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 *' The Superiority of what is called the Voluntary Principle it a question 
 on which I may almost say that there is no Difference of Opinion in the 
 United States." Lord Duream's Report. 
 
 Hear the Bishop op Peknsylvania. " While Providence is Idessinar our 
 Commonwealth in things temporal, and increasing the ability of our lav brethren, , 
 and while the enhancement of tne price of the necessaries of life, renders the stipends 
 of the Clergy less adequate— all the benefit is engrossed by the Laity, while the | 
 Clergy and their families, are inconsiderately left to their embarrasments — their 
 disheartenings— their poverty — till, as a last resort, they leave their Parishes, in ^ 
 the hope of getting others where they may escape Starvation ; though that hope 
 generally proves illusive. JUy brethren of the Laity, " These things ought not , 
 to be." 
 
 HearaUo, the Bishop of North Carolina. " It is imperiously called 
 for that a mort comfortable provision be made for the settlement and maintenanoa 
 of the Clergy.-!*/ knout of nothing in a Communitp, that can betoken a more < 
 alarming^ Spirit ff Insensibilitv, than dissatisfaction and Complaint in supporting 
 the AJinistratiom qfthe Gospel. What must be the state of that man, who thinks, [ 
 that in the relttctant Pittance he allowii his Minister, he pays for the word of 
 Eternal Life ! Who^ feels the Gospel is a burden ! Are we to estimate the value 
 which you put upon the knowledge of Christ Crucified, by the scanty provision 
 you allot to His Ministers ? To judge by the experience of the past — one would 
 conclude, that an opinioii is entertained among you — that they are to perform more 
 labour, — endure more hardship, — be subject to & severer scrutiny, and live upon 
 less means than any othv public Functionary in the land — that they are to bring ' 
 into your Service, nigh qualifications — to be cut off from all other pursuits, to 
 labour for you, in season and out ot season. — stand ready to listen to jrour call, by ' 
 night or by day, — to brave for your sakes tne Pestilence that walketh in darkness, 
 and the sickness that destroyeth at noon, and finally to utter no complaint, (except 
 at the risk of a Charge of worldly m'ndedness) — though their Spirit be over- 
 whelmed, their Hearts torn with anxiety, how they are to elicit a scanty subsistence \ 
 for themselves and families, from the cold charity of an unfeeling world. Brethren 
 in Christ — these things ought not to be. 
 
 See Christian Observer} May 1838. Art. viii, Page 304. 
 
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 AS " one of fact is wortti a thousand arguments," such a series of Facts as the 
 accompanying documents present in detail, will assuredly do more, in opening the 
 eyes of the reader, to the Deplobably Destitute Spibitval CoKDiTioy 
 OF THE British Emigrants in the Canadas, than any thing I could say} 
 Upon the receipt therefore of so much additional information, direct from the 
 Bishop of Montreal, and the Missions, within the last month ; 1 resolved to waste 
 no printing upon my Statements, (except such as might seem requisite by way of 
 Note, to particular Letters,) but to make the annual Report, a Fasdcnlus of the 
 correspondence of the Year. This plan seemed to be advantageous, as it would 
 enable the friends of the Scheme, merely by cutting the thread, to use the differ- 
 ent parts for Distribution, at pleasure. 
 
 To many of those friends, I have, however, to apologise for my Inability 
 to forward to them the Letters, as they were received ; and to all, I have to add 
 my most grateful thanks for the unlooked for support, which the efforts of a 
 humble, and unknown Individual, have been blessed with, in fighting the cause of 
 a distressed and afiBicted — (indeed I might almost say, periecutedj Church and 
 People. Having had neither Talents nor Influence — nor any one advantage beyond 
 long and sincere devotion — to bring to the cause of the Canadian Emigrant— that 
 success is the best possible Criterion ofthe Sovmsness akd Justice of the 
 Case. 
 
 It has often been asked why I presumed to interfere ? the answer is a very 
 brief one — early in life I saw two Ship Loads depart from our Shores, and I 
 soon learned, tbe neglect to which they were doomed, when turned loose in the 
 
 M'ildemess ; — Nothing I have since learnt, has tended to weaken the Impression 
 
 I claim no merit — for thinking as I do, and have since done, — ^Woe is me if I had not 
 adopted this Course — I look for no Thanks. — There is reward enough in the 
 Prayers of those that were ready to perifih — and in knowing the value which a de- 
 parted friend placed upon niy feeble Exertions — and now I ran only add, that if 
 the anxious circulation of a plain tale of Spiritual Misery, heedlessly (if not 
 designedly) inflicted for many a long year, upon their Emigrant Relatives and 
 Brethren, can induce this Christian Nation, ** to rise as one man, to their rescue,** 
 irrespective of all parties, and all minor objects, by God's Grace I will shew my 
 gratitude for past confidence, by unceasing endeavours to accomplish the objects of 
 our Union, viz: — to administer to the Emigrant such comfort as the Almighty 
 places within my reach ; and secondly, to induce the Legislature of this once emi. 
 nently Protestant Country, to sift the mysterious proceedings of the Colonial 
 Offce — and by its powerful and proper interference, to i ut an end to vlie mischief 
 those priceedings have produced. 
 
An additional motire influencing me, was one which might influence |otheri, 
 aa well as myself; that in the ordinary aourae of my duty, at a Curate, I ad. 
 mitted by Baptism into the pale of the Visible Church, some who were afterwards 
 numbered amongst the thousands of neglected Emigrants^ I would therefore with 
 great humility, in conclusion presume, in my turn, to ask the Parochial Clergy of 
 England, whether after reading these statements, ^and similar emanating from 
 other quarters) they do not consider it some portion of their Official Duty, " to take 
 thought," /or these wandering Sheep of their own folds 9—hy tirgently petitioning 
 Parliament, at this Juncture— not only to assist the Church, (for that is far from the 
 moit important part of the question )—BVT to peesent its utter subversiox, 
 
 The vial, with condensed essence of '* the Appropuiation clause" is ready 
 
 for pouring out — and the Enemy is there, ready to seize his prey. If the 
 question of the Churches in Canada, (and Newfoundland also) is merely mustered 
 in the lump, with other Colonies of a more recent date, — The days of the Church 
 of England there, are numbered — Crippled — She must fall before the combination of 
 the well endowed Papist, and the Iniidel — and with her all will go. Before the 
 British Conquest, mo Heretic was permitted to set foot upon the land. 
 
 I would also presume to ask the great Land-holders, and the Yeomanry of 
 England, whether, (unless they turn their backs upon the Protestant Principles of their 
 Forefathers,) they do not think a similar Duty devolves upon them ? — for if the 
 Clergy are bound to exertion, by having baptized so many of the Emigrants, or 
 their Fathers, into the Pale of the Christian Church — it seems but fitting. They too 
 should recollect how many of their poorest neighbours have been driven to the 
 wilderness by distress ; or sent out upon mortgaged Poor Rates, for the sole pur> 
 pose of alleviating the burdens, which weighed heavy upon themselves. 
 
 Of the great mass of the people I know by experience I need ask no question. 
 Their hearts are open to the subject wherever the sound has been permitted to reach 
 their ears. 
 
 " Thy servants think upon her stones, and k pitieth them to see 
 Psalm cii, 14. 
 
 = W. J. D. WADDILOVE, 
 
 Acting Agent for the Stewart Missions. 
 Broi on Grunge, October 3Ut, IS39. . :^.j 
 
 And why ? 
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 Upper Canalitan Crabellms Misliion fxmH. 
 
 (ESTABLISHED IN 1834.) 
 
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 "No man careth for my Soul." — Ptalm cxlii. i. 
 
 FIRST LETTER, 
 
 From the Rev. T. Gibson, Stewart Travellirg Missionary, located by the 
 
 Lord Bishop of Montreal, at Georgiana, upon Lake Simcoe, Upper Canada, 
 
 dated Quebec, June 10th, — received September 12th, 1839. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Having an opportunity of communicating with you, I gladly 
 avail myself of it, as in all probability some time must yet elapse before 1 can give 
 you any particular details of the Mission to which the Bishop has appointed me — his 
 Lordship was absent on our arrival at Quebec, upon the 2n J of June. After a long 
 but prosperous pasHHge. I found Mr Morris, who had been in Quebec about a fort" 
 night, anxiously waiting f.ir the Bishop's return, which took plnceon the4th. To himself 
 I gave the parcel directed to him, and was sorry to find Mr Vachell had been obliged 
 to return to England, in ronsequeiice of the alarming ritate of Mrs VachelPs health ; 
 I fear his invalual)le labours will be sadly missed here — under these circumstances, 
 I delivered his ]iarcel to Mr Brown — and I will dispose of those fur Mr Green, Mr 
 Dawes, and Mr Peti-ie, iu the best manner I can, on mv way up the Country. For 
 the additional supply of Books for my own Mission, 1 beg to return my thanks to 
 yourself and friends ; These, with what I pieviously had, I hope \mder God's Blessing, 
 will be a sufficient stock for some time to come. May the Almighty bestow his Blessing 
 upon their distribution. The Rev. Mr. Mackie introduced us to His Lordship on the 
 7th, together with a Mr. Street from the Upper Province ; and it was arranged that 
 the Ordination should take place on the 9th, during the time of divine Service. His 
 Lordship expressed his grent thankfulness for the additional help aifurded him, and 
 spoke in the uiost feeling m.aner of the wretched Spiritual De^tilu(ion of his Diocese, 
 and of the evils which must inevitably result to the Settlers themselves, and their 
 descendants, if not speedily supplied with an ampler proportion of regularly constituted 
 Pastoral Supervision, to counteract the growing darkness which is rapidly gaining head, 
 either from total neglect, or the spread of wild and heretical opinions by tboKe who 
 know nothing of the way of Salvation, or hold the truth in ^nrigh^ <sness. Judj;ing 
 from appearance I should say that his Lordship's health is much '. /x'red already, by 
 the anxiety attendant upon his arduous duties. May the Almighi ^tren^then and 
 support him, for a Bishop so devoted to the blessed cause — the SaIv.iv.oii of his flock — 
 must have the Prayers of his Clergy and people, that he inuy be long spared to guide 
 them by his cimncii, and entourage them by nis example. We were ordained on the 
 Sunday, upon which occasion his Lordship preached from the last verse of St Mark's 
 Gospel. He gHve us a most excellent sermon, wheiein he tmced the Uise and Pro- 
 gress of Christianity, in spite of all ouposition, and he coniluded with a special address 
 to us in our new cliaracter, which was most truly stdeuin and impressive. Oh ! may 
 we go forth, as he exhorted us in the language of the gieut Missionary Apostle,*'in ail 
 " things approving ourselves as the Ministers of God." — 2 Cor. vi. 4. 
 
 I was compelled to avail myself of the kind arrangement you had made with the 
 Bishop, to advance what might be necessary to complete the Journey from Quebec to 
 Simcoe. Indeed his Lordship shewed more considerate kindness than to wait for an 
 application, for he asked us whether we were in want of any assistance, and advanced 
 ine £2!S. Sterling on your acc(mut. I have found travelling much more expensive than 
 f calculated — and therefore feel more gratetul to yourself and friends for the kind- 
 ness evinced by this arrangement towards my family and myself, and 1 heg to assure 
 ytm that, it shall be my earnest study and endeavour, so far as I can at least, to carry 
 into effect the great and blessed object of your wishes iu respect of these poor destitute 
 Sheep of the Cliristian Fold. Air. Morris accompanies us tinnorrow, as far as our 
 destinies lie in the same channel, viz : — to tlie confines of the Upper Province. He 
 appears to be a very spiritually minded man — excellently qualified for the laborious 
 Ciiarge to which he 'a appointed. 1 will now conclude this letter, only adding that a 
 
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 sdoii un I «rn so far R«ttlfld In mv office M to lie iible to give you « report of fti clrrum- 
 !>taiiu*(i iiinl condition, you Ahalf hear from nie n^nin — iin«) tnnt nny advice or instrur- 
 tiona yon may think it right ut any time to give, nhall have the uest attention iu v.y 
 |it»ve«*. 
 
 With every nentiment of respect and gratitude to yourself and friends. 
 
 I remain, Yovr faithful ohedient Servant, 
 
 T. GIBSON. 
 Kev. \Y. J. D. AVaddilove. 
 
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 roiii Th»» Rkv. Edknf.zer Morris. Stewart Travollinff MissioMfiry i:i tlie 
 HntlmrHt, Johnstone, and Eastern DiHtrictR, I.Ipi»er C'anada. — dated 
 Bytown, July 9th. — received August 8th, 1839. 
 Dp.ah Svb, 
 
 I trust you will pardon my having delayed my writing so long — 
 Y'ou requested to Iiear from me as sotm as I reached my destination, imd could give 
 you any information. This I would certainly have done, had I been ordered directly 
 to the scene of my Travelling Mission. I was ordained on Sunday the ilth of June, 
 after waiting three weeks at Quebec, owing to the unavoidable absence of the Bishop. 
 This period however I wholly devoted to reading pre]mratory to the examinntion for 
 orders. My letters of orders are for the Buthurst, Eastern and Johnstone Districts, 
 but previous to my departure, his liOidshipcountermiinded my first instructions of 
 immediately commencing the Travelling Service — and placed me for a short time here, 
 (which is in the Ottnwa District) to relieve the Bev. Mr Strong, who had petitioneti 
 for leave of absence for two or three months, to make a Voyage to England, on family 
 concerns. The arrangement made by his Lordship (whom I found to be kindness 
 itself J was this, that 1 should serve ]Iytown and Hull once a fortnight during the 
 period Mr S. was obliged to be absent, and devote the rest of my time to travelling 
 amongst the destitute Settlers iu that part of Canada. The circumstances however of 
 Mr Strong's Mission, made him desirous that my Services should be limited, to. his 
 people, and he went down to Quebec, to have an interview with his Lordship upon 
 the subject ; and till this morning 1 have been kept waiting for any further orders 
 the Bishop might please to give. Air. S. has just returned, as his Lordship'assured him 
 that he would not upon any consideration, tressj)ass further upon what he knew to be 
 the wishes of yourself and friends, in regard to the scattered — (as contradistinguished 
 from fixed Missions,) than the arrangement he had nmdc liud already done ; and that 
 if that arrangement was not satisfactory, I must of course ]>roceed at once to mv 
 destination. Mr. S. has therefore abandoned his plan for this year ; and I shall set oft 
 tomorrow or next day for Kemptville, where Mv. Patton, the Secretary of the Clergy 
 Association of my District, resides ; as I am to Itarn from him the precise outline of my 
 Travelling Mission. Though it seems to savour of egotism, as it may be a satisfaction 
 to your friends with regard to my future Sei-vices, I feel bound to tell you, that mv 
 reception at Bytown has been extremely favourable — and that I have met witli much 
 kindness from the friends of the Church, who are a very respectable and enlightened 
 class ; more so of course than I must, generally perhaps, expect to find scattred in the 
 Back>woud8 — at least so far as the last quality is concerned. Alay the Lord go with nie 
 to the Battle, for of Him alone I look for my sufficiency in an arduous task. " Out 
 of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings He can perfect praise." 
 
 His Lordsliip kindly advanced me £20. Currency to convey me to my station, and 
 you may expect to hear from me in due course, as soon as I am fairly entered upon 
 my Mission. 
 
 Believe me to remain with the most grateful feelings, 
 
 Vour faithful ot/edient Servant. 
 Rev. W. J. D. Waddilove. EB. MORRIS. 
 
 EIGHTEENTH LETTER, 
 
 'From tlie Rev. T. (iiuiKN, Stewart MiKsionary, at Wellington Square, 
 
 dated August 12th, — received Septeaiher 15th, 1SS9. 
 
 Deah Sir, 
 
 It was not mv Intention to have written so soon, but I cannot delay my 
 sincere and most grateful thanks to yourself and friends, for the consideration you have 
 txercisedinregard to my salary— Had not some such arrangements been adopted, I 
 very much fear, that pecuniary embarrassments, and increasing difficulties would have 
 eventually compelled me, (through stern necesKity, and however abhorrent to my 
 
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 feelings,) in a certain degree to Mcularixe the high and holy function of a Miaiionary. 
 1 am conAdent my congregations, at at ai their limited meant allowed, would not 
 suffer me tu lack those things absolutely necessary to support animal existence, hut 
 still there are manv expences unavoidable to my culling in such a country as this, and 
 which occur from <iay to day, absolutely requiring money^ which the people thenselves 
 hare not to g>v9« This difficulty is for the present guarded agamut l>y the kind 
 Liberality of yourself and friends, for which I pray the Father of Mercies, in whom 
 I trust for the future, to reward each and all into their own bosoms. I cannot express 
 how deeply I feel the obligation under which their kindness has laid me — and I 
 humbly, trust *' th»t the lovers of the Truth as it is in Jesus," will enable you without 
 iinxiety, to fulfil all the desires of our late revered Bishop, by contributing to the 
 iStewart Fund — yes, dear sir, not only helping you with silver and gold, but remem* 
 tiering the cause in their supplications at tne Throne of Grace, calling down a blessing 
 upon you, and upon those you send forth to labour, against the awful Spiritual Desti- 
 tution in this part of the Vineyard. I can say with truth as before Ood, that your 
 labours of love up to the present time have not been in vain, and this circumstance 
 should encourage your friends to make fresh efforts in support of the work. Could 
 they hut witness, as 1 and others have done, how much joy the visits of their Mission- 
 aries uniformly produce among the inmates of the secluded dwellings and humble 
 shanties of thu Emigrants, they would not consider their five or ten shillings, their 
 guineas misapplied, yea, rather, I am disposed to think, the Subscriptions of all would 
 i>e doubled or trel>led, and that with cheerfulness ana ardour, not waiting till you 
 ask, (a task which cannot be pleiisant to you,) but forcing as it were their aid upon 
 you, thereby to enable you still further to extend the cords of the Christian Tent. 
 I very readily admit that Heathen l<ands may present more attractive scenes — more 
 stirring intelligence — that more interest may be jiroduced by accounts from parts 
 where the Oospel sound is first heard ; but this desire to propagate the Gospel in the 
 lands of the shadow of death, should not tend to steel the neart against our neglected 
 brethren within the pale, or lead us to Ibrget those who have been compelled to exile 
 themselves, and families, from the land of their first affections, and the Ministrations 
 of the >\''ord and Sacraments — Ah ! No ! and I often think of your plain, but true 
 remark — *' what can it avail to the Redeemer's Glory that we bring myriads of fagans 
 " within the shadow of the Cross, while at the same time we are permitting thousands 
 " upon thousands of those— rby birth children of the promise — one after another to 
 " fall away into worse than Heathenism bv our neglect ?" I quite agree with you, 
 that the Scriptural mode of converting the Heathen — is the only one from which per- 
 manent good can be expected, " let your light shine before men" — keep the Christian 
 Ittmp burning brightly amongst the professing Christians who surround them. — How 
 little puins the motiier Country has taken to do that in thcise regions, you know too 
 well ! The night of our Destitution (as regards Members of the Church,) has been 
 long and dark — only enlightened by a " pale glimmering" here and there. May you 
 and others he the honoured Instruments of ushering in a brighter day ! but pray 
 hear constantly in mind our darkness is such — that the work of enlightenment cannot 
 be done by halves, let your appeals in our behalf be urgent and constant, until the tnle 
 of our destitution, if possible, reaches the ears and the heart of our youthful Queen. 
 I need not tell you that the arrival of every new Missionary amongst us, spreads joy 
 far beyond the sphereof his own action — it is hailed far and wide as an earnest of 
 *' better days. " Many and many a time have 1 heard the faithful Sons of our Zion, 
 exclaim, when they accidentally hoard of the arrival of a new Missionary — 'Mjod hi 
 " thanked — the day-spring begins to shine upon us — and we may soon hope now to 
 hear of " more coming on the wings of the wind to help U8." 
 
