DEPARTURE OF THE FORTITUDE EMIGRANT SHIP FOR COOKSLAND.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 288, 3 March 1849, Page 3

DEPARTURE OF THE FORTITUDE EMIGRANT SHIP FOR COOKSLAND.

{From Bell's Weekly Messenger, Sept. IG.) We copy from a contemporary the following deeply interesting account of the departure of this vessel for Australia. The cmigiants consist almost exclusively of members of orthodox Prcsbyteiian and Con^icgational diurches :—: — " Ibis veshel left the West India Dock in the afternoon of Saturday last, and was towed down by a i.leam-boat from the basin to Gravesend, on Sunday morning. Most of the emigrants, (who number alto, getlier about two hundred and fifty souls, including ironi eighty to ninety children), with a large party ot their relatives and friends, were on board. Shoitly after the vessel had cast anchor off Gravescnd, the ship-bell was rung for Divine Si'ivice,the cnbi»n was spread over the capstan as a reading desk, the covering of the after-hatch serving aa a platform for the mil istiT; and a large congiegation assembled around. The Key. Dr. Lang commenced the service by giving out a few verses of the second pait of Dr. Watts's long metre version of the Hundredth Psalm. Dr. Lang then lead the 1 >7tli P-ulm, after which prayer wai offeied up by the Rev. C. Stewart, who goes out along with the emigiants, to be settled as a minister at Bnsbane, in CooJTsLmd. Mr. Stewail then delivered an appropriate discourse, after which Dr. Lang addiP3^ed the emigrants to the following eftVct : — " Fd'ow-conntiymen and Christian fritnds, — It is with feelings of the deepest interest that I nowaddivss you, on the eve of your depailuiv from tins the I md ol your fathers to the f.ir-distanl land of jour adoption, huch an occasion cannot fail to prove of peculiar inteicst to a ri»ht y cultivated mind. 'Jho uniujpacd f»o*. t hutli saiJ— • Urea' lies thrrf a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself lialh saiii, Tins ii my own, my native laud ?'

