DONATIONS TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARITA BLE INSTITUTIONS. In the month of August. missioners for Foreign Missions, $2,284.80. To the United Foreign Missionary Society, $563.87. To the American Bible Society, $5,059.36. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. June 29.-The Rev. DANIEL W. LATHROP, Over the Presbyterian Church and Congregation in Elyria, Ohio. Sermon by the Rev. Stephen J. Bradstreet, of Cleaveland. June 29.-The Rev. SAMUEL G. TENNEY was installed Pastor of the Congregational Church in Lyndon, Vt. Sermon by the Rev. Simeon Parmelee, of Westford. Aug. 8.-Rev. JOHN S. WILSON (installed) Pastor of the Church at Fairview, Geo. Sermon by Rev. A. Church. Aug. 18.-The Rev. HENRY CURTIS, over the Baptist Church in Windsor, Broome county, N. Y. Sermon by Elder John Smitzer, of Bethany, Penn. Aug. 31.-The Rev. SWAN LYMAN POMROY, to the pastoral care of the First Congregational Church in Bangor, Me. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Payson. Aug. 31.-The Rev. WILLIAM C. FOWLER, Over the Second Congregational Church in Greenfield, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Professor Fitch, of Yale College. EUROPE. Aug. 31.-The Rev. WILLIAM ELY was installed Pastor of the Church in North Mansfield, Conn. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Nott, of Franklin. Sept. 1.-The Rev. HORATIO FOOTE, over the Union Presbyterian Church in Kingston, Upper Canada. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Perrine, of Auburn. Sept. 7.-The Rev. SETH CHAPIN was installed Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hunter, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. S. Woodbridge, of Greeneville. Sept. 14.-The Rev. SAMUEL H. PECKHAM, over the Congregational Church in Gray, Maine. Sermon by Professor Smith, Bangor. Sept. 14-Rev. JOHN SHERER, over the Presbyterian Society in Litchfield, N. H. Sept. 19.-The Rev. OREN HYDE was ordained at Bridgeport, Con. to the work of an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Merwin, of New-Ha ven. PUBLIC AFFAIRS. FRANCE has opened her ports to ships from Colombia and other independent countries of South America, but with a provision that they shall not hoist their own flags. This measure ill accords with her principles as the protectress of Spain and a member of the Holy Alliance. It is a measure howeyer which is not unexpected; it has all along been apparent that there was a collision between her political relations and her commercial interests. And having thus far yielded to the latter, we hope that the day is not distant when she will open her eyes to the true character of the former, and absolve herself from an alliance which the spirit of the age should assure her can yield her neither profit nor hon our. Concerning SPAIN nothing has reached us to vary the monotonous story of her universal stagnation and decay ;The existence of her government is known only by acts prompted by its inquisitorial spirit of oppression and its fears; while the cause of the patriots is disgraced rather than asserted by the feeble efforts of predatory bands. Of the state of things in GREECE Dothing very explicit can be stated. According tolate accounts the Turks had possessed themselves of Calamata and Tripolizza, and had ravaged a considerable tract of country; the Greeks themselves burning the villages as they retreated. At other points the latter are represented as more fortunate, particularly at Napoli di Romania where Yysilanti had opposed a bold and successful resistance to the Egyptians Still later accounts represent these Egyptians as retracing their steps, being compelled to this measure by the want of provisions in a country which both themselves and their enemies had desolated on their advance. At Tripolizza, which lay in the line of their retreat it was expected they would meet with resistance and destruction from Colcotroni, who was there concentrating his forces to intercept them. The Greeks were anxiously but confidently looking for the result. By sea they have been uniformly successful; by land their affairs on the whole wear an unfavourable aspect. UNITED STATES. DEPARTURE OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE.-On Wednesday the 4th of Sept. the President of the U. S. in the presence of the secretaries and other gentlemen of high civil and military distinction, in the Hall of the Presidents' House, took a formal leave of General Lafayette in the name of the nation. The affecting nature of the ceremony and the deep interest manifested by the crowds assembled to witness it, rendered this closing scene the most impressive of the many interesting recollections which fill the mind in a review of the year which the General has spent among us. After listening with deep emotion to the farewell address of the President, General Lafayette replied in the following terins. "Amidst all my obligations to the general government, and particularly to you, Sir, its respectable chief magistrate, I have most thankfully to acknowledge the opportunity given me at this solemn and painful moment, to present the people of the United States with a parting tribute of profound, inexpressible gratitude. To have been, in the infant and critical days of these States, adopted by them as a favourite son, to have participated in the toils and perils of our unspotted struggle for independence, freedom, and equal rights, and in the foundation of the American era of a new social order, which has already pervaded this, and must, for the dignity and happiness of mankind, successively pervade every part of the other hemisphere, to have received at every stage of the revolution, and during forty years after that period, from the people of the United States, and their representatives at home and abroad, continual marks of their confidence and kindness, has been the pride, the encouragement, the support of a long and eventful life. But how could I find words to acknowledge that series of welcomes, those unbounded and universal displays of public affection which have marked each step, each hour, of a twelvemonth's progress through the twentyfour States, and which while they overwhelm my heart with grateful delight, have most satisfactorily evinced the concurrence