 If there be much to discourage the travelling Missionary in this Country, there in 
 also much to cheer him ; and if often his heart is ready to sink under bodily labour, 
 followed by privations in the humble log hut, where ne seeks for rebt and shelter in 
 his journeyings, yet he departs refreshed with the hope of having been useful, and 
 having imparted comfort ; gratified also with the friendly and affectionate greeting which 
 he experiences at every place.^ I lately visited a very secluded Settlement, composed 
 of Kngiish, with a few Canadian and Scotch Settlers. After Divine Service 1 was 
 HtaralTy almost overwhelmed with invitations. One, howe vei-, of the applicants, turn- 
 ed the scale, by adding to his urgent appeal — " if you can only put up with our humbla 
 fare." I thought it might be uiiet'ul to shew, that f.ire or accommodations were the last 
 things I thought about, and that if 1 could not do more for the scattered than I did, it 
 was not from any fear of discomfort to myself. I therufore accepted tiie hospitabi'j 
 otfer, and accordingly accompanied him to Jiis shanty in the Woods. It was, iudee<l, 
 humble in the extreme ; but tiad it been ti'ufoid more so, ths kind and hospitable spirit 
 of the host and hostess would have shed a lustre over it. The furniture consisted of a 
 bed-stead, a rough deal talde, and two or three chairs, llavicg partaken of the lioinwiy 
 supper, I was asked to read and expound a portion ot the Scriptures, and was most 
 attentively listened to while preaching Jesus — the Way — the Truth — and the Life. 
 Aft«r the prayers, the bed was placed upon the floor for me, with the most marked 
 
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 md^arour to make me a« coininrtable as their ciruumhtancM permitted, only reterr- 
 ing for themselveti and child, a Rinall Htraw pallet. It cotild not be expected I ahould 
 
 r)t much natural repose, or arise in the moniing much refreithed— hut if not in body, 
 WM refreiihed at all evriitd in luind— for again I wan gladiv heard while apeaking,- 
 before my departure, of ihi> thiiif^s uertaining tu their everlasting Peace, if I d«< 
 
 ftarted from this humitle and hoNpitanle Shanty in the Wilderness, not quite so ooni- 
 ortably entertaini'd, us I might have been elsewhere, still, I could nut but feel that il 
 w>is a great privilege to he allowed to shew thu», that in the blessed object of in- 
 viting the hungry and thirsty Mouls to the WaterH of Life — the Ministry of our 
 <'huroh t(N)k little acninnt of mere personal incoiivvniences to theinselveH ; If there- 
 fore this man and his wife, (and in after times, when you and I are gathered to our 
 fathers, their child,) are made glad b^ the streams which water the City of our 
 Ghod. may it not he justly, under the Divine Blessing, ascrilied to the Upper Canadi- 
 an Travelling Mission Fund ? (Rom. x. 14, 15.) Many similar Incidents occur to 
 the Travelling Missionary, and tliis is but one of the many blessings flowing from 
 his periodical visitations to the remote Settlements. 1 lately made a second visit to 
 a village on the Luke ^^hore, where I met with a respectable 8ettler, from the estato 
 of Lord Roden, he told me that he had emigrated six years ago, and that he, with 
 about thirty other families, becHine residents of this place— he stated that about one- 
 half ot them were decidedly Members of the Churcn, and most anxious for her Ali- 
 nistrations, '' hut, added he, as we had no Shepherd to keep us together, we soon be- 
 *came scattered.' I think lean with confidenceaffirm that could a Clergyman be located 
 here, so that the people might rely upon utaled Services, verv quickly a large and res- 
 pectable congregation might be collected, not only in this place, but in the adjacent 
 parts. I have been informed by a Settler thoroughly acquaiiitt^d with the Locality 
 thut there are upwards of thirty families of Church people, who would gladly avail 
 themselves of her services and «>rdinar.cefl — were the opportunity but afforded them 
 all these cherishing a warm uffei-tion for the Church of their fathers, and therefore, 
 till conscience and necessity compels them, are seldom induced to attend the ministry of 
 Dissenting Teachers, even when brought to their very doors. In stating this fact, if 
 you do stute it, let it not be deemed by your friends at home as the language ot Bigotry. 
 I feel bound to tell you the truth. The feelings and sentiments of too many of those 
 who ditfer from us in this Country, in our mode of worshipping the (iod of our fathers, 
 differ no less from the Christiiin Dissenters at home, and are fur more violent in their 
 views than any entertained by Dissenters among you, unless where I'olitics, more 
 than Religion, bear rule. You must nut underntand me as comprehending m this 
 opinion either all individuals, or all classes of the various IHssentiiig bodies here. We 
 have many unknown in your happy Country—for my own part, with a heart ready 
 to love ail those who love tlie Lor<i Jesus in sincerity, I must own thut since 1 came 
 here, I huve had almost ditiiy fresh cause for thanklulness in being a member of the 
 established Church — so wild — so fancitul — so unscriptural are many of the principles 
 and lotions which inundate us from the otherside of the States Frontier. '1 hose who 
 view these matters according to the standard of the sanctuary, will nut be surprised 
 that while men slept, the enemy should lie busy sowing tares in the iield, or that while 
 the Shepherds were wanting, the Wolves should tuke the opportunity of devastating 
 the told. Do not however for one moment suppose that 1 ever consider differences, or 
 confine my labours to the scattered of our own flock alone. Your instructions— my own 
 feelings, and the orders I received, alike dictate tome ttisay to every one who will hear. 
 
 '• Ho ! ye that thirst — to you is the word of this Salvation sent." Isaiah Iv. 1 AcU 
 
 xiii. 26. 
 
 A short time ago, I visited a fresh Settlement of Irish Protestants about five 
 miles from Uakville ; 1 had proii'ised, as I n entioiied to y<,u in my lust, that I would 
 endeavour, under the Divine Bless. ng, to visit them during the Summer months, and 
 in the sleighing season once a fortniglit — but on a week day was all 1 could possibly 
 manage. 1 had been much presseii for a Sunday— hut wlien 1 made out my week 
 day visit, an old and respectable ^eith'r tnom VV'icklow came up to me, saying, 
 we ought to be, and I iiope we are, very tiiankful for this, for we shall at least 
 be iar better off than we huve bten for u long tune past ; while another remarked 
 that it was so lor.g since lie beeaine uii outcast, that he liud well nigh forgotten that 
 he was a member of the C^huicii — let it not be supposed that many, so expressing 
 themselves, are satisfied meuly with the form of Service, for I have reason to believe 
 that these are sincere disci p es of their crucified Piaster — and inwardly rejoice at 
 the oppoitunity now oheiea to ttitm, for the h:st time since their Emigration, of 
 making this public Conlessioii ot their Faith. I mentioned to you in my last my 
 liHVii.g met with the son of an Jinglish Clergyman settled here, 1 visited them 
 since on one occasion, the mother not Having utteuded Service. As soon as I entered 
 the house, she txplaiiied to me the reason of her absence. " .Vjy daughter was so 
 '' anxious to attend, that as both coul.i not go, with so many little ones to look after 
 " 1 thought It itest to resign the privilege to her — for indeed 1 am very anxious that 
 *^ ad my cbiluren should uvuii themseives as much us possible of your Visits to our 
 
of 
 
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 " ntichbourhood, / havt had advanlage$, wMeh Ktr$ havt te#n dsnitd to thtm,** 
 In this family I tmit I wai enabled, prerioun to my deptrture, to be of tome us*— 
 impreutuB more Mriously upon their minds the inestimable value of familv Prayer. 
 
 On Wednesday last I went hv appointment to the Town of Oakville, where I 
 found a very large and respectable Congregation assembled, although the harvest had 
 commenced. The singing was excellent, and all the responses were made with fer- 
 vour and devotion. An unction from on hi^h seemed indeed to porvade the whole 
 Assembly. It was really a very striking and impressive sight. Everything around us 
 seemed calculated to produce solemnity of feeling, a bright olue sky over our heads — 
 the Lake with its placid waters, brightened by a Kummer sun, lay spread out liefore us — 
 at a little distance behind uh was an extensive woo<l, waving ever and anon its shadowy 
 branches, in all their beautiful variety of foliage^ as each succeediiiK breexe sighed gent- 
 ly among the leaves. I left another appointment to hold Divine Service, and 
 Mminister the Sacrament for the firHt of September. From all I could learn, I have 
 reaion to believe that there is scarcely a single Member of the Church in this place* 
 who has had an opportunity, since tneir arrival in the Country^ of partaking of th« 
 Lord's Supper ; although many had been resident from three to six years, and some of 
 them from ten to twelve. 
 
 Yesterday I had Service near Nassiguawaya, and administered the Sacrament. A 
 Mr. Richardson, who married a cousin of the Rev. MrAirey, your Cleraymnnat 
 Hexham, fitted up his Barn as a Church, and a large auditory, principally of English, 
 were in attendance. My vinits in that neighbourhmid have produced a lively interest, 
 and as the fruit of it, IQiave got a i:«un(lay School established, with every reason to hope 
 tliat the expeni-e ( about tw^ve dollars) will be raised for the purchase of a Sunday 
 School Library from the Tract Depository at Montreal. 1 believe the price of the lUO 
 volumes in England would be ilO. 15^., Kterliiig ; but through the liberality of the So- 
 ciety at home, tliey are furnished to Schools in this Country, at lean than half the cost, 
 \ iz : — ^ibmt £i currency. Since I wrote la.Ht, 1 have been much pressed to extend my 
 journeyin^ii into the Township of Beverley, where I hear there are many Churcli 
 tAuiilies anxious to receive a visit from a Clergyman. You may rest assured that 
 ( D. V.) I shall visit them as soon as my present pledged appointments admit of it. 
 Kre this letter readies your hands 1 hope our Church, to which your friends gave so 
 liberal **a lilt," will be ready for use, and I am now endeavouring toget ashckl erected 
 at the Square, to shelter the horses during the time of Service, in the Winter Months. 
 The Cost of this will be about 100 DoUnrs ; but our Climate requires it. When 1 have 
 accomplished that, we must then look for 100 more to finish our School House. And 
 as vou and your friends have so kindly relieved my people from that which they were 
 really unubie to Hci-ompiiah, I have little fear of their making every exertion toaecont' 
 pliah these very ntedful works I have received the Books forwarded by Mr. Petrie. 
 last year, and also the trunk sent out by Mr. Gibson — for these accept my sincere and 
 grateful acknowledgements, and be kin I enough to convey my humble and heart-felt 
 thanks to my kind, tliough Unknown benefactors, for this valuable present. I am much 
 pleased and profited by the reading of the Chuicn of Euglttnd Magazine, and the other 
 periodicals you have sent, and should feel very grateful, if, as opportunities offer, you 
 would endeavour to continue them. I have not as yet heard the particulars from Mr. 
 M\>lurray,of his leaving the Sault, though 1 passed two days with him in June; but as 
 well as I could understand, the ill haaltti of his amiable wife was the caune of his re- 
 linquishing the Missiim, yet 1 think if measures were, at an early stage, adopted, he 
 would have continued his Services ;,and 1 believe now he would be ready again to 
 devote himself to " the Red Man," if the Toronto Society wished him to do so, and 
 found their funds in a conditiim to secure liiiu a permanent provision. He is at present 
 1 think, well off, as Assistant to Air MilL-r in the Mission at Ancaster. That Neigh- 
 bourhood is well settled, and th«e I'eoiile are both able ami willing to assist him. Did 
 i mention to you in uiy last, that " Ihe Stewart Missions" had fallen in the way of a 
 gentleman at St Catharines, and he has desired me to put his name down as an annual 
 subscriber of i,'l currency. I have heard nothing about theVillage Library, tor which you 
 applied to the S. P. K, an'd I suppose the Bishop is still waiting some furtner instructions 
 Irom home ; but in the deplorable condition of this Country, as to Spiritual Koow- 
 iedge, it is a great pity any time should be lost, which could possibly be saved 
 
 You will Le glad to hear that the Indian Boy, about whom I wrote to you last 
 autumn, is to be educated at the College ut Toronto. The New England C'ompany 
 have undertaken to pay the expense. 1 hope the Lord will bless and guide him, and 
 make him, a few years hence, an Instrument of great {;ood to his Brethren of the 
 l^'orest. I urn astonished at the strange mi^take you mentiua aliout the Journal, but 
 I will endeavour to get it to you, in time for your Oct(»l)er l{o;jort. 
 
 1 shall now add nothing more, except lepeatiii.'^ u iuit 1 liope you need not be 
 told — that you ami your kiiidfriends are never li)r,,,.w(;u in the i'rayers of Mrs Green, 
 
 And vour much obliged .M;^iii'juurv, 
 
 THOMAS GREE.V. 
 Rlv W. J. D. M'addilove. 
 
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 SECOND LETTER, 
 
 From th« Rev. George Petrie, Stewart Travelling Missionary in the 
 
 LoihIoii District, Upper Canada, dated Loudon, September 10th — received 
 
 ., October 6th, 1839. . ,.-,, . 
 
 Rev. AMD Deak Sir, < t^ ,<» 
 
 I have to apologise to you and your friends for the long delay 
 which has taken place since I promised you a letter, detailing the wretched Religious 
 Destitution of this portion of our poor distracted Colony. This delay 1 can assure 
 you t as not proceeded from any remissness on my part, but solely irom a desire to 
 visit as much as ])os!iible of the London District, before I wrote, as might enable me 
 to ascertain the real state of things^ there, for knowing the deep and unwearied 
 interest you take in it, 1 was unwilling to send you any nasty, or perhaps (unint^ '^- 
 tionally) fallacious report. This, I hope will sufficiently exonerate me from l. j 
 blame on the score of tardiness, and I shall proceed at once to detail my work as 
 briefly as I can, and to give you the fruit of my actual obhervation. 
 
 On my arrival in the • liondon district, on the 6th of March, having provii ,' 1 
 myself with a horse, the first thing I did, was to travel through about twe'.ve or 
 thirteen townships, holding the Services, and preaching in each, as often as circumtitan« 
 ces allowed and visiting as many of the Church people in particular as cii Jum- 
 Btunces permitted, by way of making myself personally known to them ; as well as 
 of ascertaining, by my own view, their Religious Destitution — and indeed I found it 
 every toit/^re beyond conception appalling. This being done, I then commenced form- 
 ing as many congregations in each Township, attached to the Church, as I could 
 consistently attend to, and I am glad — and thankful to say, that the Lord has V osed 
 ray labours in this wny, witii regard to numbers, far beyond anything I couid lave 
 contemplated at the commencement. Not only the prufessed Church people, but our 
 dissenting brethren of all denominations attend the Services when I preacn in th« 
 respective Townships. The Townships within which I statedly labour are, Burford^ 
 Norwich, Dereham, Bayham, Malanide, South Dorchester, London, Biddulph, 
 Mc Gilvray, Usboi'ne, and sometimes in Mosa. In some of them I have three preach- 
 ing Stations, and in others two ; and regular Services are held in almoi all of tnem, in 
 rotation, once in six weeks, excepting only Mosa, which is too remotel situated to be 
 continued, without injury to the other Townships, and without proport nal benefit to- 
 the peo|)le there. My congregations vary of course according to th state of the 
 several Townships, as to popumtion ; and generally comprize a good ma ' dissenters, 
 who manifest, in my opinion, a growing desire to hear Church Ministers, pecially so, 
 when they habituate themselves to preaching extempore — but I may ind >d here re- 
 mark, that in the active and ever stirring liife of a Travelling Missioiiai , he would 
 be scarcely effective without this qualification. I find the people when jver I go, 
 anxiously desirous of attending Church on the Sundays, and some c hum think 
 nothing of going from five to ten miles to do so, bui, during the week d s, they ore 
 necessarily so mnch engrossed with their fanning and cthtT matters, up . which the 
 maintenance of their families entirely depend, that it is difficult to proc e any thing 
 like a large attendance. Still the benefit of holding such Services is g. beyond 
 
 what in your country may easily be conceived, — by the encouragement and impetus it 
 gives to a general spread of Religious feeling anil reflection — where before, all such 
 feelings were dormant, dying, or dead — perhaps I cannot better explain my meaning 
 than by those few words of our blessed liord. *' The maid is not dead, but sleepetli." 
 On theSundays, I have invariably good attendance, but particularly so, Avhen the people 
 get a few davs notice — very indispensible here, from the population being so widely 
 scattered. — 1 should try to regulate the Sundays by cycle, so that they might always 
 know their own Sunday, but the ditHculcy of 1 ravelling in these often roadless 
 woods — and the uncertainty thereby occasioned, makes it impossible to bring my visits 
 within so close a rule. 1 therefore must content myself in giving the notice, when, 
 and where 1 can. I see plainly that, were it possible to have Churches planted 
 throughout the various townships, where the people could calculate even upon the regu- 
 lar stated ministrations of the Travellinj' Missions, till more could be done fur them 
 gradually, that spirit of discontent and contrariety of opinion, which now unhappily 
 has been nursed up and encouraged, would very soon give way to the spirit of the 
 Gospel; and I have no hesitation in asserting tbat ere long, there would not be ONii 
 Dissenter unfriendly to the Church, for ten that we find now. 
 
 The Awful Religious Destitution which now prevails throughout 
 this and other Districts in Upper Canada, baffles all dkscriptiun, and if the 
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 respedt for the poor, destitute, and neglected Settlers, it is utterly hopeless to expect 
 tranquillity can resume her habitation in this colony, or that society can ever be puri- 
 fied from those horrid fruits of ignorance and vice, which frequently occur — and are 
 so heart rending to every Moral, Religious, and Well thinking man in the Province. 
 There cannot possibly be a greater Solecism committed by any Government (be its re- 
 ligion what it may) than that of sending out emigrants to colonise, without making 
 some proper provision for the Religious and educational care of themselves and fami- 
 lies. The great mass of those emigrants who come from the Mother Country, and 
 form the great body of our scattered Population, are poor people, and from the hard- 
 ships and privations they have to contend with, on c(miing into The Bush, thetf 
 are quite unable for many years to pay a single cfo//ar either for Schools for their 
 Children, or Churches for themselves — and it is therefore not alone cruel in a religious 
 view, but even in a political view the height of absurdity, to expect it at their hands — 
 they have on tirst settling, and for many of the first years quite enough to do, to 
 
 Krovide the necessaries of life for themselves, in addition to which, it must be remem- 
 erc J, that as all their neighbours are similarly situated, and distant communication is 
 impossible — they have no market for the additional produce which they gradually 
 raise. Owing to this, and not to any disregard to the institutions of the 3Iother stftte, 
 tlie people, and their children more especially grow up in the utmost ignorance — this 
 gradually ripens into indifference, eitner about themselves or the (iovernment — they 
 see themselves neglected — they feel their own inal)iiity to provide either Churches, oV 
 Ministers, or Schools, this produces sourness and alienation, and inevitably (without 
 any just blame to them) they tliereby become an easy prey to every Demagogue, who 
 happens to start up, and who, for the sole purpose of atta'ininq his own selfish and 
 wicked ends, affects to commiserate their unhappy and deeplif neglected condition ; 
 Whereas, if the Mother Country acting upon the proper principles of a Mother, and a 
 Guardian, (pressed upon her by her situation as a christian state) would make a pro- 
 per provision for even the temporary care of the emigrants she sends out by thou- 
 sanos, how different would be the picture we should have to present ! — These alas 
 too frequent, but melancholy, consequences ' ould be averted — and the provision 
 thus made would not only be the means of educatfng and enlightening them, but 
 would rouse and keep up in their minds a grateful feeling and attachment towards 
 tlie Huling Powers, which evinced so hvely an interest in their temporal and eter- 
 nal welfare. If the British Legislature, (be the Executive Power in the hands of 
 whom it may,) would adopt, and enforce upon the Executive, this mode of pro- 
 ceeding, I am perfectly convinced that, as far as this Colony is concerned at least, 
 we should very soon present a very changed appearance, from that which it now 
 does, and if instead of paving millions of money to enforce observance of the 
 Laws, and to keep down Rebellion, at the point of the Bayonet, by the maintenance 
 of n large J\f ilitary Force, she were to pay a few thousands annually for a time, to 
 maintain asiifficient numberof christian Preachers and Teachers, upon almost any other 
 principle than the present, ( which sets every man against his Neighbour, by only 
 encouraging Divisions,) the people would be trained up to obey the liaws — and as 
 to Rebellion — it would soon hide its hateful head. These are no modern notions, or 
 phantasies, of mine — they are the result of the experience of all ages, and they will 
 be found referred to in the celebrated st;eech of Agrippa, recorded by Josephus, and 
 addressed to the rebellious Jews, as applicable to our fore-fathers, in ancient Gaul, 
 " who required no more than 1200 SoMiers, (hardly so many as their own Cities,) to 
 *' keep them in subjection, solely by reason of the regard they bore to the Power and 
 " Integrity of the Roman People," and be it here remarked, that this was the Agrippa, 
 of whom St. Paul testifies, Acts xxvi, 27, that " he believed the Prophets." 
 
