On review of what I have written, I find I have omitted an important fact, both bearing on the general standing of the mission immediately before its suppression, and more especially sanctioning its German preaching, viz., that only a few months before the expulsion of the missionaries in January 1852, certain German speaking Christians, usually called "Hamburghers," were found by the police engaged in religious exercises-were summoned before the authorities-prohibited from holding any religious meetings of their own, and ordered to join themselves to the English Church, where they accordingly attended regularly every Sabbath at the German service till the expulsion of the missionaries. After such recognition of their standing in the city, Messrs Wingate and Smith had surely good reason to complain that their expulsion was sudden and arbitrary.

I need scarcely add, on the part of our Committee, that we still adhere to every part of our statement laid before Lord Granville. I think your Lordship will acknowledge that our present answer to the representations of the Austrian Government is at least definite and precise; and I have no doubt that, on examination, you will find it consistent with the facts of the case. I trust, therefore, that you will reconsider and alter your resolution, "no longer to interfere to procure compensation" to the missionaries, and that Her Majesty's Government will exert itself to protect the property and persons of British subjects, whose whole procedure has been of the most inoffensive character, and whose sole employment and aim were the propagation of the Christian faith, and the promotion of righteousness and peace on the earth.-I have the honour, &c. A. MOODY STUART.

No. 7.-LETTER from the EARL of MALMESBURY to Rev. A. MOODY STUART.

FOREIGN OFFICE, May 13. 1852.

SIR, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, on the subject of the expulsion of Messrs Wingate and Smith from the Austrian dominions.

If you refer again to my letter of the 28th ult., you will see that it is not the Earl of Malmesbury, but the Austrian Government, who accuses Messrs Wingate and Smith of having violated the laws of the empire. Her Majesty's Government cannot argue with Austria on the nature of those laws. They are known to be intolerant on matters of religion; and it was at every risk, and in defiance of personal danger and inconvenience, that these missionaries, like hundreds of their religious fraternity who have preceded them in various parts of the world, attempted to propagate their sacred

doctrines. It is, however, incumbent on Her Majesty's Government to refer your counter statement to the Austrian Government, to shew, if possible, that Messrs Smith and Wingate did not break the Austrian law, and were therefore unjustly treated by the Austrian Government; and this the Earl of Malmesbury will do without delay.

I am at the same time to inform you that it is clear, from the despatches of Her Majesty's Minister at Vienna, that the Austrian Government will not tolerate religious proselytism, and will not forego the legal right of expelling all who attempt to spread conversion; and the Earl of Malmesbury has therefore little hope of obtaining compensation for any losses of property which are claimed by Messrs Smith and Wingate. The Earl of Westmoreland has been instructed to ascertain the present position of this property, and has already applied for details to the Austrian Government.

The Earl of Malmesbury cannot refrain from again refuting as untrue, and deploring as ungrateful, the statement which you repeat, that Her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Vienna did not use his influence on behalf of Messrs Smith and Wingate. The enclosed Memorandum, drawn up and signed by the Honourable William Grey, First Attaché to Her Majesty's Mission at Vienna, will shew that it was to the Earl of Westmoreland's influence only that those gentlemen owe the permission to leave Vienna by easy stages during the sickness of the child; and the Earl of Malmesbury directs me to reiterate the fact that the Earl of Westmorland has been indefatigable in his endeavours to induce the Austrian Government to take a more indulgent view of their mission.

The Earl of Malmesbury regrets to add, that the difficulties Lord Westmoreland has met with, have not been diminished by the unwise and premature publication of speeches calculated to irritate the Austrian Government during the progress of the negotiation, which were made at meetings in Scotland and elsewhere.—I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

The Rev. A. MOODY STUART.

H. M. ADDINGTON.

MEMORANDUM referred to in the foregoing letter.

102 EATON SQUARE, March 16. 1852.

The application of Mr Edward, the missionary at Lemberg, to be allowed to remain in the country, was received by Lord Westmoreland on the 30th December 1851, the 31st being the day on which Mr Edward was to leave Lemberg. Lord Westmoreland lost no time in representing his case to the Government, both verbally and in a written memorandum. The answer returned to him verbally was unfavourable, and Lord Westmoreland was given to understand that the Government did not wish the Jews to be in

terfered with. A few days after this, about the 5th January, Mr Edward arrived at Vienna, and had an interview with Lord Westmoreland, who told him what he had done, and promised to make further representations to the Government, which he did, but without effect, although he succeeded in obtaining permission. for Mr Edward to go back to Lemberg and settle his affairs. I do not believe Mr Edward was made acquainted with this permission by the Mission, which he never came near after his second or third visit; and, when we sent to inquire for him, we were told that he was gone back to Lemberg, and the Minister of the Interior himself told me that he was gone there.