If (here does. I can have no pympr.lhv with surb " individual. lean ''five no tryrrqnfoy Titli them ' » . can stand unmoved anil unnlYjctcii. when belli.. 1 native land, peihaps for the last time — when its cliffs aic slowly disappearing i" the distance, - mingling with the blue sea and the blue sky. It j always the men who love tlirir native counf • - least who are most willing to ka\c it. On tl.~ trary, Divine Providence is, for Ihe widest ar." <■> beneficent purposes, now saying to the vcy he in 0111 cour.My, and the riosst attached to nil " »ood in r, us to old leather Abiaham of old, ' ( up out of yovr pountiy, aiid from your kindied from your father's house, into a land tlml I will i you. And I will make of you there a great nalk , Now, ihis call of Divine I'rovdcnce has been addressc"' in paiticular to jou ; and yon h've responded to i*, and have gotten you Uji accordingly out ot your cotmlty, pud fro'ii youi kindrul, .ml from the houses of your Titiieis, to <xn (01 th to thn I -nd which, I tv >,t. also, that he will nuke of y>u v "'dt nation -llutc to re-produc«\ and to Untmnit to pos'erity, at the niter" most ends of the c-ulh, ;'il lli.if i 3 1 c illy valuable in the institulniiß of your fa hn] md. Now, I have macb pleasure in assuring j'ou, from my own personal obscivation and e.xpetienrc, th<it tin- land whither yoi. aic goin? i;, a good hw\; n hnd nhich the Lord hat! blessed in i»o oui ; .» uy dci^r c. In many respects r beais a Hsemlihince to thai j>ioi!oiis nnd pleasant lap '< which the Lou' i>'ive U> Israel ot old— it is a land, f.r example, of lull- «<»<! v.il'oyb, of 'iveis and strermi water; it i .1 lui'l in v. iii/n i'r.c.c '< , abundance / everything ih it i. nccdiu! for il'O sirLnanco of in 17 . fir the alvaucvmcitof mil 1 : 7 ;{,.on, for the attention „ Christianity, and, without a iijii'e, it is litciaUy a l.iv' flowing with LYiiiK and honey. In going forth to tin: good land, let me gi«* you the same advice as Joseph gava to his brethren, whci about to icHnn from Ej'ypt to the land of ('uninu. — ' Sic U,al ye fiill not out by the way.' Lie at sea .s so vciy vlifiereift from life on shore, and theic is so much to put people v;ho arc picdisposcd to lake offence out of ijpinour wiih each other — tluit offences will come, or, at least, w ill assuredly be taken. In such cucumstancefi, let me exhort you to bo Icndly ifle( t'onc.l cue low aids anoiher, io LearL c ar onf .moihci'G buirlms, anil "o to iullil the Kw of Christ; H-membniMc; that the evidence «uul b.ul^e ot Olnibtian dihcplcilup is to Ituf one aiiothor. J con. tcbtify, f'om no liunicd experience in these malteis, that cvoiUlung has b>cn done tln,t the case would admit of, to in.^uie your general comfoit during tho voy-po. Ikil be assured tlu.t miwh of your comfoiL and h.ippincss will depend upon yourselves, 'ihcip is no evil, inconvenience', or privption, eil'ier pculiar or incident,,*! to your situation m shipboaid, which a, contented disposition and a Christian cpiiit will not enable you to bcai with perfect facility, hct me remmd you, niso, that the expedition on which you are now embmkcU is of no small interest and importunes w> thouGituls and (en*, of thousands in this country besides youraclvps. '1 he present period ia, undoubtedly, a gicat epoch in the history of our countiy, m icfirence to colonisiition, The minds of men, in ton thousand localities in this c/nintiy are, ever and anon, recurring to the qacs'ion, whether a Jai^e portion of "us redundant population mi^ht no* 1 lis tr«iiisfcired. with the gicatest possible advantage to nil jirrtici aivl intereats concerned, to tho t fcitile tracts, bojo.ul seis, whic'i tonsti ule the patuwouy of our ncojil", but which we have hi.hnto bain strung \ : tkl mod culp' ably in'glecting. Now, it will dcpui p,rpatlv upon your iiidiv ulu.il in-lu^tiy and intelbgrurc, ond jvis^. ver.mcc, in dcv lopin<> liic vast resource 0 of your adop'ed country, vrhelbcr a large and laiu'diy inorc.isin'i sti earn ot population, of the ch'ii ctei and q-j.itific.itions peculiarly desirable for the important woik of colonmtion, shall not be dim-ted, from the over-peopled localities of this country, to the same promising fi Id, there to make the wilderness flourish as Eden, and the bolitury place r joicc as the garden of the Lord. Permit mo also to icuiiud you, that the enterprise in which you aie now engaged possesses n peculiar and cxtiaoidmaiy interest, not only for the unemployed myriads of this country, but for the great cause of Immunity itsell. Youaie all well aware, from my wutings on thf subject, that the soil and climate of Cookflund me admit ably adapted foj the growth of the great staple of the munufoctuies o« this country — that staple of which the manufacture sustains the industry of millions ot our population. Now, if you shall demoiistmte — as 1 am coup lent you raay and will — the practicability of "rowing that giea't stap'e oi the manufactures of Hiitain, by lucvms of Eiitopean free laboui, you will not only open up a boundless field of immediate and remuncidtinj employment for myriads of our icdunduut and unemplojxd population at home, but you will do moie tnan has ever been clone, by all the other means or niittfumiy that lias hitherto been devised for the purpose, to In ing to an end the accursed system of nc^ro slavciy in Anerici, to break every yoke throughout the cuilizod world, and to let the oppressed go free. The Ihbt bale of Australian cotton that is landed on the quays of Lone don or Liverpool will tell a tale of transcendan! interest to the humbler classes of this countiy, and will causthe hearts of thice millions of negro si ives in America to tlirill for joy. Remember, thercfoie, that the eyes of many will be Upon you in this matter, and that the interests of many besides j ourselves arc involved in the success and prosperity ul this great undertaking. To conclude — for I cannot allow liiyscll to protract this meptinp, by detaining 1 you anyiuitlier — be snvfl, botli on join outward voyage and m your futuic sojourning in ,the land whithci you are going, to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; and, like Abrahiin of old, do not foige* to rear an altar 1» the Lot (I wherever you pitch your tent in the wiWemesb, and to tvonhw the Lord there. Honour the Lord with your substance, and with the h'-st-fiiuts oi all your increase^ ho hall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses burst forth with new wine May the Angel of the Covenant watch over and guttle you as you pass thiough the wctfis ' may the Divine biossing rest upon you, individually and collectively ! and may grace, mercy, and peace horn God the Father, from the Loiil Jesus Christ, and from the Koly bpiiit, one ever blessed God, be with you all! Amen." Dr. Lang then offered up a short prayer; afixi which the H7tli Psalm in Dr. WaUVs Version— " JFiom all that dwell below the skies," &c. — was sun{; liy the whole con^rc»<iiion ; and the service concluded with the apostolic benediction. The Foititule sailed fiom Gravcsend on Wednesday.

Moderate Desires,— ls that beast better that halt two or three mountains to giaze on, than a little bee that feeds on dew and manna, and lives upon what falls oTery morning from the stoflumso: <>f heaven, clouds, and providence ? Vui a t \in iiuen' b his * i, st bettor out ot a nvci th™ a 'nil »tii, or tU'nk Letter fiom the hnmt/iin when il !.- li»iely j'sved with marble than when it swells ovei the »ron» lun ? il." thai [>ro ■ {'<nmils! to bin t.uiey thn< ", ric?U'V tint! hii'isJ' or bis iicl(1". „nd is, ilißcoulerifod and tioubloil wiicn he f n!s 'jf suuh iiurclia^cs, ought iif t to aim *. !J! J ovid 'ii" ■ m Ma^iIJa fortune, but li's follj. H<k' 'he! n.'lu'c < r>o noi'i. needs than tlicy mri., 'oho h jHti'v- , u ' '' ' t>>M 1 ni.ii c nioie, muM loult lo. 'i «:*'>•'. jl ( .-''' ' ? r.- ■