immediately, and make the nearest port, which was Coringa, a small town on the Coromandel coast, about 60 miles south of Vizagapatam. We got safe into port on Saturday Sept 5th. The vessel was found to be in a very bad case."

rampore, who had lately buried his wife in Bengal, and had come to the Isle of France for his health There was but little alteration in Mrs. N.'s health, (except that she gradually lost strength) till about a fortnight before her death, when she declined more rapidly and all hope of her rerecovery was extinguished. About 40'clock, P. M on Monday the 30th of November, her eye-sight failed her, soon after which she calmly, and with apparent ease, expired,

confinement These events with all the attending circumstances, are related by Mr. N with great tenderness and particularity. He then proceeds as follows.]

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There my dear mother, I have finished the story of Harriet's sufferings. Let us turn from the tale of woe to a brighter scene; one that will gladden your heart as I am sure it does mine During this long series of sufferings, the bare recital of which must affect every feeling heart, she meekly yielded to the will of her Heavenly Father, without one murmuring word. "My wicked heart," she writes, "is in

[Four days before the arrival of the vessel in port, Mrs. Newell was seized with severe pain in the stomach and bowels, the disease of the country; but in three days after going on shore she was so far reCovered as to write thus in her jour-seven weeks and four days after her nal: "Have been able to sit up most of the day. Begin to look around me a little-find myself again surrounded with Hindoo cottages, and the tawny natives as thick as bees." On the 19th of September they re-embarked, and Mrs. N. enjoyed comfortable health till nearly three weeks after leav ing Coringa and about three weeks before reaching the Isle of France, when she became the joyful mother of a fine healthy daughter. Four days after, in consequence of a severe storm of wind and rain, the child took cold, and died on the evening of the next day, after having been devoted to God in baptism.clined to think it hard, that I should On the 14th of October, Mr. N. suffer such figue and hardship. writes thus in his journal: "About I sinfully envy those whose lot it is 8 o'clock last evening our dear little to live in tranquillity on land. HapHarriet expired in her mother's py people! Ye know not the toils arms. A sweet child. Though she and trials of voyagers across the had been but five days with us, it rough and stormy deep. Oh, for a was painful, inexpressibly painful, little Indian hut on land-But hush, especially to the mother, to part my warring passions, it is for Jesus with her. To-day, with many tears, who sacrificed the joys of his Fawe committed her to a watry grave. ther's kingdom, and expired on a "So fades the lovely blooming flow-cross to redeem a fallen world, that er," &c. May God sanctify this bereavement to us, and Oh, may he spare my dear wife."

About a week after Mrs. N.'s confinement, the symptoms of a consumption appeared. Though Mr. N. feared the worst, he did not consider her case as fatal, till the last fortnight of her life, which commenced about ten days after their arrival at the Isle of France. Mr. N. immediately on their arrival called in the aid of Dr. Burke, the chief surgeon of the British army in that island, and of Dr. Walluz, a Danish physician, a friend with whom they had become acquainted at SeVOL. VI. No. 9.

thus I wander from place to place and feel no where at home. How reviving the thought! How great the consolation it yields to my sinking heart! I will cherish it, and yet be happy."

In view of those sufferings which she afterwards experienced, she writes thus: "I hope to reach the place of our destination in good health. But I feel no anxity about that. I know that God orders every thing in the best possible manner. If He so orders events, that I shall suffer pain and sickness on the stormy ocean, without a female friend, exposed to the greatest mW W

conveniences, shall I repine, and think he deals hardly with me? Oh, no. Let the severest trials and disappointments fall to my lot, guilty and weak as I am, yet I think I can rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation."

would heaven be with all our friends, if God were not there."

the day before she died, I gave her the symbols of the body and blood of our Lord; and I trust it was a comfortable season to us both.