of the people in the kind testimonies, in the immense favours bestowed on me by the several branches of their representatives in every part, and at the central seat of the confederacy. Yet, gratifications still higher awaited me; in the wonders of creation and improvement that have met my enchanted eye, in the unparalleled and self-felt happiness of the people, in their rapid prosperity and insured security, public and private, in a practice of good order, the appendage of true freedom, and a national good sense, the final arbiter of all difficulties, I have had proudly to recognise a result of the republican principles for which we have fought, and a glorious demonstration to the most timid and prejudiced minds, of the superiority, over degrading aristocracy or despotism, of popu lar institutions founded on the plain rights of man, and where the local rights of every section are preserved under a constitutional bond of union. The cherishing of that union between the States, as it has been the farewell entreaty of our great paternal Washington, and will ever have the dying prayer of every American Patriot, so it has become the sacred pledge of the emancipation of the world, an object in which I am happy to observe that the American people, while they give the animating example of successful free institutions, in return for an evil entailed upon them by Europe, and of which a liberal and enlightened sense is every where more and more generally felt, show themselves every day more anxiously interested. And now, sir, how can I do justice to my deep and lively feelings, for the assurances most peculiarly valued of your esteem and friendship, for your so very kind references to old times, to my beloved associates, to the vicissitudes of my life, for your affecting picture of the blessings poured by the several generations of the American people on the remaining days of a delighted veteran, for your affectionate remarks on this sad hour of separation, on the country of my birth, full, I can say, of American sympathies, on the hope so necessary to me of my seeing again the country that has deigned near half a century ago to call me hers? I shall content myself, refraining from superfluous repetitions, at once before you, sir, and this respected circle, to proclaim my cordial confirmation of every one of the sentiments which I have had daily opportunities publicly to utter from the time when your venerable predecessor, my old brother in arms and friend, transmitted to me the honourable invitation of Congress, to this day when you, my dear sir, whose friendly connexion with me dates from your earliest youth, are going to consign me to the protection, across the Atlantic, of the heroic national flag on board the splendid ship, the name of which has been not the least flattering and kind among the numberless favours conferred upon me. God bless you, sir, and you all who surround us. God bless the American people, each of their States, and the Pederal government. Accept this pa riotic farewell of an overflowing heart; such will be its last throb when it ceases to beat." At the close of this address, the General advanced and embraced the President with tears, and seemed quite overcome with his feelings, repeating "God bless you;" then extending his arms to the spectators, he took farewell of them all. When refreshments had been served, he took the President once more by the hand, and entered the barouche, accompanied by the Secretaries, and was escorted to the Potomac, where he embarked in the steamboat Mount Vernon, and reached the frigate Brandywine the following morning. Commodore Stewart whom we mentioned last month as being before a court martial, has been most fully and honourably acquitted; no one of the numerous charges and specifications preferred against him having been substantiated. Lieut. Ramage, who has also been tried by court martial, has been in like manner fully acquitted. For the Christian Spectator. OBITUARY. DIED, at Alexandria, Lou. Aug. 3, 1823, the Rev. Hezekiah HulL, aged 27. Mr. Hull was born at New-Haven. He was baptized in infancy, and became very early sensible of the blessing thus conferred upon him. One of the first desires he manifested, was to understand and obey the precepts of the gospel. When only seven years old, he would frequently retire from his school for the purpose of engaging in secret devotion. At the age of twelve he made a public profession of religion, and united with the North Church in this city. He manifested a contemplative disposition, and a remarkable facility in refuting some infidel writings, which led his friends to think of giving him a liberal education. He commenced his studies at the age of thirteen, and in one year entered Yale College. Here, as the class of which he was a member was very large, and as his disposition was modest and retiring, he did not very much distinguish himself. He retained, however, a respectable standing for talents and moral worth. He was generally beloved by his classmates; and those who were intimately acquainted with him had a high respect for his literary acquisitions. He was graduated in the year 1814. The two following years he taught an academy with much credit to himself and benefit to others, in Wallingford. There he devoted his leisure time to reading, and made considerable progress in the discipline of his mind. In the autumn of 1816, he joined the Theological Seminary in Andover. Here his mind was more completely developed. He attended faithfully to the studies prescribed, and to a good deal of miscellaneous reading. He exercised his mind m every way that seemed to be profitable. Upon another occasion he writes thus: "This is the last sabbath in the term. Upon a review of those which are past, it becomes me seriously to examine what progress I have made in the divine life; what growth in grace; what me. conquests over sin; what holiness of heart and life have been produced by the privileges and advantages which each sabbath has afforded for these purposes; whether these opportunities have not been worse than abused by In this review I pray God to direct me, and while I remember my stupidity, my hardness of heart, my indifference to spiritual things, my neglect of prayerful attention to the