rred against
me, I have no one to assist me but my hired servant, no pious English
families to comfort or encourage me, the British subjects here being
ranker papists and a hundred times more bigoted than the Spanish
themselves, the consul a _renegade Quaker_. Yet notwithstanding, with
God's assistance I will do much, though silently, burrowing like the mole
in darkness beneath the ground. Those who have triumphed in Madrid, and
in the two Castiles where the difficulties were seven times greater, are
not to be dismayed by priestly frowns at Seville. All I dread is the
imprudence of very excellent people, whose aim is good, but who are doing
exactly what is calculated to further the views of the enemy. I wish
they could be brought to see the absolute necessity of changing their
system. I suppose you heard of the affair of Cadiz.

I have of late written several letters home, which I wish may have been
received as they contain information which I think will be considered of
importance; nevertheless as the road to France has for some time past
been in the hands of the Carlists, it is very possible that they may have
miscarried. I shall therefore take the liberty of telling you that about
a thousand Testaments have been sold, and all the Bibles, to the amount
of 463, since my return to the Peninsula. I shall be happy to receive a
letter from you as soon as possible: you can direct either to my lodgings
at Madrid, or to Posada de la Reyna, Calle Gimios, Sevilla.

Pray excuse this letter, it is badly written, with a bad pen and with bad
ink. I am moreover sick and in pain. Present my respects to Mr. Jowett,
Mr. Browne, and all friends, not forgetting Dr. Steinkopff, to whom I
shortly hope to write.

(UNSIGNED.)

To the Rev. G. Browne

(_Endorsed_: recd. July 1, 1839)
SEVILLE, PLAZUELA DE LA PILA SECA, No. 7,
_June_ 12, 1839.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--I received in due course of time your exceedingly
kind letter of the 16th April, and am very grateful for the various
intelligence which you were pleased to communicate. I should have
replied ere this; but I am one of those, as I believe you are aware, who
are averse to writing, especially from a considerable distance, unless
they possess matter of sufficient consequenc