once which state patropage IS calculated to create. He was equally Conversant with Baptists and Pædobaptists, and you will admit that he judged rightly when he declared that he could find no authority whatever in the New Testament for the sprinkling of infants. Finally, he was equally conversant with Unitarians and Trinitarians, and why should you think it surprising that he preferred the beautiful simplicity and practical excellence of the one to the unintelligible and therefore ineffi cient mysteries of the other? Might be not, after agreeing with you in so many particulars, be permitted to differ from you in one with impunity?a differ ence too which might have. convinced you that he was honest when he professed to agree with you in all the rest. That bis frequent intercourse with Christians of various denominations would bring him fully to concur with all the opinions of only one denomination, and that your own, is an expectation for which he can

constant feeling of respon sibility to God alone in religious matters whether of greater or of less moment-a feeling which is necessarily in danger of being greatly weakened in the minds of those Whose sect has received a po

not be considered as in any way responsible. Lastly, you rested your hopes on

the concessions that he would occasionally make in favour of some evangelical truths." You do not inform your readers what these truths are, nor whether he now debies what in former times he Occasionally conceded. Of this I am confident that in all the intercourse which Į had with him in commoq with yourself when my reli gious opinions were in substance the same as those which you at present pro fess, I never heard bim make any concession in fa your of the Trinity. In

stead of this I have heard you make concessions to him, which, however satis factorily to yourself you may have reconciled them with your avowed belief, Į then told you appeared to me to amount, and which Ţ still think did amount, to a virtual relinquishment of the Trinity, and which in point of fact confirmed him in the continued disbelief, and contributed to lead me to the subsequent rejection

litical establishment and is supported from the revenues of the state, and the ministers of which, betore they can enjoy thes advantages, are indispen sably required to subscribe to Liturgies and Articles, Cate. chisms aud Confessions of Faith

of that doctrine. It is dif ficult to perceive how his concessions in favour of any other doctrines could lead you to expect that he would ultimately embrace the doctrine of the Trinity; especi ally as your own conces sions respecting that very doctrine were of such a nature as eyen tended to unsettle the belief of a brotherMissionary.

It thus appears that Rammohan Roy did not give you any ground to expect that he would ever view the the distinguishing doctrine of Trinitarianism in any other light than that in which he actually regards it; and, as he is in no degree responsible for the disappointment you have experienoed; so that disappointment, however severe it may have been, is not a sufficient reason for your "interference" with the controversy which has been carried on against bim.

Of the three reasons which you assign for the part you have taken in this controversy, the first, viz. a desire to contribute something towards the establishment of the truth, is the only one that will bear the test of examination.

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even this cannot be of much avail to you in justifying your "interference," since it apparently did not operate

upon you until it was combined with the two last, viz. a wish to vindicate your own orthodoxy which was impugned, and to assuago the feelings of disappoint ment which you experien ced.

In seeking to "establish the truth" you have indulg ed in several very gross and palpable misrepresentations both of the principles and character of your fel. low-Christians; and in an imadverting upon these misrepresentations and upon the statements included in your other Reasons, I have felt strongly and have sometimes expres

sed myself as I felt. Yet permit me to assure you that however strong the language of reprobation I have employed, and it is not in my opinion strong. er than what has been de served, I yet entertain a sincere respect for your personal character, and attri bate the injustice of which you have been guilty, not to intentional malice of which I believe you to be inca, pable, but to the unhappy influence of your religious system in warping your judgment and exciting the most unjust and injurious prejudices against men whose only crime is an in voluntary one, viz. that they cannot, however much they

may desire it, think and reason and believe as you do. When I see it produc. ing such effects upon one whose personal virtues I know and sincerely desire to imitate, this forms an additional proof to me that that

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In the last Number of the Repository we inserted a communication from a respectable Missionary explanatory of some particulars in the above mentioned work in the present Number we have it in our pow. er to publish the substance of several other communications of the same nature which the Author of the Replies bas received from a Venerable and worthy clergyman of the Church of England whose rank and character, if we were per mitted more particularly to mention them, would be a sufficient guarantee for the accuracy of the statements which we give on his authority.

