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of them have been transported; and they would still find
some of them at Rome, for most of them were removed in
the time of Augustin ; but it was peculiarly interesting to
stand on ground consecrated by so many scriptural recoliP
tions ; wrier& Memphis once stood there was s
growing on the luxuriant mountains there, and that way
he could see of that ancient spot that once filled the world
with the celebrity of it- - ---+;,‘n that they'

01.11,e corn

. Ars name, with the exney,—
were some remains of the temple. of Vulcan ; the sta,,—
Sesostris was broken on the ground, and this was the mill
memorial Of departed grandeur. On his return from Upper
Egypt he thought of another plaii ; he thought that a con-

versation pdssing with the Pi

la Was extremely easy to be
mild be em-

misinterpreted, and that what had been sa
bodied in the form of a proclamation :
come a kind of law, and that it would be somettut
might appeal to, and be r
grate to their country But before

that then it would be-
the Jews

n eucoL

rnent for them t

to request that the purport of t.
embodied in a proclamation, he a
consult the secretary of the •
Hodges, who recommended him not to engage in any such.
interference; his reason was, that by doing so he had to
solicit the Paella to embody the substance of what he pro-
mised in the form of a document, exercising an act of
supreme authority at the very moment the powers of Europe
were considering whether he was empowered to exercise an
act of supreme authority ; as far as his ,(Mr, G.'s) influence.
went, he would be exercising them as a man who had a 'Apt
to seray over the destinies of that land. In the end of April
that matter would he brought to a conclusion, and he could
then regulate hie: conduct accordingly. The matter remained
that day. The eastern question was not settled in Ar
and no man was bravado enough to say when it -
settled ; but it was a matter of deep irr-
Paella was favourable to the returr.
_ _

conversation should be
4ht it would be right tt
new Consul General, Colons

'would now proceed without further delay to another
very interesting neighbourhood, which recalled recollectionS
of our earliest years, and which could never become extinct.
,TheY.Passed along the shores of the Mediterranean, from
D''vrOut to Sidon, Tyrc, and Cesarea ; and when they were
at hail-out, they heard much of the persecution of the Jews
at Damascus. The prevailing impression was, that they
were guilty, and the storm of public opinion ran very high
against them. But, on the other hand, when men had time
to reflect, and the Jews gave information on the subjebt, and
showed the impossibility of such a charge being just—when
they showed that, by the law of Aloses, they were forbidden
to use the blood
of ank animal, and, therefore, how could
they be guilty of the greater crime of shedding the blood of a
mans for admixture in their sacred part of the Passover—it
was
thon:lalitdr'h " iratip
on the the : examination
rnetwaraes
etllelearevderyupbboynetshle'n'iebtnt he (3"
of these bones, for his was a m,
lent argument : he call, " These are not the bon,
man, but the bones of an a was remarkable L.
fs_theY•iiroceeded towards Jerusalem, there was an immen
influx-of pilgrims from all parts; and it was astonish:.
down tinleii)oor Jews were insulted, plucked by the beaid, thro-
by violent hands, and exposed to the severest
persecutions, on the supposition that that grievous charge
Was founded on fact. (Hear, hear.) It was a fact re-
markable with respect to their Jewish mission, that, though
some of the Rabbis had issued anathemas against Mr,
Nicolaison, and told the Jews to be aware of the prophets()
Christianity, yet in the hour of need, when they were anxior
to see whether some one would not go Damascus for them col
corning-the-charge brought against them, who did they
to but to the Jewish mission beseei
that they would stand forward in tb
vindicate them from such a ca
'-nhi mission, their character to them
" Who can we go to but the Engli,"
particularly the mission to thv
uphold our cause, and "-
Isaac, and of Jacob.

ical man called

with praye
nd that th

The poor Jews said
the

ish, as more

Jews, come for Ward and
he God of Abraham, of
you. (Applause.) The

consequence was that to Mr
entrusted, and Mr. Peritz wa

the full .questio'n v

a new force :and impulse to public opinion
ward as the champion of the innoi
(Nlr. G.) afterwards visited Jerusal
be express the feel
burst upon his view
it was a concentratio
lions
the of
ehiiisnconseiern

of mature life, and to ti

troug-

. .
einutionsof his heart. 1]
rather his mule, and felt On

le descended from his hors.

hiniseo.
were asked what his feelings were, he had found them ex-
pressed in Isaiah. His heart was moved like the trees of a
wood that are shaken by the wind." That just seemed to
express the very feelings by which he was agitated. _
'en't presented a different aspect from what lie expected.
was surrounded by walls on every -side; they were about two
Miles round. The recollection of all the mighty scenes that
had been performed within these walls and without them—
the recollection of his being in the land of patriarchs, of pro-
phets. and of apostles—where David sang the songs of Zion,
where prophets opened the visions of futurity, and told them
of things that were to come to pass even to the grand con-
siunation of all 'thing ens—and whe saw the
accustomedto
sing their hymns—when he beheld the garden of GethseMane
where the. Saviour endured his erw,l agony—'
avoid offering up n fervent prayer that that Saviour might_b
his Saviour, that .he might be interested in that
!:ilood, that he might be sanctified by that Holy Spiri
he might look to him as a Saviour, and have grace
hi [xi as an example.- When he saw the brook. Kedron, eve.
which the Saviour had so often passed ; the valley of Jeho-
saphat ; the field of blood, associated with the thirty pieces
of silver ; the pool of Siloam ;—and when he ascended Mount
Calvary, and saw the place where the Saviour died, offered
himself as a sacrifice, and a full and sufficient satisfaction
and propitiation for all their sins ;—alid when he stood
by the side of the place of crucifixion, which he believ-
ed to be• the identical spot, and saw the rock rent, ac-
cording to the account recorded in the gospel—he be-
held the rock rent, not evidently by any strategcm or de•
vice of men, but evidently by divine agency, as ,by the
hand of God, and answering the idea conveyed by the term
rent, he saw from above the rent descending, and when he
went 20 feet below he saw the rent rising upwards—he felt
that all he wished for was that he bad all the infidels of
Europe with him that he in ight have said, survey that spot,
and then fear, and tremble, and acknowledge—(applause)—
and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He
afterwards descended into the tomb, which he' believed like-

could not

ITCIOUS

to follow

place_where the body of

_,___._.t that moment
they vibrated through every • part of his

rtware f

n I.v

superstition attached to those pl
minister to very hard an! s
delusions on the minds of main
to separate the evil from t

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111.(Mr.-G