Foreign Intelligence. NEW ZEALAND. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. IT gives us much pleasure to lay before our readers some Official Documents, which shew that Government attach considerable importance to the design s of the Society for the civilization and conversion of New Zealand. His Excellency, Governor Macquarrie, has seconded the views of the Society with the utmost readiness. Mr. Marsden being about to sail for New Zealand in the Society's brig the Active, in company with the Chiefs and Settlers, the following Official Letter was addressed to him by J.T. Campbell, Esq., Secretary to Government. Rev. Sir Secretary's Office, Sydney, Nov. 17, 1814. Being now on the eve of your departure for the Islands of New Zealand; and his Excellency the Governor, being anxious to promote the interests of the Crown, conjointly with those of the Christian Religion, on this occasion, wishes to avail himself of your superior activity, zeal, and intelligence. For this purpose his Excellency desires that you will explore as much of the Sea Coasts and the interior of these Islands, as your limited time, a due regard to your personal safety, and that of your associates, and the other circumstances of your Mission will reasonably admit. By these means you will be enabled to form a correct judgment of the nature and quality of the soil, íts various productions and its general capabilities; and your observations with regard to the Coasts will furnish you with means of appreciating the relative advantages of the Harbours as connected with the productions of the interior. Those Harbours which possess plentiful supplies of fresh water with safe anchorage.for shipping, will neces sarily claim your particular attention. Should a satisfactory report be made to his Excellency, on the foregoing particulars, he will feel it his duty to represent it to his Majesty's Government, which inay probably be thereby induced to form a permanent establishment on those Islands; and, under these considerations, his Excellency desires your particular attention to the foregoing circumstances, and that, on your return hither, you will make him a full report in writing of your progress andobservations, together with the success which may attend your Mission. I have the honour to be, (Signed) To Rev. S. Marsden, Principal Chaplain in New South Wales. The most happy results may be expected, under the Divine Blessing, from the intercourse already established by the Society with these large and populous islands, and from the visit of Mr. Marsden. Should his Majesty's Ministers be induced to form such an establishment on the Islands as is above intimated, the Society will be relieved of much of that expense which must otherwise attend these and all other efforts at civilization, and will be enabled to devote itself, more especially, to the education and religious instruction of the natives. In a former letter, Mr. Marsden's alluded to a General Order, issued by the Governor in favour of the Islanders. We copy this Order, as it reflects great honour on his Excellency, and is an evidence of the advantages likely to result from the attention of Government having been called to the injuries inflicted on the Natives. GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS. No ship or vessel shall clear out from any of the ports within this territory, for New Zealand, or any other Island in the South Pacific, unless the Master, if of British or Indian, or the Master and Owners, if of Plantation Registry, shall enter into bonds with the Naval Officer under 1000l. penalty, that themselves and Crew shall properly demean themselves towards the natives; and not commit acts of trespass on their gardens, lands, habitations, burial-grounds, tombs, or properties; and not make war, or at all interfere in their quarrels, or excite any apimosities among them, but leave them to the free enjoyment of their rites and ceremonies; and not take from the Island any male native without his own and his chiefs' and parents' consent; and shall not ship or take from thence any female native, without the like consent, and without having first obtained the consent of his Excellency the Governor or his Secretary in writing; or, in case of shipping any male natives as mariners, divers, &c. then at their own request at any time to discharge them, first paying them all wages, &c due to them. And, the natives of all the said Islands being under his Majesty's protection, all acts of rapine, plunder, piracy, murders, or other outrages against their persons or property, will, upon conviction, he severely punished. December 1, 1813. As a substantial proof of the protection which Governor Macquarrie is disposed to grant to the Society's efforts, his Excellency, on occasion of the return of the settlers and chiefs to New Zealand, appointed Mr. Kendall to be Resident Magistrate at