ng to all who
like your Excellency have evinced a sincere desire to
promote their welfare, equally with that of the other
numerous people over whom His Imperial Majesty reigns.--I
have the honour to be, with the highest consideration and
the most profound respect, your Excellency's most faithful
servant.

(Signed) "Moses Montefiore."

CHAPTER XLVI.

1846.

REPORT TO COUNT KISSELEFF ON THE STATE OF THE JEWS IN
POLAND--PROTEST AGAINST THE RESTRICTIONS TO WHICH THEY WERE
SUBJECTED.

The last of the three important reports made by Sir Moses Montefiore
to the Ministers of the Emperor of Russia was to Count Kisseleff, and
ran as follows:--

"To his Excellency Le Comte de Kisseleff, Ministre du
domaine de l'Empire de sa Majeste l'Empereur de Russie,
&c., &c., &c.

"May it please your Excellency,--My first and principal
report had reference, as your Excellency will have seen,
to the condition and wants of my brethren in Russia. In
obedience, however, to the permission which His Majesty
the Emperor most graciously gave me, and to your
Excellency's most benevolent desire, it is incumbent on me
to make some remarks (which for the sake of clearness I
prefer submitting in a distinct paper) in regard to those
who are inhabitants of the kingdom of Poland. In so doing,
I would humbly beseech His Majesty the Emperor, your
Excellency, and His Majesty's Government at large, so far
as it may be made acquainted with the subject, to receive
such remarks, and any requests that may stand connected
with them, with great and indulgent consideration.

"Humble as is my position in life, when compared with the
most exalted stations of the high persons to whom I
venture to address myself, I nevertheless have laid upon
me by the high benevolence itself which I have
experienced, a heavy responsibility to Almighty God, to
His Majesty the Emperor and his Government, to my
brethren, and I believe to the whole civilized world.

"I most sincerely believe that the human race at large
would experience solid and lasting benefit, if His Majesty
would deign to carry out fully and completely his gracious
expressions of desire for the welfare of his Hebrew
subjects. With these views I would most humbly and
earnestly supplicate that the great and sublime course of
proceeding already commenced by His Majesty, which I have
ventured to solicit for the Israelites i