ting report to the Assembly. This report is printed; and the Assembly regret that its length is too great to admit its incorporation with this narrative. They however reccommend its perusal to all the Churches which can obtain a copy; confident that it will gladden every Christian heart. The addition to the Churches, during the year 1820, as reported to that Presbytery, amount to one thousand four hundred! Surely the Lord hath done great things for them, whereof we are glad. In the Presbytery of Columbia, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit has been experienced in New-Lebanon and Chatham; and in Cattskill, Cairo, and the city of Hudson, a good work has begun, which is still progressing; and we hope we shall not be considered officious, when we gratefully mention that the Dutch Reformed Congregation of Coxackie, Kinderhook, Claverack, which are in the vicinity of that Presbytery, have been also blessed with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

The Presbytery of Hudson, state that most of their congregations have been copiously watered with showers of Divine Grace during the past year; and that the fruit had been the addition of 23 members to the church of Deerpark, 41 to that of Scotchtown, 110 to the Church of Hopewell, 76 at Goshen, 199 at Blooming Grove, 75 at Ridgbury, 140 at Chester, 40 at Bethlehem, 196 at Watertown, 69 at Hampstead, 69 at Greenbush and 17 at Forrestburgh-a congregation recently formed: making a total of one thousand and thirty-seven.

In the Presbytery of New-York, the Brick Church has had a revival, which has resulted in the Hopeful conversion of about eighty souls.

In the Presbytery of Jersey, the Church of Elizabethtown have added about 6 as the fruits of the revival the preceding year, and in Orange, and particularly Bloomfield, a good work seems to have commenced. One hundred and fifty at least appear to have been awakened; and of these about 80 give evidence of hopeful conversion. The revival yet progresses.

The Presbytery of Newton, report, that during the past year, one hundred and eighty-five persons who before were "strangers from the covenant of promise,” and enemies in their hearts, have been visited with the renewing and consoling influence of grace, and

received into the communion of the Church; and they particularly mention the Church at Newton, as having been visited with special influences of the Holy Spirit; and that 64 persons of different ages and conditions, have already become the hopeful subjects of this work.

In the Presbytery of Philadelphia, the Church of the Northern Liberties, and the 3d Presbyterian Church in this city, have been favoured with the special manifestation of the Divine presence. In the former, 60 have offered as candidates for approaching communion; and in the latter, 73 communicants have been received during the year, 48 of whom are the fruits of a revival which is still progressing.

The Presbytery of Grand River report that 15 townships, comprising 11 Churches, have been visited with special revivals of religion; that to several others the Lord has vouchsafed a more than usual measure of his Spirit; and 253 souls have been added to the communion of the Church, and the work is still progressing in several other towns.

In the Presbytery of Portage, the Church of Euclid has been favoured with a revival, and about 100 are mentioned as the subjects, and in six or seven other congregations there is special attention.

The Presbytery of Lexington state, that in the Missionary field within their bounds, there has been a general awakening; that in many instances convictions have been of the most deep and pungent kind; and that it has not been unusual for whole assemblies to be bathed in tears during the delivery of a discourse.

The Presbytery of Lancaster state. that amidst the moral desolations within their bounds, a few favoured spots have received the cultivation of the Holy Spirit; that on Marrietta, Waterford, Belfre, Adams and Wooster, the dews of heavenly grace have decended, and resulted, in their charitable belief, in the saving conversion of many souls.

The character of these widely extended and wonderful works of God, has been much the same with those which have forinerly been reported to the Assembly. Deep and pungent sense of guilt, thorough convictions of inability to help themselves--professed hopes of forgiveness only through the

SUMMARY.

Extract from the Report of a Committee on the School Fund, made during the late Session of the General Assembly of Connecticut.

"They find that this valuable fund which originally consisted of thirtysix bonds, has in consequence of ar rangements authorized by the legislature from time to time, been extended to the various descriptions of property enumerated in the report of the Commissioner; among which are about 26,000 bonds against persons scattered over the states of New-York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont and Connecticut.

SPAIN.

is not dissimilar to that exhibited in the French revolution. The Don Matias Vinaesa, the Chaplain of the King, was convicted of sedition, and sentenced to ten years labour in the galleys, on the coast of Africa. The sentence was not sufficiently severe to satisfy the wishes of the populace, and, notwith standing the opposition of the guards, they broke into the prison and assassinated him. It is also said, that a massacre of the clergy was contemplated, if not indeed commenced. By a decree of the Cortes the superior Clergy are responsible for the conduct of the inferior. The allied sovereigns do not give any indications of interfering at present, in the affairs of Spain. The movements of their troops have been suspended, and at Vienna, the two Emperors intend having a joyful celebration for the success of their late enterprise against the liberties of the South of Europe.

