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became short, and the yessel was leaky from 
long continuance at sea, and Capt. Dillon 
was thus compelled to take advantage of a 
breeze, and make for his port of destination. 
His reports, however, induced the govern- 
ment at Calcutta to fit out the Research, 
for the prosecution of the discovery, and ap- 
point Dillon to the command. He was on 
his way, when he called at Hobart’s Town. 
In a note, Mr. Widowson adds, “ since my 
arrival in England, I have received from a 
friend the following intelligence. The let- 
ter is dated Hobart Town, 9th January, 
1828. Accounts have been received from 
Capt. Dillon, that he has discovered several 
articles belonging to La Perouse, and there 
can be no doubt of his having been lost at 
the Malicolo Islands. A French corvette, 
L’ Astrolabe, has been in search of Capt. 
Dillon for the same object.” 
Capt. Dillon, we believe, has since been 
presented to the King of France, received 
the reward offered by that government for 
the discovery, and even been made a Knight 
of the Legion of Honour. 
Wolff's Missionary Journal; 1829.— 
This is a third volume—the other two we 
have never seen—of Wolff’s Journal—em- 
bracing a period of something more than a 
year-and-a-half, 1824, 5, 6, and detailing 
his roamings from Bushire, on the Persian 
Gulf, through Shiraz, Ispahan, Tabreez, 
Teflis, Kertish, Theodosia, Odessa, Con- 
stantinople, Adrianople, and Smyrna, when 
he returned to England, married a lady of 
the Orford family, and then, in company 
with his noble bride, set out again into the 
same regions, and on the same object. The 
writer, as every body knows, is the fanatic— 
we do not mean to use the term offensively, 
but we have no other half so applicable— 
Jew-convert, and the object to the realiza- 
tion of which he has devoted himself, under 
the auspices of Squires Drummend and Bay- 
ford, is the conversion of his brethren in 
foreign countries. The book is filled with 
details of the condition of the Jews under 
the tyranny of the Turkish and Persian 
governments. ‘To every thing but the one 
purpese of his journey he is completely 
blind—his whole time and energies were 
‘occupied in debatings, now with the Jews, 
now with the Mahometans—occasionally 
with the Guebres, and once or twice with the 
Nestorians, and singularly curious is fre- 
quently the style of the discussions—the 
perversions of the several parties—the equal 
perversion often of Wolff himself—the su- 
periority he every where arrogates—the rough 
tone he assumes, or rather indulges, for it is 
native to the soil—the undoubting confi- 
dence in the correctness of his particular 
views — interpretations — applications. Si- 
lence he takes for conviction—embarrass- 
ment for wavering—civility and gentleness 
for a favourable leaning and thought of 
conversion—opposition for obstinacy—dis- 
trust for wilful and wicked disbelief, as if 
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there was or could, in the nature of things, 
be such a thing. But his yehemence arid 
violence are sometimes quite amusing—the 
voie de fait is evidently more congenial than 
the voie de raison—he longs to break their 
heads to get at their brains—and teach 
them—not better manners, but more com- 
pliance. 
The Jews appear to be in a miserable 
plight, particularly at Bushire. Their con- 
dition is something better at Teheran—the 
sovereign has them under his own eye, and 
finds it his interest. At Shiraz it is surely 
worse again. 
I called on Rabbi Eliasar (the high-priest at 
Shiraz), whose room was cleaner than I expected 
to find it. He told’ me, I must be cautious in con- 
versing with the Jews, in order that the Mussul- 
man Mullahs may not become jealous, and find a 
reason for exacting money from them ; for he 
himself was not long ago bastinadoed, and obliged 
to pay 20,000 rupees to the Shah-Zadeh of that 
place. He treated me (Wolff) very kindly; but, 
although he is the high-priest, he is the most 
ignorant man among the Jews of Shiraz, He 
was made high-priest on account of the merits of 
his deceased father. He has, however, much 
power, and the Shah-Zadeh, gives to him the 
permission of flogging the Jews, if they do not 
obey him ; and as often as he is bastinadoed by 
order of the prince, in order to get money from 
the Jews, he, the high-priest, orders his flock 
to be bastinadoed, to compel them by it to assist 
him in satisfying the demand of the prince. 
Take a specimen of the style of argu- 
mentation :— 
Mullah David.—How old was Jesus when he 
died? 
WF olf.—He walked thirty-three years upon 
earth. 
Mullah David.—Then Jesus of Nazareth can- 
not have been the Messiah, for hearken to the 
words of Moses—The Lord thy God will raise up 
‘unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy 
brethren, like unto me—/ike unto me ; the words 
“like unto me,” contains the number 120 (we 
have no Hebrew type at hand to shew this— 
the reader must take it for granted). The Mes- 
siah must therefore be a man of 120 years, like 
unto Mwses, 
Again—where Wolff shines in his own 
peculiar light :— 
Mullah David.—You say, that the Messiah 
has already come, and ‘that he will come again ; 
but must not Gog and Magog precede him? 
W olf—Gog and Magog, whom we call Anti- 
cbrist, is already come. 
Mullah David,—Haye you seen him? 
Wolff.—Yes, [have seen him, In short, Ithen— 
says Wolff—described to them the Pope, as that 
Gog and Magog—as that Antichrist, who is men- 
tioned in scripture. And this, he adds, is my firm 
belief, with all the respect I have for the private 
character of Pius VII. 
Mullah David.—What kind of man is the pre- 
sent Pope? 
Wolff.—Leo XII. opposeth every thing that is 
good, and lying wonders are done every where. — 
Mullah David.—He will lead us, according to 
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