e in this.
I shall then move upon Madrid, and arrange matters in that capital. If I
may be permitted here to offer my advice, I would strongly recommend that
four hundred copies of the New Testament be left there in deposit, with
those of Saint Luke in Gypsy and Basque which remain unsold. Of the
former Gospel, indeed, there are not many, nearly one hundred copies
having been circulated amongst the Rommanees of Andalusia during my
present visit. I then purpose to make for France, passing through
Saragossa, in which place, which is large and populous, I hope to
accomplish some good in the Lord's cause. This is the outline of my
plan, which I shall attempt to put into execution without delay; though
if any one could propose a wiser, and better adapted to the present
circumstances, I shall at once relinquish it.
I have just received a communication from Mr. Brackenbury, in which he
has done me the honour to furnish me with a copy of a letter which he has
addressed to yourself and in which he has spoken of me. The principal
consolation of a person in misfortune is the being able to say, 'In
whatever I have done, I have had the glory of God at heart'; and
certainly next to this consolation is the knowledge that his deeds and
actions meet the approbation of the good, the wise, and the
distinguished. I wish not to recapitulate what I have done, but I beg to
be permitted to say that wherever I have been I have endeavoured to
elicit the kindly feelings of my fellow-creatures, not for my own benefit
but for the advancement of the true doctrine. I found Mr. B. during my
last visit in a state of considerable agitation. He showed me a letter
from Lord. P [Palmerston], a circular as it appeared, in which the
British consuls and their assistants in Spain are strictly forbidden to
afford the slightest countenance to religious agents. What was the cause
of this last blow? Mr. B. says it was an ill-advised application made to
his Lordship to interfere with the Spanish Government in behalf of a
certain individual whose line of conduct needs no comment. There are
people in Spain who remember the time when those very consuls received
from a British Ambassador at Madrid instructions of an exactly contrary
character; but when dead flies fall into the ointment of the apothecary,
they cause it to send forth an unpleasant savour.
I am very glad that I went to Tangiers, for many reasons. In the first
place, I was permitted to cir
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