"She longed exceedingly for the brethren to arrive from India, that we might form ourselves into a church and celebrate the dying love of Jesus once more before she died. "In the first part of the sickness, Her desires to enjoy the benefit of which succeeded the birth of our this ordinance were so strong and babe, she had some doubts, which our situation so peculiar, that I occasionallyinterrupted her spiritual | thought a deviation from the usage comfort; but they were soon re- of our churches in this instance moved, and her mind was filled would be justifiable, and accordingwith that peace of God which pass-ly on the last Sabbath in November, eth all understanding. When lasked her, a few days before she died, if she had any remaining doubts respecting her spiritual state, she answered with an emphasis that she had none. During the whole of her sickness she talked in the most familiar manner, and with great delight, of death and the glory that was to follow. When Dr. Burke one day told her, those were gloomy thoughts, she had better get rid of them, she replied, that on the contrary they were to her cheering and joyful bevond what she could express. When I attempted to persuade her that she would recover (which I fondly hoped,) it seemed to strike her like a disappointment. She would say, "You ought rather to pray that I may depart, that I may be perfectly free from sin, and be where God is

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"Her mind was from day to day filled with the most comforting and delightful views of the character of God and Christ. She often requested me to talk to her on these interesting subjects. She told me that her thoughts were so much confused, and her mind so much weakened, by the distress of body she had suffered, that she found it difficult steadily to pursue a train of thought on divine things, but that she continually looked to God and passively rested on him. She often spoke of meeting her friends in heaven. "Perhaps," said she, my dear mother has gone before me to heaven, and as soon as I leave this body I shall find myself with her." At another time she said, "We often talk of meeting our friends in heaven; but what

"A few days before she died, after one of those distressing turns of coughing and raising phlegm which so rapidly wasted her strength, she called me to come and sit on the bed beside her, and receive her dying message to her friends. She observed, that her strength was quite exhausted, and she could say only a few words; but feared she should not have another opportunity. "Tell my dear mother," said she, how much Harriet loved her. Tell her to look to God and keep near to Him, and He will support and comfort her in all her trials. I shall meet her in heaven, for surely she is one of the dear children of God." She then turned to her brothers and sisters. "Tell them" said she" from the lips of their dying sister, that there is nothing but religion worth living for. Oh, exhort them to attend immediately to the care of their precious immortal souls. Tell them not to delay repentance. The eldest of them will be anxious to know how I now feel with respect to missions. Tell them, and also my dear mother, that I have never regretted leaving my native land for the cause of Christ. Let my dear brothers and sisters know, that I love them to the last. I hope to meet them in heaven; but Oh, if 1 shouid not”- -Here the tears burst from her eyes, and her sobs of grief at the thought of an eternal separation expressed the feelings that were too big for utterance. After she had recovered a

answer. I said to her again; “My dear Harriet, do you know who I am.' My dear Mr. Newell, my husband" was her reply; but in broken accents and a voice faltering in death."

little from the shock, which these | she knew me. At first she made no strong emotions had given to her whole frame, she attempted to speak of several other friends, but was obliged to sum up all she had to say in "Love and an affectionate farewell to them all " Within a day or two of her death, such conversation as the following passed between us.

"Should you not be willing to recover, and live a while longer here?"

"The last words which I remember, and which I think, were the last she uttered relative to her departure, were these-"The pains, the groans, the dying strife." "How long, O Lord, how long?"

"But I must stop; for I have already exceeded the bounds of a letter, though I have come far short of doing justice to the dying deportment of this dear friend. Oh, may my last end be like hers. I would now proceed to discharge the duty, which Harriet's dying request imposed on me, of administering cousolation to you, and of beseeching the dear children to make a right improvement of this afflicting dispensation ; but I hope the God of all consolation will himself wipe away your tears, and fill your heart with comfort, and that Harriet's dying

"On some accounts it would be desirable. I wish to do something for God before I die. But the experience I have had of the deceitfulness of my heart leads me to expect, that if I should recover, my future life would be much the same as my past has been, and I long to be perfectly free from sin. God has called me away before we have entered on the work of the mission; but the case of David affords me comfort; I have had it in my heart to do what I can for the heathen, and I hope God will accept me.” "But what shall I do when you are gone? How can I bear the sep-intreaties, and tears, and sighs, may aration ?"

