ror. I made the strongest appeal in my power
for the general alteration of all laws and edicts that pressed heavily
on the Jews under His Majesty's sway."

The following is a copy of the address to the Emperor:--

"May it please your Imperial Majesty. With deep
veneration for your Majesty's person and government, and
with fervent prayers to the Most High, that your Majesty
may continue to be for many, many years the happy and
exalted ruler of a powerful, virtuous, and prosperous
people, I crave your Majesty's permission to offer my
humble thanks for the honour conferred upon me by your
Majesty's government, by the intimation that my presence
in your Imperial metropolis might become beneficial to
my brethren of the Hebrew nation in the organisation of
schools for the education of their youths; a measure
which emanated from your Majesty's watchful and paternal
care for the improvement of their situation and the
promotion of their happiness. May I be permitted to
embrace this favourable moment to express my earnest
prayer that your Majesty may deign to give your most
humane consideration to the condition of my
co-religionists under your Majesty's sway, and that your
Majesty may exert that power which God has placed in
your august hands, to alleviate, to the utmost extent,
which your Majesty's justice and wisdom may think fit,
all such laws and edicts as may be proved to press
heavily upon the Israelites. I implore your Majesty,
therefore, to bend an eye of merciful consideration upon
them, and thus, by the revival of their hopes, they may
be restored to their proper standing among their
fellowmen, and have the opportunity of proving
themselves most loyal and faithful subjects, as well as
useful and honourable citizens, true to the Eternal God,
to whom their prayers daily ascend, that your Majesty's
throne may endure to the latest generations, and that
your Majesty may long live to secure and to witness the
happiness and the prosperity of a great and mighty
nation."

The entry in the diary continues:--

"His Imperial Majesty said that I should have the
satisfaction of receiving his assurance, as well as that
of his Ministers, that they were most desirous for the
improvement of their situation in every way possible.
His Majesty spoke for about twenty minutes. He said I
should go and see them; and referring to the army, that
he had p