 In order however to give you a clearer conception of the Religious Destitution 
 which prevails here, I may at once mention this appalling fact — IN the Thibty-six 
 Townships, into which the London District is divided, comprehending a tract of 
 Country about H,f)00 square miles, and containing about 7,000 Church People, there 
 are only two Clergymen — one of whom is located in the Town of liondon, the other 
 your Travelling Missionary, who^e labours are cliiefly confined to about twelve 
 Townships, by the impossibility of doing more — these twelve he is however only able 
 to visit by rotation once in six weeks — thus leaving twenty-five Townships, out of the 
 thirty-six, without a single Clergyman ! ! ! The c«>:isequence of this is, what we 
 niinht expert, the people in those Townships aie growing up in a most melancholy 
 state, both of irreligion and imnioralitv ; and the Lord's Day is desecrated to the 
 ptirposes of Amusement, Fishing, Shooting, &c., or worse. In short, it may truly be 
 said of Canada in a religious point of view ( and statesmen ought to know it cannot 
 end there,) as was siiid of Israel of old, botli in a religitms and political respect — " In 
 those days tliere was no King in Israel, every man did that which was right in his 
 own eyes" — .fudges xvii. K — u|j)on which subject allow me to recommend to your 
 perusal, Deut. xii, 11 — 14. It is also very much to be regretted, that even the little 
 which hus been done, has been iu fact neutralised, and in a great measure rendered 
 
 
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 unelcM by the parsimony which leemi to have regulated it. The few Rectories which 
 were some time ago established, and which (partly from a fear of their utility, partly 
 from a desire to snare in the spoils of Zion,) called forth at the time the united 
 opposition of Sectarians and Infidels, have in consequence of the penurious ar- 
 rangements, almost in every instance failed in producing the benefits which might 
 have been derived from them, had the State ever given one moments consideration, 
 either to the comfort or respectability nf the Clergy. If these Rectories had been 
 endowed, as they should have been, with an adequate provision for the support of 
 the f'lerfry, (and the establishment of them at all, is at anr rate an acknowiegment 
 of the Duty as a Christian State,) then of course, their whole time might reasonably 
 have been expected to have been given in labours amongst the widely scattered peo- 
 pie, nominally placed under their Spiritual charge ; whereas any such reasonable 
 ezpertation has been cut up bv the roots, through the parsimonious principle which 
 the Oovernment adopted. Allowing (and even that not in all cs'^es,) onlv £100, per 
 Annum, wiUt (a burden rather than a benefit ! ) 200 acres of wild, uncleared land, 
 not one acre of which could be cleared at a less cost than nearly £4. Indeed I am told, 
 that in the old States, where the^e things are better understood, than among our new 
 Settlers, it is anadmitted principle that beyond mere maintenance, and the necessaries 
 of Life, (even where the Settler has nothing else to do, but attend to his farm, working 
 it himself) theperind nt one generation must elapse, before any return can be expected. 
 The practical working of the scheme has been as injurious, as the parsimony of 
 the contrivance was vicious in principle — for it has not only cramped the exertions, 
 where the difficulties were alone more than sufficient to produce that effect — but it has 
 added injustice to cruelty — exposing the clergy to odium, for the inevitable results of 
 their stinted means. In order to procure a livelihood tor themselves and families, 
 they have had no alternative, but to turn their attention in a great measure, from the 
 spiritual to the temporal farm, or to some other secular employment — happy indeed if 
 they possessed anv small capital whereof they could rob the future provision of their 
 widows »nd children, in order to stave off present Starvation. I confess when 
 I rontennplate in my solitary wanderings the settlements of these Rectories, I can- 
 not always help thinking that the 17th Chapter of 1st Kings, must be framed and 
 glazed for the musings and instructions of the Colonial Office ; They will have reiad 
 there, of the miraculous manner in which the Prophet Elijah had been sustained by 
 the Widow at Zarephath, or by the Ravens in the wilderness of Jordan, and must 
 have concluded, that as that Prophet had been thus wonderfully supported, so also the 
 Prophets in the wilderness of Upper Canada should be, and would be,itnR objects of simi- 
 lar Divine Interposition, — let it be kept in view, that the Income of the^e Rectories, 
 will not enable the Incumbent, to keep a single Servant, for to do so hereout of £100, 
 is impossible. To enable a man to keep two Servants, male and female, (which 
 every Clergyman's family necessarily requires considering that to do his ordinary 
 Duty, he must keep two Horses^ the extent of his Parish being so large, at least 
 120 square miles) costs annually for the man servant alone £30, and the woman £12, 
 independent of their board— at least ££0, more — thus out of the £100 Government 
 allowance for these Rectories, the Rfctor would have the exact sum of JUiffht Pounds 
 to tupport himself, his family and his horses, — nothing being allowed for the original 
 
 Jmrchase, or the wear and tearof these Animals in the public service ! ! ! Or suppose 
 or the sake of a pinching economy, with a view to the future maintenance of his widow, 
 when himself sinks worn out into the grave, and vacates his Rectory to another, sup- 
 
 £ose, I say, that on such considerations he resolves to do the duty of the man-servant, 
 imself, to feed and clean his horses in person --those indispensible appendages of his cle- 
 rical function (for you must remember that Aer^j a Clergyman without a horse is next to 
 useless)— suppose nim, then, keeping only a maid -servant her wag:eand board could not 
 be less than from £25 to £35— the matter is little mended, he has, indeed, afewpounds 
 more toexpend on thedecencies of his rank, for his family ann wife ; but it is not in human 
 nature that the elasticity of mind requisite for a good Missionary of Jesus Christ, 
 should survive the privations, difficulties, and discouragements, thus, (I would fain 
 hope,) heedlessly cast upon him. Unquestionably this state of things should not be 
 allowed to continue, and were the British Parliament and People made properly ac- 
 quainted with the matter, I can scarce think they would permit such a System to con- 
 tinue, but on the contrary would not only provide additional Missions,'but would so 
 increase the existing Rectories, as to enable the Incumbents to live witnout engaging 
 in secular pursuits — ^for thus only is it possible to secure the efficiency of any Church. 
 The present System is alike at variance with Christian rule, which says, '• that they 
 which serve the altar should b t partakers with the altar"- disgraceful to a Christian 
 crown the wearers of which ought to be, says Isaiah xlix. 23, "nursing fathers and 
 nursing mothers" to God's Church, if theylook for a blessing from on high— and oppos- 
 ed to the received principle of every age. Abraham paid tithe to Melchisedec, 
 Genesis xiv. 20. Jacob devoted the tenth of all which God should give him, to the 
 support and lervioe of Ood's House, Gen. xzviii. 22.— A special institute of the 
 
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 Mosaic Codp, (Deut. xii. 19 and xiv. 27,) was, " The Ijevite that in within thy Oaten, 
 "thou shajtnot^ forsake him; 80 long as thou li vest upon jthe Earth." The aweet 
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 ist of Israel, the Royal David, acknowledges the same Principle, (1 Chron. xxviii 
 iLjiix 14,)/* Who am I and what is my People, that we should be able to offer 
 willingly after this sort — for all things comeof The(% and Thine own have we 
 given Thee." The good Hezekiah.(2 Chron. xxxi, 4,) reforming the abuses which 
 had crept in, commanded " the people to give the portion of the Priests and Levites," 
 assigning as his reason, the consideration I have referred to above — *' that they 
 MAY BE RKCOURAGED ; and the Prophetic Code is closed bv Malachi (iii, H— 10,) 
 stating the cause of God's curse upon a Nation, and prescribing how it may lie 
 
 removed " That there may be meat in mine Hoiise, and prove me now herewith, 
 
 " if I will not open to you the windows of Heaven, and pour you out a Blessing, that 
 *' there shall n(»t be room enough to receive it." Such, dear Sir, is the lesson taught 
 us by Holy Writ, but to those ^yho regard it not — the practice of the Heathens, 7of 
 whose wisdom they are more inclined to boast,) teaches the self-same lesson, tor 
 they would find it difficult to discover, even in profautf history, a single instance of 
 a Colonising Nation, where the Sacrifices, and the Establishment of an authorised 
 body, set apart to the Priestly Office, was not the very Jimt consideration with the 
 Founders. You will pardon this long digression, but if you saw, what I see here of the 
 consequences resulting from an opposite practice in our National affairs — you would 
 not wonder that my mind should lie deeply impressed upon this subject. 
 
 Throughout all my travels in the London District, I regret extremely that 
 I feel bound to say, I have found the people in a most deplorable state of Spiritual 
 Ignorance and Destitution. It is very manifest tliat this entirely arises from the cir- 
 cumstance of their having been so long, and so unaccountably neglected by the 
 mother country. 1 need not tell you the number of years which have elapsed, 
 during which many, professing themselves to belong to the Church, have never heard 
 or seen a Clergyman. The greater number of them too, have not only no Pray\er 
 Books, but have almost forgotten how to use them, and as for making tl'ie responses, 
 there is not one in thirty, who ever think of joining in them. This state of tilings is 
 deeply to be deplored, for you are aware that when our people become ignorant of 
 the Liturgy, by which they profess to worship God, and fail to take their part in the 
 Services, the beauty and propriety of our excellent Liturgy are entirely eclipsed, 
 and we thereby give an occasion to the Scoffer to say, ' ' there is no life in the Church 
 of England." Such being the state of things, (in ad'diticm to my other duties) I have 
 found It desirable to commence a regular system of teaclung the people simply, the 
 use of the Prayer Book, and how much depends upon themselves, by joining in the 
 responses whether that which was designed to facilitate *' our worshippmg God with 
 one heart'and one mind," accomplishes, or fails, in its purpose. With the old people, 
 I can scarcely expect to do much, in rooting out this apparent dcadness and indinier- 
 ence, but with their children 1 do hope to effect a change, nor am I altogether 
 without expectation, that the plan will work upwards, and that their example will 
 in a little time "provoke the parents to ,7ealousy." The greatest barrier in my way 
 in carrying this plan into effect, is the extensiv^ want of Prayer Books — The people 
 are so extremely poor, that very few could purchase them for themselves — and even if 
 they could— ^ray«r Books cannot be had. *1 have therefore particularly to request, that 
 you will endeavour to send out next year as large a supply as you can, and to call 
 the particular attention of the British people to our destitution in this respect. I 
 wish " the Prayer Book and Homily Society" would establish a depot in this country, 
 for distribution upon favourable terms. I need hardly say that I find the duties of a 
 Travelling Missionary more arduous than even your description led me to anticipate- 
 yet you did not spare — but it requires to be seen, si nd to be experienced, in order 
 to comprehend it. Arduous, however, as the labour i^, and with all its difficulties, 
 I do not think either of them are such as to damp or discourage any one who is 
 moved by the principles of the Gospel, to proclaim the love of Christ to perishing 
 sinners, and if being the means of saving sinners was " the joy set before our Lord,'* 
 it is " a joy," which should never fail to animate the humble , Missionary, and make 
 him '* to endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." The incessant fatigue 
 which a Travelling Missionary has to undergo here, is so very great, that it is really 
 impossible for the strongest Constitution to stand it beyond two years or so. The 
 
 • In order to save time, Mr Fetrie has been written to, to provide himself, if possible in 
 Canada an additional supply of Bibles, Testaments and Prayer Books, (to the extent of i;10,) as so 
 mwiy Months must elapse before the Shields Ships could reach Monueal-and a plan is in negoUaUon 
 to tecure an ample Supply, both for himself and his colleagues. 
 
 The Church Population of the District amounts to 7507 
 Of whom have any Spiritual attention - 3283 
 
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place* •>« so remotely tituated from eaeh other, that one requires to Ve constantly 
 travelling-o-heing exposed thereby to ail sorts of weather— and, perhaps what is even 
 worse than this, the Roads ai-e generally so bad, particularly in Spring «nd Fall, as 
 be almost impassable— indeed not unfrequently, literally^ so. On my way to 
 
 t<» 
 
 Dcrehuin a short time ago, I wind-ealled my poor horse, going through a Swamp, 
 itbove two milM long, so severely that I was laid oif, for an entire week, before I 
 KOt her Rufliciently restored to travel ; and I see I shall be obliced to buy a second 
 fiorse. fur it is far too much for one to travel so incessantly. When Winter corues 
 round I must also buy a Sleigh, which will cost me twenty-five or thirty Dollars 
 more— But it is time I drew my letter to a close. ^ 
 
 The system of education m this colony is, in my opinion, based on a wrong 
 jirinciple, and if it is nut speedily changed, will not only perpetuate ignorance — but 
 
 prove a Colonial Curse It is however much what might be expected from the 
 
 deplorable condition of the Church. In my next letter I will speak more particularly 
 on this point. 
 
 I shall look anxiously^ for the Spring ships — and the supply of Books which I 
 trust you will find no difhculty in sending, through your friends at South Shields— 
 They can Rcarcely estimate the blessings it is in their power to confer upon the poor 
 Emigrant, by facilitating your endeavours in this way. 1 can safely say, that it the 
 prayers ot a people, famishing for the lack of Spiritual food, can secure their Ships a 
 };ood passage, they, and their^s, will not be forsrutteu in the Bush. 
 
 I have to thank you for your last kind fetter, and for your prompt attention 
 to my fears, I hope however I shall have no occasion to act upon your arrangement ; 
 it is nevertheless gratifying to be ftivoured with any mark of kindness from your- 
 self and friends, by way of smoothing down my rugged path through this destitute 
 Wilderness. 
 
 I have forgotten to mention that I have lately visited threeof the Indian Churches, 
 which afforded me the utmost gratification, in seeing what the blessed Gospel can 
 do with the poor Indians ; I will giveyou, (D. V.) an account of this matter i" my next 
 letter, and send you at the same time some strong proofs — not only to s\ .^ that the 
 poor Red-man can be civilised, but to counteract certain statements made by recent 
 Sceptical writers about these long and woefully neglected People. 
 I remain, Dbar Sir, very faithfully your's, 
 
 GEORGE PETRIE. 
 Rev. W. J. D. Waddilove, Beacon Grange. 
 
 *' " Extract of a Letter from the Lord Bishop of Mcntrealf 
 
 dated June 27th, 1(139. 
 
 " I ordained Messrs. Morris and Gibson on the 9th instant, and they proceeded 
 " almost imme(1iat<-ly to their respective destinations. I am mucn pleaseo with them 
 " both, and most certainly have been called upon to ordain persons, who had gra- 
 '* duatcd at our Universities, not equal in attainments to your two Missionaries. 
 " I feel greatly obliged to you for your consideration and regard to the Episcopal Office 
 " in the arrangements you have made— and indeed I can hardly too often repeat niv 
 ** acknowledgements for the whole management on your part, since you undertook 
 " the task of helping the Canadian Church." 
 
 I should not have inserted this last clause (as doinK so savours of Egotism) hod there not exisUd 
 circumstances, nrndering it desirable, that my friends and supporters, at least, should know, that 
 I have never swerved from the principles I originally professed: to assist a suffiiring Churvh, upon 
 the Principle laid down, (Acts xi, 29,) without in any-wise violating true Chubcb BciiB. 
 
 Extract from the same— dated Quebec, September 6th, 
 
 •* I feel very thankful that you have been enabled to make such great and 
 
 /*mi"^"H? " Missionary Tour (originally projected by himself) at your cliarge. 
 ' (This Report is in Appendix A.) He has lately written to me in a very 
 
 encouraging strain respecting the labours of Mr. JVIorris at the Chats, far np the 
 *' Ottowa River. In case you have not yourself heard from Mr. Petrie, you may 
 "be glad to have his Report made to me, which I amndinglv conimit for you to 
 "the care of Captain Baddeley R. E. who is to sail from this Port for Liver- 
 
 pool to-morrow. I also sent you a Copy of my Charge,* by Mr Wood-whom ere 
 *' this you will probably have seen." 
 
 ♦ This Copy is cirrulBting among the Clergy, so thRt I am unable to add nny extracts • but th*,M 
 arc rassages, (and I believe it may be procured in E.^jlund) which demand the utmortZlsideiS 
 by all concerned, either in tihe Temi.oral, or SpirituHl aflairs of the Canailas j-Xr ^T ufev *.« 
 closely inUnvoven, the English Notion will soon find out— * *" 
 
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 THE THIRD REPORT - ': 
 
 THK SOCIETY FOR PROPAOATINO THE GOSPEL AMONO THE 
 DESTITUTE SETTLERS AND INDIANS IN 
 
 LOWER CANADA.— 1838. 
 
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 PRESIDENT. 
 
 The Loao Bishop of MoHxaEAL. ' 
 
 riCEmPRESIBEyTS. 
 
 The Hokobable Chief Justice Sewell, 
 •Ibbemiah Leatcbaft, Esq. 
 
 MANAOING COMMITTEE. 
 
 Resident Cleboy of the Chubch of England, 
 
 David Subnet, Esa. 
 Lieu. E. Fobd, R. £. 
 James B. Fobsyth, Esq. 
 Jeffeby Hale, Esq. 
 Lieu. Hothai^ R. A. 
 Town Majob Knight, 
 
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 RiCHABD PeNISTOK, EsQ. 
 
 Correaponitng aeeretary. I ReeorMu§ Beeretary, 
 
 Rev. Joseph Bbown. | Lieu. John Oblebab, R. N. 
 
 J. W. Leaycbaft, Esq. 
 W. Mc Tavish, Esq. 
 Lieu. Ccl. Napieb, 
 W. S. Sewell, Esq. < 
 Thomas Tbiooe, Esq. 
 Chbistian Wubtele, Esq. 
 
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 REPORT. 
 
 In following a |>lan adopted in the last Report, your Committee propose giving a 
 short summary of the Missionaries' proceedmgs, and occasional extracts from their 
 Journals. 
 
 Soon after the last General Meeting of the Society^ the Rev. H. Sewell proceeded 
 to Jacques Cartier, and remained there five days, visiting every Protestant family. 
 He found no improvement, and little real interest in religion. The services of the 
 Sabbath were attended by verv small congregations compared with the number of 
 Protestant families in the Settlement. From thence he proceeded to Valcartier, 
 visiting by the way every Protestant family, and converging, lecturing, or praying, us 
 opportunity offered. Mr. Sewell went through the whole Settlement of Valcartier, 
 including the Rivier auz Pins, calling upon each family, and on the Sabbath perform- 
 <'d divine service to a congregation ofeignty-five persons. In this tour, your Mission- 
 ary visited ninety-six families, preached four times, and baptized seven children ; and 
 amid much discouragonent, saw a few bright evidences of the power of the G(wpel; — 
 a few plants of heavenly growth which showed what the soil might bear, by the Divme 
 blessing, upon faithful preaching. 
 
