there was, he was heart-willing should go, and faith gave credit for the rest. So within the space of twentyfour hours, the whole family packed up, and left all, and were in two post-chaises on their way to London, where we were authorized to take up money if we could. Dear Mr. Booth, Thomas, and Rippon, helped us with their whole might; while I went to bargain with the captain's agent. I rejoiced to hear him say that the ship was not arrived. I told him that, in hopes of being time enough, I had been down to Northampton, and brought up a large family to go in the ship. He was struck with the despatch that had been made; and I continued to say, that their finances were slender, and expenses very great; that the terms I had to offer him were these: that two people should be at the captain's table only (Mr. and Mrs. C.); that two cabins only would be required; and two persons (Mrs. C.'s sister and myself) would go as attendants, and receive their dinner from or with the servants, or any way whatever, that would be convenient to the captain; that for these accommodations I had three hundred guineas to offer him. I was moved with wonder, to see the hand of God on this occasion, in his accepting these terms, the lowest, I suppose, that ever were heard of. He said what wrought the most with him, was such a large family being actually advanced to go.

'Within twenty-four hours after our arrival in London, Mr. Carey and his family embarked for Dover, to catch the ship in passing, while I set off for Portsmouth to fetch the baggage. It would be too late if I brought it by land; and it was so dangerous to go by water, that the boatmen refused large sums, saying the channel was full of privateers from France, which came hovering close on our coasts. At last, one man undertook to go in an open boat for twenty guineas. Terrified as I was lest the ship should pass by, yet I refused to give this sum; and I spent two whole days in searching for a man, till a fisherman took me for nine guineas. In twenty-four hours more I arrived at Dover, having ran through all the privateers in the dark, if there were any, and met my brother Carey with great gladness of heart, and, without any other

evil occurrent, embarked on board the Kron Princessa Maria, as you have heard. There, indeed, we could not expect the captain to treat us all as passengers, or to be very well pleased with such a crowd of people and such little money. But who can cease wondering, or praising, to find the captain gladly receive us all with the utmost tenderness and concern, admitting all to his table, and furnishing us all with handsome cabins ?'

SECTION II.

Brief account of the voyage, by Mr. Thomas-Remarks by the editor-Selections from Mr. Carey's journal-Retrospect by Mr. Carey, in a letter to the societyLetter to his sisters.

THE devout reader cannot have passed over the facts narrated in the foregoing section, without admiring the wisdom and benignity of the divine providence, in opening a way for an elevated devotion to display itself, at a crisis, and under circumstances, of such eminent discouragement. Nor can we fail, from such interpositions, to gather confidence in attempting the most arduous service, and offering the most costly sacrifice, to which the dictates of an enlightened conscience can urge us.

The following documents, rehearsing the circumstances of the voyage of Mr. Carey, and his friend Mr. Thomas, it is presumed, will be found of some interest to the Christian reader.

Extract of a letter from Mr. Thomas to dated,

'Bengal Bay, October 26, 1793. 'On Thursday morning, the 13th of June, we put to sea, in expectation of writing to you by the Triton frigate, which conveyed us out of the track of privateers, who might otherwise have detained us; but when we took leave, it blew so fresh we could not hoist out a boat, so that a large packet of letters, written by each of us, was not sent you.

'On our coming on board, we felt ourselves a little awkward, thinking that some of them seemed very sensible that they were passengers of a better rank than we were, and considering they had paid £100 each, and we, who were eight persons, only 300 guineas; wherefore, we expected to be treated accordingly, and determined to endure it. For my part, I expected a very uncomfortable and lonely passage, having agreed to mess with the servants. We agreed for two cabins only, and two persons to mess at the captain's table; but he that gave Joseph favor in the sight of Pharaoh, had graciously provided for us and our little ones, far beyond our expectation. We found the captain a very well bred Englishman. He neither would suffer me nor Mrs. Carey's sister to absent ourselves from his table, and received and entertained us all along as though we had been people of consequence; so that he has often shown kindnesses, that we could no otherwise account for, than by the good hand of God being upon us. On our coming on board, he immediately ordered the very best accommodation in the ship, and the largest to be prepared for Mrs. Carey and her children, and a cabin for me, and another for her sister was granted, while two of the gentlemen, who paid £200, slept in one cabin of the same size. On their being sea-sick, he ordered them soup, sent wine and other comfortable things, and would come himself and visit them, to see they wanted nothing he could supply them with. Who can see the lovely accomplishments and shining abilities with which some are endowed, without grief of heart to see the 'one thing needful' visibly wanting!

