ecreeing the removal of existing impediments to their
full enjoyment of all the privileges which their most
humane and paternal Emperor has granted them.

"I beg to assure your Excellency that I well know how to
appreciate the great confidence which His Majesty's
Government has placed in me, in granting the privilege of
personally witnessing the state of my brethren in Russia.
The influence which I flatter myself that I have with
them, I have exercised for the purpose of strengthening
them in their continual efforts to meet the wishes of His
Majesty's Government.

"With your Excellency's kind permission I shall have the
honour from time to time to address your Excellency on the
important matter which forms the subject of my present
communication, and to which His Majesty's enlightened
Government has devoted itself with so much zeal and
humanity.

"I shall ever gratefully remember the kindness and
attention which your Excellency was always pleased to
evince towards me during my stay in the Imperial city, and
your Excellency will give me leave to say that my visit to
Russia will ever be remembered with heartfelt gratitude
for the greatest condescension and humanity of the most
illustrious and magnanimous Emperor Nicholas, from whose
royal lips I heard that I should have the satisfaction of
taking with me his assurances and the assurances of his
Ministers that he was desirous to improve the condition of
my co-religionists.

"In most fervent prayers I unite with two millions of His
Majesty's faithful Hebrew subjects, supplicating the most
High to grant long life and everlasting glory to their
beneficent Sovereign, who we further pray may behold the
fruition of his desire to ensure the happiness of every
class in his dominions, and thus reap the sincerest
gratitude of every humane and philanthropic heart.

"It may be proper to observe that, mindful of the
condescension and confidence reposed in me by His Imperial
Majesty, I consider this report, together with the two
reports by which it is accompanied, a private and
confidential communication.

"In conclusion, I entreat your Excellency's indulgence to
pardon the length at which I have ventured to intrude on
your Excellency's attention, and with feelings of the most
profound respect, I have the honour to be your
Excellency's most faithful and devoted humble servant,

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