 The service of the Missionary were now required for the Quarantine Station, at 
 Orosse-Isle ; and on the 23rd ot May, Mr. Sc$;well commenced his ministrations on 
 the Island. From much interesting matter contained in Mr Sewell's Journal for the 
 period that he was there employed, your Committee have made the following extracts : — 
 ** Saturday, 11th August. — Visited the hospital. Found an old Roman Catholic 
 sailor labouring under dropsy, in a verv hardened state. I could make no impression 
 upon him. The power of the Spirit did not seem present to heal his soul, and it was 
 indeed fearful to see the utter darkness in which he was held, — the utter carelessness 
 as to a future state. His only language was complaint, and his only expressed desire 
 was for death. Alas ! could it be a release to one dying in a state ot so much im- 
 
 Jenitence. May 4>esu8 have mercy upon him, and change his stubborn ii' art, giving 
 im a heart of nesh, and renewing a right spirit within nim. Yesterday a ^hip load 
 of emigrants were landed, infecteid with smull-pox. After leavinf; the sailor, I 
 viKited them, and found a pleasing contrast. They were all Scotch, and had enjoyed, 
 on their pasHuge out, the bleKsings of a pious minister of their own persuasion, and 
 also a pious captain. Morning and evening prayers, with reading uiid exposition uf 
 the Scriptures, had never been omitted when the weather allowed of their lueetin^ 
 
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 togHhet. The benefitu were easily visible in their serious and quiet deportment, 
 and die eairerness of some among them to hear the word of life. Nothing, indeed, 
 points out more strongly the necessity of keeping a resident clergyman at this Sta- 
 tion during the summer, than the great desire almost universally evinced by Kmi* 
 grants on their landing, to join in prayer and praise to the Alniightv for merci«a 
 received and for hlessinf^s to come. It is here that the Emigrant, — perhaps an exile 
 for conscien'^e sake. — first sets foot on the land of his adoption ; the wonders of the 
 deep are still frenh 'n his memory, and a new life is before him. It is the natural 
 impulse of a Spiritual mind to seize on such a moment to express gratitude for the 
 paMt, and pray for renewed protection, and while depressed under u sense of its own 
 weakness and nothingness, to feel a desire for support and fiir strength not its own. It 
 is now. too, that while memory is busy with the past, and ima^nation with the future, 
 the renewed Christian feels an increased desire to dedicate himself again to that Ood 
 whose mercies are new and unfnded in his mind." 
 
 " On Sunday, after service to the troops, I preached to about sixty or seventy of 
 the Scotch EmiRrants. I found them very attentive, while I pressed upon tliera the 
 necessity of holiness as the fruits and proof of faith. The Clergyman alluded to was 
 among the number : I wished him to have addressed his own people, but he 
 declined for the present, though afterwards he addressed them at some length. He was 
 very attentive, and thanked me when the service was finished. We were compelled 
 to meet in the open air, under a broiling tVun, at a great inconvenience to all partiet — 
 fVhen shall tee have a decent place to meet in, where we may worthip God according 
 to the Apostle^i teaching, — " decently and in order I ! /" 
 
 Mr Sewell endeavoured, by formal application to the Government, to get a chapel 
 or shed erected for the troops and Emigrants, but entirely without success ; and it was 
 only by the assistance and influence of Dr. Poole, that the summer-house was so en- 
 larged as to be available for a Congregation of fortv or fifty persons. At two differ- 
 ent times, when there were few sick in the hospital, Mr Sewell visited Stoneham, on 
 the North, and I'lslet and St. Jean Port Joli, on the South side of the River. At the 
 two latter places there are a few isolated Piotestant families; and your Missionary 
 was gratified with his reception l>y them, while their earnest attention showed the 
 value they attached to the word preached. On the 8th October, Mr. Sewell, hearing 
 of the Kev. Harvey Vachell's return from England, proceeded to Quebec, and closed 
 bis labours as .Missionary of the iSociety. 
 
 For varitms reasons, Mr. Vachell was not able to resume hia duties as Missionary, 
 until the 3rd of November, when he proceeded to revisit the destitute settlements 
 south of the St. Lawrence. After a laborious journey, over roads almost impassable, 
 he arrived at Bellair, and was well repaid for his labour, in finding one who, although 
 unlearned, indeed unable to rei.d — had profited by the word preached, and to use his 
 wife's language, '* was such an altered man that she hardly knew him, — she never saw 
 one so penitent or so set against all manner of sin." Mr. Vacheirs Journal^ in his 
 progress towards Upper Ireland, presents the usual varying features of disappumtnient 
 and distress over the backsliding and impenitent, and cf joyful anticipation over the 
 t'ew that come forth and Keem awakened by tlie spirit to newness of life. Arrived at 
 Tapper Ireland, he performed the novel servic*' of receiving into Christ's Church by 
 baptism, an old man of 70, and his four sons of the respective ages of <^3, 26, 26, and 24. 
 Your Missionary remained 17 days in this and the Bennett's Settlement, preached 
 four times, and administered the Sacrament to thirty-five communicants on the 
 Sabbath. He also endeavoured to promote the building of the Church, which had not as 
 yet l»een commenced, owing in part to a want of unanimity among the people them- 
 selves, and partly to the difficulty of apportioning the work. 
 
 It should be mentioned that more than i,'150. have been collected by the Mission- 
 ary and others for the erection of this Church, and that two ladies have each given 
 two hundred acres of land towards its endowment. 
 
 On Mr. Vacheirs return towards Quebec, he preached at the Hamilton Range of 
 Inverness to a numerous and attentive congregation, and baptized three children. On 
 Christmas Day he administered the Sacrament to twenty-seven comnmuicauts, and 
 preached to a large congregation in another part of the Township. 
 
 Early in January, your Missionary again proceeded south of the St. Lawrence, 
 preaching at Bellair, at Liverpool, ai;d at Franipton ; which latter place he visited 
 
 Ireland. 
 Giles and at 
 . from thence 
 
 visited the Kelcher Range. The people we:e generally extremely poor ; but he was 
 received by tliem uniformly with every mark of kindness and respect ; and fouiid them 
 anxious for instruction and advice. On the Sunday he preached in this range to a 
 numerous congregation, ai d a few dbvs after attendeiil a meeting for the purpose »if 
 building a house for the wtrsLip ot Gcd. The people wert; uuai;iii.oiis lu their 
 
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 dMire to huilfl a church or chapel ; and after some disciiiiHion, a xpot was chosen tipon 
 the Craifr's Road, and y«mr Committee trtint that this work for the Lord will prosper, 
 and nut meet with the hindrances experienced in Upper Ireland. In tne next 
 Uanpe, your i\lissionary pre^iched twice on Sunday, many of his hearer.'* in the 
 morning, waikinsr three miles to attend the afternoon service, lie was the first 
 Missionary that had been down so far in this part of the Range, and he heurd of a 
 person who httd not seen the face of a Minister for six ^'ears "Surely," snjrs Mr 
 Vachell, " it ih sheep like these, driven awav and Itist, which, in the language of £ze- 
 kiel, the Shepherd is to hring again and seek out."— « xxxiv, r 2 — ft. 
 
 Mr. Vachell proceeded in his pastoral visits through the Dublin, Yorkshire, 
 Scotch, and Plomer Ranges. In the latter Range, there is a very good School ; 
 but unhappily it does not meet with much encouragement. After being detained at 
 home a week' by the alarming illness of Mrs. Vachell, he again visited Upper Ireland. 
 Matters were somewhat improved here, and num)»ers flocked to hear him preach. 
 He afterwards visited the Sunday School, which he found not so well attended as last 
 year, nor so well instructed as he could have wished, the simple Word only being read, 
 without comment or explanation. Your Misbionary remarks that the manner ot 
 making the responses, the universal use of the Prayer-Bo«)k,the devout posture of the 
 bodv, and the Chorus of voices joining in singing, gave him more the idea of a Church 
 of fingland congregation^ than lie had hitherto met with in these settlements. Having 
 been mmished, by the kindness of Mr. Waddilove, with a number of Books, to form 
 lending libraries, he was enabled to supply the Catechist at Upper Iieland, a School- 
 master in Plomer Ran^'e, and an Individual at St. Sylvestre, with se ections, and has 
 still many more on hand for the like purposes. 
 
 Mr. Vachell concludes his Journal with the following remarks : — 
 " I now close this, feeling convinced of the extreme bHrrenness of rr. » journals 
 of late ; and whilst taking much bluine to myself on aocoNut thereof, I \»ouid beg that 
 it may be taken into consideration that the Joume' of a Missionary over so ex- 
 tensive a sphere t)ie third year, is n«>t likely to abourid with incidents of so striking a 
 nature as the ii rst. I hare gone over new groun«i in some parts, and in one place, the 
 Scotch settlen)ent, where are chiefly Highlanders, and where English is imperfectly 
 understood. I have not visited so much, but have preached more. Some mention was 
 made of building a Chapel in this place, but nothing is yet matured. It would be 
 right to mention here tnat their own Minister is declining in health and yeais, and 
 preaching only in Gaelic, is now almost unable to do that ; and that the Settlement, 
 excepting his occasional ministrations, those of the MethocHst preacher and.my8elf, (and 
 others casually,) is getting into a very destitute state. Whilst the present generation 
 exists, amongst whom are a few decidedly godly people, this may not be so apparent, 
 but religion is not hereditary ; The Bitsh, under the most favourable circumstances, is 
 a bad place in which to bring up children, '^inthe nurture and admonition of the 
 liOrd." And 1 am more and more convinced that the state of religion there, and 
 throughout the County of Megantie is at b^^t Imt a day of small thinfrs, a shadow of 
 those good things yet to come, when there shall be a m<>re fixt>d and regular ministra- 
 tion of (iod'a Word and Sacraments, as well as a regular parochial style of feeding the 
 flock of Christ, into which are to be brought, as in duys of old, such as shall be saved. 
 
 I had been led at one time, when I came up the first year, to thiwk I should find re- 
 ligrion flourishing like a green bay tree. Preachers abound, and hearers also. — These 
 will doubtless raise the tone of moral feelings ; and I nothing doubt that Ood's people 
 inajr be found, nay, I know they are, here and there. " one of a house and two of a 
 family," as " gleaning olives" scattered over the face or the Country ; but should I say 
 that the object the Society had in view in its first formation, — viz : — the supply of the 
 spiritual wants of tlie Destitute Settlements,— had been attained, or that their labours 
 during the last three vears, by the poor exertions of their present Missionary, had 
 produced thateffect which they desire, I should mislead them. Much every way is to be 
 done. May they f^o on " in the strength of the Lord, and in his name set up the Gos- 
 pel banner inscribing thereon " Giory to God in the highest, and on earth (thete rf«- 
 solate parts of it especially) peace and good will towards men." 
 
 On the whole, I woulo conclude by saying that I conceive the Church of England 
 is improving much in the estimation of the people. I would not say her members are 
 increasing largely, but I hope they are on the increase, though as long as Religious Wants 
 continue so irregularly supplied, irregularity of attendance, running after any preach- 
 er or teacher, must be the result. But lettnerebea regular minister, — let him who is 
 appointed watch for the flock, watch for them as one that must give account— let him 
 feed them with the wholesome food of the Word, and, " point to brighter worlds, and 
 la.id the way,"— and sure I am The Great Shepherd will make the Sheep to lie down in 
 the quiet pastures thus sought, and kept by his ministering servants." 
 
 Thus far have advanced our too feel'tleefl'oTts for the spread of Christ's kingdom 
 
 II p<m earth. Your committee lament they have not yet been enabled to employ another 
 Missionary, j.ccoidirg to the desire of the Society, expressed at two successive meetings. 
 
65 
 
 There i> itill but one Travelling Miuionarj of the Church of England for the wide 
 tract of country marked out as the sphere of the Society's labours ; and for nearlj five 
 months of the last summer, as in former years, (on account of their engagement to sup- 
 ply Grosse-Isle,) the Settlers have been left without the ministrations of the Oospel. 
 Tne friends of (he Society are aware from the last Report, that the settlers themselves 
 have on their part promised subscriptions to the amount of £lifi per annum, in case an« 
 other Missionary is employed, and more frequent visits paid to them. This is such 
 an evidence as your Committee require, to show tiiat they properly appreciate the So- 
 ciety*s labours, and it should induce, on the part of the Society, a corresponding exertion 
 to supply more efFectiially these their spiritual wants, by at once enlisting another 
 of the Ix>rd*s servants in this work of Christian love. 
 
 That the time is now arrived when this may be done with prudence, your Com* 
 mittee think will be shown by the followhig Statement. It will be remembered that 
 Mr. Vachell proceeded early in the spring of last year to England. During his brief 
 sojourn there, amid a multiplicity of private business, he sucraeded in collecting sub- 
 scriptions for the Society to the amount of £112 sterling ; and your Committee rejoice 
 to nnd by his Report, that the Society has many friends among the pious of their 
 Father-land, among whom the Supporters and Manager of "the Stewart Mission Fund" 
 should be gratefully remembered, as affording the most valuable and unremitting assis- 
 ance to ; jur Missionary. These friends of missionary exertion have presented to the 
 Society ibO (£93 5j. 5d. currency) from their Fund, and have expressed a hope of 
 being able to continue the same annually. Your committee do not suppose that each 
 year will bring the same liberal assistance from their other friends in England , but 
 as the amount of subscriptions in this country, has hitherto easily supported the sin- 
 gle Missionary employed and as the Treasurer's account shews a balance in hand of 
 £160, altogether arising from home subscriptions, collected with the single view of 
 employing a second Missionary, and as hitherto no subscriptions have been collected 
 for the present year, your Committee feel it to be_ their duty to call upon tne Society 
 to sanction, by an express resolution, the immediate employment of another Mission- 
 ary, strictly according to that excellent criterion laid down in the Rules of the 
 Society. 
 
 Your Committee will conclude by expressing their regret that the Interest in 
 Missionary proceedings is still as nothing in comparison with its Importance, and the 
 call made upon the Christian community from the pulpit and elsewhere, has not been 
 so cordially responded to as )hey could have wished, or as they are convinced such 
 a Cause deserves. They trust that the Lord will sway the hearts of his children to 
 devise more liberal things ; and that no Christians will lightly esteem the Privilege 
 afforded them of coming to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Ivord, against the 
 mighty powers of Darkness, Ignorance, and Error. Indeed, let the Christian be but 
 true to his own eternal interests, — let him deny himself, and devote all that would 
 otherwise be spent in sdf-gratjiication or luxury, to the service of his Heavenly 
 Master, and this and other Societies will not be languishing for want uf means to 
 send forth the Oospel Missionary. 
 
 ^' 
 
 REPORT OF THE INDO CANADIAN MISSION, 
 
 Upon the Thames River, in Upper Canada, — received from tho 
 
 Binhop of Montreal. 
 
 Having publicly stated in 1834—5, (upon the authority of the late Bishop of 
 Quebec) that the conversion of the North American Indians to the Christian Faith 
 ft/ only due pains were taken,) might easily be accomnlished, and that in fsct. there 
 then ejki«ted a grooving desire on the part of many ot the Tribes, to cast off " their 
 dumb Idols," and be admitted into the pale of the Christian Church. The following 
 document which shews the gradual increase, from a small beginning, five or six 
 years ago, cannot fail to interest all those who by supporting " the Stewart Missions," 
 have in a great measure so long prevented the dissolution of the Thames River 
 Mission, through the inadequacy of the means of the Chnreh. It has indeed sub- 
 sequently been asserted, (and that by one whose opinions, and upright public 
 administration, in every other point, are deservedly held in the higlcst estimation, 
 both in Canada and at home,) that all attempt to Christianire the Indian Tribes, 
 
66 
 
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 8o- 
 tiou 
 
 loioe 
 
 it s baaelcM drMun— that a sort of " myttariouf deitiny** eneirelei that inttrMtinf 
 clsM of men — and that the chariot of Ootpel etviliiation approaehaa them, with 
 Death and Desolation, like scythes at the wheels. Doubtless such have indeed been the 
 dark and gloomy consequences of communication with Europeans, f Chrintiana onip 
 in namt—if even to much at that) — but surely we need scarcely go to Canada, or 
 any other Colony, to learn that ** the mysterious destiny,** with ** Death and Desola- 
 tion at its wheels,** is no other than the same mvsterious destiuy by which **Natwn$ 
 and Empirea ri»e and /all ** — i. e. by givinff full scope to the corruptions and abom> 
 inations of reflned Civiliiation, without takmg any pains to inculcate, or cherish, the 
 antidote provided in the mercy and wisdom of God. 
 
 It IS scarce possible to Hnd words in the English language capable of charac- 
 terizing the awful neglect of the British Oovernment in the case of Canada — my 
 business however is neither to judge, nor to condemn — but if possible to awaksit 
 
 Mr COUKTRTMEN. BY 0PF08IM0 SIMPLE FaCT, TO PANCIPUL THEORY— in 
 
 the hope that British Christians tri// apeak out their mind* — if they do, under Ood's 
 Blessing, an end will be put to this appalling disgrace on the name of a Christian 
 State, and instead of " Death and Desolation,**^ we shall see " the Dav-spring from 
 on hi|(h with healing on his wings," rising upon the long benighted Indian — and 
 bringing the noble ana generous energies of the Ked-M an, into the wholesome bonds 
 of the life-giving Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
 
 About the year 1832, the attention of Mr Flood was called to these Tribes, 
 by the late Bishop of Quebec, and in 18S4, by his Lordship*s directions, I printed 
 for circulation amongst his friends and supporters in England, the translation of 
 an original letter, sent to Mr Flood, by a Council of a few of the leading men in the 
 joint tribes ; beseeching him to devote a portion of his time to their Spiritual Charge, 
 and engaging on their part, to use their influence with their people to give up uie 
 Wau-be-kois, or Pa^n Feasts — and to abstain from the use of ardent Spirits. — 
 From the small nucleus then formed, this little community of christian Indians has 
 gone on gradually incresising and the following Report explains its present state. 
 
 See also Mr Flood's fourth Letter, page 42. 
 
 Fourth Year, Bear Credc Chippeways resolved to abstain from Spiritous Liquors at 
 Lower Monsec Town, from October 1st, 1898. 
 
 Families 
 
 Canoting and family - 
 Memtegosh and do. 
 Yaubans and do 
 Rodd do 
 
 Charlo do 
 
 Miscocomon do 
 Schobenash do 
 Oeoree do 
 
 Chicfcin Maskalongi do 
 i^olomon A skin do 
 Gaugaubezzejia included 
 in Yauban's family - 
 2 mtdes and 1 female 
 Keneausnck and family 
 Caucaubiii 
 
 Caucueneh and family - 
 Hu-e-aundup do 
 Negaiienegejick do 
 Capt. Fox do 
 
 Joseph Fox do 
 Nelson Beaver 
 John Walker and family 
 
 -a 
 
 g 
 
 4 
 3 
 4 
 3 
 I 
 
 1 
 
 Total 
 
 9 
 10 
 8 
 7 
 9 
 8 
 9 
 3 
 10 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 Families 
 
 T 
 
 a 
 
 Kee-sua-back in Mis- 
 
 eomon*s family 
 Suas-qua-sabe in Cau- 
 
 cueneh*s family 
 Skew Maskilongi & fam. 
 John Fisher do 
 Piajugo do 
 
 JohnLegule do 
 John Beaver do 
 Obitoon do 
 
 Thomas Whiteloon do 
 John Animouse do 
 Shauuabe do 
 
 Pipi-sate do 
 
 96 
 
 B 
 
 73 
 
 3 
 
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 6 
 5 
 
 4 
 4 
 
 9 
 3 
 S 
 5 
 
 9 
 
 168 
 
 The aliove families regularly attend my Ministry, 
 
 (Signed) RICHARD FLOOD, 
 
 Church of England Missionary. 
 To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Montreal. 
 
67 
 
 MonMc Indians reaolred to abstain from Ardent Spirits, at Lower Alonsee 
 
 Town, from October 1st, 1831). 
 
 Numhar siid Nunt*^ of Familioit. 
 