"Jesus will be your best friend, and our separation will be short. We shall soon, very soon, meet in a better world; if I thought we should not, it would be painful indeed to part with you."

"How does your past life appear to you now?"

"Bad enough; but that only makes the grace of Christ appear more glorious.

"Jesus, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my heavenly dress; Midst flaming worlds in these array'd,

With joy shall I lift up my head.”

"When I told her that she could not live through the next day, she replied, "Oh, joyful news; I long to depart." Some time after, I asked her, "How does death appear to you now?" She replied; Glorious; truly welcome." During Sabbath night she seemed to be a little wan lering; but the next morning she had her recollection perfectly. As I stood by her, I asked her if

be carried by the Spirit of truth to the hearts of the children, and of her other young friends, and may fasten conviction on their minds, and engage them to follow her, so far as she followed Christ. With these hopes I must at present bid them all an affectionate farewell.

"Harriet offered to give me her property by will, but I declined accepting it. She then proposed bequeathing a part of it to the Board of Commissioners, but my time was so completely taken up in attending on her, that I had no opportunity of having a will duly excuted till it was too late."

"The brethren in Bengal have written to me. The harmony arrived in Calcutta a few days after I left there-The brethren are all ordered away, as we were. They are coming hither, and I daily expect them. Madagascar is the probabie seat of the mission; but this is not certain. Brother and sister Judson have become Baptists, have been immersed at Calcutta, and of course will not come with the rest. They have all been sick.

"Perhaps you may censure me, my dear mother, for leaving Serampore before Harriet's confinement. I wish I had time to answer you fully on this head, but I can only say, she did not expect to be confined short of three or four months from the time of our departure; that the usual length of a voyage to the Isle of France is not half that period; that Bengal is the most sickly place in all India, and this is the most healthy spot in the eastern world; and that it was the unanimous advice of all our friends that we should go. Brother Jndson would then have embraced the opportunity had I declined it.”

"I thank Dr. Woods a thousand times for his excellent sermon on the death of Mrs. Church, as well as for his missionary sermon, which last I received by way of Calcutta. My dear, dear mother, I must bid you farewell God Almighty bless you, and reward you a hundred fold for all your kindness to me. Do not forget me; I shall never forget you. Write whenever you have an opportunity. I send my love to all my acquaintance, and to all Harriet's friends, for her sake.

"My ever dear mother,
I remain your's affectionately,
SAMUEL NEWELL.

Mrs. M. Atwood.

time. Yes, my dear Mamma, I feel this mud-walled cottage shake, and expect ere long to become an inhabitant of the world of spirits. Eternity, I feel, is just at hand. But let me give you some account of God's dealings with me, which I shall do at intervals, as strength will admit."

[After mentioning the birth of a daughter, with fond anticipations of happiness, she adds the following sentences, which are the last she wrote.]

"On the cabin floor, with no other attendant but my dear Mr. Newell, we could weep for joy-and call ourselves the happiest of the happy. But, alas! on the evening of the fifth day the dear object of our love was snatched from us by death, and on the day following committed to its watery grave. Heart-rending stroke to a parental heart! Mineˇalmost bled with deep anguish”.

LETTER FROM MR. BURDER.

THE following letter from the Rev.
George Burder, to the Rev. Dr.
Morse enclosed the letter from Mr.
Newell.

