under the care of the Archbishop of Cranganor, the Bishop of Verapoli, (the Pope's Apostolic Vicar in Malabar,) the Bishop of Cochin, and the Bishop of Quilon; the Romish Church has the following establishment in the East, extending from the Cape of Good Hope to Pekin:

Bishop of Mozambique, on the Eastern coast of Africa. Bishop of Bombay.

Archbishop of Goa, Metropolitan and Primate of the Orient. Bishop of Pondicherry. Va

cant.

Bishop of St. Thomas, at Madras. His diocese includes Calcutta, where he has a legate. Bishop of Pegu. Bishop of Siam. Bishop of Malacca.

One Archbishop and three Bishops at Manilla, and the Philippine islands.

Bishop of Macao.
Bishop of Pekin.

(5.) The Dutch,who established themselves in Asia about a century after the Portuguese, and transferred the dominion of the latter to themselves. Between 1594 and 1620, the greater part of the Malayan islands fell into their hands. Wherever they came they endeavored, and with success, to convert the natives to the Christian faith, and to found Protestant churches. In process of time they translated the whole Bible into the Malay tongue, and part of it into the language of Ceylon, both of which were printed, as will be noticed in another, place. The Malay Bible was not published till 1758, thirty-nine years after the Tamul. Their churches have since sunk into ignorance and formality, and their extensive possessions have lately fallen under the dominion of the British. But the way is prepared for English laborers to reap a

Bishop of Thibe.

In Bengal alone there are ten Roman Catholic churches, and = fourteen priests. One of the churches is at Calcutta, another at Serampore.

The Romish Church, according to one of her leading principles, has propagated her faith without the Bible, and of course has never attempted a translation of the Scriptures into the languages of the Heathen. She has, however, for three centuries diffused the name of Christianity throughout the East, and in some measure prepared the way for the true Missionaries of the Gross.*

formers sowed the precious seed.t

(6.) The English East India Company. This Association was incorporated by queen Elizabeth in the year 1600; and by 1616 they had settlements and factories at Bantam, Jacatra, Surat, Agra, Brampore, Calecut, Siam, Macassar, Achen, and many other places, in 1689 they removed their factory in Bengal from Hoogly to the spot on which Calcutta, the present capital of British India, has since been built.

Within the last thirty

58; Ch. Res. p. 165, 193, 194; Mem, p. 18-21: Star in E. p. 13, 14; R.'s Cyc. under Francis Xavier; Life of Francis Xavier, p. 114.

Mavor's U. H. vol. xii, p. 177,

years the dominions of the Company have been greatly extended. About the year 1795 the Earl of Mornington, an Irish nobleman of an ancient family of the name of Wellesley, and now Marquis Wellesley, and lately a leading member of the British administration, went out to India in the character of Governor General. During the ten years in which he administered the government of India, the territorial possessions of the Company were nearly doubled. His war with Tippoo Saib, king of Mysore, which was conducted by his brother Sir Arthur Wellesley, now Earl of Wellington, commander of the British armies in Portugal, issued in the destruction of the Mysorean Empire, and the extinction of the Mahometan power in Hindostan. In resisting the power ful combination which had been formed against the English, he overwhelmed the hitherto invincible Mahrattas, and greatly reduced their empire. In the war carried on against them, the province of Orissa, containing the far famed temple of Juggernaut, the Mecca of Hindoos, fell under the dominion of the British. Besides these immense territorial acquisitions, he formed on the frontier of the Empire a league of strength, by alliance with other nations, which has ever since preserved the country from invasion. The comprehensive mind of that great statesman, in connexion with his coadjutor, Mr. Pitt, formed great and generous designs for India. Among other plans which met the approbation of both, was that of an Ecclesiastical Establishment. But the measure which

reflects the highest honor on the administration of that distinguished nobleman, was the erection of the College of Fort William, and the collection of one hundred learned Asiatics from different parts of India, Persia, and Arabia, to assist in unlocking the numerous languages of Asia, and in diffusing the light of religion and science throughout the East. Neither with Mahratta nor Mysore are his honors chiefly inscribed, but with the memorials of those Translations of eternal Truth which are one day to effect the civilization and salvation of one half of the human family.

All these measures could not be taken without expense. The charges of his wars, the princely style of his court, the generous plaus which he projected, the cost of governing an empire so far extended beyond its former limits, somewhat embarrassed the financial concerns of the Company. The advantage of his measures in a revenual point of view, has even been questioned. It is said by the enemies of his administration, that when he assumed the government of India, the debts of the Company a mounted to sixteen millions, and their territorial revenues eight; that in 1809 the former had risen to thirty two millions, and the latter only to fifteen. But while they have been disputing in England on the expe diency of extending their empire in the East, that empire has continued to enlarge by the conquest which has been made of the extensive possessions of the Dutch in the Indian seas.