TURKEY.

Accounts respecting the insurrection in the Turkish Empire are contradictory. It seems to be agreed however, that the insurgent force is formidable, that great preparations are ma king for its suppression, and that the governments of Russia and Austria do not countenance the efforts of those who wish to shake off the authority of the Ottoman Porte.

the principle from $1,200,000, the original amount, to the sum now reported by the commissioner, the capital of which is by him estimated at $1, 700,000.

puted on this estimated capital of the Although six per cent. interest comfund, with an addition of one per cent. on the funds of the state of New-York, 210, yet the reason why only about would produce an annual sum of $103, 867,000 can be annually divided to the lowing considerations, viz. $77,000 of schools, will be apparent from the folthe fund consists of improved farms in Massachusetts and Connecticut, which yield an annual net income much less than the interest on their estimated

value; $28,000 of the fund consists of

new uncultivated lands in the States of

New-York, Ohio and Vermont, which so far from yielding any income whatever, are an annual tax on the fund. Losses on five bonds from the total or partial failure of both debtor and security of about $28,000. About $10,000 is due on six other bonds where the debtors have failed and the security is insufficient to pay the whole principal and interest of the bond, and from which it is doubtful whether more than $6000 will ever be realized; to which must be added the inevitable loss sustained in sales of farms below the appraised value, and the amount of interest which cannot be collected in money. but must continue to be annually funded as heretofore. If only two third

parts of the estimated capital of the fund will produce a certain cash income of six per cent. per annum, the ordinary dividends to schools may in future be continued without drawing from the treasury any part of the $2

on the 1000 from the state tax. Your

committee are happy to find that the instructions of the joint committee of the general assembly, last May, in relation to the sale of land in the Hardenburg patent have been complied with by the commissioner. And as that operation had added to the active capital of the school fund the sum of $31,

261, 39, being an interest of seven per cent. they hope a corresponding addition may be made to the annual dividend to schools.”

The annual allowance made by Spain to the Holy See, for the expenreduced by the government to 200,800 ses of the Catholic church, has been reals. From 1815 to 1820, there went from Spain, for that purpose, thirty millions of reals.

A statue in honour of the late President West, the celebrated painter, is to be erected in St. Paul's Cathedral,

Died at New-Haven, May 10, 1821, JONATHAN LEAVITT, a member of the Junior class of Yale College, and only son of the Hon. Jonathan Leavitt of Greenfield, Mass. aged 18.

He was a youth uncommonly interesting to those who knew him. The powers of his mind, seemed to have attained a good degree of maturity. He was naturally of a very lively disposition and ardent feelings; and in his intercourse with his companions, he was familiar, generous and kind. Being early afflicted with weakness of the eyes he was unable to pursue his studies with that intensity which he desired. Still however he maintained a very respectable standing in his class, and was appointed to sustain an honourable part at the exhibition, which took place a little before his death. He wrote for this purpose, a colloquy on the influence of the extensive cultivation of the Fine Arts, which displayed a good taste, and more than common proficieney in composition.

It appears from some of his letters to his friends at home, that he was naturally very ambitious, and had drank deeply of the love of this world. As from his earliest years all his wants had been satisfied without an effort of his own, and as he was generally beloved by his acquaintance, it was not strange, human nature being as it is, that such should have been the fact. His personal appearance was interesting, and he was what the world would call good, being unblameable in his external deportment. He gave evidence enough however to his intimate friends, by his entire unmindfulness of heavenly things notwithstanding the instruction of his relatives, of his having within him that evil beart of unbelief which the scriptures describe as belong. ing to every man in his natural state.

Like most unregenerate persons of an irreproachable exterior, he considered himself as innocent, and that, too, notwithstanding he acknowledged the doctrines of the gospel.

In the month of August, 1820, the Spirit of God convinced him, as we trust, of sin; and shewed him that this innocence which he thought he possessed, was nothing but a vain imagination of his own, which could not stand the test before the bar of God. The following extracts from a letter to his father dated Aug. 27, 1820, shew the anxiety of his mind better than we can describe it :