 Number siid Niiinei of FMuili*-)* 
 
 Captain James Snake, (chief) 
 
 
 Hank- Young (secundus) and family 4 
 
 Abraham Hoffand family 
 
 
 John Lock do 
 
 4 
 
 M'illiam Halfmoon do 
 
 
 Hank Young (tertius)do 
 
 4 
 
 Wiloox do 
 
 
 Wampum do 
 
 5 
 
 Westhronk do 
 
 
 ThomHs Snake do 
 
 A 
 
 Captain Kanelis io 
 
 
 Shoemaker Snake do 
 
 H 
 
 Hank-Young (pnmus^ do 
 James Snake do 
 
 
 John Delaware do 
 
 3 
 
 
 Deaf It'om^n 
 
 1 
 
 George Poney do 
 
 
 John Henry and familv 
 Taylor Logait do 
 
 4 
 
 Wilson do 
 
 
 2 
 
 Wolf 
 
 , i 
 
 John Logan, alius Big Ears 
 
 do 3 
 
 Dickson and family 
 
 
 
 
 hamn (primus) do 
 
 John Logan (secundus) do , 
 
 
 lOA 
 
 John Righton do 
 
 
 
 
 William Oawlson 
 
 
 
 r 
 
 The above families regularly attend my Ministry, ^ ^: 
 
 :..' ' (Signed) RICHARD FLOOD, 
 
 Church of England Missionary. 
 To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Montreal. 
 
 This INDIAN CHURCH, formed within the last six Years, upon the Thames 
 River, near Del ware, in Upper Canada, under every possible disadvantage from the 
 limited means ui the Missionary — and from the near Vicinity of the worst and most 
 depraved Class of European, and American, Squatters. — See Mr Flood's Journal 
 " Stewart Missions," page 131. 
 
 168 
 
 Bear Creek Chippewas 
 Monsec Indians 
 
 106 
 
 274 
 
 Is brought from the darkness into " The marvellous Light* 
 f Church of England Missionary. 
 
 by the efforts of one 
 
 * ' Extract of a Letter from the Bishop of Montrealf dated September tth, 
 
 rehtting to tJue Miaeion, 
 
 " Yon will be glad to hear, if vou have not already done so, that Sir Oeorge 
 " Arthur, who is warmly interested about the poor Indians, has assigned a Stipend 
 " to Mr Flood, for attending to them, which I trust the Home Government has, by this 
 *^ time, confirmed. Mr Flood will thus cease to be in any way chargeable to your 
 '* Exertions." 
 
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 »!•! 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 IN the couTBe of last Winter the Bishop of Montreal, requested that 
 we would permit him to locate one of our Travelluig Missionaries in a most 
 destitute region, upon the eafttem confines of Upper Canada — : The East- 
 em, Johnstone and Bathunt Districts, to which I readily assented— -on 
 the part of the Stewart Fund ; and in the month of April, despatched Mr. £. 
 Morris, who was ordained to the work on the 9th of June. As I knew thertt 
 were a greater number of fixed Clergv in that Locality, than in many other 
 parts, I at the same time requested the Bishop would send me some infor- 
 mation as to the actual Destitution, for the satisfaction of my friends, and 
 a few days ago I received from his Lordship the following report, which, av 
 one of our objects is to diffuse as far as possible ui this country, a completn 
 knowledge of the awful Spiritual Destitution of the Colony, I do not he- 
 sitate to print entire. , V < 
 
 (COPY.) "■""'- 
 
 " My Lord, Your Lordship's request, through fhe Secretary of our 
 Association, that a report should be drawn up, exhibiting in some detail, the 
 spiritual wants of the Members of the Church in the Bathurst and adjoin- 
 ing Districts, was lud before the Meeting, and a committee appointed to 
 carry out your Lordship's Su^estions of a digested report, from materials 
 collected from the different Clei^ymen. Your Lordship is aware that our 
 association comprises the districts of Bathurst, Johnstone, and the Eastern. 
 These three comprise a Tract of country, divided into fifty Townships, ea*.'h 
 about ten Miles square. With respect to the different religious persuasions 
 of the Population, the census now in pr<^ess will shortly give a tolerably 
 correct idea ; in the meantime we annex the following as the return of thu 
 Ten Townships." 
 
 Note. There is no doubt that compared with other ftarta of the Province, the 
 supply of Clergy alr^y in these Districts, seems large, but if the want be greater else- 
 
 ^tiere ^it is sufficiently apparent tliat additional aid is needed here, and that Mr 
 
 Morris's Services are greatly required. ^ ^ „. ^ , ^ , . , 
 
 1 may add hei*e that I am informed by the Bishop, the roads, and modes of corn- 
 munication, in the districts are worse than in almost any other part of Canada, which 
 makes the Duties of a Travelling Missionary more necessary, readering it iin. 
 puHsible for tlie tixed Clergy to devote the time required for visitmg the remote aad 
 Scattered Settlers, with justioe to their own flocks. 
 
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 Pownshipa 
 
 Episco* 
 palian 
 
 Presby. 
 
 terian 
 
 Roman 
 Cath. 
 
 Metho- 
 dist 
 
 Baptist. 
 
 Quaker Mor- 
 mon. 
 
 Darlirifr - - 
 
 20 
 
 119 
 
 32 
 
 12 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 No. Slu'i'l»roko 
 
 7 
 
 232 
 
 
 3 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 Morton - - 
 
 106 
 
 118 
 
 53 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 
 Unni'-av - - 
 
 339 
 
 1059 
 
 277 
 
 172 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 liatliurat - - 
 
 631 
 
 G94 
 
 622 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 So. Slicrbroke 
 
 145 
 
 
 36 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 Mac Nab - - 
 
 5 
 
 510 
 
 76 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Fitzroy - - 
 
 587 
 
 279 
 
 191 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 
 Packenham - 
 
 260 
 
 241 
 
 187 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 
 Goulburn - - 
 
 952 
 
 389 
 
 489 
 
 321 
 
 
 
 
 
 3052 
 
 3611 
 
 1964 
 
 ';62 
 
 45 
 
 1 
 
 41 
 
 .-. 
 
 Total Population, 9476. 
 
 
 
 Clergyman*! 
 Names. 
 
 Name of 
 Mission. 
 
 Extent of Terri- 
 tory 
 
 Extent of 
 Destitution. 
 
 Sciteof 
 Miss. 
 
 Ka.ot 
 
 Stat. 
 
 ions 
 
 Rev. 0. Archbold 
 
 Cornwall 
 
 Cornwall 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Rev. R Blokey - 
 
 Prescotwith 
 Maitland 
 
 
 300 and 400 
 Episcopalians 
 
 fiellingi 
 Mill 
 
 
 Rev. M. Harris - 
 
 
 No 
 
 Returns 
 
 
 
 Rev. R. Rolph . 
 
 
 No 
 
 Returns 
 
 
 
 Rev.E. J. Botiwell 
 
 Carlton 
 place 
 
 10, 11, 12, ConcesB. 
 
 of Lanark, 1,2, 3, 
 
 Ramsay 
 
 Pakenhatn and 
 Fitzroy,1000 Souls. 
 
 
 8 
 
 R<'v.H. Patton - 
 
 Kemptville 
 
 M arlbro, Wolford, 
 
 North & South 
 
 Gower 
 
 SOOO, one-third 
 Episcopalians 
 
 Merrick 
 
 ville 
 
 1 
 
 Rev. W. Uuuning 
 
 New Dublin 
 
 Township of 
 Elizabeth 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. £. Derroche 
 
 Brock ville 
 
 Brockville 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. J. Padfield* 
 
 Beck with 
 
 Montague and 
 Emsley 
 
 -. ■:-.-;': ..■■■:r 
 
 Smith's 
 Falls 
 
 Edward 
 sberg 
 
 b 
 
 Rev. J. O. Lindsay 
 
 Williamsbrg 
 
 and 
 Edwardsbrg 
 
 Mountain, Finch, 
 
 Winchester, 
 
 Roxburgh. 
 
 600 in the Eastern 
 District 
 
 6 
 
 Rev. B.V. Rogers* 
 
 Richmond 
 
 and 
 Marlbro' 
 
 Goulburn and 
 Nepean 
 
 1200 
 
 
 1 
 
 Rev. Mr Tremayn 
 U. S. Epis. 
 
 Charleston 
 
 and 
 
 Beverley 
 
 No & So. Crosby, 
 
 Wilsic Town, 
 
 Kentuck 
 
 several 100 miles 
 in length, 40 in 
 breadth, 16 to 25 
 
 
 i 
 
 Rev. W.W. Wait 
 
 
 No Return, being 
 
 in England on 
 
 leave 
 
 
 Rev. S. S. Strong 
 
 Bytown,U.C 
 
 and Hull, L. C. 
 
 
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 ■ il 
 
 Rev. W. 8. Harpur* Newly appointed to March and Huntley, having been 3 Years 
 Travelling Missionary of Midland District, Toronto Society, i.). C. .T & P. Q. D. S. 
 
 The Ottawa Dis. 
 
 10 Town- 
 ships 
 
 Length 60 to 70 
 
 miles, breadth 
 
 20 
 
 Not one Clergy- 
 man 
 
 L'Origi. 
 naL 
 
 * These received Aid from the late Bishop of Quebec, through the Stewart 
 
 Mission Fund, in 1U3JU6. 
 
Ill 
 
 •I 
 
 Id the abmnceof more particular Statistical Acconnta, (which rotiKtaicntlY 
 with oar extensiire charge it is impossible for us to attain,^ \vi> l>« l.tvo tli« 
 Ueli|pou« Wantn of our communion may be most corrtHUy iwuk' kMtwn 
 bjr the following brief reportx of the several reeideot, (M>>rgyniuii ui tiia 
 thraa districts, comprised within the boiindii of our Associutiuri. 
 
 EASTERN DISTRICT. 
 
 The Rer. Messrs. Archlmld, of Cornv '•ll, ami iJiidsaV) of WillininHhiirffh 
 join in reporting. The formnr i>i Hector («i f^omwall, trie County Town of 
 Stormont, compritting a population HiiHicient to ^ve ample emiiioyiii«Mit to 
 one Clergyman. Moulinette however, situated on thr long Sault (iuiul, 
 about seven miles from Cornwall, and ni^hl from OHuabruck has, till liitcly, 
 been under the immediate charge of Mr Archbold, but he now findit him^^elf 
 compelled to confine his lahours exclusively to Cornwall. The Church nt 
 Moulinette, has therefore been necessarily shut up for some months past. 
 In this neighbourhood however there are a number of persons decidedly at- 
 tached to the Church, and some miles back about fifty more, entirely exclud- 
 ed at present from the ordinances and privileges of tne Church. 
 
 Edwardsburo (the Eastern half) althougli in the Johnstone District, 
 belongs to the Mission of Williamsburg. It is situated about fifteen milea 
 from that settlement, has a stone Church which Mr Lindsay serves once a 
 month. The Congregation is small, but with due ministerial care, Mr L, is 
 quite persuaded a different state of things would soon arise, especially aa 
 there are, in the rear of the same Township, in the neighboivhood of 
 Moore's Settlement, about eighty souls professing to belong to the Church. 
 
 Mountain the most Westerly Township of the Eastern District. 
 Mr L. reports, " I have occasionally oHiciatcd there, when in my power, 
 and have uniformly met large and attentive congregations, composed crhiefly 
 of persons attached to our communion. Upon enquiring I find their number 
 to be nearly two hundred Souls, and perhaps fifty more, decidedly favour- 
 able to us. Land for a Church and Burial Ground on the bank of the 
 Petite Nation River, in the head of the Settlement, has been offered by 
 different individuals ; and I have every reason to believe that a Church would 
 speedily oilow the occasional regular visits of a Travelling Missionary, till 
 more could be done." 
 
 Winchester immediately behind Williamsburg ; Between the Upper 
 and Lower Settlements, there are nearly one hundred of our Communion, 
 and I have fixed Armstrong's Mills in the Lower Settlement, as my 
 preaching Station. 
 
 Finch, the next Township is in the rear of Osnabmck. The front 
 part is composed chiefly of Scotch Settlers, in the ba<;k part of the Town- 
 ship in the neighbourhood of " Crysler's Mills," there are about seventy five 
 persons who belong to our communion — to whom however I have been only 
 able to preach twice. 
 
 Roxburgh lies in the rear of Corawall, it is yet in its infancy, but 
 contains one hundred at least, wholly dependent upon the Church for Gospel 
 Ordinances. We may therefore safely say, that there are upwards of six 
 hundred Souls in the Eastern District — professedly members of the Church, 
 who are Spiiitually Destitute, and I have no hesitation in adding that the 
 number of those who would attend the Church, were regular opportunities 
 oflFered, and a pious and zealous Missionaiy sent among them, would very 
 Eoon be doubled. In fine, Mr. Lindsay urges this strongly upon the 
 
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 attention of your Lordiilnp, and proposes that a Travelling Mi^ftionary sliould 
 make Edwardsburg \m Head Quarters during the Spring and Autumn months, 
 when it would he impossible to travel. 
 
 JOHNSTONE DISTRICT. 
 
 Rectory of Prescott. The Rev. R. Blakey, Incumbent, 
 reports, " There are two Churches in the Township of Augusta, at 
 which I officiate, one in Prescott, and the other in Maitland. At the 
 former, Divine Service is performed every sunday raoniing and night, when 
 the roads permit, . id at the latter in the afternoon. The number generally 
 attending at Prescott is about two hundred ; at Maitland between seventy 
 and eighty. I am so much confined by my duty to these places, and the 
 country adjacent, that I cannot extend my services, although I know 
 assuredly that there are many parts around me deplorably in want ot the 
 ministratio.^s of Clergymen — v. g. " Bellamy's Mills," where there are 
 from three to four hundred members of our Church, most anxious to liave 
 a minister, and who are willing to contribute to his support, although it 
 ought, in justiire to them, to be added, that they are generally new settlers, 
 and consequently are unable to do much. Other Clergymen might be 
 advantageously located in the Township, if the spiritual interests of the 
 people could be the ruling consideration, but I am quite satisfied from the 
 extreme poverty of the population generally^ they could not afford to funiisb 
 anif part of the means of support. 
 
 Mr. Blakey's long residence in the country, (nearly 20 years) entitles 
 his opinion to very considei-able weight, and he closes liis report by saying 
 " the Blessings to be derived from the co-operation of the fiiends of the 
 " Gospel in our behalf aie incalculably great, and must force themselve$ 
 " on observation, when we consider the miseries we might hare escaped, 
 ♦' and which have been brought upon us, and upon a neighbouring people, 
 •' solely by neglecting the due dissemination of Christian principles. ' 
 
 Rectory of Kemptville, Rev. H. Patten. Mr. P. reports. "Tlie 
 Townships in which I officiate, either regularly, or occasionally, ai'e Oafurd, 
 Marlbrough, Wolford, North and South Gower, and conipri&e a tract of 
 country nearly forty miles long, and varying in breadth from ten to twenty 
 miles, with an aggregate scattered population of 5000 Souls. In the five 
 Townships I have seven preaching stations, and to do Justice to the people 
 I ought to have twice as many more, but it is morally impossible to extend 
 my labour. The two extreme Stations at wliich I preach are distant 
 thirty six miles. 
 
 The Township of Oxford contains about two thousand Inhabitants, of 
 whom nearly one third I believe belong to my charge ; In this township is 
 hituated the Village of Kemptville, where I reside ; here we have a neat 
 C'hurch, with a Bell, and a Burial ground well enclosed. This Township 
 alone would amply employ the best effi)rts of one Clergyman, as there ought 
 to be divine service performed in three <lift'erent places vvithin its limits. 
 
 Marlbrough. Here is a handsome frame Church, and a Burial 
 ground well enclosed. The Township contains about eight hundred Inhabi- 
 tants, half of them, or more, belonging to the Church ; only a part of tl.is 
 Township is under my care, the rest being attached to Richmond on account 
 of its Proximity. 
 
 In WoLi ORD is situated the Village of Memckville, where the people, 
 by great and praisewortliy exertions, have succeeded in erecting a handsome 
 
 
ftlis, 
 
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 tlie 
 
 dien 
 
 \ra\\y 
 
 ?nty 
 
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 «ton<» Clmrcli. This Township containn about fourteen hundred Inhahitantn. 
 BeAidea the congrepration in, awl about Merrickville, there is a Station for 
 Divine Service seven or eip;lit miles beyond the Village. Here is great and 
 j»re8sin«r need for the Services of a resident Clei^man. Merrickville is 
 sixteen miles from my re .idence, I have never been able to afford it service 
 more than once a fortnight, and that always in the evcK'ng. — During the past 
 Winter, the Rev. W. Wait, has officiated in a very zealous and efficient 
 manner at this place, and the neighbouring Station, once in four weeks. 
 
 South Gower. The Church families here are but few in number, 
 but North Gower contains between five and six hundred Inhabitants, a large 
 proportion of whom attach themselves to my Cure — and I am fully persuaded 
 a very large congregation miglit be formed here, if a Clergyman could 
 attend them eveiy sunday. At present Mr. Wait visits them once in f<mr 
 weeks on Sunday, and his 8ervic<»s have been highly appreciated. His at- 
 tendance however will end in May. 
 
 These five Townships then are pnrtiaUt/ supplied — it is however indeed 
 hut partiafh/, and in a degree utterly inadequate to the wants — for where 
 the spliere of labour is so extensive, occasional visits whi«h cannot be followed 
 up by pastoral intercourse, and pastoral supervision, will do little more than 
 keep together the uealous members of the Church — and cannot be expected 
 to retain much influence over the young and the thoughtless. 
 
 Mr. Patten desires especially to remark for your Lordship's Information, 
 " that the expectation of having a Clergyman stationed among them at 
 " Merrickville, rendered the people much more zealous in erecting their 
 *< Church, and a desire of seeing their Spiritual wants *nore effectually 
 " supplied, as well as relieving myself from a part of a laborious charge^ir 
 ** too e.rtensive for my strength^ makes me equally anxious to see a Clergy- 
 ** man stationed there." 
 
 Charlston and Beverley. Rev. F. Tremayne, (of the U. S. 
 EpiscopTy.) Hp reports. I have five places under my immediate chai^, 
 which I serve more or leas every month, added to occ^onally visiting 
 other places more remote from my residence. The five are Beverley, 
 Charlston, South Crosby, Wilsictown, and Kentuck. 
 
 In KiTLEY (to which place I go when I can) about nineteen miles from 
 hence, there is a very large congregation, I may say wholly destitute of the 
 public ordinances. 
 
 At the Isthmus. North Crosby and in the Township of Leeds, the 
 materials exist separately — but they are practically " as sheep without a 
 " shepherd," for as yet, I believe, they have not had a single opportunity 
 of meeting as a congregation. I could also name many other places, where 
 " the harvest is ready," but the labourers are not there ; and I am given 
 to imderstnnd that in many of them the anxiety is extreme, to have the 
 privilege of a Clergyman of their own Church, fi*om whom they might receive 
 the ordinance of Baptism. Mr. Tremayne adds, " perhaps the wants of the 
 " Clnirch are not greater in any part of Ker Majesty's Dominions than in this 
 " neighb<mrhood — there is not a single Clergyman between my residence and 
 " Kingston, a tract forty n)iles in extent, and from sixteen to twenty five 
 " niilea in breadth, where are several hnndrefls, members of the Church of 
 " England, the greater part of them entirely destitute of Religious Ordinances, 
 " and deeply anxious to have their Chihlren admitted regularly into the pale 
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 'forbidden pastures' for the streams of salvation ; I extend my labours amongst 
 them ** as far as I can, it is however really but as a drop in the Ocean of their 
 wants. 
 
 Rectory of Richmond, Rev. R. B. Rojerers, Incumbent, reports, 
 ** that his Rectory or Parish is legally styled the first Rectory in the town- 
 ship of Goulbum, that it is situated about twenty miles from Kemptville ; fifteen 
 from Franktown, the residence of the Rev. J. Padfield ; twenty-foiv from 
 Carlton-place, the parish of the Rev. E. Boswell ; and twenty miles from 
 the mission March and Huntley, the Rev. W. Harpiu- ; and twenty from 
 Bytown, the parish of the Rev. S. S. Strong ; so that few districts are 
 apparently better supplied, and yet how imperfect that supply is, will appear 
 from a very ciuisory survey. 
 
