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very small addition to ‘their present 
stock of European cloth, the culture of 
their cloth-plant, which now seems much 
neglected, will be entirely disregarded, 
and they will rely upon the precarious 
supply which may. be obtained from ac- 
cidental visitors, for this and many other 
of the most important requisites of social 
life.” 
The only atonement which car be 
made to this wretched people, for the 
injury we have done them, and the 
disease we have communicated, is to 
communicate also our religion, our mo- 
rals, and our knowledge; our religion 
foremost and first, not only as of first 
importance, but as the necessary and 
only possible means of imparting mora- 
lity and science. This is to be done by 
colonization and by force. England is 
indeed neither peopled nor cultivated in 
any due proportion to its extent, but its 
population is already too great for its 
system of society. There exists not a 
single profession, trade, or calling, which 
is not overstocked with adventurers ; co- 
jonization is the remedy for the miseries 
wwhich befall the unsuccessful, and for 
the crimes which arise in consequence. 
In these islands there is no pestilential 
climate to encounter; and it would be 
insulting the reader to prove the right 
of conquest,—the right of conquering 
cannibals and child-murderers! the right 
of preventing human sacrifices by force! 
shame be to the despicable statesman, 
who regretted the colonization of Ame- 
rica, because the United States renounced 
their allegiance to Great Britain! his 
understanding must have been as _ con- 
tracted as his heart. We could say 
much upon this very interesting and very 
important subject; but to enter into it 
fully, and treat it as it should be treated, 
wonld far exceed the limits of a review. 
It would be unjust to thete poor simple 
missionaries, not to acknowledge the va- 
lue of the information which they have 
communicated in this volume. The book 
before us; with all its oddities, contains 
more in matter, in kernel as well as 
shell, than many a modern quarto.— 
They are honest zealous men; and we 
have only to regret, that their zea! has 
not been accompanied with more know- 
ledge, or directed with more wisdom. 
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The remainder of this volume relates 
to a mission in South Africa, which has 
been far more wisely conducted, and 
which promises well. Jn this the maia 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. , 
agent has been Dr. Vanderkemp, a” 
Dutchman of most extraordinary abili- 
ties and character. ‘This person studied 
at Edinburgh, has served im the army 
with distinction, and has since practised 
medicine ; he is versed, not merely in 
the usual modern and ancient languages, 
but also in oriental learning, and in the 
Gaelic. His own history of his infide- 
lity and conversion is very curious: he 
was an infidel of Lord Herbert’s temper, — 
disbelieving whatever his reason reject- 
ed, yet praying to be cured of this disbe- © 
lief; “* waiting upon God, thathe would 
take him by the hand, and lead him in 
the way everlasting.” ' ‘ 
You will have observed, says Vander- 
kemp, that when the Lord Jesus first re- 
vealed himself to me, he did not reason 
with me about truth or error, but at- 
tacked me like a warrior, and felled me 
to the ground by the force of his arm.“ 
On this extraordinary narrative we need 
offer no comment; it will be equally 
intelligible to the reasoner and to the mi- 
raculist. his particular affection in no 
degree changed or weakened his general 
powers of mind; it disposed him to: — 
become a missionary, and he entered’ 
upon the work with such qualifications, ” 
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both of body and mind, as perhaps never _ ~ 
y 
were, and never will be found again in 
one so disposed. By his exertions, a 
missionary society was raised in Hol- 
land, to co-operate with that in London, ' 
and another at the Cape; to which place 
he was accompanied by one Dutch, and % 
two English associates. ‘The colonists - 
behaved to these missionaries with unex- 
ampled liberality: they gave the two 
who went among the Boschemen eleven 
oxen, one hundred and eighty sheep, 
seven cows and a calf, with poultry and 
other stores, says the journal, too nume- 
rous to mention. Vanderkemp twice en- 
tered Caffraria, and has brought back a 
more ample vocabulary of their lan- 
guage, and a better account of the peo- 
ple than can be found in any former tra- 
veller. We cannot speak too highly of 
this indefatigable man. ‘Ihe English 
government, at the Cape, entertained a 
due sense of his merits, and of the use- 
fulness cf his object. Under their au-, 
spices, he bas founded a Hottentot set-, 
tlement near Algoa bay, upon a plan; 
not unlike the Jesuit establishments at 
Paraguay. Che Dutch government has 
since promised to protect and encourage 
the missionaries; und by what has been’ 
done, there seems little reason to doubt, — 
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