Your memorialists do not presume to point out the mode in which legislative aid should be afforded, and far less the quantum of that aid. What they ask more particularly, is, that the whole subject of African Colonization be brought fully before the Legislature; that it be deliberately and minutely examined in all its bearings, and decided on according to its merits. "Acting above disguise, they seek investigation." The cause in which they have embarked, is one of no ordinary magnitude, Talents, and influence, and wealth, are enlisted in its behalf. Numerous and powerful Auxiliaries are urging it forward. Its course is onward. Its consequences to society must, therefore, be injurious or beneficial. In either case, it demands investigation, that, if injurious, the wisdom of the Legislature may devise some means to arrest its progress, and if beneficial, that the resources of the State may be applied to accelerate its march, and to bring upon the country, the blessings which it promises to bestow. And, as in duty bound, your memorialists will ever pray, &c.

Signed in behalf of the Society,

JOHN B. TINSLEY, Secretary

JAMES CLARKE, President.

NEW BEDF

Swiss Missionaries in Liberia.

From the second of the following letters, it appears, that those devoted servants of the Redeemer, have been visited with severe afflictions. But they are not discouraged. Confiding in that eternal Being, who hath promised to bless the faithful efforts of his ministers, they endure as seeing his invisible hand in every dark as well as joyous dispensation. It will be seen, by the very interesting communication from the Rev. Dr. Blumhardt, that the Missionary Society of Switzerland, propose to send out additional Missionaries to this station, and we hope they will not despair of final success in their pious labours, because of the trials and sufferings of those who have nobly taken the lead in the glorious work, of instructing the poor Africans in the Gospel of Christ.

Letter from Rev. Dr. Blumhardt.

REV. AND DEAR SIR:

Missionary Institution at Basle, Jan. 22, 1829.

We feel much obliged to you for your kind letter of the 23d of October last, as well as for the transmission of your reports, and the numbers of your monthly journal accompanying it, and beg leave to offer our thanks for the same, to your Board of Managers. They are of a double interest to us, as well from their affording us so many proofs of the blessing God causes to rest upon your benevolent undertakings, as in particular, because the welfare of your Colony is so nearly connected with that of our Missionaries stationed there. It was, therefore, with the deepest concern, that we heard of the wound God, in his infinite wisdom, has inflicted upon your Colony, and it is our hearty prayer, that He may heal it again, by directing the choice of a new Agent, and by Himself fitting out that man with the spirit of love to the souls, as well as to the bodies of the poor lost Africans. We doubt not, but that the interest the late Mr. Ashmun has taken in the establishment of a Mission on the coast of Liberia, the important aid he lent to the Missionaries, when arrived there, and particularly the kindness and benevolence with which he remembered them, even in his death, will encourage his successor to follow in his footsteps; and the concern, which you, dear sir, feel in the loss we also are making, in the removal of that excellent man, and of which your kind letter is so expressive, gives us the consoling hope, that you will not fail to recommend our dear Missionaries to the kind care, and benevolent assistance of the gentleman who is to fill up his place. The legacy of the Mission house, will not only prove a great help towards the furtherance of our work in evangelizing the heathen nations on the coast, but also a dear testimony of the Christian benevolence and kindness of that excellent man. Our Committee beg leave to request you, to transmit to them also, a copy of the will of Mr. Ashmun, as far as it concerns this legacy.

Our Committee being resolved to send out some more of their pupils to Liberia, in the course of this year; we are at a loss what way to forward them thither, the way by Sierra Leone causing many difficulties on account of the few opportunities thence to Liberia. The Committee, therefore, apply to you for your experienced counsel, whether it would not be preferable to send them by way of America, and whether this would not prove also, the best way to forward thither, the supplies of their necessi ties. Should your answer prove affirmative, we beg leave to request you to mention to us, the direction of a christian merchant, in a port from which the vessels commonly set sail for Liberia, who from love to the Missionary cause, would take upon him, the trouble of making our Board acquainted with the time, when it is probable that a vessel is to sail thither, of lending our Missionaries the necessary assistance on their arrival in Americà, and of forwarding to them their supplies, when arrived in Africa.

I must excuse myself, dear sir, for the trouble I am causing to you. The interest you are kindly taking in the proceedings of our Mission in Africa, and your knowledge of affairs will apologise for my taking this liberty.

I beg leave to entreat you to continue the transmission of your excellent monthly Repository, by the care of Messrs. De Rham, Iselin and Moore, New York. Those gentlemen will be so kind, to pay the usual price of it, and so put it on my account.

Your faithful friend and Brother in the Lord,
THEOPHILUS BLUMHARDT.

REV. MR. GURLEY, Secretary to the Col. Society..

Liberia, Monrovia, Jan. 7th, 1829.

