de sa Majeste l'Empereur de Russie,
&c., &c., &c.

"May it please your Excellency,--In addressing your
Excellency after my return from Russia to this country,
I deem it an imperative duty to express again to your
Excellency the deep sense of gratitude I feel for the
distinguished honour which has been conferred upon me by
His Imperial Majesty, in granting me so gracious a
reception, and to assure your Excellency that the kind
promises which I have received from that most exalted
and magnanimous Monarch, and his enlightened Ministers,
to promote the welfare of my co-religionists dwelling in
His Majesty's vast empire, have not only been a source
of great delight to the Israelites in Russia, and to
their brethren in England, but have very extensively
afforded great satisfaction to the friends of humanity
throughout Europe.

"The perusal of the very important documents which your
Excellency was pleased to place in my hands previously
to my departure from Saint Petersburg, gave me an
additional proof of the paternal principle entertained
by His Imperial Majesty towards his Hebrew subjects; and
when that august Monarch graciously intimated to me that
I should go and see the state of my brethren, I hailed
the opportunity which was thus afforded to me to
communicate to them the good intentions of the
Government, and to persuade them cheerfully to conform
to the benevolent intentions of their wise and powerful
Monarch.

"It is now my momentous task in compliance with your
Excellency's benign suggestion, to report to your
Excellency the result of my visit to His Majesty's
Hebrew subjects, and I feel confident that your
Excellency will deign to regard my communication with
the indulgent attention and consideration which the
cause of philanthropy has ever received from your
Excellency, the more so as I have the gratifying promise
of your Excellency to place my representation in the
hands of His Majesty, whose great object it has ever
been to adopt every suitable measure for securing the
moral and physical welfare of every subject under His
Imperial sway.

"From the information which I gathered during my sojourn
among the various Hebrew congregations in Russia,
confirmed by my own personal observation, I am enabled
to affirm that my brethren in His Majesty's empire are
fully sensible of the good intentions of His Majesty's
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