every Second Monday in the Month throughout the Year, at Twelve o'clock. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE RECEIVED And at the following Places: SIR PETER POLE, BART. & Co. Bartholomew Lane. MESSRS. HOARE, Fleet Street. MESSRS. SEELEY & SON, 169, Fleet Street. MESSRS. HATCHARD & SON, Piccadilly. In Dublin, by THE RIGHT HON. DAVID LA TOUCHE & Co. And in Edinburgh, by REV. C. II. TERROT, and REV. EDWARD CRAIG. I. Instructions of the Committee to the Rev. John Raban and others, pro- ceeding as Missionaries and Teach- ers to Sierra Leone; with Mr. Raban's Reply, and an Address by the Rev. Thomas Webster: delivered Oct. 4. II. Addresses of the Secretary of the So- ciety and of the Principal of the In- stitution, delivered at the Opening of the Institution; Jan. 31, 1825.... 219 III. Proclamation of the Governor of New South-Wales, for the Suppres- sion of Outrages and Crimes against the Natives of the Islands and Coasts |