VERY DEAR SIR:

I take this opportunity to answer your, to me very comforting and valuable letter, which I received the 4th of January, in good health; though in other respects, this present time is very distressing to myself and the rest of my brethren. A short statement will not be uninteresting to you. Last November, when the rainy season was over, I, with Mr. Hegele, started for Grand Bassa, the country which Mr. Ashmun recommended to our Society, as most fit and profitable in every respect. Our dear brother Handz, as we thought, ought to have accompanied us; but to our grief, before we left, he declared himself, that he could not go with us, that he must go alone, without all those stores and comforts, so necessary in Africa, and with which we were but scantily supplied. We remonstrated with him in love earnestly, not to leave us, nor the service of our Mission. All, however, was in vain. Brainard, whose life he read, he made for his pattern, and him, he thought, he must follow. With his knapsack on his back, he partly walked up the beach to Cape Mount, where he intended to succeed the school-master, whom Mr. Cary supported there, at 20 dollars per month, but who now, since his death, returned to the Colony, because nobody else could afford to give him that money. Mr. Handz is well, and keeps school. He is not lost for the African Mission in general, but he is lost for our Society's Mission, which grieved us very much. He is the first loss, but not the last. It was the will of our good and wise Lord, that my dear companion, Mr. Hegele, should be struck by the sun, in going down to Grand Bassa, insomuch, that he became constantly delirious to this mo ment. I had him carried back with the same boat; and so I was left alone to lay the foundation, with the help and grace of our Lord, of a first Mission in Grand Bassa; and I thank God, he assisted me more than I could expect; and I was just going to build a house on a fine spot of the first king Joseph Harris's land, who is exceedingly glad at my coming, and sitting down with him; when a man from the Cape came, who brought me a letter, the contents of which is, that one of m most gifted friends, the Rev. Mr. Wolff, departed this life last week, and that I must come up

speedily, in order to attend upon my at the same time two remaining sick brethren, besides settling some other business. I followed the call reluctantly, but as from the Lord, and found on my arrival, Sunday, Jan. 4th, one of my friends recovering, but Mr. Hegele so weak, and still in the same delirious state, that I am, according to the Doctor's advice, obliged to convey him by the next opportunity, to Sierra Leone, where one of our German friends, who is returning for some time to Germany, will have the kindness to take him along with him. This is shortly the state of our Mission here. Out of five, remain only two in the service of our Society's Mission in Africa.So is the Lord's will, and he cannot err. His ways are otten incomprehensible, but wise; chastening and afflicting, full of love towards us, and we can, therefore, do nothing, but praise him for all his goodness and loving kindness, with which he has guided us in our difficult race.

but just and

We are not at all discouraged. On the contrary, our hope and faith waxes strong, and we are full of confidence, that our Lord has a great people here, that shall come to his knowledge, and bow their knees before him. I am very much obliged to you for your statement respecting Mr. Ashmun's state of mind and death. I shall send a copy of your letter, together with Mr. Ashmun's testament respecting our Mission house, to Mr. Blumhardt; and I hope you will excuse my liberty in so doing, when I tell you, that our Society feels the greatest regard, and esteem for your Board, as well as for that great man, Mr. Ashmun.

The Mission house was delivered to us, according to Mr. Ashmun's will; but it is still very deficient, for want of materials. I shall, however, now do all in my power, to have it done as soon as possible; that we may have a resting place, having been obliged and forced since, to move with our things from house to house, and sometimes to very unhealthy ones.

The articles sent to us by your kindness, arrived partly. The Captain made a trip to another place; on his return we shall, I hope, receive the rest. Our very dear Governor, Doctor Randall, and Doctor Mechlin, with the rest of the passengers, are yet in very good health, and our prayer to the Lord is, that he might be gracious to preserve such valuable lives in this needy Colony. I shall, my dear sir, in any case, command your services, because you so generously offered them to me, and feel therefore my self under great obligations towards you. My sincere salutations to yourself, to the Board of the American Colonization Society, and to all those pious men, that take a lively interest in the conversion and civilization of poor African heathen. I remain, my dear Sir and brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, your respectful Servant,

T. F. SESSING.

Prospects in Kentucky.

The cause of the Colonization Society is receiving very general and earnest attention throughout this State, and liberal contributions may be expected for its support. In the Kentucky Reporter, the subject is thus introduced:

We congratulate the friends of the Colonization Society, on the daily increasing favour with which the efforts and objects of the Society are regarded in this State.

We have all along believed that the principles of the Society, and the interesting facts connected with its history, operations and progress, only need to be correctly known and understood, to make for it friends, nay zealous supporters and advocates. Our readers are already apprised of the formation of a State Society at Frankfort this winter. We are informed that the managers of the State Society have appointed four Agents, in as many districts, into which the State has been, for that purpose, laid off, to disseminate information concerning the Society, and to aid its exertions by procuring the establishment of auxiliaries.

It is gratifying to know, that all political party feuds were forgotten, and all private animosities buried, in the formation of the State Society; and that distinguished men of all parties, united with ardour in this work.Some who had been opposers of it, we are informed, upon receiving correct information, acknowledged that their opposition proceeded from an entire misconception of the principles and plans of the Society. In addition to the Auxiliary Societies previously formed in this State at Maysville, Lexington, Russelville, Frankfort, Versailles and Elkton; there have been recent public meetings for the same object, at New-Castle, Nicholasville and Louisville. At New-Castle a Society is formed with the most flattering prospects, fifty-six names being enrolled at the first meeting. The ladies there are taking up the subject, with a view to a separate organization. We hope the good example will be followed by the ladies in other places. Every friend of the Society ought to embrace every proper occasion to diffuse correct information concerning it, and remove prejudices against it. In relation to the energy and zeal evinced at the formation of the State Society at Frankfort, a Gentleman writes:

"I am perfectly astonished at the ardour with which all men of all ranks enter into it. If the proper exertions are used, we shall succeed far, far beyond the dreams of the wildest enthusiasts. In going around to receive members, I was informed by many individuals, that they were perfectly ready to surrender their negroes at any time the Society might be prepared to receive them. Six life, and upwards of eighty common members have been added since you left us, and we shall continue to receive them rapidly. Not less than fifty have told me, they intend becoming members. I