.-**••' * [SATURDAY, Marc* s, 1817.1 * UN [VOLUME VI.------No. 40.] A TTE Kingston, Upper Canada—Printed and Published by STEPHEN MILES.—Price Four Dollars per Annum—Exclusive of Postage. ;wz*ni « ***jm4v i ! Price of advert ift uv in the Gatrfte. Six lines and under, %J& firft infercion, tod 1/3 every fubfequent. Ten line* and under, 3/4. firll infer- ] tion. urn4 - S every fubfequent. Ten linen and upwards, 4*/. per line $rft •'nfrnion, and 2d. ptr line every fuc- fcccdintr, infertum. Advertifements unaccompanied with Writ:en direftions are inferteo till forbid, find charged accordingly. POKTRY. . - * t • • * • * • THE PRINTER'S "HOUR 0F\ PEACE," BV THE AUTHOR OF THE "POET'S HOUR OF PEACE.*' MORALITY. ■ * * * » i • * « * v • • ■ * KNOW** the PRINTER'S hour of LETTRSiS Prom the Mctho'iht Missiona¬ ries in the Inland of Ceylon. in the East hulks. ExtraBofa Letter froth Mr. Jin it, to the Mifponary Qotm./iiiee ButUcahuy Island of Cry-lev, Friday, Ocl. % I, (814. Rev. and cfteen-ed Father;-, With mixed emotionsof jo) and grief! I review the difpertbitions of unerring; Providence towards me, fiuee ! .eft my: j native land. Surely the jud; menrs ofi God are unfcarchablr, and hh way* paftj finding out I Since that ike oik Ht-t'o! company has ft paratcd : I am now alcme, at a dUUnce from my friend*. My Ra¬ tion is Batticaloa. the mofi 'uncultivated ! iWy ha^fc acquired fuch a knowledge of ifevera! languages of this iil md, as to be able to g° forth and form circuits, Soci¬ eties, &c. Indeed they are now foim- ling, t have a circuit even now almoft I prepared for me. From Jaffna in the I North, to Matura in the South, is a dis- [tafte* <v 330 miles: and in thU large tradt of country there is no Mifiionary but myfeif, nor a minifter of any kind, except the R*v. Mr. Ireland, chaplain to His M^j-flv's forces at Trincomalee. I am placed near the centre ; fo that I am dis¬ tant from all my brethren on cither hand n*>re than one hundred and fisty miles. I hwz vifited fotne of the vili igea round iiatticaloa. On Mondays and I Saturdays, af:e» teaching in the fehon] !in the morning;, I go out into the hi^h- [Mraya and pr.ach to the people by an in¬ terpreter. Lad Monday I had appoint- peace ? Ii itation of ai:y,and perh.'p* tbelcaflagiee-; ed to pleach in two village*. I left home -Mi 'able. My health at prefent is tolerable, 1 I about tl,ree o'clock in tru afternoon, but joy Thm ever f*!t the m; id of Greece, When Etfffd by Venus' am'rous bo\ ii K'-nv ve an hour more fraught with | - , r* , . ' though lometimes I am very unwell. If jj Was loon informed that I was expeCtrd Was feized with a fever at Grflle, Fmme~| to .vifit a third congregati- n before I re- >'! d:ate!y as I landed; a*.d wa; for fome, turned. -*.ier preaching in both the If time confined. The can; fide of the! villages, I battened 'o the third pl.tce, and. Tic Dot when round the mazy cafe, HUnimrve fingers kite the types ; r^or it it when with kn^th'ned f^ce The llurdy devel's tail he gripes ; llland is very unhealthy, and frequentlyj found the largeft congregation I have fatal fi. to Europeans. The number <>f j y.*t feci in this country. All very deaths at Trincomalee is truly aftonlih-! leotly liftened ; many of the profefLd i-^r. Every thing u very fcarce and!'heathens came running together, fome j [ dear : the two laft monToon* weft almoftl | with their mark in their foreheads ; ma- 'Tis not when news* of dreadful note, Rurolumijs all with minion fill ; Tw rot when brother I'rii ter?, quote Th" clT:fi«»u.s of hi- flnmp-wom quill-j i t dry ones, fo thit foi nearly t!»iee yxarsljnv Mahometans and Moormen, who had! H on this fide of the-ifland, tnere ha* been!; been before vet y averfe to the gofpel, very little rain, I now followed the word, and liftened with Tis not w!,f»r. a!! hts work i? dene, Hiigllrnni'iing 6r«- he howr* sean And h*:cille1- "f f.