"It is evident that the Lord is indeed in this place. I cannot look upon a scene like that which is passing before me without emotion. I cannot see those who have been my companions in folly rejoicing in the belief that they have become christians, without wishing that I too may be one of the number. I have resolved to undertake this great business with earnestness, and to persevere until I bave secured an inheritance in the Christian's better

country." After remarking at some length on his former speculative belief of the doctrines of the gospel, and his putting off a serious attention to them, he proceeds: "Every day, some one around me is brought to rejoice in the Saviour, and I remain the same. Since the commencement of this letter, Prof., has conversed with me, and convinced me that nothing is wanting but my own will. I have found the case very different from what I expected I had supposed that when I had begun in earnest to seek the kingdom of God, all difficulties would vanish. If I know my own heart, its first desire is to obtain an interest in Christ. Yet I meet with obstacles at every step. I am still in doubt and darkness. There is an obstinacy in my heart I did not ex.,

pect to find. I know not what to think of my own situation. Others are convicted and converted. Others have distressing views of their guilt, and give evidence of genuine repentance, but I do not. I fear this day of grace will pass away without being of any use to me; that I shall wonder and perish. If it be possible do not fail to write immediately. I see nothing but a gloomy prospect before me. I do not obtain that repentance which is not to be repented of, and I tremble lest I should never find it."

The contrast between this and his former letters is truly striking. Here a spirit of deep anxiety for his immortal interests breathes in every line: there the pursuits of this world engross all his attention; and though in reply to some religious advice given him, he speaks of the delusive colouring which youth gives to the things of eternity, it is very evident that his own soul is under the same delusion.

But let him speak again for himself.

New-Haven, Sept. 1, 1820.

"My dear friends,

You have often rejoiced at my temporal prosperity-now come and rejoice over the welfare of my soul. For I rejoice, yet with trembling, in the hope that my Saviour has brought me from death unto life. I feel within me a new principle, and strength in the Lord to persevere. Yet when I reflect on my past life, how I have hated instruction and despised reproof, and on the comparative coldness of my present feelings; how little hatred I have for sin, considering its loathsome nature; and bow weak my love to God is; I tremble lest I am deceived, and have not undergone that change of heart which is necessary to salvation. And there have been seasons of darkness when I have been tempted to despair. But now I consider such thoughts as the temptations of the adversary. If the foundation of my hope is not sound, I must persevere till it is better. I am resolved to "look not behind me, neither stay in all the plain." ¡He that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out, is the language of the Redeemer. I will cherish the hope tha: he will not cast me out. I know that my Redeemer livetb, and I do firmly trust that he will not suffer me to be eventually deceived. ***

**O how long have I been starving on the husks which this world affords, and neglecting this bread of heaven. I cannot believe that the joy I have felt since I trust I submitted myself to the Saviour, can be given or taken away by the world. No

trust he will receive me, and in his strength I do devote myself to him forever, to be a diligent laborer in the vineyard where I have been so long a cumberer of the ground."

He continued to manifest the christian character. Every one that was intimately

acquainted with him could see the change which God had wrought. His affections were evidently transferred from earth to heaven; he loved God, and put his trust in the Lord Jesus, and took a deep interest in the things of his kingdom.

About five months after this change in his feelings, he united himself with the Church of Christ in Yale College. The following notice of this event was found among his papers :

"March 7th, 1821.-This day is so important in the history of my life that I cannot forbear noticing it by writing. This day I have dared to come forward and partake of the Lord's supper. I have taken this step because I wish, so far as I can judge of my own desires, to devote my life to the service of the great founder of the church. I am totally unacquainted with those raptures which some profess to feel, and if these be necessary to true piety, my religion is a dream. But I have always thought vital godliness a steadily ac ting principle, and not the ebullition of temporary feeling. So deceitful is the human beart that I am altogether incapable of judging whether I am a regenerate person or not. I hope, however, that I am. I trust that there is a spark of grace in my heart which the divine blessing will fan into a flame."

The sincerity of his heart is very affect. ingly manifested in the following, which was found among his papers without any date, evidently intended for his own in. spection only, that he might be perpetual ly reminded of his solemn covenant with bis God:

"O thou who inhabitest Eternity, blessed be thy name, that thou didst ever look in mercy on a world lying in wickedness, and devise a method of redemption. I would praise thee forever that the glad ti dings of salvation have been proclaimed before me, and that I have been invited to accept them. If the act which I am about to perform is not acceptable in thy sight, forgive it in thine infinite mercy. And while I dedicate myself to thee, may the Holy Ghost, without which we can do nothing acceptably, be present and help

me.

Thou, O God, art the maker of my soul and of the body in which it dwells. Thou didst give me life, and didst require of me perfect obedience to thy Holy Law. But I bave broken that law in innumerable ininstances. Thou didst give thy well belov ed Son to be a propitiation for the sins of man. Through him, thou hast been offering pardon to me, although I have been continually rejecting him. In view of thine infinite mercy, of the condescension, sufferings, and death of the Saviour, and of my aggravated and enormous guilt in thus rejecting him, it well become me to repent in dust and ashes before thee, and to devote the remainder of my existence