It was during the first week in the month of January, while the case of Mr Edward was being represented to the Government, that we heard accidentally that there were two more missionaries at Pesth who were also in trouble; and one morning, about nine o'clock, I was told at my own house that a Captain Maijon wished to speak to me. He came in, and told me that he had been requested by Messrs Wingate and Smith to make an application on their behalf at the British Mission, as they were ordered to leave the country. I told him that we had just got Mr Edward's case before us; that we had applied to the Government, and that the answer given was, as far as it went, unfavourable; and that I thought we had a better chance of obtaining redress for one person than for three. Nevertheless, if Messrs Wingate and Smith would send in a written statement of their case from Pesth, they might be sure Lord Westmoreland would do all he could to meet their wishes. No such application was made; and, as far as I remember, it was about ten days afterwards, that Messrs Wingate and Smith appeared in person at the Chancellerie and asked to speak to me, stating that they did so because they knew that I had been six or seven years in Vienna, and that I was therefore probably acquainted with them at least by name. I had a good deal of conversation with them. I told them all that had passed with regard to Mr Edward; that I thought that there was little chance of his obtaining permission to remain; and that Lord Westmoreland had been confidentially told by the Government that they did not wish the Jews to be meddled with at present. Messrs Wingate and Smith said that they had heard the same thing, and that the object of their present application was to obtain permission to travel by easy stages, and without molestation from the police, as Mr Smith's only child, a daughter, was in a dangerous state. This I undertook to procure for them myself; and, accordingly, went to Dr Bach, the Minister of the Interior, whom I did not succeed in seeing till two days after,-upon the Sunday,-Messrs Wingate and Smith having told me they were to leave Vienna on the Monday. Dr Bach immediately granted my request that these gentlemen might be allowed to travel as they pleased, and sent orders to the police to that effect in my presence. I wrote a note immediately

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to Mr Smith, informing him of this, and advising him to send his passport to the police, that it might be visa'd according to the instructions of the Minister of the Interior. This note was taken to Mr Smith by my own servant, and given to Mr Smith himself before five on Sunday afternoon. The answer was, "It is all right;" and from that day nothing more was heard at the Mission of Messrs Wingate and Smith.

I have only to add, that these two gentlemen never asked to see Lord Westmoreland; that their application made to me was that they might be allowed to travel at their ease, without molestation from the police, and nothing more. This application was successful. W. G. GREY.

No. 8.-LETTER from the EARL OF MALMESBURY to the Rev. A. MOODY STUART.

FOREIGN OFFICE, June 11. 1852. SIR, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to inform you that a reply has been received from the Austrian Government to the representations which Her Majesty's Minister at Vienna had been instructed to make on the subject of the expulsion of Mr Edwards from the Austrian dominions.

It is stated in that reply, that Mr Edward, on his arrival at Lemberg, declared that the object of his mission was solely and exclusively the conversion to Christianity of members of the Jewish faith. Authority was on this given to Mr Edward to follow up that object, coupled with the condition that his lectures should be delivered only in his own house, and in the presence of Jews. It is further stated, that Mr Edward did not conform to this condition, that he preached before mixed assemblies of Jews and Christians, that he induced several members of the Roman Catholic Church to attend such lectures, and that he moreover did not confine himself to preaching in his own house, but addressed a Christian congregation in the manufacturing village of Viniki, at some distance from Lemberg. As several complaints were made to the authorities of these proceedings, those authorities acted in perfect conformity with the laws of Austria in addressing to Mr Edward, on the 17th of December last, a notice to quit the country by the end of the month. Against this order Mr Edward is stated to have protested; and Major-General Lilienborn, the Governor of Lemberg, in consideration of such remonstrance, addressed to Mr Edward a letter, dated the 23d of December, giving him permission to remain at Lemberg until his case should have been decided upon by the Minister of Public Worship at Vienna. Major-General Lilienborn moreover gave Mr Edward permission to proceed to Vienna, for the purpose of pleading his cause. He, however, at the same time, ordered Mr Edward, until the decision should be

known, to abstain from holding his religious meetings. On the arrival of Mr Edward at Vienna, he was informed that he must await at Lemberg the decision to be given by the Austrian Government; and his passport, at his special request, was countersigned for his return.*

The Minister of Public Worship did not give his decision until the 20th of February 1852; and on the 21st an order was sent to the authorities of Gallicia to inform Mr Edward that his petition to remain could not be acceded to, but, at the same time, to allow Mr Edward all necessary time to settle his affairs. On the arrival of this order at Lemberg, it could not be communicated to Mr Edward, as that gentleman had already quitted the Austrian dominions of his own accord on the 30th of January preceding. The Austrian Government professes itself entirely ignorant of the causes which induced Mr Edward to take this step, or of any further order issued to him subsequent to the letter of General Lilienborn of the 23d of December 1851. Should Mr Edward, however, have received any such order, the Austrian Government would wish to be furnished with a copy of it, as it would be in direct contradiction to the notification made to Mr Edward on the 22d of December. I am now directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to request that if Mr Edward has received such a subsequent order he will furnish his Lordship with a copy for communication to the Austrian Government; and further, to ask whether Mr Edwards has any observation to make as regards the accuracy of the foregoing statement.-I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

The Rev. A. MOODY STUART, Edinburgh.

STANLEY.

No. 9-LETTER from the EARL OF MALMESBURY to the Rev. A. MOODY STUART.

FOREIGN OFFICE June 17. 1852.

SIR, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you the accompanying abstract of the evidence taken before the authorities at Pesth as to the losses alleged to have been sustained by Messrs Wingate and Smith, owing to the sale of their property on their expulsion from that city; and I am to request that you will communicate the same to those gentlemen, and that you will inform them that the Earl of Malmesbury wishes to know what they have to state against the truth of this evidence.—I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

The Rev. A. MOODY STUART, Edinburgh.

See Note A.

STANLEY.