ent. I feel confident that His
Majesty's Government will reflect upon another pleasing
fact of which I was also informed, that the Israelites
have never been connected with the formation of any plot
or scheme against those in authority, but on the contrary
have endeavoured on all occasions to serve their country
with earnest zeal, and with most unanimous sacrifices of
life and property. As an instance, I shall only mention
their exertions in favour of the Empire which they have
the happiness to inhabit, during the presence of the
French in Russia, in the year 1812, and more particularly
in the revolt of the year 1830. On the latter occasion the
Israelites were highly gratified by a proclamation, which
their magnanimous Monarch caused to be issued in his name,
by the Adjutant General Prince Nikolai Andrewitz
Dolgarukow, in which His Majesty condescended to express
his great satisfaction with my brethren, and, moreover,
renewed his assurance to them that they should find in
Russia, under the glorious sceptre of their exalted
Monarch, a fatherland and security of their property and
privileges.

"I am happy to repeat my statement to your Excellency that
the same loyal sentiments towards His Majesty's
Government, which they have invariably cherished, still
animate their hearts, and that they embrace with avidity
every opportunity to accede to the wishes of the
Government.

"The following fact will, I trust, bear me out in my
assertion. On His Majesty's desiring that the Israelites
should change their costume, for which, as having been
peculiar to themselves and their ancestors, they had a
natural predilection, they have shown their obedience to
this desire, though this was not done without considerable
pecuniary sacrifice and ruinous loss to many whose
warehouses were well provided with furs and silks.

"I beg to assure your Excellency they are ready to
cultivate the land; they are prepared to undertake any
work however laborious; they wish to establish
manufactories of every description; they are desirous to
cultivate their minds to the best of their power by the
study of modern science and literature. Be assured that
poverty, restriction, and disproportioned taxation have
alone heretofore prevented them from effecting these
objects. But it is in the power of His Majesty's
Government to raise and revive them all, by simply
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