the Bay of Islands, and issued the following GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS. Government House, Sydney, New South Wales, Civil Department. It having been represented to HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, that the Commanders and Seamen of Vessels, touching at or trading with the Islands of New Zealand, and more especially that part of them commonly called. "The Bay of Istands," have been in the habit of offering gross insult and injury to the NATIVES of those places, by violently seizing on and carrying off several of them, both males and females, and treating them in other respects with judicious and unwarrantable severity, to the great prejudice of the fair intercourses of trade which might be otherwise productive of mutual advantages; and HIS EXCELLENCY being equally solicitous to protect the Natives of New Zealand and the Bay of Islands, in all their just Rights and Privileges, as those of every other Dependency of the Territory of New South Wales, hereby orders and directs, that no Master or Seaman of any Ship or Vessel belonging to any British Port, or to any of the Colonies of Great Britain resorting to the said Islands of New Zealand, 'shall in future remove or carry therefrom any of the Natives without first obtaining the permission of the CHIEF OF CHIEFS of the Districts within which the Natives so to be embarked may happen to reside: which Permission is to be certified in writing under the hand of Mr. THOMAS KENDALL, the Resident Magistrate in the Bay of Islands, or of the Magistrate for the time being in said Districts. It is also ordered and directed by the authority aforesaid, that no Master of any Ship or Vessel belonging to Great Britain or any of her Colonies, shall land or discharge any Sailor or Sailors, or other Person, froin on board his Ship or Vessel, within any of the Bays or Harbours of New Zealand, without having first obtained the Permission of the Chief or Chiefs of the Flace, confirmed by the Certificate of the Resident Magistrate, inlike manner as in the foregoing case. Any neglect or disobedience of these Orders, by the Masters or Seamen belonging to Ships or Vessels trading from hence to, or having any intercourse with, New Zealand or the adjacent Isles, will subject the offenders to be proceeded against with the utmost rigour of the law on their return hither; and those who shall return to England without resorting to this place will be reported to HIS MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR the COLONIES, and such, Documents transmitted as will warrant their being equally proceeded against and punished there, as if they had arrived within this Territory. And, with a view to carry these Orders into due effect, HIS EXCELLENCY is pleased to direct, that the following Chiefs of New Zealand, viz. DEWATERRA, SHUNGIE, and KORRA KORRA, be, and they are hereby invested with Power and Authority for that purpose; and are to receive due Obedience from all Persons to whom these Orders have reference, so far as they relate to their obtaining Permission to remove or carry away any of the Natives of New Zealand, or the adjacent Isles, or to land or discharge any Sailors or other Persons thereon. By command of his Excellency the Governor, (Signed) JOHN THOMAS CAMPBELL, Secretary. True Copy. Witness the Governor's Seal of Office, and my Signature, (Signed) Jno. Tho. Campbell, Sec. We subjoin an extract of a letter from Mr. Marsden to a friend, which will further illustrate his views and expectations in the visit which he was then himself on the point of paying to New Zealand. You may remember when I was in England, that I often mentioned the Inhabitants of New Zealand to you. I have purchased a Vessel expressly for the purpose of promoting the Civilization of these people, and did intend to visit them about seven months ago myself, but could not obtain the Governor's sanction. I have now succeeded in obtaining his Excellency's permission, and intend to sail next month. I have several of the Chiefs now working around me, making nets. I am fully convinced that these people will become a great Nation, if they can only get Iron. This article comprehends all their wishes: they know its value. My first object will be to introduce Agriculture, in general, amongst them. My Friend, Duaterra, has set them an example in growing Wheat, &c. He is now with me. I have had some of their own Flax dressed before them, spun and wove, and made into clothing, which has astonished them very much. The wheels, looms, &c. appear to them wonderful. They are very proud of wearing cloaths made of their own Flax. When Duaterra saw the Flax dressed,' and spun, he immediately said he would have a Ship of his own now, as he saw the Flax would make both Rope and Sails. The idea of a vessel is very gratifying to his mind. lle is persuaded that he can navigate her himself |