'Poor Mrs. Carey has had many fears and troubles; so that she was like Lot's wife, until we passed the Cape; but ever since, it seems so far to look back to Piddington, that she turns her hopes and wishes to our safe arrival in Bengal. She has had good health all the passage, and her little babe has grown a stout fellow. All the children are remarkably healthy, which we cannot but feel as a great kindness towards us. Mrs. Carey's sister also shares good health, and all bear the heat much better than I expected. Mr. Carey was at one time ill with a complaint in his bowels,

which he has been used to at home; but the Lord had mercy on him and me: he is now as well, I suppose, as he ever was in his life, and has been for some months. We have preached twice on each Lord's day, and have a tolerable choir of singers: some that came to hear us at first have entirely left us, and others have heard us constantly; but, to our great sorrow, we do not see the blessing of God on our labors; some profane customs on the Sabbath, and in common conversation, have been left off, but the one thing needful is lacking; and now we remember the words which the Lord spoke to Ezekiel, iii, 6, 'Surely,' &c. We have reason, nevertheless, to be thankful for some sweet and precious seasons of grace on board, which we have relished among ourselves, both on Sabbath days, and in family worship, which we enjoy regularly twice a day. We have finished a translation of the book of Genesis on the passage; and brother Carey helped me out in passages which I could have made nothing of without him. So let the goldsmith help the carpenter, and the carpenter the goldsmith, that the work of God be done.

'We have had some remarkable favors of providence on our passage besides those already mentioned. About six or eight weeks ago we began to fear a want of water, and to talk of an allowance; which, however extraordinary it may appear, we have never been limited by yet; well, the next day the Lord sent down abundance of rain, in two showers, and we filled many casks. About five or six days ago, we thought ourselves driven to the southward by a strong current, as far as Vizagatapam, and the captain determined to put in there. We began to be a little troubled in our mind as to what we should do for money, and, if we had it, how we should bear the charge of an expensive house, &c.; when the captain, very unexpectedly, came and told Mrs. Carey that he should take a house at Vizagatapam, and all her family would be welcome to stay there till the ship's departure. Moreover, he has promised to recommend us to the Danish governor of Serampore, sixteen miles from Calcutta ; which will be no small favor or convenience, if the Company should consider us as trespassers on their ground.

But what is more, he has offered to recommend us to the secretary of the supreme council, that we may procure land; and if this should be of God, we shall rejoice; if not-contented. But, in one sense, we are sure these kind favors from men are of God; and we have good hope that he will make room for us and our little ones, especially when we look back and see ourselves on the brink of sailing, but suddenly stopped and sent back; no prospect of another ship; I and my family become two bands; all darkness and threatening, fear and dismay; but in three days another ship appears, takes us, and the whole family; which we just before thought, on many accounts, impossible to be done. When we think of these things that are past, we trust Him for all that is to come.'

Amongst the many points of unavoidable secular detail in the conduct of missionary societies, the transit of their agents is one deserving no small attention. Comfort and economy are the points to be secured. The missionary himself, it is hoped, will generally pay as studious an attention to the latter, as the society that sends him forth; and the society, whilst justly anxious to husband well, and wisely apply, the resources placed at their disposal, should carefully avoid an inconvenient and pinching parsimony. The public, the missionary, and the society should consider that they are all mutually obliged in this work, and neither party should conceive it has any interest separate from the other. The public, that their devotion can be in some degree represented, and their obligations to the heathen world discharged, and the fruits of their benevolence profitably applied, through the labors and sufferings of one specially consccrated to this particular service. The missionary is equally so, as, by the bounty of the public, and the patronage of a particular society, he is enabled to gratify desires which he would be incompetent to do in his insulated capacity. The society is also both obliged and honored, because, in their associated capacity, whilst they can effect more good than would be possible by their solitary efforts and contributions, they are constituted the depositaries of the concentrated bounty of the Christian world, and the directors and guardians of its devoted