*ie ;*oming di:t:, Grows merry e'er a pint ufixer ; X«i« will perceive, from our (la;ions, j [great attention* In this lattercongrega- that we nearly furround the ifland .* the:;tion there were many cads who had all I brethren, Lt•-t-h and Sqoaneej in the IJ come together, as with one e-mfent, to] j J North, at Jaffna; the brethren* Erflcine; :he<ir the wnrd of God. Some of the ~' ° ",_ "* **-'- 'headmen followed me to every place, [and heard me three times that day. There arc many villages at a dilfonce that 1 can Tis not when in Mifi Fa#c$94 Ghifs. I-- ng {rdverriwrn/s T-eet Ins eye, ^•d.fe-'m lofthifiiej as they pal •• We'll nr«ice your colmnnt* byt bye!" ~ . ; 2:id Clonoh, iir the Souih nt Matura i; um\ Gallo ; Batticaloa on the Eaft, and Col umbo on the Weft. The Tamul angucge i. fpoken Nortri and EaR, the n Cinealef" South and Wefi—The bre-j anxious expectation, to fee his bordtfrs dill more enlarged ; and am, Rev.^nd efteemed Fathers, YoUr unworthy fon in the Gofpel, William Ault. From th Niagara Spectator— ^eb. 21 MfSSFO STARYSO CI E T V. In the month of Augull laft, a num ber of refpedtable inhabitants of the J3 •ptill denomination from different paitsof this province, met inTownfend, and formed themfelves into a fociety. entitled The Uffir Canada Mifjionary Society, for the pnrpofe of lending th~ goipcl to the dcititute of tins Province, and parts adJ3Cei.t. We hail the day of final] beginnings for evangelizing the inhabitants of the wide extended lettle- menis of this fair portion of the Bniifh Empire, Wcallo entertain the ibndcit hope, that the well-minded ol the com¬ munity will cheerfully and zeal iufly imitate their bivthicn in the Parent State, and thofe of the adjoining States, in aiding and encouraging tHia laudable iolh'tution. We have alfo the pleafur-? of announcing the ir.llituti m of a Femah Mifjionary Sosicty, on the 2yth of Jan. I817,entitled The Clinton Female Miffi onary Society. 'Vhh i;> intended to be Auxiliary to the foi men We havt: only to fay tw the reft of the fair daugh ters of Upper Canada, "go yc and do likewife/' CONSTITUTION Of the Female Miffionary Society. Article 1 This Society (hall be known by thr name of the Clinton Female Miff onary Society. there was uo mi'a.i* of ascertaining or identifring the quantity of wrR-^if, ifouv &c. brought into thin Province from Upper Canada, there was no means of loi-ng so except by appropriating an ar. tnjr of Custom IIoum? Officer^ in spile of whose endeavors, thesegacityof that class of men styled engrossers uou render all their laws a.;d embargo act» a men: nullity. Mr. Languedoc, in answer to Mr. Bortfa's objection said tltere was no <reat difficulty in ascertaining the quan¬ tity oTgrain coming into this hroviage from l;pper-Cauada ; it was well known that there was a Custom House at Co* teaa da Lpc ; where things coming in¬ to this Province from Upper Canada .nu>tnece.>sarily pass—it was no difli- ■ ult matter for a trader from the Uppen S'loviuce to enter his produce at that !>lace, getting a certificate from the Cus. torn House Otlicers of the quantity rerea. cn- 1 ye» vifit. My circuit is Urge ; but Art' 2' The members of this Society foul embraces it all. You may ea - { f^" co"f,ft .cf lht** wh(? fubferibe to .+ ijCiniralef- South and Wefi —The bre-j my foul embraces it all. You may ea- ' Cl i I lines Edktne,Clo'igh, and Harvard wiy tfily pe»ccive what an open door is fei in) e anil^)tUU lI^ ^',,iiJl^1^ :* l;,^: oi^'ir-cn lynctl rfi>w place ; \vri«Tt*a'iruh,ifr A«i*lF^ary?