"Rev. and dear Sir,

I AM desired by the Rev. S. Newell, one of your missionaries to the east, to forward the enclosed letter from him to the mother of his deceased wife, whom he buried at the Isle of France His letter is dated Dec. 11, 1812. I am grieved to find, that he and his brethren have been or

Mr. Newell enclosed a fragment, (from which the following sentences are taken) in Mrs. N.'s own hand. It is the commencement of a letter which she began to write to her mother, but which she was never able to resume. During the for-dered away from India, as well as mer part of her voyage from Cal- Mr May, our missionary. We cutta to the Isle of France she wrote have been praying and laboring Occasionally in her Diary, as appears hard in England, by petitions to Parby extracts made from it in the fore- liament, for the removal of these going letter. unreasonable restrictions. We know not yet what will be the result; but I would not be in the place of those who forbid the Gospel to be preached to the heathen for a thousand worlds. We have just closed our annual meetings, which have evinced a growing regard to the cause of Christ in this country. Our friends, more liberal than ever, have contributed last year 15,377, 4s. 5d.; and the collections made at

"Port Louis, Isle of France,
Nov. 3, 1812.

"My ever dear Mother, SINCE I wrote you last I have been Called by God to rejoice and weep; for afflictions and mercies have both alternately fallen to my lot. I address you now from a bed of great weakness--perhaps for the last

the several places of worship last
week amounted to 1,4221.
"I am, dear Sir,

Your affectionate brother,
GEO. BURDER, Sec. Miss. Soc."
Camberwell, near London,
May 21, 1813.

LETTER FROM MR. OSGOOD.

The folllowing extracts are taken from a letter written to the publisher of the Panoplist, by the Rev. Thaddeus Osgood, dated London, May 22, 1813.

THOUGH in great haste, I cannot seal this letter without giving you some account of what the Lord is doing here. Last week I devoted the whole of the time to the meetings of the Missionary Society and other religious and benevolent institutions. And I must say as the queen of Sheba said to Solomon, not withstanding all the great things which we have heard in America, yet when we see and hear ourselves, we are constrained to say," the one half was not told us."

THE Communication with the missionary settlements in Greenland has been greatly interrupted by the Danish war, and in consequence of this interruption, they have suffered severely from the want of provisions and other necessaries By permission of the English government, their wants have been at length supplied The following are extracts of the few letters that have been received from this quarter since the beginning of 1810.

"New-Hernhut, May 16, 1810. We are often much perplexed, when we consider that all intercourse between Europe and this country seems at an end. We measure, as it were every mouthful we eat, to make our provisions last as long as possible. May God soon send us relief! All the brethren and sisters, however, are preserved by his mercy in good health, and both we, and our Greenland congregations have got well through last winter, though at New-hernhut the latter have suffered some want of oil to light and warm their houses. They had however enough to eat, and could even spare us a little, to make out. We feel most the want of linen, and other articles of clothing."

I have heard two of the Royal Dukes advocating, with the greatest eloquence and force of argument, the dissemination of the Sacred Scriptures, and the universal diffusion of knowledge among all ranks of Society. It is no uncommon thing to see several thousands of persons convened at one of these meetings of the Bible Society, consisting of all ranks from the Bishops, Lords, and Peers of the realm to the lowest servants. And the attention to the Missionary Societies is not much inferior. At several of the public meetings last week I pre- July 24, 1810.-" All our fellow sume I saw three or four, some say missionaries in the other two settlefive or six, thousands of people as- ments were well, according to the sembled, and all appearing to be latest accounts received in June and of one heart and of one soul, as it July. The work of God our Savwas with the first followers of the ior proceeds and prospers; his Redeemer. Last week I was invi-presence is with us, and he blesses ted to assist in administering the ordinance of the Lord's supper to a very large assembly. I believe there were three or four thousand communing at once in this metropolis, at two different places, for no one house in the city could contain them. I thought this was a foretaste of heaven.

our feeble testimony of his atoning death and passion."

May 22, 1811,-"You may easily suppose, that by this time our situation is very trying and deplorabie, no ships have arrived in Greenland last year. We have therefore not received any provisions whatever from Europe, nor