ed stay abroad. For the last fortnight I have been
detained at St. Petersburg in the most vexatious and unheard-of manner.
The two last parts of our Testaments have been bound and ready for
shipping a considerable time, and are at present in the warehouse of a
most pious and excellent person in this place, whom the Bible Society are
well acquainted with; but I have hitherto not been able to obtain
permission to send them away. You will ask how I contrived to despatch
the first six volumes, which you have doubtless by this time received.
But I must inform you that at that time I had only a verbal permission,
and that the Custom House permitted them to pass because they knew not
what they were. But now, notwithstanding I obtained a regular permission
to print, and transacted everything in a legal and formal manner, I am
told that I had no right at all to print the Scriptures at St.
Petersburg, and that my coming thither on that account (I use their own
words) was a step in the highest degree suspicious and mysterious, and
that there are even grounds for supposing that I am not connected with
the Bible Society or employed by them. To-day, however, I lost patience,
and said that I would not be trifled with any longer; that next week I
should send away the books by a vessel which would then sail, and that
whosoever should attempt to stop them would do so at his peril--and I
intend to act up to what I said. I shall then demand my passport and
advertise my departure, as every one before quitting Russia must be
advertised in the newspapers two weeks successively. Pray do me the
justice to believe that for this unpleasant delay I am by no means
accountable. It is in the highest degree tormenting to myself. I am
very unwell from vexation and disquietude of mind, and am exposed to
every kind of inconvenience. The term for which I took my chambers is
expired, and I am living in a dirty and expensive hotel. But there is
One above who supports me in these troubles, and I have no doubt that
everything will turn out for the best.

I take this opportunity of sending my accounts to Mr. Tarn; if there be
any inaccuracy let him excuse it, for the post hurries me.

G. BORROW.

Report of Mr. George Borrow

_To the Members of the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible
Society_.

GENTLEMEN,--It is now about two years since I quitted England for St.
Peter