| U/T«tvr ;JSqiiariCe, and myfelf, the Tamul. j (exertions,—We must have more Mijftona-\ a,,lin"a1' 11 You a^e already informed of the iuti-l'r\cs—many more Mijfionaria ! II Art. theConnttuttnu. and pay into the treas o millings, N. York Currency, y Art. 3. The concern of this Society I RfldH W vc.\c-S :a a Board o: Dka^u, Jut O, 'tis when ftcrn Winter, dr^ar, Come? rob'd in fnow, ar.d rain a v?por, Pr; hear* in wliifpcr* foft wid dear, * * HYvf time to PAT ya:; for thc\ PAPER Vy both morning and evening. Therv. is a | was employrd by the Government lo j i 1 fmall garrifon in this place : the tro >;.a, [teach the Tarnnl to the Malabar h ! I march to Church in the morning, arid' |Hc had then 30 fcholari. That fc *.^ ..-7 il i f t Art 6. All donations to he Society, hoys. I i however fmall, will br gratefidly receiv. hool'|c^l and cheerfully appropriated to ans- ; v\vcr the ol iefl in view. y pet fen may withdraw from poweriuiertectoi mvme trntn : | Anotnrr u cttaoinnea wuicucomamB 30,; j 'uk.««w»; m{ any time by pavthg arrears. Creat feriousnefs and folemnitv reft Upon! ;fo that we have about 140 children un-j \ . Officers for the prefent year. i the. congregation, i have alfo formed at jder i:.tln.c?Jon in this place. 1 !wvej j 'Mrs. Jake Uphfold P^lident, clafs, which every week iucreafes. I prcat hvpes that the rifing generation| Anna C orv/is, 1 realurer, have twenty members,nad many -f them, livill be ufefurmemben of fociety. 1 wa«|J; Mary I-eam, Secretary, ♦1*3. CaTH MttNE Mrrrill,^ SUSANN \ SlNCHR, f in the evening they come voluntarily.'] is now m.der ny fuperintend.'.ncc, and'!| v^'cr the ol jeti Many of the congregation lic^in aheadyl already contains more thaw 70 children.] I . Art. 7. An; toftel the powerful effeft of divine truth:' [Another is cUabh'fbed which contains 30,; j ctnC Society 81 Willi I r% u'U *^ cldfs' w,lich ew!? WCcJc i,lcrefif,es- *||fr«at hv.pes that the rifing generation H ^TiL V>' \J JL ^ E-J kJr liave nventy members,nad many ofthem . 'will be ufefurmemben of fociety. 1 waaj 1 r\ x? & I? W U n V H R ! give proofs of their love m the caufe of; {much grieved to find on my arrival, that, rV P t* JS W- MM M 1/ a ^ IJGod; fome *f them can read En^iHi,: {the Ma'abar childien were reading in the " . . , land mod of the men can xtfk EngHflU fchool the books and vain fongs of the rUBtffoto* having openedUie U^^ Dnteb,and Portogucfe: but I heathen 1 immediatelyconiel from my Huufe lately ereftedby Mrs.ri" t amcnuteat a Ibfiforfomebuoka to put Tamnl Teftarent fcveral chapters, and i JL Houfe laici nite at a lofs fiw fotne buoks to put! Ellis WOLVEftTOS, BETbfrv Kitchen s TrnR- tees. ;... •aaawrj: '-' -vk.! tlctpen tuvei'lnv, tray rc'y 1171011 ivjnp, good acco;r:r;odaiions and attendance. S Tncir bei^g auohed to tbe houfe a. pood yard and limbics, Tcamitcra can* have iuitable accommodation 5onps every day irom 12 lo 1 c/cior 5'even or ci^ht gentr.d boarders can j he attended to. I MOORE Kingston) Feb. 1,751;. 35 j For Sale, AT JUCT/ON, on WEDMES-, •Tii DAY, thr fefl day ^x April :;cxt,{ Hart of the Town i..ot,brloni'jng to the ,:,». is fuhflituced in the room of the heathen out even one religions book to perufcjIbmfo, The felwd-boys write more 'than is neceffary for themfelves, fo that a.l docs not fuffice ; many ;ire yet Wii.'wi; 1 htrjohn Um*Ti contam-g 30 feet in fiwacdi^ htm. rhcab-vei, of- fcied fir falc for the pttrpufe (i fettling the debts of the ES»a tfce premUes ear. he viewed any time pw«« to the fale, by avplvtnfi t« the fuhiaiber. 