been received; the purport of which is contained in the following official document, published in Demerara. Adjutant General's Office, Head Quarters, The Members composing the General Court Martial, which assembled at the Colony-house on the 18th of October last, for the trial of John Smith, of the London Missionary Society, and which continued by adjournment to the 24th of November, and whereof Lieut. Colonel Goodman is President, will return to their duty--the nature of the proceedings being such as to render it imperative on His Excellency the Commanderin-Chief to transmit them for His Majesty's consideration and ultimate decision.* J. R. BRANDT, Adjt.-General, M. F. (From the Miss. Chron. in the Evan. Mag.) Baptist Missionary Society, Kingston. We have the pleasure to announce the safe arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Coultart, together with Mr. Godden, at Liverpool, after a tedious passage of eleven weeks; and it affords us additional gratification to state, that the change of scene and of climate, since her embarkation, appears to have been of great service to the health of Mrs. Coultart. Since our friends lauded, a letter has come to hand from Mr. Knibb, which affords satisfactory evidence that the cause of the Redeemer is still advancing at this important station. "On the first Sabbath in September, the ordinance of baptism was administered in the baptistery of our New Chapel. It was truly a solemn and impressive service. The candidates for baptism were arranged on each side of the baptistery, de * Since this sheet was sent to press, we have seen by the public papers, that his Majesty has pardoned Mr. Smith, but that he is not allowed to remain in any of the West India Islands.-Ed. cently clothed, before the chapel was publicly opened, that no confusion might take place in the arrangement. Many of the front seats of the gallery were occupied by respectable individuals, some of whom had expressed a desire to have the ordinance administered in the chapel. At six o'clock the service commenced with singing and prayer; after which brother Tinson preached an impressive discourse on the nature and importance of the ordinance. After sermon, I had the pleasure of baptizing One Hundred and Twenty-seven persons; the candidates conducted themselves with becoming seriousness, so that the whole service was solemn and orderly. We have been very particular in admitting members into our church; if they have deceived us, we have not deceived them. We have offered no inducements except such as the scriptures warrant. We have told them of the aggravated guilt of professing with their lips, what is not felt by their hearts; that professing themselves the servants of God, while they were serving Satan in their hearts, would only aggravate and increase their future punishment—and that hypocrites were of all characters the most detestable in the sight of God. May the friends of the Redeemer in England pray, that these persons may be enabled to adorn the doctrine of the Saviour in all things! My hands are now fully occupied, and I trust I feel peculiarly thankful to God that he has hitherto imparted strength equal to my day. For these last six weeks sickness has been very general in Kingston and its vicinity, though it has chiefly rested upon the natives. More than half the population have been affected with it, though it has not been generally fatal. Nearly seventy of my scholars were laid up in the space of ten days, but most of them are now recovered. The few articles I sent home for, I shall shortly be much in want of. My school is now full, so that I shall soon be compelled to reject all applications. The British system is one exactly suited to Jamaica, and some of the children have made great progress both in reading and writing. Some that were ignorant of their letters six months ago, can now read pretty correctly the easy chapters in the New Testament; which proves that they are not deficient in capacity. There was some report of the magistrates of Spanish Town sending a young person to me, to learn the system, for the purpose of establishing a school there; but I fear it has escaped their attention." SURVEY OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS, FOR 1822—3. In the Missionary Register there is given annually, in Ja nuary, a Survey of the Protestant Missionary Stations throughout the World: and we cannot conceive of any thing more ac curate, impartial, and interesting than it has always been. It would give us pleasure could we transfer the whole of the last survey to our own pages; but as this is impossible, we shall insert the introductory remarks to each of its geographical di visions, and add such particulars as our limits will permit. It commences with Western Africa. "The view which we gave of the Slave Trade, at pp. 465-469 of the last volume, from the Seventeenth Report of the African In stitution, is not a little discouraging to the friends of these oppressed shores. Retributive justice will ultimately visit, with punishment proportioned to its delay, those powers which set at defiance all the claims of injured Africa. We extract the following passage on this subject from the Twenty-third Report of the Church Missionary Society : "It is with great pain that the Committee witness the continuance, under even aggravated circumstances, of the Traffic in Human Beings, which is the curse of these devoted shores. There is, however, no relaxation on the part of the conscientious and humane, not only in the United Kingdom and the American States, but