ed the attention
of your Excellency, and if I have commented on them with
frankness, I trust it will be conceded that this was my
duty, and that in so doing I have best fulfilled the
wishes of His Imperial Majesty, who, by experience, I know
to be as condescending as he is powerful.

"I therefore call upon the unbounded justice of His
Majesty's Government; I pray, in the name of suffering
humanity, to that most exalted and mighty Monarch, whose
noble heart is filled with love and deep affection towards
his faithful subjects, to consider the case of my
brethren, and show mercy to the many hundred thousands of
them who daily send up to the Eternal Ruler of myriads of
worlds their most devout and fervent prayers to prolong
the glorious life of His Majesty, their Emperor and King.
I feel myself in sacred duty bound to impress upon your
Excellency's noble mind that the benign words I had the
honour of hearing from your illustrious person, to promote
the welfare of Israel, was one of the principal causes
which emboldened me to lay the case of my brethren so
close at your heart. I therefore entreat your Excellency's
powerful influence with His Majesty's Government on behalf
of those who look up for help with the greatest anxiety to
their benevolent and magnanimous Sovereign.

"Everlasting blessings will be showered down from Him in
whose hand the welfare of every creature lies upon the
exalted throne of His Imperial Majesty. Generation to
generation will proclaim his glory and righteousness;
every mouth will sing praise to the Lord, and every heart
will bear gratitude for being permitted to live under the
benign rays of the merciful sceptre of Russia.--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 XLVII.

1847.

THE CZAR'S REPLY TO SIR MOSES' REPRESENTATIONS--COUNT OUVAROFF'S
VIEWS--SIR MOSES AGAIN WRITES TO COUNT KISSELEFF--SIR MOSES IS
CREATED A BARONET.

The reports given in the foregoing chapters were forwarded to Lord
Bloomfield, the British Ambassador at St Petersburg, who in letter
dated January 3rd, 1847, informed Sir Moses that he had forwarded them
to their respective addresses. Lord Bloomfield, having read the
reports, adds: "I need scarcely assure you that I have perused them
with great interest, and have glea