7 'SUSANNAH LONEY. | iGngdWi Mureb '. '8 ■ 7- 39w3 j Notice. ANY Ft-rfon having a ju-at one We I iV/IGGON to dftpofe -'» WW iin" j a purdiafcr by applying at litis Omcc. intti March i- 39' Hpw cfcful anJ acceptable a ptefent for | Batt-'coloa, and for the wHnlt ifiaivl, wouM a niinibci (aod it fliou'd not be fma1!) of the old magazines ? We want fomething experimental, fome pointed • traces on the power of divine grace in the heart The people now begin to feci the iieccffity of this. We muft alfo have a very large fnpply of Hymn Books ? IJ j fliould have immediately one hundred Hymn Book? i" Batticah.a. My Huk children every day try to learn fome of tiie Hymns, and to repeat them. 1 hey briu-r their little blank hooks for me to write the Hymns thereon, or rather print them with a pen, that they may learn them. This is vety affecting to *jm, as I cannot always comply with the nu¬ merous applications made to roe, and yet I feel very unwilling to check ihe.r ar¬ dent defire to learn them. I bate Eng¬ ine and prayer every day n the fchool and the word of God read- W« want .rar.v. i\'j many rcli^tou- tr?asio diibiiiute among the people 1 affiritofiMqui.yNgoncfonlua.dma. nv are ntl dtffimin of being inftru,-.te(1 Oh ! wto a f.chl is before as ! the whole i(bt.d is waiting, and longing i l'RO VI NCiAL PAR LI AM BNT O F L01VEH-CAXADA. uft rccc!ved and for fale this Office, n Reams Writing Poft No. a, 9 ditto d-A-J uncuti x! til the Gnfpd i We want more (vlifSona- v'. rie*». atcjv Should the Conference ^ne'-.i tio'e MifTior.anes, rhcy" fend out r. I am preparing the Word of Life from their hands to giveaway in the villages where I preach. The people here do not write on paper, but on the leaf of the j Palmyra tree, which they call o!a. They write with a stylus ov iron pen. I have; begun to get fume tratts t ran dated into] the Tamul : one is already Mandated, j This will be an incitement to them to learn to read and write their own lan¬ guage, when they have fome ufeful and entertaining ho >ks in it t > read. When we left England, we were not: prepaid with books proper for fchoolsJ That omiflion we now moll fenfibly per-| ceive. Books of thai kind cannot be had | here. We do very earnt tUy defire, that as Ipcedily as poiTible, we may have a lar^e afn-rtment and vati.ty of Ichool- booksfent to us Ifwe could have a few flutes fe >t with them, t*icy would he [till an additi -nal accommodation lo us. ;»< we ate hi want f inch aiticUsf and, cannot here otattun them. I blcfe God, for the opeuittg profpefl arouod rr»e. 1| jfeel (Ivong confidence in Hun, thjt the [barren wOderuefi will Ck>o become a fruitful field, and that the word of God will run and be glorified. 1 trull the, time » not very far diitant, when the' uwhole ifland of Ceylon lhall become a; From the Quebec Telegraph. Ti'ksdw. tlthFebruary9 1817- 0» the Embargo BUI, and the Pro- viiso with respect to the Upper Canada PJroduce. Mr. Ta.schf.rfU' said the noces<i<\ :*lf the measure which ho had the honor *(b propose v.as but too evident from ' 'lie situation of the couni rv. The pro- "iuccofthe harvest compared to the lV«ntsoftho country did not afibrd ;•. ^'i-.rplus. 11 is true the District of Mon¬ treal was blessed with a copiou- h:ir- V(est,' but that of Quebec had almost rijttirely failed. To prevent thfl issue °.V grain he was therefore under the tie- <l.ssity of proposing this measure in °Vderthat the Wauts of the i-'rt vince ln.i^ht be previded for previous to any The production of that certifu cnte would authorise him to export a similar quantity from Quebec—It would be impolitic to put any restric¬ tions upon the trade of the Upper coun. try, as it would inevitably hiive th? t-f- ;ct of turning their trade into other 'mimels, and prove injurious to our West India Trade. Mr. A. Stimktacknowledged his in¬ ability to treat the subject with the