reprimanded publicly or privately; moreover I can
see no utility likely to accrue from such a proceeding. All that I have
stated hitherto is the damage which he has done in Spain to the cause and
myself, by the--what shall I call it?--imprudence of his conduct; and the
idea which I have endeavoured to inculcate is the absolute necessity of
his leaving Spain instantly.

Take now in good part what I am about to say, and O! do not misunderstand
me! I owe a great deal to the Bible Society, and the Bible Society owes
nothing to me. I am well aware and am always disposed to admit that it
can find thousands more zealous, more active, and in every respect more
adapted to transact its affairs and watch over its interests. Yet with
this consciousness of my own inutility I must be permitted to state that
linked to a man like Graydon I can no longer consent to be, and that if
the Society expect such a thing, I must take the liberty of retiring,
perhaps to the wilds of Tartary or the Zigani camps of Siberia.

My name at present is become public property--no very enviable
distinction in these unhappy times, and neither wished nor sought by
myself. I have of late been subjected to circumstances which have
rendered me obnoxious to the hatred of those who never forgive, the
bloody Church of Rome, which I have doubt will sooner or later find means
to accomplish my ruin; for no one is better aware than myself of its
fearful resources, whether in England or Spain, in Italy or in any other
part. I should not be now in this situation, had I been permitted to act
alone. How much more would have been accomplished, it does not become me
to guess.

I had as many or more difficulties to surmount in Russia than I
originally had here, yet all that the Society expected or desired was
effected without stir or noise, and that in the teeth of an imperial
_Ukase_ which forbade the work which I was employed to superintend.

Concerning my late affair, I must here state that I was sent to prison on
a charge which was subsequently acknowledged not only to be false but
ridiculous. I was accused of uttering words disrespectful towards the
_Gefe Politico_ of Madrid; my accuser was an officer of the police who
entered my apartment one morning before I was dressed, and commenced
searching my papers and flinging my books into disorder. Happily,
however, the people of the house who were listening at the door heard all
that passed, and declared on oath