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By this entrance of the English into Asia it might have been

will be guided in the path to heaven.

It is thus, by means of tremendous judgments, that GoD ac complishes his 'purposes of mer

cy.

That the Theatre is a school of vice cannot be a question with any discerning man, whose mind is imbued with the principles of religion. It is true, there are men, called religious, who frequent the theatre; but it should be remembered, that they are but few, that even good men are liable to mistakes, imperfections, and sins, and that there is a fashionable religion very different from the religion of the Gospel. If there is any conscientious man, who hesitates in deciding upon the compatibility of a religious character with attendance upon theatrical amusements, a simple question will perhaps dispel his doubts and bring him to an instantaneous decision. Would JESUS CHRIST were he now upon earth, be found in any of our the atres?

Would He, who honored the Father, be present, for entertainment, where the name of God is incessantly dishonored?* Would He, who was meek and unaspiring, and who enjoined the deepest humility, be delighted with representations, which nourish the principles of pride and ambition? Would He, who was spotless purity, with patience be

The profanity of the stage is notorious; but a singular instance of im. piety has been witnessed in the theatre of a town, once famed for pure morals. A player knelt down in mimic prayer to Almighty God, and he acted his part so well, that his audience, more impious than himself, lib. erally applauded him!

hold scenes and listen to words, which wound the eye and ear of modesty? Would He, who frowned upon vice, encourage an assembly, at which the profligate always meet for purposes of iniquity? Would He, who came to save the lost, thus urge them, by his example, towards hopeless perdition?

If then JESUS CHRIST would not have attended our theatres; can his followers, without guilt, attend them? It may be said, that the example of the Redeemer is not in all respects to be imitated; but surely what he would have avoided as sinful, his disciples must also avoid. A good man may sometimes of necessity be in the company of the inpious, while they trample upon the laws of God; but if he meets with them from choice, and for amusement, aware too of the impossibility of reproving them, he is cut off from every justifying plea, and stands convicted as a deliberate sinner.

SIR,

W.

To the Editor of the Panoplist.

If you deem the following Allegory lic through the medium of your useful worthy of meeting the eye of the Pubmagazine, you are at liberty to publish ; but a refusal to notice it will not disoblige, though probably it will humble, A CONSTANT READER.

AN ALLEGORY.

As I sat musing in my chair, on the astonishing and fatal stupidity of the generality of mankind, as it relates to the concerns of immortality, I sunk gradually into a profound slumber, and involuntarily pursued the same

train of thought, which had occupied my waking imagination. Methought, from a little eminence on which I stood, I beheld a vast plain, extending as far as the eye could reach, thronged with multitudes of every age and nation, and presenting to view motley groups with every variety of complexion, dress, and employment. The utmost confusion seemed to pervade the assembly, and I wondered to see many crossing each others' paths in every direction, turning and winding with great velocity, but without any apparent object in view. It would be endless to recount their various occupations. Some were employed in placing ladders against a tottering fabric, that they might proudly overlook their fellows; and often when they had ascended with vast toil and difficulty to the highest step, the sudden fall of their frail support would dash them in pieces. Others were fancifully decorating their garments with brilliant pebbles; while numbers were pursuing with amazing activity glittering butterflies, of which there were swarms in those regions. Many a poor wretch did I behold, lean and haggard, anxiously scraping together a few handfuls of gold and silver dust, which the least puff of air would frequently dissipate; and between the desire of displaying his fancied wealth, and the fear of losing it, I saw that his time passed miserably away, though he was an object of envy to most around him. These gloomy beings were frequently contrasted by a group of jovial ones, whose aim was to dance and frolic away time; but their extravagant gestures and idle mirth led

one to suspect that they had found Folly instead of Happiness. On a nearer survey, I discovered to my surprise, that the busy multitude before me were actually plunged in profound sleep, and influenced by their dreams to follow those whimsical and frivolous pursuits which had excited my astonishment. Then I cast my eyes around eagerly on every side to see if all, without exception, in this vast assembly, were under the dominion of sleep. After much fatiguing research I discerned here and there a solitary individual, who, with regular steps, and a steady pace, though less rapidly than others, passed in a strait direction through the hurrying crowd, apparently but little disturbed by their clamor, and neither jostling his neighbor from the path he was treading, nor long forsaking his own. If rudely thrust from it by some untoward traveller, or allured for a moment by the complaisant smiles of a companion, I remarked that he never ceased seeking the little narrow path which he had left, until it was happily regained; when, with redoubled diligence, he hastened on his road. Now all these car ried in their hands a book which was said to have awakened them from their death-like slumber, and to be able to produce the same happy effect on any one who could discern that it was written in letters of gold. Presenting this precious volume to the dreamers, they called on them with earnest importunity to awake; at which I saw that most were offended. Some cried、 out a little more sleep, a little more slumber; others laughed the volume to scorn, and perse