in other countries, to put an end for ever to this opprobrium of the civilized world. The rising Commonwealths of the New World are not only exterminat. ing the odious traffic, but they are preventing the possibility of its revival, by making provision for annihilating the State of Slavery within their respective territories. In France even, at present the nation most eminently guilty, the voice of justice and truth is beginning to make itself heard ; while the friends of humanity in our own country are pursuing with determined perseverance, in co operation with the Legislature, the great object of a final and total abolition. The continuance, indeed, of the trade, is not, through the merciful overruling of the Almighty Hand, without some countervailing alleviations; as the victims of this traffic are still rescued in considerable numbers, and placed under Christian Instruction. "We are much concerned to state the death of that excellent officer and active enemy of the Slave Trade, Sir Robert Mends. He died on board his ship, at Cape Coast, after a short illness." The stations or settlements under this Division amount to about · nineteen, and are occupied by sixteen European Missionaries, Schoolmasters, or Agents, most of them with wives, besides a number of Native Assistants. The Societies who support them are, the Church Missionary Society, the Wesleyan Missionary Society, the Society of Friends (Quakers,) and the American Colonization So-` ciety. The Chaplains of the Colony also give their assistance to the good work. South Africa. "The internal improvement of the important Colony of the Cape, under the beneficent administration of His Excellency Lord Charles Henry Somerset, is obvious to all. "Our Readers will have seen the anxiety for its advancement, which his Lordship discovers in the Proclamation relative to the Slave Population, given at pp. 537–540 of our last Volume. Schools for the Slaves were, in consequence, soon opened, at Caledon and in other places. 66 This disposition in the Government manifests itself in various ways. Proclamations have been issued, providing for the support, protection, and religious instruction of destitute Native Children, born in the Colony, and for facilitating the marriage and baptism of Slaves. "Another salutary measure has been recently adopted. There are 4 Episcopal and about 14 Dutch Churches in the Colony. The Governor having suggested the expediency of employing Britishborn Ministers, conversant in both the English and Dutch languages, in discharging the Parochial Duties of the Reformed Religion as one of the Established Systems of the Colony, His Excellency announces— : "It has pleased His Majesty most graciously to approve that measure, and to enable me to act more extensively upon it not only by having commanded Clergymen of the Established (hurch of Scotland (whose religious tenets are precisely similar to those of the Reformed Church of this country) who have re ceived instruction in the Dutch language, in Holland, to be sent hither, to placed in the vacant Churches; but by having authorised competent and respectable Instructors being employed at the public expense, at every principal place throughout the Colony; for the purpose of facilitating the acquirement of the English language to all classes of society. "These Instructors arrived in July, 1822. A Proclamation was, in consequence, issued; in which it was ordered that the English language should supersede the Dutch, in all Judicial and Official Acts and Proceedings, so as to be exclusively used therein from the 1st of January, 1827. "The English Teachers are six in number. They had been trained in the British System; and were instructed in Dutch, during the passage, by the Rev. Dr. Thom, whom they accompanied on his retura from Europe. They were placed by the Governor, as follows:-Mr. Brown, at Stellenbosch; Mr. Rattray, at Tulbagh; Mr. B.air, at Caledon; Mr. Dawson, at George; Mr. Innes, at Uitenhage; and Mr. Robertson, at Graaff Reynet. We quote the following statement on this subject : "The Scholars pay no fees for instruction: we have every prospect of seeing a reasonable proportion of the children under instruction, according to the population and local difficulties of the different stations. "His Excellency the Governor, Lord Charles Somerset ; Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, Colonial secretary; and the Chief Justice, Sir John Frater, give every countenance and support to education in general, and particularly to these Gentlemen. The Chief Magistrate of each district has the superintendence of the Schools, to whom quarterly returns will be made of their progress, number of scholars, &c. "The extension of the influence of the colony will keep pace with its internal improvement. As Christianity acquires strength within the Colony, it will push itself forth with vigour among the neighbouring tribes, and will become its best safeguard and its real glory, 66 Among the Caffres, as our readers are aware, Government itself has established a Mission; and has afforded liberal encour agement to the Wesleyan Missionaries to enter the same field. "Another sphere of exertion is opening near Delagoa Bay, on the eastern coast; where a large tract of land has been ceded to the British, and the Government encourage the establishment of a Mission. The Slaves in the Colony who come from these parts represent the Natives as entirely Heathens. “An irruption of the Mantatees, a numerous horde of Natives from a great distance north, into the Bootsuanna country, in the |