opagation of the Bible is an ecclesiastic. He never
walks out without carrying one beneath his gown, which he offers to the
first person he meets whom he thinks likely to purchase. Another
excellent assistant is an elderly gentleman of Navarre, enormously rich,
who is continually purchasing copies on his own account, which he, as I
am told, sends into his native province, for distribution amongst his
friends and the poor.

I have at present sold as many Testaments as I think Madrid will bear,
for a time. I have therefore called in the greatest part of my people,
and content myself with the sale of twelve or fourteen a week, for I am
afraid to over-stock the market, and to bring the book into contempt by
making it too common. The greatest part of those which still remain
(about one thousand) I reserve for Seville, Granada, and some of the
other inland cities of Andalusia, specially Jaen, the bishop of which is
very favourable to us and our cause. I have likewise my eye on Ceuta,
its garrison, its convicts, and singular inhabitants, half Spaniards,
half Moors. To Andalusia I shall probably proceed in about three weeks.

I beg leave to call your attention to the work I sent you, and the
ferocious attack which it contains against the Bible Society, and
especially to the letter of the curate, which I sincerely wish you would
insert in your Extracts. This publication was established and is
supported by money sent by the Cardinals of Rome, and is principally
directed against us. Its abuse, however, is our praise; and the world
may form some judgment of what we are accomplishing in Spain by attending
to some of the remarks and observations which appear in this work, and
which are in all points worthy of Rome and its clan.

My respects to Mr. Josiah Forster, who I hope will have received the
biography of Ripoll, the Quaker, executed at Valencia in 1826.

What news from China?

(UNSIGNED.)

To the Rev. Joseph Jowett

(_Endorsed_: recd. April 22, 1839)
_April_ 10, 1839,
MADRID, No. 16 CALLE SANTIAGO.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--In a few days I shall leave Madrid for Seville; and
being anxious to write a few lines before my departure in order that
yourself and others friends may be acquainted with the exact state o