Have you not to a certain extent been partial in this matter? Have you
not, in the apprehension of being compelled to blame the conduct of one,
who has caused me unutterable anxiety, misery, and persecution, and who
has been the bane of the Bible cause in Spain, refused to receive the
information which it was in your power to command? I called on the
Committee and yourself, from the first, to apply to Sir George Villiers;
no one is so well versed in what has lately been going on as himself.
But no. It was God's will that I, who have risked all and lost almost
all in the cause, be taunted, suspected, and the sweat of agony and tears
which I have poured out be estimated at the value of the water of the
ditch or the moisture which exudes from rotten dung. But I murmur not,
and hope I shall at all times be willing to bow to the dispensations of
the Almighty.

Sir George Villiers has returned to England for a short period; you have
therefore the opportunity of consulting him. I _will not_ leave Spain
until the whole affair has been thoroughly sifted. I shall then perhaps
appear and bid you an eternal farewell.

Four hundred Testaments have been disposed of in the Sagra of Toledo.

(UNSIGNED.)

_P.S._--I am just returned from the Embassy, where I have had a long
interview with that admirable person, Lord Wm. Hervey. He has requested
me to write him a letter on the point in question, which with the
official documents he intends to send to the Secretary of State in order
to be laid before the Bible Society. He has put into my hands the last
communication from Ofalia. It relates to the seizure of _my_ depots at
Malaga, Pontevedra, etc. I have not opened it, but send it for your
perusal.

To the Rev. A. Brandram

(_Endorsed_: recd. Aug. 14th, 1838)
No. 16 CALLE SANTIAGO, MADRID,
_August_ 3, 1838.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--Since writing to you last I have been at some
distance from Madrid. Indeed my affairs at the time were in such a
condition and so much depended upon my personal superintendence, that I
was obliged to depart almost immediately after dispatching my answers to
your two last. I am now returned principally on account of a rather
unfortunate accident which occurred on the frontier of La Mancha, th