out to the Hon. G. Vernon, a few days since, who, I believe, thinks as I do; should you see him, I shall be thankful if you will mention, how anxious I am to receive the supply of Bibles in all languages, he was kind enough to say he would get sent to me Spanish Bibles particularly. Permit me to ask your kind assistance in this respéct also.

I have the honour to subscribe myself,

Sir,

Your very faithful and humble servant,

JOHN WILLIAM BAILEY.

Gibraltar, June 21, 1821.

I TROUBLE you with this at the request of Mr. Joseph Wolf, who has been sojourning here for a short time, and who, when I objected that I was altogether unknown to you, replied that he had mentioned my name in a late letter to you. I therefore cheerfully comply with his wish, and feel much pleasure in assuring you that his conduct here with regard to his poor benighted brethren the Jews, has been such as amply to justify the confidence which you and other well-disposed persons have placed in him. That your hopes and expectations may be finally realised, through the divine favour, is my humble prayer! I can with truth add, that the genuine Christian piety evinced by this gentleman, his ardent zeal in the cause of God, and especially in behalf of his brethren after the flesh, and his child-like simplicity of manners, have rendered him an object of peculiar interest to several persons here capable of appreciating his worth; and have left an impression with them, and I would hope too amongst those to whom his visit was more particularly directed, which will not speedily be effaced. He sailed from hence for Malta on Monday last, the 16th,

I am, Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

JOHN PYNE.

MALTA, Nov. 12, 1821.

I HAVE great pleasure in the honour of forwarding to you the enclosed, a series of Mr. Wolf's journal, received some days since by Mr. Naudi. Many of his friends here have derived much interest in its perusal, and think it highly creditable to his missionary qualifications. I sent it for the perusal of His Excellency the Governor Sir Manley Power, to whom I introduced Mr. Wolf, and who showed him, when at Malta, every becoming civility. Mr. Wolf whilst here conversed with many Catholic priests, and gave tracts to them. He frequently visited a respectable Jewish family named P. to whom also I assisted him in procuring his introduction to them. He conversed much with them upon religion. He preached twice at the Rev. Mr. Wilson's missionary Chapel on Sunday evenings. Lieutenant M. of the 90th regiment, lately removed to the Ionian Islands, often expressed much gratitude to me for Mr. Wolf's kind attention to him, in reading German with him almost every day.

I received a very kind letter from Mr. Wolf, some days since. His spirit, he tells me, is still with his friends at Malta. He writes also not less affectionately of his friends in England, and most particularly of Mrs. D. of Cambridge, and the Rev. C. Simeon, of King's College, both of whom he remarks, would be much pleased to hear of him.

I have formed a high veneration for his zeal and amiable qualities, and feel a great concern for his success and welfare in the arduous duties of his mission.

Dear Friends,

Believe me, Sir, &c.

S. G.

HEREWITH I send to you the copy of my journal. De la C. had the kindness to copy it for me, for I am too much engaged.

July 21.-Il Signor G. an architect, a native Maltese,

called on me, he began to talk with me on the principles of Christianity, and told me, in the most violent way, that the whole of Christianity is an imposture of priests. I replied: You are born a Catholic, and having seen the superstition of your church, you think that the true system of Christianity consists in the superstition of priests.

S. G. I do not believe in any divine revelation. 1. What reasons have you for it?

S. G. If God had desired that man should act and think after his pleasure, he could have done it, and all men would be constrained to think as he likes.

I. How should you, a worm, dare to prescribe a rule for God, how he should have acted? Read the Bible, and I hope you will have other views.

S. G. Every nation pretends to have a revelation from God-what nation now is in the right way?

I. The very circumstance you mention, that every nation pretends to have had a revelation from God, should persuade you that there must be some truth in it. Examine, therefore, the documents of the several nations, and read, I tell you again, the Bible.

S. G. The Bible is an imposture.

I. You have not read the Bible, and cannot prove it.

S. G. Volney proves it.

1. I do not argue with Volney, I argue with you. S. G. The world was from eternity!

I. Prove it.

S. G. What would God have done before he created the world?

I. Will you prove a thing by your ignorance?

S. G. You admit that God is the soul of all things. I. I do not understand this spinozistical nonsense, that God is the soul of all things: he is the Creator of all things.

S. G. The word Barach in Hebrew does not signify create, but make.

I. Barach signifies nothing, for there is not such a word to be found in Hebrew. You have heard something, but not well,—it is barah, and it signifies create;—but if I should admit that it signifies make, you told me just now that the whole Bible is an imposture, and you will prove your infidelity by the authority of the Bible. I must therefore draw this conclusion, that you are an impostor; but I tell you again that 77 signifies create. Here is the dictionary.

S. G. I do not understand Hebrew.

1. Then you must not assert a thing which understand.

S. G. Volney proves it.

you do not

I. Volney is a liar! prove the contrary if you are able. S. G. The Koran is better than the Bible.

1. You have never read the Koran: I know it-you have never looked into the Koran.

S. G. In the Bible is one contradiction after the other. 1. Here (I brought forth a Bible) shew me one if you are able. I challenge you to shew me one.

S. G. I will bring you a book which will prove to you that there are contradictions in it, for I myself have too much to do.

I. But you must confess that you have proved nothing, and that you will never be able to defend your absurdities by one reasonable proof. My dear friend, you are in an awful state; read the Bible, where you will find the way of salvation, Jesus Christ-without him, you will undoubtedly perish.

S. G. Why does he not punish me, if there is a God, in this moment? I speak against him.

1. You are punished in this moment, for your conscience (I know it) reproves you, while you are blaspheming the Lord.

S. G. There is no such thing as blasphemy.

I. You are a blasphemer.

S. G. There are many great men who did not believe.

I. Yes: All those who wished to continue in an immoral life. But truly great men, as Sir Isaac Newton, Hugh Grotius, and Leibnitz, have been believers.

S. G. I will come again, and bring those books of Volney and Voltaire with me.

I. I shall be very glad.

In the afternoon I went to Cohen the Jew, for whom I have procured a place in the convent of the Franciscans. A captain of a ship, a native Maltese, who is a Catholic by persuasion, and who knew Cohen when at Tunis, and another Catholic, were just then with Cohen. I began to read the Gospel with Cohen, and the Captain, and the other Catholics listened with the greatest attention.

After I had left the convent, I went to the Padre S. C. in the very same convent of the Franciscans, I was surprised when he addressed me, "Signor Missionario," for I thought that nobody in the convent knew that I was a Missionario.

In the evening I went to Mr. T. who now every day reads the Bible with his father, and compares it with the citations of Voltaire, and both find that I was right in asserting that Voltaire turns texts in his own favour, without considering the connection. You know that I left Gibraltar in company with Lieutenant T. He brought forth his doubts during the whole voyage with modesty, like an English gentleman.

July 22.-Sunday evening. I preached in the presence of a large congregation in the church. The sermon lasted longer than an hour. The chief persons who have been present, have been Dr. G. with his Lady, Dr. and Mrs. Z. De la C., Mr. G., Mr. G. and many other gentlemen, officers and soldiers. I preached on the 7th verse of the xivth Psalm. I shewed first how the Lord carried on his work of redemption by Abraham-the promise he gave to him-the mighty deliverance of Israel out of Egyptthe song they sang at the Red Sea, which is now a part of the worship of heaven, for angels sing the song of