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plainly in a thousand places at once, while I can speak, and 

 not very plainly, but in one. One advantage attending the 

 delay of public preaching will be, that the schools will have a 

 fair run, for the commencement of preaching will be the downfall 

 of the schools. I have my tent ready, and would set out with 

 pleasure to-morrow, if the time for this work were come. As 

 there is public service here every Lord'' s Bay, three days' journey 

 is the longest I can take. This may hereafter prove an incon- 

 venience ; but the advantages of being a Company's servant 

 are incalculable. A missionary not in the service is liable to 

 be stopped by everj; subaltern ; but there is no man that can 

 touch me. Amongst the Europeans at this station I am not 

 without encouragement. Eight or ten, chiefly corporals or 

 Serjeants, come to my quarters Sunday and Wednesday nights 

 for social worship ; but it does n ot appear that more than one 

 are truly converted. The commanding officer of the native 

 battalion and his lady, whom I mentioned in my last, are, I 

 think, increasingly serious — but the fear of man is their snare. 

 Mrs. Y. (Young ?) says that with Lydia to support her, she 

 could face the frown of the world. I had been looking forward 

 with pleasure to the time when she would have such support, 

 and rejoiced that Lydia would have so sensible and hopeful a 

 companion —but we have just heard that they are ordered to 

 Berhampore, so I shall be once more left alone. 



I have another congregation on Sunday afternoons, consisting 

 of about 100 black women, Roman Catholics, Portuguese, 

 Mahometans, and Hindoos, belonging 



(Csetera desunt). 



Letter 12. — Probably to Mrs. T. M. Hitchins. 



DiNAPORE, December, 1807. 



My Dear Cousin, 



Your letter after so long a silence was a great relief to me, 

 as it assured me of your undiminished affection ; but I regretted 

 you had been so sparing in your consolations on the subject of 

 my late disappointment. Remember it was to you I used to 

 unbosom all my anxieties, and I still look to you for that 



