at Warsaw, where a
person who was tutor, whilst belonging to that faith,
continues to hold that situation even after having abjured
it and embraced another. No permanent satisfaction can
result from such an anomaly, which will surely deter
sincere Israelites from sending their children to
institutions placed in similar circumstances, as they will
naturally suppose that His Imperial Majesty's Government
encourages conversion, but which I am assured, by a
statement from your Excellency, it does not desire. Such
appointments of instructors should be made as would remove
all misconception on this vitally important subject.

"Thirdly, I submit to your Excellency that it is just that
the Ukase issued on the 24th November 1836, declaring that
all such Hebrew books as are pronounced by the Chief Rabbi
not to contain inimicable sentiments to the government of
the country, be permitted to remain with the Israelites,
do continue in full force, because unfortunately during
the last eleven months, the Hebrew libraries of private
individuals have been in the hands of the police, and many
books which they were authorized to keep by the Chief
Rabbi, having thereon his seal and signature, were taken
away from them, and even those books on which the
Committee of Censors would find nothing wrong, are still
kept back by the Committee. May it therefore please your
Excellency to order that the books be returned to the
owners.

"Finally, I have to petition your Excellency to take
seriously into consideration all that I have here advanced
on my suffering brethren's behalf. Your Excellency, I am
aware, entertains the most philanthropic views, and when
your Excellency reflects on the earnest desire of my
brethren in His Imperial Majesty's dominions to benefit by
education in the most comprehensive and useful sense of
the word, and the restrictions which as Israelites impede
a beneficial progress therein, I am sure that your
Excellency's enlightened judgment will accord them your
powerful advocacy with His Imperial Majesty's Government.

"Your Excellency may indeed believe that I assert as my
solemn conviction, that when they shall fully enjoy those
privileges and opportunities which their paternal and
beneficent Sovereign has designed for them, the result
will be surprising to those who have underrated their
talents and inclinations, and most gratifyi