 The Township of Goulbum extends over ten square miles, in which 
 are scattered in places, (many almost inaccessible except with the greatest 
 difficulty, save in winter) a ropulation, according to the census just taken, 
 of nine hundred and fifty two members of the Church. Confining my per- 
 sonal Ministry on the Sunday to Eichmnnd, I have five Stations for Divine 
 Service and catechising, which are visited once every month, and two 
 others occasionally. It might be thought, that, such as it is, the Ministry 
 of the Church is here put within the reach of all her members, statedly, at 
 leafit once in four weeks, hut practically it is nothing of the kind, for although 
 the men and the healthy can have no excuse for not incurring a proportion of 
 the labour and difficulty which I must encounter in attending them, yet, the 
 infirm, the women, and the chihlren are in many parts entirely debarred ; 
 added to which, the eflect of long privation is, as might have been expected, 
 but too visible in the conduct of many, who have no excuse to plead but their 
 own indifference to religious matters — which indifference humanly speaking, 
 nothing can remove but the constant personal commimication with their 
 minister, visiting from house to house — this, circumstanced as I am with 
 regard to the greatei proportion, is quite impossible. Your Lordship, from 
 personal experience, can fully understand this, knowing as you do, that under 
 every advantage, visits in the bush can only be made at an immense expense 
 of time and labour. Thus much for my parish proper, but, from circum- 
 stances easily ima^ned by any one the least initiated into our local situation, 
 its actual limits are extended far beyond these. 
 
 The Township of Marlbrougn to the distance of nine miles, looks to 
 the Clei^yman of Richmond for a supply. Here I hold Divine Service once a 
 month on a week day, meeting about twelve families. About an equal num- 
 ber I have to attend in another direction in the same Township, where a 
 Sunday School is held under my direction every Lord's Day. A second 
 Sunday School is held by the Teacher of the School, (a female member of 
 my Palish) in what is called " the Gore" of Marlbrougli, about six miles 
 from Richmond : but here again the same remaik holds good in relation 
 to the attendance of the members. Nothing but actual residence in a new 
 country, can in any degree convey to the mind, the deadening effects oj 
 that long privation of the sacred ministrations to which Cancida has been 
 exposed. 
 
 I'he Township of Nepean, in which Bytown ia situated, to the ex- 
 tent of twelve miles also depends mi my ministry. Here I have two stations, 
 one occasional about twelve milns uH, and a second statedly once a month, 
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 also considered an adjunct of my Parish. Although the greater portion of 
 the population of this tract of country are Roman Catholics, yet very many 
 Members of our Communion are scattered about — the exact number I am 
 not able to Rtate — but J can state that they are entirely destitute of minis- 
 terial Services on a Sunday^ and consequently can scarcely be expected 
 not to fall an'ay. 
 
 Gloucbstbr is the next Township to Nepean. From hence to Mr. 
 Lindsay's P.irish (Williamsburg) is fifty miles in a direct line, though I 
 believe no road exists. There, through the whole extent, is not a single 
 Clergyman, though there are many Members of our Church, to be found 
 when sought out. 
 
 The Sum, therefore, of my Report is, that I have a Parish in length 
 nearly thirty miles, in breadth about twenty, with a population of 1200 
 people — one half of which at least is destitute. These are factft, my Lord, 
 which will speak far more to the point than any remarks of mine. I can 
 only say for my own part, that my heart oickens at the thought of the des- 
 titute condition of this Church population, not the less deplorable on account 
 of the indifference which has resulted from neglect.* 
 
 Rectory of Franktown, Rev J. Padfield, Incumbent. He reports 
 that having but recently come to the Parish, he is not yet intimately ac- 
 quainted with the state of the suiTounding country, as to the want of religious 
 privileges. He states, however, that he holds Services at five Stations, be- 
 sides the Parish Church. At one in Beckwith, at three in Montague, and 
 one at " Smith's Falls," in the Township of Elmsley. 
 
 Montague, which joins Beckwith, is thickly settled with a Church 
 population. The Settlers having but lately entered upon their farms, are 
 generally very poor, but sincerely attached to the Church of their Fatliers. 
 A good Congregation would easily be formed at '^Smith's Falls," the inhabi- 
 tants being very desirous of enjoying the Blessing of a Clergyman settled 
 amongst them, and express their willingness to contribute to his support. 
 In the village there has been erected a Presbyterian Church, which is served 
 by a resident Minister. The Roman Catholics have also a Church, and 
 Service occasionally. Our Services are held, at present, in a House belong- 
 ing to the Ordinance Department. It is, however, in contemplation to 
 commence a Church without delay. 
 
 Carlton Place Rectory, Rev. E. Boswell, Incumbent. He 
 reports — " The first and most important of the destitute Settlements in my 
 neighbourhood are the two Townships of Fitzroy and Packenham. Thers 
 is no Clergyman in either of them ; and they lie so far off, that they are 
 quite out of our reach for anything beyond a casual occasional Service. To 
 shew the want of a Clergyman, no more is needed than to give the returns 
 of the Population as just made up. By these I find that there are 847 
 Episcopalians and 16 Methodists. It is very clear that the 16 cannot afford 
 the maintenance of a Minister. Surely it is a dreadful thing that here should 
 he nearly 1000 of our people without a vestige of' regular religious Service 
 
 Of Lanark I have not the returns ; but the Episcopalians in the 10th 
 11th, and 12th Concessions of that Township ; and the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd of 
 Ramsay, afford me two good Congregations. I think they ought to hava 
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 '* This District consistH of ten Townships. It in in length between sixty 
 and seventy miles, extreme breadth about twenty miles ; and yet in all this 
 tract of Country, not a single resident Clei'gyniun is to be found, although 
 it IS believed that the largest part of the Population consists of the Mem- 
 bers of the Church of England, Occasionully the nearest point is visited 
 by the He v. Mr. Abbot, of Grenville and St. Andrews. 
 
 "L'Original is the District town, where a Missionary might make his 
 head-quarters. A Church is already erected, and very many of our Com- 
 munion are to be found here." 
 
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 Having expressed to your Lordship in October last, my 
 intention of visiting the destitute Townships on the River Ottowa, above 
 Bytown during the Winter, and being disappointed in the expectation of 
 travelling under the guidance of a Gentleman who was proceeding to his 
 Lumber establishment in those parts, I left home alone on the first of January, 
 for Fitzroy Harbour, and the Chats in the Township of Fitzroy, with a view 
 of extending my Journey to the Miramichi, the last settlement upon the 
 Ottoway lying on the IJpper Canada side, and of thus returning through 
 the Townships in the Lower Province. Upon arriving at Fitzroy Harbour, and 
 consulting experienced persons as to the route by which it would be advisa- 
 ble to travel — I was reluctantly c^ompelled to abandon the Journey as utterly 
 hopeless, upon learning from them the intricacies of the Roads through the 
 Woods, and the extreme difficulties with which I should have to contend in tra- 
 velling alone amidst these vast, and for many miles together, uninhabited forests. 
 After preaching therefore twice on Sunday the ?rd of February, at " th« 
 Chats" to good Congregations, I made up my mind to return, but finding 
 your Lordship's letter on my anival at Bytown, I was encouraged once more 
 to try, and engaged a Horse — Sleigh and Guide to reti-ace my steps, and carry 
 my original plan into execution. 
 
 On Tuesday February 20th, I t^in left home for " the Chats" thirty- 
 five miles di8tanc«, calling in my way vhrough March, at General Lloyd's, 
 where I procured a small supply of Bibles, Testaments, Prayer Books, antl 
 Tracts, in addition to others wnich I had taken from home, and which I am 
 happy to say were eagerly bought up before I had made out half my Journey. 
 
 March. March is the next Township to Nepean, in which Bytown 
 is situated, and although not abandantly supplied with Church Provision for 
 its population, is yet, as compared with other places, highly privileged since from 
 the munificenc« of General Lloyd and his mends, aided by the Inhabitants, 
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 attached. Mr. Harpur, its pious and zealous Rector, officiates in the Town- 
 ships of Huntley and TorhoUon. In the former of these Townships, a 
 Church^has lately been erected through the exertions, and assisted by the 
 Donations of General Lloyd ; The efforts of this Gentleman, and his friends 
 in aid of the Church of England, place them amongst the most strenuous of 
 its supporters in these Provinces. 
 
 ToRBOLTON. This Township which adjoins March, (and which I was 
 compelled to pass, as the winter road to Fitzroy is by the Lake Ice,) contains 
 
 A NUMEROUS POPULATION ALTOGETHER WITHOUT SPIRITUAL SUPER- 
 VISION, excepting such as with great difficulty Mr. Harpur— or the casual 
 itinerant Visits of other Denominations— can occasionally supply ; I can- 
 not correctly state its Population, but it is very numerous, and contains a 
 great many members professing to belong to the Church of England. I re- 
 gretted much the impossibility of visiting them at this time. 
 
 Fitzroy, Wechiesday February 20th. Fitzroy Harbour, the Capital 
 of the Township, (lying amidst the Chats Rapids, on a beantifiil Site,) was 
 founded some years ago by Charles ShirreiF, Esq. It is a thriving village, 
 containing about seventy houses, and promises to become a place of some 
 importance, as S* lies on the contemplated route to Lake Huron, but it is 
 entirely destitute of any place of worship^ or stated means of Grace^ 
 saving such as can be occasionally furnished by the Missionary visits of some 
 distant Scotch Methodists and Roman Catholics. The only opportunities 
 of public worship which the Church of England has yet provided it with, 
 consist in one visit last Summer of the Rev. W. W. Wait ; one of the 
 Rev. J. Harris, in January ; and three services which 1 have held there 
 since. The People themselves appear to be extremely anxious that a 
 Church and Minister should be provided for them. Of course in a new 
 Settlement, the prospect of assistance which they are able to hold out is not 
 great, but I believe that contributions to the full extent of their limited means 
 would gladly be raised by them. As is usual, and inevitable, in cases where 
 the parties have been subjected to such extreme Destitution, it must of course 
 be expected that any Protestant Denomination, be it what it may, which first 
 comes to their relief, by opening a place of Worship and providing a Minister, 
 would be supported by all. That duty seems to belong to the Church of 
 England, and it is therefore very important that this place should be immedi- 
 ately supplied with aid by us ; if that is not done, we cannot complain, should 
 our members, from necessity, lapse into any species of dissent first presented 
 to them. This is more especiaUy important^ as the bulk of the population 
 at present in the Township, (one thouaand^five hundred,) belong by pro- 
 fession to the established Church. 
 
 After obtaining such information from the Surveyor as was necessary 
 jto guide me in my travelling plan, and giving notice that I should preach 
 (D. V.) at Fitzroy, again on the first of March, I left the place and proceed- 
 ed to M'Nab, passing by Hubble's Mills, five miles distant, a settlement which 
 (with those scattered in its neighbourhood,) contains a population of aboiit 
 sixty, chiefly of the Church of England, or Roman Catholics. I left notice 
 here of my intention to preach at Fitzroy on the 1st of March, but as the 
 people are much scattered, I could not visit them, nor was there time to call 
 them together for Divine Worship, without altering the whole arrangement 
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 on the following day. At this place there is no School or place of Worship, 
 although thertt is a very considerable population. The Madawaska, or 
 Amprior Settlement, is in the Township of Mac Nab which in other parts is 
 chiefly inhabited by highland settlers from Scotland ; stopping at this 
 place only to rest my horse, I proceeded in the afternoon through a dense 
 forent about twenty miles, according to the Surveyor's Directions, to the 
 Ixiuse of a Mr Morris, a Presbyterian, at Canaan in the same Township of 
 vlric Nab, by whom I was most kindly and hospitably provided with every 
 thing necessary for myself, my horse, and my g^ide during the night. In this 
 Township of M'Nab there are about one thousand one hundred Souls, many 
 of' them belonging to the Church of England, and these are totally destitute. 
 
 Mac Nab, Thursday, February 21st. I preached this day at Mr. 
 Stuart's, from Numbers xvi. 48. In consequence of the shoitness of the 
 notice, given only the preceding evening, and the widely scattered state of 
 the population, I had a congregation almost entirely consisting of Presby- 
 terians, about thirty seven assembled. Before leaving Mr. Monis', the 
 people drew me into an interesting conversation on Religious subjects, 
 Establishments, Episcopacy, and the Clergy Reserve Question. They listened 
 eagerly to what I said upon the subject, and I hope and believe in some 
 degree to the removal of prejudices, created hy the most unfounded and 
 exciting statements. — Generally, the Presbyterians are very far from wishing 
 •' God speed" to the unscriptural doctrines and undisciplined views broached 
 in this country, by the Missionaries of the numerous strange Sects occasionally 
 wandering among them. From Canaan, I proceeded to the Bonne-chere Point, 
 in the Townsliip of Horton, calling at the House of Mrs. Bell, relict of the 
 late Captain Bell, for permission to preach there the next day, which was 
 gladly gianted, and notice given, but from the circumstance that the Pres- 
 byterian Minister was by previous airangement to preach at Canaan, the 
 same day, I was told that I must not expect many persons to assemble, — his 
 notice being of some weeks standing, mine scarce as many hours. The scatter- 
 ed state of the Population renders it almost impossible indeed, for the people 
 to be assembled at a short notice, and therefore makes a regular stated 
 Itinerancy, (incompatible with the duties of fixed Missions,) more necessary. 
 I cannot omit to mention the very kind manner in which I was entertained 
 by Mrs. O'Neil, of the Bonne-chere. 
 
 Horton. I leanit that this Township contains about six hundred 
 people, absolutely ((es tute of all Church ifJ^n gland Ministrations. 
 
 Ross, Friday, Februaiy 22nd. After preaching at Mrs. Bell's to 
 about thirty persons, all that could be assembled at such short notice, I 
 proceeded at one o'Clock, to the Musk-rat Lake, in the Township of Ross 
 the next Location of any importance on the Upper Canada side of the River, 
 Arriving at a place called Spencer Allen Settlement, about twenty miles, 
 distant, at six o'Clock, I immediately sent out Messengers into the Neigh- 
 bourhood, who gave notice of my intention to preach at half-past ten thvs 
 following morning ; (Saturday, 23rd.) and although the notice was so short, 
 all the Neighbouriiood gladly attended, forming a ('ongrcgation of thirty-nine 
 j)erson8, many of whom had walked very considerable <listances over tlie Ice, 
 the surface of which, from a very rapid thaw, was covered with Water. 
 Most of these people had never seen a Clergyman since they left their native 
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 the Divine Service, they expressed the moat earnest entreaties for the Mi- 
 nistrations at least of an occasional Travelling Missionary, if no more could 
 at present be done for them. I here baptized four Children, sold and gave 
 away many Bibles, Testaments, Prayer Books, as well as several numbers of 
 select Homilies and Tracts. The Population, as far as I could ascertain, 
 comprises about two hundred families. Proceeding in the afternoon through 
 the unsettled parts of Ross andWestmeath, about twenty miles, I arrived at the 
 Miramichi Settlement, in the Township of Pembroke, about six o'clock. In 
 this place Mr. Dunk/, gladly made me his guest, and immediately sent out 
 notice of my arrival, and of my intention to hold Divine Service, at his house 
 on the morrow, (Sunday,) at eleven o'Clock. 
 
 Miramichi, Pembroke, Sunday, February 24th. About forty 
 persons assembled this morning, forming a most devout and attentive Con- 
 gregation. I was highly gratified by my visit to this place, more especially 
 80, from the expressions of pleasure which my arrival amongst them appeared 
 to give rise to amongst the Inhabitants. Many Bibles, &c. were here sold, 
 and distributed gratuitously. This Settlement was founded by a number 
 of persons, who having had their Farms destroyed some years ago, by fire 
 in New Brunswick, at a place of the same name, were induced to begin 
 the world anew in the Upper Canadian Wilderness, on these lands granted 
 to them by the Government. It promises from its position on the route to 
 Lake Huron, and from the industrious and moral habits and character of 
 the people, to become a thriving Settlement. This is the last place on the 
 South, or Upper Canada Side of the Ottowa, yet opened : beyond, all is a 
 dense forest — explored only by Indians and Lumberers, of whom, at this seasou 
 of the year, there are scattered Encampments frequently met with. A Class 
 of Methodists have penetrated thus far, and have established a Society here, 
 which is occasionally served by an Itinerant Preacher, who also occasionally 
 acts as Schoolmaster. A Quarterly Meeting had lately been held, whicti 
 was attended by the Preacher from my Paiish of Bytuwn. 
 
 Westmeath, Sunday, February 24th. Leaving Miramichi about 
 one o'clock, with a promise (D. V.) of paying it a visit next Winter. I 
 proceeded, in accordance with ray plan, to the Township of Westmeath, 
 eighteen miles distant, across about sixteen miles of Lake Ice, with an 
 intention of holding Divine Service there in the Afternoon ; but from the 
 extremely bad state of the Ice, which had been subject to nearly a Week's 
 thaw, my horse could scarcely travel, and it was five o'Cloek before I 
 arrived. I found here the M(>thodist Preacher before alluded to, about 
 to occupy the School House, but he very politely gave way to me, and 
 attended the Service. Although I had written a week before, to the Post- 
 master at Westmeath, announcing my intention of beinjr here, and requesting 
 notices to be given — the letter had not been received — I had, therefore, 
 no more than the Methodist Preachpr's own Congregation, amounting to 
 about forty. Here I baptized four Children, and left some Tracts and 
 Sunday School Books. The place appears to be entirely dependent on the 
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 Monday, February 25th. About eight this morning I left Westmeath 
 for Lichfield, a recently nettled and thriving Township on the Lower Canada 
 Side of the Ottowa. The Ice was to day very bad, and travelling most tedious. 
 Had I not taken a well experienced guide, I should have lost the track entirely, 
 from the woods being so jfrequently interHected by lumber paths. We did 
 not see a single house in the whole distance. Crossing the Rocher-fender 
 Lake and the Lower Allumettes Rapids, we arrived at Mr. Stewart's 
 at Lichfield, (a Scotch Presbyterian,) where we slept, about six in the 
 evening, and the family were immediately employed in sending round 
 notices of my intention to hold Divine Service on the following morning. 
 
 LiCHFiKLD, Tuesday February 26th. A Congregation of from forty 
 to foity-five persons assembled, some of whom were Scotch Presbyterians, 
 others Methodists — there are however a fair propoition of Episcopalians 
 in this Township. During the Service I baptised a child, and immediately 
 after Service, I left for the Township of Clarendon, calling in my route on 
 Captain Radfurd and other Inhabitants, to give notice that I should preach 
 at Clarendon the following morning. We arrived about dark at Mr. 
 Mc Douals, by whom I was most hospitably received for the night. 
 
 Clarendon, Wednesday Febmary 27th. I preached this morning in 
 the School House to a very crouded Congregation, indeed the house was 
 thronged with persons unable to get in. Here is a Church of England 
 School Master, and a pretty good School. The Methodist Missionary was 
 again present here, and a circumstance occurred which shewed the feeling 
 these awfully neglected Settlers still bear towards the Church, and its apos- 
 tolic ministrations, although they have been hitherto left by it, as sheep 
 without a shepherd ; fourteen children were brought forward for baptism ; and 
 not having a convenient resting place Jor the water, the Methodist Minister 
 kindly stepped forward to hold the bason. Of course 1 did not think it 
 necessary in a destitute Settlement hitherto unvisite<l by our Clergy, to put 
 the question ** have these Children been already baptized ? and therefore 
 received them as unbaptized — much however to my surprise, I subsequently 
 learned that many of these infants had already been baptised by the very 
 same Minister who now held the Water. On enquiring the reason, why 
 they were again brought forward, I was told it was because the parents 
 were not satisfied that the Sacrament could be duly administered by any one 
 but a regularly ordained Cleigyman. The Congregation came forward 
 immediately after the termination of the service, and in the presence of the 
 preacher, requested that I would interest your Lordship to i^end them a 
 Missionary ; It will be seen by the petition which accompanies this Report, and 
 which I have received since my return to Bytown, they still earnestly crave 
 this boon. Some Dissenters who professed themselves Methodists, although 
 entertaining sentiments unfriendly to the Church, were diligently employed 
 amongst the congregation, in trying to persuade them that the Residence of a 
 Missionary would bring with it claims for Tithes and Church Rates. This 
 however has been met by a printed declaration which I thought it but prudent to 
 distribute to the settlers in this neglected district of the Ottowa, explaining the 
 utter groundlessness and fallacy of any such idea. The Protestant Population of 
 Clarendon, is about one hundred and seven families, or six hundred and fifty 
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 to the distrihiition of Tracts and Homilies. To t\m place I Nhall advert a|^in 
 in the close of my Report. Leaving Clarendon, I next proceeded to Bristol, 
 arriving at Mr. Ross's, sixteen miles distant, late in the evening where 
 I slept. 
 