pre- ci>iou and correctness that mi-htbe ex¬ pected from a person of mercantile ha* bit*—lie would however hazard a feW general remarks which bethought mi&hf *:ot be misapplied. The measure »7o- posed some evenings since was an*m- i>arjjo upon all grain, (lour, fecpromp* t d by tf;e unexumpled.distresses into ■:i:h several Parishes in the di-trics o{ Quebec ha-, bt-eu plunged fro.u the total failure of the harvest. As far as A!:e embargo related tothisprorinco hc "hou^Iit it in a general poiut of riewex* i»-dient. however dbadvantatff>0U5 t Offigbt !»»"»" io in.iuniiidij. i i,j A i,i.e I he consented to this position, he bv r.o means could consent to &ny nr.-suie that might interfere with, orin i', least i • iraiu the trade oftheSbder Province Upper-Canada. Trade should at nil tiroes*lnw ir: p. i unluteimpted current and nothing but the most urgent iKces! •iy cftujustif) LogiMlatire interference in the restriction of our o::n thm* werce, but surely we had no right u> Legislate for Upper Canada, which we should in effect be doing were we to •ntordict our waters to their expori Made : it would create a misundr^tati- ding between lister Provinces having rv r community of interests, and would tend I to turn their trade into othex channels. 'o our manifest disadvantage. Tho Stl L-iurcnce was the channel thro' which f nature intended their trade should How : !>y shuttiug it against them for an hour, | \t- tendency would be obvious, it would J be ro-operating with out American neighbours to turn the trade of the Lakes into iho United States,-ic would in fact be rendering an essential service to our American rivals, who are strain¬ ing ever) nerve by tke opening of great canals to turn the Upper Canada trade into the United States and who it is much to be feared would prove but too successful in their endeavors. Putting even sound policy out of the question, the thing was absolutely unjust, we had no right at all toiuterfere with the Up- oer Canada trade and to make com- J-l r^MSfttflPA-^-S**= her object—He however did not Ui- tl.nd that this Embargo should in any wise operate upon the trade of Upper- anada, on the contrary would b' ^lad *"» encourage their trade through this 1daiitiel. Mr. Borgia thought the neces.itie- °ft the country too urgent to oceufi) th tijtne and attentioaof the House '[):■ (fi , bruary *|Jid it was not Improbable that b »fojr« lie embargo should be carried into Jul! iVxtthat seed time would arm-, in at eascthe whole benefil of tne btl! ! be lost. Mr. 1) fhotitfhi thciii- Jie proposed amendment, the mouth of Vbruary was ahead) far ativancM, u/1 te' I..UU" ue«%- amciidravjic t«C*li> »up«lluous : . mercial laws for them, he would thertr fore consent to an embargo upon our own produce as the neCGSSty of such a measure was unfortunately but too ob¬ vious, ber upon condition that our wa¬ ters should ba left free to the Uppsi- Cauada trade, iheintroduction of'w i\cy: produce Into this Province he could ra- thet wish to see encouraged by premi¬ ums than in the least obstructed. Mr.Davidson spokeat some length on th** subject, aud was of opinion, thy the embargo wa- a measure highly ex¬ pedient.— lie was also in favor of tlu •proviso, iu favor of the Upper Pro* vince. Moviuv, 24th fob. 1817. I Tne I louse in Committee of the whole upon tint affair- of Up,.i i-Canada, unc tur relation with thai Province. Mr. V'h.lr movt'l a i^-ointion that it wa+i nece-^ary to appoiuf commissi- ntiers to treat with comrnia^iouars from t'eper-t'ii'iat!.*; relative* to the popor- rion of duties fo be paid to tiie kJppqt frcfitret*. Th?sresolution was tump* imously adopted. Mr. V'itusn moved a second resoli> a for tne appropriation. cf twgoty r