2 UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF THE 



Martyn's preceedings in ordinary life are here exhibited, 

 whicli were foreign to their purpose, and therefore probably 

 suppressed by his biographer, and the editor of his Journal 

 and Letters. These letters do not add much to our previous 

 information, since it was Mr. Martyn's practice to extract the 

 materials of correspondence from his diary. They should there- 

 fore be read in connection with that document, as published 

 in 1837. 



2. Of the considerable body of literature, which has grown 

 up round the career of this eminent Cornish man, much is 

 religious and deals exclusively with his spiritual life ; but in the 

 Edinburgh Review (July, 1844), we may see a masterly portrait 

 of the Truro Missionary, drawn by a highly cultivated layman, 

 Sir James Stex^hen, and we may read an analysis of his moral 

 and mental, as well as of his spiritual, nature. [Ee-printed in 

 this Journal, pp. 6-11.] 



In Stephen's slightly cynical but appreciative description of 

 the abolitionists and evangelical leaders of Clapham, the high 

 motives are shewn of the men, who acted with Martyn, and 

 endeavoured to guide and control his fiery zeal. 



The sketches left by two of Martyn's friends, Mrs. Sherwood 

 f Christian Remembrancer 1854), and Dr. Clement Carlyon (Early 

 Years and Late Reflections, 1856) bring us, as it were, into 

 personal contact with our author. The latter, who evidently 

 disliked indiscreet zeal or enthusiasm, contrasts Bishop Heber 

 favourably with Martyn in similar circumstances, and thinks the 

 courtly and conciliatory manners of Heber would have spared 

 Martyn many sneers and rebuffs, which habitually met the 

 confessor, — from the highest to the lowest, from Sir James 

 Machintosh as from Persian Moollahs. Nevertheless Dr. Carlyon' s 

 testimony to the courage of his friend, sustained by religious 

 principle, is well worth quoting. 



" I can answer for his having been as brave, as he was learned 

 " and good. He quailed before no man. Accordingly we find, 

 ''that at their last interview, Sir J. Machintosh, who doubtless 

 " was a man of no ordinary pretensions, found himself di'awn 

 '* into a philological discussion with a stranger, whose mental 

 ''capacity was commensurate with his own." (Vol. Ill, p. 131). 