 Bristol, Thnraday, February 28th. Here I held Divine Service, 
 preachml, and baptized two Children. The Congregation was very small, 
 arising from the letter announcing my intention a we<>k before, not having 
 been received. It was put into my hands as I passed the Post Office, 
 to convey to Mr. Ross. We had however about seventy persons present, 
 all of whom expressed much gratitude at my visit, and an earnest 
 anxiety to enjoy at least the occasional Itinerant Visits of a Missionary. 
 The Population of the Township is estimated to be about one hundred 
 and twenty families, and most of them profess to be Members of the 
 Church of England. From this place your Lordship will also receive, 
 with this, a Petition fur a Missionary, which has been forwarded to me 
 since my return home. Having given notice that I should preach i'l 
 the Township of Onslow, the next day, at eleven o'Clock, and at Fitzroy 
 Harbour, in the Afternoon, it was necessary that 1 should proceed six- 
 teen miles this Evening, especially as the wretched state of the Ice and 
 Roads, in consequence of the thaw, would make the Journey difficult. 
 
 Onslow and Fitzroy, Friday March 1st. I preached in the morning 
 at Mr. Wright's, in the township of Onslow, (as yet but very thinly 
 settled) to a small congregation, and then crossed to Fitzroy H^bour, 
 where I preached again to a well filled School House, the greater number 
 of those present being Episcopalians. From its being a week day and a 
 busy season, many who would have attende<l on Sunday were absent. 
 
 Saturday March 2nd. I returned to Bytown, after an absence of eleven 
 days, during which I travelled upwards of three hundred miles, baptized 
 twenty-one children, preached ten times, and distributed numerous Bibles, 
 Prayer Books, Tracts, and Homilies. 1 vrnted thirteen Townships, containing 
 J should say at leastjjrom eight to ten-thousand protestants, many of whom, 
 indeed I may say safely, the great bulk of whom, would, if an opportunity 
 was affonled, range themselves under the banners of our Church. Yet 
 they are totally and deplorably destitute of her aid. It was with great re- 
 gret I paid them such hasty visits, and that I was unable to give notice of 
 my plans beforehand ; but as I had to explore many of these Townships for 
 the first time, itwas quite impossi'ole on a first visit that I could give previous 
 notices, without the greatesffrisk of failing in the appointments I should propose. 
 This circumstance accounts for the small congregations. In the few hours, (and 
 those chiefly night) between my arrival, and Divine Service, it was impossible to 
 reach even by the most zealous agents, a widely scattered population, dispersed 
 in the woods. The result, however, of what I saw in my tour entirely 
 convinces me, that no part of the Canadas, (destitute as they ere throughout) 
 more loudly calls for immediate attention to their spiritual wants than these 
 Townships — a necessity not decreased by the consideration of tlieir com- 
 parative Proximity to the well endowed Romanism of Montreal, an<l my 
 earnest wish is to impress upon your Lordship's mind, the extreme impor- 
 tance of speedily providing two Missionaries fur the charge of these destitute 
 Settlers ; one to be placed at Fitzroy Harbour for the Upper Canada Side, 
 and the other to reside in Clarendon, and itinerate through the Vicinities of 
 Lichfield, Clarendon, and Bristol in Lower Canada. 
 
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 If some plan of tliis kind is not carried into operation without longer 
 delay, much mischief will ensue to that cause which the Church of England 
 was instituted to promote, and of course to the Church itself, for the desti- 
 tutinn is such, that every day increases both the Indifference to Religion, 
 and an alienation of the affections of the people from her. Her inabilityt 
 the People are taught to think mere carelessness and inactivity — innumer- 
 able sects are actively employed in spreading this fallacious view ; and the 
 Periodicals whicli your Lordship knows have taken so violent a part, io 
 the absence of better food is a tenant of almost every house. Witliout, 
 tiierefuie, something effectual is done, and done soon, by the Chnrch and its 
 friends, to remedy this appalling evil, and to assist these poor Settlers, whose 
 affections still linger towards the Church of their Fathers — seeing so strongly 
 as they do, how entirely they are neglected by it, the transition cannot be 
 distant, they will undoubtedly become as schismatic and heterodox as the 
 politico-religious Teachers, who spare no exertion to draw them aside. 
 
 As to Schools and a good System of Education, nothing can be more 
 deplorable — nearly all of them being in the hands of thost who can only 
 give the most meagre instruction ; and for any advantage they can receive 
 they are indebted chiefly to the Methodists. Much as I should wish to pay oc- 
 casional visits to these townships, until the means of the Church should enable 
 her to provide for them more efficiently, my situation at Bytown and Hull 
 precludes the possibility of my doing it. Even on occasion of this short tour, 
 I could obtain no supply in my absence, and was consequently obliged to shut 
 up both my Churches. Rendering aid for my support to the liberal extent 
 which my people do, they feel no doubt, that they have a clear right to the 
 whole of my attention ; and closing the Church once only is objected to by 
 them. Thus any extensive itinerant Missionary Assistance on my part is 
 out of the question. There are other Townships iu this District yet unno- 
 ticed. 
 
 Below Bytown (which I have to include in my report hereafter) there 
 are in the Ottowa District of the Upper Province, the Townships of 
 Gloucester, ( which I have twice visited) Cumberland, Clarence, 
 Plantagenet, Osgood, and Russell, all containing thriving and Pro- 
 testant Populations, yet utterly destitute, and craving /Spiritual Instrx ,/ton, 
 without, in many instances, even Schools amongst them, or which is almost 
 the same thing, if possessing them, so badly supplied with masters, as to be 
 entirely useless. 
 
 In the Lower Province, opposite to them, lie Templeton, Bucking- 
 ham, and LocHABER, all alike destitute, and imploring us to help them ; 
 for they feel they are as Sheep going astray, moie and more; for the want 
 of a Shepherd. 
 
 Are THESE POOR Settlers, then to perish in the Wilderness ? 
 is a question for the nation to answer. Shepherds it may be said, and indeed is 
 said, they have ; but those who know the unsound and unscnptural Doctrines 
 which too many of these men teach in the Backwoods, cannot but tremble for 
 the Souls of their Disciples. I do therefore, as an eye-witness to the danger 
 likely to arise, if this destitution be continued, and of the evils which have 
 already arisen from its having been permitted so long, most earnestly beseech 
 your Lordship to leave them no longer thus, but to let your Voice be heard 
 tlnough all toe Mountains of Israel, and to procure them some aid. 
 
XT 
 
 BYTOWN AND HULL (EXTRACT.) 
 
 I now come to that part of my Report referring to my own Cnre. I 
 do not rate the Members of my Congregation at Bytown, excloRive of chil- 
 dren under twelve years of age, at less than 300 persons. Onr Church .is too 
 small, and ought to be enlarged immediately, as at present the poor have no 
 accommodation j nor could Her Majesty's Troops if quartered here, as was 
 formerly usual, obtain room with the civilians, or nnv a separate service, from 
 my being compelled already to preach three times to my own people here, 
 an<l at Hull. I have also usually preached twice a week in the country till 
 lately, since the roads have become impassable, besides a Lent Lecture at 
 home. During the last Winter, I have travelled altogether on Missionary 
 duty above 1200 Miles. 
 
 The Sunday School here, has on its list about sixty Children ; but 
 having three Servirf>s, and four Miles to walk, I sadly require a capable per- 
 son to superintend it. 
 
 Bytown is a Rectory, and had originally two Lots of Land, about 450 
 Acres, appropriated to its Endowment, as appears by the Report made to Sir F. 
 B. Head. These, however, I regret to say, from the Patent having 
 
 BEEN WITHHELD, are ABOUT TO BE OTHERWISE APPROPRIATED, Dud if 
 
 the Governor and Council are not prevailed upon by the representations 
 which I have made to them upon the subject, soliciting them to set apart 
 other lands in lieu of those so taken away, this Rectory will be, found, should 
 the proposed Patent of Mis-appropriation issue, a perfect anomaly. A Pec- 
 tory without an Income and without a Glebe, and dependent upon the Vo- 
 luntary Principle 1 1 ! Bytown, from some cause or other, has been strangely 
 overlooked ; With an increasing Population, already nearly 2000, the Church 
 of England has no Burying Ground, but merely inters its dead, on suffer^ 
 ante, with the Scotch Church, in a spot set apart for Military Defences ! 
 It has never been allowed anything for the Church or Minister, from 
 Government, either in Land or Monet/, although the Troops, when here, 
 use the Church as a Chapel, and claim the Services of the Clergyman as 
 Chaplain ; thereby making occasionally a fourth Service ; but on the 
 other hand, the Romish Priest ha? a valuable endowment of' Land and a 
 Salary ! and the Kirk possesses the best Clergy Reserve in the neigh- 
 bourhood, together with a handsome Income for the Minister. 
 
 Bytown, March 29th, 1839. S. S. STRONG. 
 
 To The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Montreal. 
 
 i i' 
 
 Editor^s Note. After perusing these appallinff Statements, and convinced 
 that the British People are utterly ignorant upon the subject, I do feel bound in 
 oonscience to state (be it offensive, or not, to whom it may) tnat by a Clause in the 
 Act of 1791. every Sale and Urunt in these Townships is rendered invalid by this state 
 of things ; and it therefore becomes less surprising, that the strongest efforts should ba 
 made to overset that Act, without enquiry, by an Administrative System, reaping ths 
 benefit of the Sales, yet neglecting the duties and conditions. That Clause positivelt 
 ENACTS, that in laying out every Township, a Provision of one-seventh average Land, 
 should be allotted for the maintenance of one, or more Clergymen, and SPECiFiCA|.Lr 
 
 NULLIFIES EVERT STEP IN THE SETTLEMENT, UNLESS THIS PROVISION 18 
 
 FIRST OBSERVED. How it has been observed, facts now shew; and unless "tha 
 people" at home choose to share the guilt, and inevitable punishment as a Christiaa 
 Nation, it now behoves them to apply the remedy, to tear the veil of mysterious polioy* 
 which would give a Protestant Colony, tied and bound into the hands of a tyranav 
 which thsir Fathers would not bear, and by petitioning tb* Lsgislatura in favour « 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
xri 
 
 their Emicrsnt Brethrmi, to force tho Oovtrnmant to proride what wm promiMd to 
 induce their Emigration — BritiihLaws, Bkitiih Institutioxi, awd Chbiit< 
 IAN British Privilcobi. It is an error—a fatal error — to suppose the question 
 lies between the Church of England and other Protestant Denominations. It lies 
 between the Church of England and Poptry—Jbetween the Church tff Bnghnd and the 
 Infidel— Ood srant neither we, nor our Children, may ever see the mevitable result of 
 " oer being taken out of the way.** 
 
 tory 
 
 " That which fetteth will let, till it be taken out of the way, then will the Mys* 
 of Iniquity be revealed, &&"— 2 Thass. II. 7. S* 
 
 36ih Ctatue of the Corutitutional Act, of 1791-2. 
 
 ^ -^T- 
 
 El .' 
 
 It 
 
 —And that whenever any grant of Lands within either of the said Provinces 
 '' shall hereafter be made by, or under the authority of His Majesty (or his Succes- 
 " sors, &C.) there shall at the name time be made in respect of the name, a proportion- 
 " able allotment and appropriation of Lands (one>seventh) for tie above mentioned 
 " purpose^ VBtthiu the Townihip or Parish to which such Lands so to be granted shall 
 '* appertam, or be unnered, or as nearly adjacent thereto as circumstances will admit ; 
 " and that no tuch Grant$ shall be valid or effectual, unlets the tame shall contain a 
 " tpee{fication of the Lands so allotted and appropriated, in respect of the Lands to be 
 " thereby granted ; and that such Lands so to be appropriated, shall be as nearly as the 
 " nature of the case will permit, of like quality as the Lands in respect of which the 
 *' same are so allotted, and shall oe as nearlv as the same can be estimated at the time 
 " of making such Grant, equal in value to the seventh part of the Lauds so granted." 
 
 And yet in the face of this,and of the promise held out in the Proclamation of 1783, for 
 theenoouragement of Settlers, and of other documents, the Protestant Emigrants are 
 now called upon, by voluntary donation, to give Land for the site of Churches and 
 Parsonages, to subscribe of their deep povertv, for the maintenance of Clergy, or to 
 submit, as heretofore, to go without the regular Ministrations which are the main 
 glory and prop of the Constitution of the Mother Land. 
 
 That the existence of such promises is no mere idle assertion of mine, take the 
 following proof from an address presented by the Lord Mayor and Common Council 
 of London to Oeorge 3rd, in 1774, against the pro^popish parts of the Quebec Bill of 
 that year — " We humbly conceive that this Bill, if passed into a Law, will be contrary, 
 not onl^ to the Compact entere I into with the Settlers of the reformed Religion, who 
 ** were invited into the said Provinces under the sacred promise of enjoying the benefit 
 " of the Laws of your Realm of England^ but likewise repugnant to your Royal Procla- 
 ** mation of October, 1763." 
 
 Yet the Bill against which this Address was presented, gave to the Romanist 
 onl/ff " the free exercise of his Religion, " and authorised the Priesthood only to receive 
 thetr dues from those of their own persuasion — verbally appropriating the rest to the 
 maintenance of a Protestant Clergy — and empowering and commauding each success- 
 ive Oovnrnor (Clause 39) to " present, from time to time, to such Parsonage, or Reo- 
 " tory, an Incumbent or Minister who shall have been duly Ordained according to 
 " the Rites of the Church of England." Also by Clause 40, subjecting such Clergry 
 ** to Institution and all other bpiritual Jurisdiction of the Bishop <n Nova Scotia 
 *' — or any other person authorised according to the Laws and Canons of the 
 " Church of England, which are established and received in England."— Enactments 
 entirely neglected from that day to this ! ! ! 
 
 Thus ends these awfully appalling Reports — I shall make no further re- 
 mark. The facts speak for themselves, and if unattended to, will speak in 
 Thunder 'ere one generation passes away. 
 
 " Liberavi animam meam." 
 
 W. J. D. WADDILOVE, 
 
 Agent for tlie Stewart Mission Fund. 
 Beacon Granget September 16<A, 1839. 
 
liM 
 
 It of 
 [yt- 
 
 SUBSCIlIF'nONS AND DONATIONS 
 
 To the Latt Bishop of Quebec t Canadian Travelling Miuion Fundf 
 ^ from November U/, 1838, to October 22nd, 1839. 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 10 
 U 10 
 5 
 10 
 
 00 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 £. $ d 
 Mrs Forbes, by SirW. Forbes & Co. 1 1 
 Mrs Pattulio, ditto 1 1 
 
 William Forbes, Ksq. ditto 1 1 
 
 Hon. Lord Medwyn, 183U-0 • 10 
 Ditto 1839-40 .. .. A 
 
 O. Forbes, Esu. ... ... S 
 
 Mrs. Mackenzie, of Portmore ... 1 
 The Misses Anderson, of Mordun 6 
 
 Mrs. Jefferay, 10 
 
 Lady Marjoribanks 1 
 
 MissHaVjOf Nunraw 1 
 
 Miss A. Cumming, 1 10 
 
 Miss Forbes, 10 
 
 Miss £milia Cumming 1 10 
 
 Miss Hume, Moray IMace ... 10 
 
 Miss Stewart, 2 00 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Hay, 6 
 
 Miss H. Forbes, 1 10 
 
 MissE. Forbes, ... ... 1 10 
 
 Interest by the Bank 10 6 
 
 S. H. N. ... ... 1 13 
 
 Rev. Mr. Massingberd, Ormsby, 
 
 I<incoln 
 
 Miss Cookson, Lincoln 
 
 Rev. Mr. Mayor, Langford, Notts 
 Mrs Haffenden, ditto 
 
 J. Rumsey, Esq. m.d. Amersham . 
 J. Wilkinson, Esq. High Wycombe 3 
 Miss Carter, ditto 1 
 
 Miss M. Carter, ditto 1 
 
 Rev. W. Elliott, Simonburn 1 
 
 A Curate, by ditto 
 Mrs Charlton, Lincoln Hill 
 Mrs Evans, Hiimshaugh Cottage 
 John Ridley, Esq. Parkend .. v 
 The Misses Buhnan,WalwickHall 6 
 Mrs Brand, Durham ... 2 
 
 Mrs Crowe, ditto 2 
 
 Mrs Bond, ditto 1 
 
 Miss Shadforth, ditto ... 1 
 
 F. Humble, Esq. ditto ... 1 
 
 W. Parker, Esq. Skerwith Abbey 2 
 Ditto for Lower Canada ... 1 
 
 Sir George Musgrave, Bart. Eden 
 
 HaU 2 ? 
 
 Miss Johnson, Fisher St. Carlisle 1 U 
 
 Miss Carlyle, 1 U 
 
 A Friend by ditto ... ... ' 1 
 
 Sir Wilfred Lawson, Btayton Hall 2 
 Mr Alderman Copeland, si. p. 
 
 London, ... 2 
 
 A Friend by ditto ... ...5 
 
 J. S. Pakington, Esq. m. p. 110 
 
 Richard Hodgson, Esq. m. P. 2 
 
 R. Ingham, Esq. m. p. ... 3 
 
 J. C. Baker, Esq. Creswell- 8 
 
 Rev. C. Creswell, Seaham ... 1 
 William Watson, esq.NorthSeaton 10 
 Right. Hon, Lady Decies, by do. 10 
 
 John Hernaman, esq. Newcastle 
 Mrs. Wils«>n, Shotley Hall 
 
 A Friend, by ditto 
 
 Rev. T. Baker, Whitburn 
 Ditto Collection at Bishop 
 
 Wearmouth 
 Captain King, by ditto 
 Mrs Langlaiids, by Lambton&Co. 
 Rev. J. D. Eade.Aycliife, Durham 1 1 
 Collected by Mrs Kade, ditto 7 10 
 
 Rev. F. T. James 10 
 
 C. Jones, Esq. Sol. to the Admir. 6 
 By Mrs H.Kemson fc itlissShafto, 
 
 from Staffordshire ... 10 13 6 
 
 JamesBlair, Esq.M.P.Cu.iningham 6 
 H n. Mrs. Stouford, ditto ... 100 
 Mrs Lamliert Blair, ditto ... 2 00 
 Mrs Blair, ditto ... 2 00 
 
 Adam Askew, Esq. Ellington 2 
 
 James Stewart, Esq. Bude, Corn. 10 
 Miss Emilia Buckingham ... 100 
 Rev. Mr Davis, Bude ... 100 
 
 Sir T.D. Acland Bart. M. P. 10 
 
 Mrs Bray, Stretton 6 
 
 Mrs James, ditto ... ... 60 
 
 Mrs Hockin, ditto 50 
 
 Mrs Car user, ditto ... 70 
 
 MissM.E.KingdomjStanifordHill UO 
 J. Fowler.Esq.PennacotjIlolworthyl 
 
 Mrs Fowler, ditto 100 
 
 Rev. J. Buckingham, Berrington 6 
 Miss K. Buckingham, 2nd. ... 10 
 
 Rev. Mr Caddell 
 
 Rev. Mr Wright, Bridge-rule 
 Miss Pascoe, Penzance, 2 years 
 " The Friend in the West," 3rd 
 
 Donation 
 A friend at Leamingtou 
 A. Woodhouse, Esq. ditto 
 Edward VV oodhouse, Esq. for 
 
 Oeorgiana 
 Ditto an. sub. to General Fund 
 Miss Baldock, by ditto 
 Mrs Elliott, Fairfield, Monmouth 
 Rev. II. Jones, Goodrich House, 
 
 by ditto 1 
 
 Miss Griffin, DixtoUj by ditto ... 1 
 J. Hill, Esq. Pencraig, Ross,by do. 1 
 Miss Elsley, Skipton-bridge,York. 1 
 Miss M. Elsley, ditto ... 1 
 
 Mrs Elsley, Patrick, Brompton 
 Mrs E. Elsley, ditto 
 
 Thomas Blayds, Esq. Leeds 2 
 
 H.J. Adeane, Esq. Babraham,Cam.2 
 By Stewart Alissions, through Mr 
 
 Thirlwall, Bookseller, Ripon 9 13 
 Rev. F. Benson, Haltwhistle 10 
 
 Smith Stobart, Esq. Hexham ... 1 
 M^illiam Bell, Esq. Abbey, ditto 10 
 
 £. 
 