truth, and self-application of it, my pride, my vanity, the indulgence of improper thoughts and unworthy affections; I pray that God would humble me in the dust, and give me true contrition and repentance; make me to abhor myself for my sins, and extend to me his pardoning mercy; afford me, unworthy as I am, a comforting evidence of his love, that he would quicken me in his way, and suffer me no more to wander from duty, but enable me to fix my affections supremely on him, and to live for his glory." Such endorsements as these are frequently found among his memoranda and places for study. They are thrown in without any order, and seem to be nothing but the overflowings of his soul, and meant for no human eye but his own. They evidently show a deep acquaintance with his own heart, an habitual endeavour to walk with God, and that peculiar discovery of sin, and sorrow for it, which none but the sincerely pious know. Of the comforts of God which frequently delighted his soul, as he passed through this world, he has left no written account. The documents copied above, were probably recorded by him for the purpose of promoting humility in his heart, and of spurring him on in the Christian race. In the autumn of 1819, his regular studies at Andover being finished, he left that place, and was ordained in October by the North Consociation of Hartford county, as an evangelist. Under the patronage of the Connecticut Missionary Society, he immediately left New-England, intending to proceed to Louisiana. But some obstacles prevented the prosecution of his journey; and he stopped at Montgomery, Ohio, where he taught an academy, and preached every sabbath for a year. Here he farmed many pleasant acquaintances, and enjoyed himself in his Master's work. Unwilling, however, to give up his original object, he broke away from Christian friends, who sorrowed much that they should see his face no more; and after travelling for some months as an agent for the Missionary Society, he arrived at Alexandria, Louisiana, in Jan. 1821. Here he was hospitably received, and immediately employed as a preacher of the gospel. He discharged the duties of this office with great regularity, and distinguished propriety. He gain ed a great deal of respect from all classes of the community, and contributed much to the edification of those few who called on our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. To a friend in Connecticut he writes, June 22, 1821, thus:-"I have indeed enjoyed unexpected favour and acceptance with the people; but no signal blessing has as yet crowned my labours. I am insulated, with scarcely any Christian society, at a distance from all my brethren. Surrounded by a people of licentious principles and ungodly practices, and sensible of my own deficiencies, I should be wholly disheartened and discouraged, but for the promise, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally to all, and upbraideth not." Though this is for the most part a wicked community; yet a high sense of honour and decorum, and a kind and respectful behaviour towards me, render my connexion with them less unpleasant than you might suppose." Many of his friends in New-England were apprehensive that his constitution would not bear the climate of that country, and were greatly opposed to his continuing there; but being conscientiously convinced that his duty to God required it, he yielded to no solicitations. Thus he writes, January 1, 1822:-"When I say that I think the climate more favourable to me than that of New-England, you will perhaps think me infatuated. Perhaps another summer will show me that I am mistaken. If so, God's will be done. I think I have a call at present to reside here. If I fall a victim to the climate, I shall have the consolation of falling in the discharge of my duty; and my friends ought not to repine if such shall be the divine will. God has the hearts of all men in his hand, and can raise up a thousand missionaries to adventure in the same cause, with purer zeal and better success." وو With such principles at heart, he applied himself indefatigably to the duties of the Christian ministry. There was another field of usefulness which opened to him here. The people of Alexandria had constructed a large, commodious building, for the purposes of education. Having by considerable practice rendered himself remarkably well qualified for instructing youth in the learned languages, he accepted the appointment of principal in the new institution. As he was familiar with the branches to be taught, and as there was associated with him an excellent assistant; he thought that such an employment would be no impediment to his theological studies, while he should by that means gain access to the minds of the youth, and plant in their tender hearts the seeds of virtue. He discharged his duty in this occupation, and continued to preach every sabbath, except during a short absence in New-England, with great acceptance and usefulness, till his last sickness. The absence just mentioned was in the summer of 1822. In October of that year he was married with very happy circumstances, to a young lady in Andover, Mass.The December following he arrived at Alexandria, having been absent about six months. He now resumed his professional duties with new ardour and entire devotedness. For many months he enjoyed uninterrupted health, and as much happiness as falls to the lot of any in this world of trial. The affection and respect of the people of his charge were abundantly given him; and their moral improvement appeared to be rapidly advancing under his care. All prospects that could be expected of a happy and useful life seemed to brighten before him. But it pleased the Sovereign Disposer of all things, whose will we know is regulated by the best principles of wisdom and benevolence, to darken these prospects, and to call him from them all into another world. On the 25th of July he fell sick of a fever. His friends being alternately flattered with hope and alarmed with fear, at length perceived that he must be taken from them. They informed him of his danger, and he received the information without alarm, and conversed freely on the subject of dying. It was a hard struggle to become willing to leave his wife |