In page 32 of the Queries and Replies, the Author, with a view to furnish a correct idea of the gradations of caste to be found among the Shoodru converts, states in addition to other particulars that "a native, named Ruttan, lately bap

tized by Bishop Heber, is reported to have been of the Malakar caste, or the 13th. class of the Shoodra tribe, and his occupation that of Malee or garde ner;" and in order to il lustrate the injudicious manner in which native converts are sometimes treat ed, it is added in page 46 that "the native already mentioned as having been baptized by the present Bishop of Calcutta, is also re ported to have received fifty Fupees a month since his baptism a much greater sum than a person of his rank and occupation could ever have earned by his own labour."

It now appears that the native here mentioned was baptized, together with his little daughter, not by Bishop Heber who had nothing to do directly or in directly with this baptism, but by Mr. Hawtayne, minis. ter of St. James's. Our cor respondent does not know

of what caste he was but be bad acquired a consider. able knowledge of English, and had previously for some time been employed as writer to the Diocesan Com mittee of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, of which Mr. Hawtayne is Secretary, on a salary of 40 ropees a month. Our correspondent has seen the twice since his baptism, but had no knowledge of him before; nor does he know what circumstances led to his receiving baptism. He is told that he attends every Sunday at the Cathedral,

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Again: the Author of the Queries and Replies, in further animadverting on the manner in which native converts have been treated, makes the following remark in page 46:

it has been stated to me that the Rev. Daniel Corrie, gave gratuitous support to those converts whom by his labours at Agra he had brought to embrace the gospel, but that on their monthly allowance

In the Sumbad Coumoodee, a weekly newspaper in the Bengalee language, for Nov. 15, 1823, he is stated to be of the Malakar, i. e. the Malee or gardener caste.

The article in the Sumbad Conmoodee already referred to states that his salary is 50 rupees a month.

being withdrawn several of them relinguished the Christian profession." Qur correspondent, than whom no one ean be better ac quainted with the facts of this case, enables us to communicate the following particulars respecting it."

The statement contained in the above extract must, we are informed, refer to the period after Mr. Corrie left Agra to go to England. He left some women employed in spinning, and there were three weavers who worked up the thread. He also left a few cultivators of the ground in a little farm he had taken for them. These were. under the superintendence of Abdool Musseeh, and were. supplied with current expenses to be deducted from the produce of their labour.. But now measures were adopted after Mr. Corrie's departure and many left the place. Still a small number remains; there are ten communicants at this time.

In a subsequent letter written in reply to inqui ries which the preceding particulars had suggested, our correspondent further informs us that it is now ten years since the persons a bove referred to left Agra. They left, not on account of the subsistence being, withdrawn, but from some. severity of manner in the person who took charge on

Mr. Corrie's departure. He has been told that some of them visited Agra afterwards, retaining an appar. ent attachment to Christianity; and one of the wea. vers certainly came back, and applied himself to other labour, and continued to attend on worship. Three of them came away in Mr. Corrie's service and were employed by other families during his absence. One

of them died whilst he was away and gave great satisfaction to *** on her deathbed; one continued in the service of * * * * till be fost his health when be came to Benares where Mr. Corrie then was, and exhibited a very Christian conduct daring a long illness of which he died: these two were converts from Popery but as ignofant as Hindoos till they came under Abdool Masseeh's ministry. The third, an old Mabratta soldier, feturned to Mr. Corrie's service when he came back fó India, and died in 1823 in Calcutta in a very happy state of mind.

That of the 41 adults Mr. Corrie baptized at A

gra perhaps half the number proved insincere, our correspondent does not des ny: Yet he is persuaded some of them were convidced in their judgment of the truth of Christianity when they received baptism, though they could not bear up under the scorn of their neighbours when left to themselves:

So far our correspondent, who has not only in the most obliging manner fuis nished us with the above information but has also offered to reply to whatever other inquiries may be addressed to him on the same subject. Our readers will judge for themselves how far and in what way the conclusions drawn from the statements contained in the Queries and Replies are af fected by the more accurate information with which he bas supplied us. Our own impression is that they are confirmed, not weakened, by the facts addaced.

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