 ' 1 
 id 
 
 1 
 
 00 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 16 12 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 7 » 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 2 2 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 40 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 1 10 
 
 '10 
 
 m 
 
I 
 
 £ sd 
 John ]\Iorri»on, Esq. Newcastle 2 
 31 r Mair, tlonatioiijiy Stone & Co. 10 
 
 Ditto, annual sultscription 2 
 
 Right Rev. Lord Rishop of Lincoln 6 
 Rev. S. Conrtenay, CharUs, Ply- 
 mouth ... ... 110 
 
 Ditto, dth collection at Charles 25 10 
 Mrs Courtenay ... 110 
 
 Miss Courtenay ... ... 110 
 
 A Lady, by _H. Clarke, Esq. for 
 
 Lower Canada 
 
 Miss Harding 
 
 Miss Brooke, Uerael Hempstead 
 *' Friend," by Alexander & Co. 
 By Record Newspaper 
 
 April Dividend on 1*900. 
 
 Bonds 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 b 
 
 8 12 
 Danish 
 
 ... 13 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 The 
 
 Lord Bishop of 
 
 2 2 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 ilev. 
 Rev. 
 
 Kight Rev, 
 Exeter 
 Airs Captain Seward, Hexham 
 Mrs John 8tokoe, High-shield 
 Miss Clarke, Lipwood House 
 Miss Honoria Clarke, ditto 
 *' A Friend," hy ditto 
 Rov. F. Laing, The My the, Tewkes- 
 bury ... ... 2 
 
 Ditto for lli39 ... ... 2 
 
 Rev. Dr. Walton, Birdbroke^ Essex 2 
 Ditto H copies of ' .Stewart Missions' 2 
 Rev. J. Hopkins, iStambourne, 
 
 Essex ... ... 1 
 
 Rev. Dr. Lyon, collection at Sht.r- 
 
 borne, Dorsetshire ... 14 14 ^ 
 Ditto ruh collection at Hexham 
 
 Abbey Church 17 
 
 Rev. R. (irant, L.L. B,—F.of Win- 
 chester (S. M.) ... 
 J. Parsons, V. of Sherborne, 
 (s. M.) ... ... _ 
 
 J. Richie, collected at a public 
 meeting, Torquay, Devon, 
 paid by the Rev. The Vicar 
 of Newciistle-on-Tyne 
 Rev. J. R, ... 1 
 
 A Friend ... 10 
 
 Miss Hay ward .■■ 5 
 
 Rev. H. Gray 6 
 
 Rev. E. Elliott ... 1 
 
 Rev. E. Fayle I 
 
 Rev. C. Lutwidge ... 1 
 Rev. The Vicar of Newcastle 1 
 Dr. Phillips ... 1 
 
 >— Atkinson, Esq. ... 1 
 
 Miss Mann 
 
 A Friend, by Dr. Lucas O 
 A Friend, by Rev. R. Fayle 
 In small sums ... 7 
 
 Major Pouget, by i^Iiss 
 
 Brooke 1 
 
 Mfjor Hall, ditto 1 
 Mit>s E. Hull, ditto ... 2 6 
 MissAnstey ... 10 
 Rev, James Lawson, produce of 
 " Sacred Pastimes " ... 
 Rev. G. Atkinson, Stow, Lincolns. 1 
 Lev. George Jackson, Colsterwortb, 
 Leicestershire 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 o 
 fi 
 6 
 6 
 8 
 
 37 16 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18 6 
 
 
 
 
 From Ladies* Association at 
 
 Cheltenham .. 
 
 Mrs Phelps, 1838 ... 1 
 
 Ditto. 1839 ... 1 
 
 Sir Francis Ford ... 1 
 
 Miss Carruthers ... 1 
 
 Mrs. James ... 
 
 Rev. C. James ... 
 
 Mrs Lynn ... ... 
 
 Mrs. Aiackenzie ... 
 
 John Ibbotson, Esq. ... 1 
 
 Mrs. and the Misses Higgins 1 
 
 Miss PuUen 
 Miss A. Fallen 
 Miss Thomas 
 Collection by D. 
 By sale oi work 
 In various sums 
 Mrs. Hawkshaw, 
 
 by her 
 By Miss Kirkland 
 
 15 
 
 00 
 
 
 10 
 10 
 10 
 5 
 00 
 
 10 
 
 
 8 
 5 
 10 6 
 
 « d 
 8 6 
 
 and collected 
 
 1 13 6 
 
 13 
 
 M'rs. Colonel Bean, Sandford With 1 J 
 
 Mrs, Jervis, Trinity Terrace 
 
 Miss Collinson, 9, Clarence Square 1 
 Other members of the family ... 5 
 H. P. 10, Clarence Square ... 10 
 
 C. W. Pullen, Esq 2 
 
 A Friend, by ditto ... ...2 
 
 Rev. R. Messenger, 3rd collection 
 at Shotley, Northumberland 
 By Miss C. Simcoe, and Ladies' 
 
 4 2 8 
 
 Association : — 
 A Friend 
 I>ady Northcote 
 Mrs Bird Allen 
 
 10 
 1 
 
 
 Collected by Mrs Scoresby 
 Miss Hayward, by Miss laylorO 
 Mrs Bastard, for Georgiana 5 
 Rev. Mr Kingdom, Stamford 
 Hill ... ... 1 
 
 Rev. Dr. Coleridge, Lawhitton 1 
 Rev. Mr Simcoe, Penheale, 
 Cornwall ... ... 1 
 
 Sir J. Kennaway, Bart. Escot 2 
 Lady Kennaway ... 
 
 Alajor Wright, for Georgiana 1 
 
 Miss Baring 1 
 
 Miss E. Collins ... 1 
 
 The late .VI rs Young, by Mrs 
 
 Durell 3 
 
 Mrs C. Moysey ... 1 
 
 Miss H. Powys ... ... 1 
 
 Mrs J. Hainilton ... I 
 
 Miss Nicholson, by Miss E. 
 Kingdom ... ... 1 
 
 Mrs Smith, ditto 1 
 
 Miss Couper, ... ditto 
 Miss Hutchins, ditto 
 
 General Boles ... ... 1 
 
 JMiss Buine ... ... 1 
 
 In small sums, for Georgiana 4 
 By the son of the Rev. F. Gam- 
 say, Forest Church, Coleford 2 
 Miss Shaw, Waltham, Lincoln 
 Thank-offering of a Clergyman, in 
 the Diocese of Durham, for pre- 
 servation^ in Storm, Jan. 7th 5 
 
 
 00 
 10 
 15 4 
 76 
 
 
 00 
 
 
 70 
 00 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 9 6 
 1 
 10 
 10 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 If d 
 
 86 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 IJ 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 S 
 
 2 8 
 
 
 1 
 10 
 15 4 
 
 7 6 
 5 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 70 
 00 
 5 
 
 
 
 
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 £. ». d 
 
 Rev. R. Swann, Brandsbv, Yorka. 18 
 Mrs. Ramsden, Cherry-Burton, do.l 
 Miss L. Guise, Milton. Oxford 
 Rev. Edmund Gray, Yorks for 1838 2 
 Ditto for 1839 ... ... 2 
 
 Miss Wbyteheadj'Easingwold, for 
 
 1837 • • ••• 2 
 
 Ditto for 1838 and 1839 ... 4 
 
 Rev, M. Plummer, collected at He' 
 
 worth. Durham 
 W. C. Walters, Esq. Newcastle, 
 
 donation ... ... 8 
 
 Ditto subscription of 1839 ... 1 
 (!harles Lowthei,Esq.WiltonCastle 1 
 Lieut. Featherston, R. K. Redcar 1 
 
 80 
 5 
 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 8 9 
 
 80 
 1 
 
 
 
 Miss Brooksbank, Healaugb,York. 2 10 
 
 Mrs J. Raper, ditto 
 Miss Currer, Eshtoti Hall 
 Miss Graham, Oxford ter. liondon 
 Rev. H. Dnncombe, Sigston ... 
 Mr and Mrs Burnett, Ripon 
 Messrs. Cowper & Doughty, do. 
 
 Mrs Oxley, Donation _ 
 
 Ditto, 2 years subscription 
 
 C. Oxley, Esq. donation 
 
 Rev. W. Warde, Witton-le-Wear 1 
 
 - — 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 1 
 
 00 
 10 
 10 
 
 00 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 10 
 6 
 
 1 
 00 
 00 
 1 
 
 Mrs Warde, ditto 
 
 Mrs Home, St. Helen's 
 
 Rev. James Charnock, Bishopton 
 
 Miss Waddilove, Thorpe 
 
 An Unknown Friend 
 
 Miss Benson, Ripon 
 
 Mrs Thompson, Kirby Hall ... 
 
 Mrs Anderton, Burley, by the Rev. 
 
 J. Fawcett. Low-moor, Bradford, 
 
 Yorks. 10 
 
 Mrs. Allix, St. John's Hill, Shrews- 
 bury ... ... 20 
 
 Ditto, 2nd donation ... 20 
 
 Miss Allix ... ... 10 
 
 Rev. J. Jaques. AUendale-town 7 
 Rev. James Dalton, Croft, Yorks. 5 
 Ditto 2nd donation ... 5 
 
 R. Brisco, Esq. Low Mill Houaei 
 
 Whitehaven 1 10 
 
 £ s d 
 Rev. E. W. Thurlow, R. of Hoiffefh- 
 
 ton-le-8pring ...10 
 
 The Misses Askew, Castle Hill, 
 
 Berwickshire 
 The Misses Davidson, Glanton 
 Rev. T. W. Minton, Darlington 
 Miss Candler, ditto 
 
 Miss Darnell, ditto 
 
 Rev. H. Williamson, jun. ditto 
 Mrs Minton, ditto O 
 
 Mrs. Charleton, West Terrace, ditto 3 
 Rev. C. J. Plumer, Norton, 
 
 Stockton 10 
 
 Rev. R. Jarratt, Wellington, 
 
 Somersetshire ... 3 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 5 
 10 
 10 
 5 
 00 
 
 2 00 
 
 00 
 00 
 
 
 4i 
 
 Rev. E. W. Stillingfleet, Hotham, 
 
 Yorks. ... ... 1 
 
 R. J. Thompson, Esq. Kirby HalL 
 
 ditto ... ... 10 
 
 Mrs. Thompson, sen. Skelton, do. 1 
 
 Ditto for 1839 1 
 
 Oct — Dividend on Security Fund 13 10 
 Rev. Hugh Nanney, Jarrow, 
 
 Durham ... ... 13 
 
 Collection at Hetton, Dur. 2 17 8J|. 
 Ditto at Blyth, Northum. 3 3 4 
 Ditto at Cramlington, 1 18 6 
 
 DittoatStamfonfliam, 3 4 6 
 Rev. J. N. HoUingsworth 10 
 Mrs Smart, Heworth 10 
 
 Two Friends 10 
 
 Rev. J. Emra, Rector of Redlynch, 
 
 near Salisbury, Wiltshire 10 17 i 
 Collection at Meetings, sale of 
 
 Books, and Subscriptions 5 17 i 
 Thank-offering of Rev. R. 
 
 Hamilton 5 
 
 W. H. Sevang Esq. Crickhowelj 
 
 Brecoiuhire ... 5 
 
 : I 
 
 i ■ ■ ' 
 
 
 
 1 9 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 10 
 9 W 
 
 1 
 I 
 1 9 
 
 ■ 
 
 5 
 10 
 
1839 
 Jan. 21 Paid half-year's account for Printing, to Dec. SIst, 1838 
 Letters, &c., in the Newcastle Journal 
 Paid Sunderland Beacon ... 
 March 29 By Draft of Rev. T. Gibson, for Voyage, £25, Books £6. 
 By ditto of Rev. E. Morris, ditto ditto 
 
 By ditto of Rev. T. Green, for Street Church 
 
 May 27 Paid Durham Advertiser 
 Aug. By Bishop of AloRtrears midsummer Draft 
 By ditto expected 
 
 By Notice of ditto fi'om Toronto Society, C. C. J. and P. G. 
 By Instructions to the Bishop of Montreal, to draw for second 
 
 half-year of 1839 
 
 By Printer's half-year's account, to July 1st, 
 By Payment to Dublin Record 
 
 By Newcastle Journal, half-year to July 1st 
 
 By Berwick M'arder, 1838, ... 
 
 Postages and Parcels from Oct. 21st, 1838, to Oct. 22nd, 1839 
 By the Rev. S. S. Wood, Rector of Three Rivers, to lay out in 
 Books for Osankerine, an Indian Teacher, at St. Francis, 
 Lower Canada, referred to 'Stewart Missions,' page 213-14, 
 
 Expenditure from Report, October, 1838, 
 
 £. 
 
 33 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 3i) 
 
 30 
 
 20 
 
 2 
 
 150 
 
 50 
 
 64 
 
 I2OO 
 
 42 
 1 
 
 
 n 
 
 21 
 
 
 } 
 
 Balance in hand, for 1840 ... 
 
 s. d. 
 
 17 4 
 
 11 H 
 
 16 6 
 
 U 
 
 U 
 
 
 
 19 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 10.^ 
 
 
 
 8 8 
 
 10 
 
 10 3 
 
 14 8 
 
 7 m 
 
 2 
 
 657 
 2039 
 
 19 9h 
 16 91 
 
 2697 
 129 
 
 16 7 
 2 7h 
 
 £2826 
 
 19 2^ 
 
 Total Donations and Subscriptions, from August, 1st 1834, 1 ^ nooc m m 
 to October, 22nd, 1839 |i282b 19 2^ 
 
 TRAVELLING MISSIONARY AGREEMENTS IN COURSE. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Green, a second term of three years, £ 100 per Annum. 
 Rev. G. Petrie, sailed October, 1838, for three years, £UI0 per Annum. 
 Rev. T. Gibson, sailed April 7th, 1839, for ditto, £100 per Annum. 
 Rev. E. Morris, sailed April 3rd, 1839, for ditto, £100 per Annum. 
 
 IF POSSIBLE, 
 
 To the aid of the Travelling Missionary of Quebec Society. £ 50. 
 
 Tq the aid of the Travelling Missionary of the Toronto Society, \ « -« 
 
 for the year ending July 1st, 1840 ^ A ou. 
 
 (Errors Excepted.) 
 
 W. J. D. WADDILOVE, 
 
 Agent for the Stewart Travelling Missions. 
 Beacon Grange, October 22nd, 1839. 
 
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 To the Honounble the Oommoiui of the United Kingdom of Gnat Britain and 
 
 Ireland, in Parliament aaaemoled. 
 
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 The hvunble Petition of the Inhabitants of 
 
 " Shews TH, — That your Petitioners humbly approach your honouraUa 
 Louse, earnestly requesting it8j>rompt and serious attention to the depressed and 
 declining state of the Church Establishment in the Provinces of Upper and Lower 
 Canada. They would most respectfully observe; that the numi r of Clergymen in 
 those extensive and vfduable Provinces ( chiefly peopled from the poorest elau of our own 
 rurt^ population) is not now, and never has been, as they conceive in an^ degreeadequatt 
 to the effective j^erformance of their spiritual duties towards so widely scattered a 
 population; whilst under the progressive operation of existing arrangonenta, that 
 Establishment is undergoing a systematic ana parsimonious reduction, which must 
 eventually terminate in its utter subversion, before the welt-endowed Hierarehp qf 
 Borne I at the same time, they deeply lament that no fitting provision has hitherto 
 been made, or indeed even new seems to be contemplated, for affording religious 
 instruction, and the means of Divine worship, to the vast multitudes of new settlers, 
 
 i generally speaking, of the poorest class) whom the inducements, held out by the 
 Bgislatura for a long series of years, are encouraging annually to emigrate, and to 
 settle with their children and families in the remotest part of the wild, uncultivated 
 wildernesses of Canada. 
 
 *' Your Petitioners also contemplate with extreme pain and sorrow, the 
 continuance of that partial extinction of the blessincs of an efficient Episcopate, 
 which results, (and must unavoidably result) from the utterly inadequate means 
 appropriated under the present system, for the support of that important Christian 
 Office ; and which, inadequate as the provision is to the expenses inseparable from the 
 station, is made still more ruinous, and destructive to the interests of religion, and 
 even os common charity, by the compulsory complication of incompatible Respon- 
 sibilities to which it has nyen rise, iiientKying in one person the three offices of 
 
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 and an innovation unknown in the pure ages of the Christian Church — and, lastly 
 a plan, Which cannot fail to undermine the stability of Christ's Visible Church ip the 
 Colony. Nor i-an your Petitioners abstain at the same time from respectfully craving 
 the attention of your Honourable House to another painful and unavoidable result, 
 which will assuredly follow, unless some effectual remedy be promptly applied by 
 Parliament to this tnelanrholy state of Uiings — viz. : that it wul practically act, (at 
 least during frequent and long periods,) a% an almost total withdrawal of the Parental 
 Superintendence of a resident and e£.aent Bishop — the necessities anddifficulties heaped 
 upon himself, and his Church, compelli*>~ him to long, and painful attendances upon the 
 
 'lis Country, i > order to ward off suspeudtd evils, or to solicit 
 
 Colonial Ministers in this 
 
 would be in a regularly well ordered community, they must be tenfold more ptUpablff 
 injurious in a newly settled Countrpt chiefly peopled by the poorest and most unin- 
 strueted Classes, — and who have long been, in defiance of the repeated supplications 
 of successive Bishops, so imperfectly supplied with any of those means of Oraoe^ 
 or helps to sound Religious Knowledge, which in the humble opinions of your 
 Petitioners, it is the paramount and bouuden duty of every State nauied by the name 
 of Christ, to provide amply for all its subjects, whether at home, or in those Depen- 
 dencies, which, in the Wisdom of God, have been entrusted to its Care, for the sde 
 and special purpose of continuing the ICnowledge of His revealed Truth among men 
 
 '* Your Petitioners therefore most earnestly intreat that your Honourable 
 House will be pleaMd to take into its early consideration, the peciuiar drcumstanoea 
 and the present insufficient state of the Ecdesiastioal Establishment, in the two provin> 
 ees of Upper and Lower Canada, confidently trusting that the Wisdom and Religiv^us 
 Feeling ot the Representatives of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
 will iMid them to adopt such measures as may extend to the Church of those Provin* 
 oes, that protection and encouragement, which the contracted Resources of an infant 
 ana increasing Colony craving for the Bles!>ings of those Christian Ordinances, which, 
 •re the Glory of the mother State, and have bcien heretofore considrred the Birth-ri^t 
 flf the poorest Briton — so imperatively demand. 
 
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